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Fortean Times #392 (May 2020)

• Release date: 23 Apr 2020
• Cover price: £4.60
• Cover photo: Charlotte Graham Photography
• Coronavirus Photo: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images
• All header icons throughout the magazine by Capucine Deslouis

Contents

• 7 Welsh goat rampage
• 11 Rogue guru starts country
• 44 "To a high place": Jesus's mid-air battles with the Devil
• 52 The folklore of allotments

Features

36 Marks of the Witch: Britain's Ritual Protection Symbols (cover story)
'Witch mark' is a term popularly used to describe a range of ritual protection symbols found in churches, grand buildings and caves. David Clarke visits an ice age site where a huge concentration of magical graffiti was recently discovered.

44 "To a High Place"
The greatest number of recorded levitators are those Christians who were inspired by Jesus's life and legend. Bob Rickard analyses the 'Temptations' - a highly significant moment of paranatural transportation in Jesus's life.

46 Mulch, Myth and Magic
Lisa Gledhill digs into the world of allotment folklore, from top-secret super-spuds and lunar planting cycles to butterfly whispering and the terrifying leek-slasher...

Reports

34 Blasts from the Past - Vanished from the face of the Earth Theo Paijmans

76 Peculiar Postcards - The Evel Knievel of roller-skating Jan Bondeson

Forum

57 Project Blue Book: the missing cases by Kevin Randle

58 Korea's cinema of the fantastic by Bob Rickard

Strange Days

A digest of the worldwide weird, including: cult captives, dodgy DNA tests, coronavirus conspiracies and more...

• 05 The Conspirasphere
• 14 Science
• 20 Ghostwatch
• 23 Alien Zoo
• 27 Mythconceptions
• 32 The UFO Files

Regulars

• 02 Editorial
• 61 Reviews
• 71 Letters
• 78 Reader Info
• 79 Phenomenomix
• 80 Strange Deaths

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