escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Smoke Billets
I've just come across this on Facebook, of all places.
You hold a piece of paper, or 'billet', over a candle flame to coat it with smoke and then interpret the images which apparently appear on the paper. The faces of the dead are supposed to appear.
I seem to remember reading about this, and may even have tried it, as a child. (Dunno though. Being a precocious reader of my father's Fortean books, I learned to set 'ghost traps' with talcum powder. Got several wallopings for that so I'd have had a memorable belting for messing with paper and a lit candle! :lol: )
This is my project for tonight. I will post pictures.
If my house burns down, know that I did it in the name of pseudo-science.
I've just come across this on Facebook, of all places.
You hold a piece of paper, or 'billet', over a candle flame to coat it with smoke and then interpret the images which apparently appear on the paper. The faces of the dead are supposed to appear.
I seem to remember reading about this, and may even have tried it, as a child. (Dunno though. Being a precocious reader of my father's Fortean books, I learned to set 'ghost traps' with talcum powder. Got several wallopings for that so I'd have had a memorable belting for messing with paper and a lit candle! :lol: )
This is my project for tonight. I will post pictures.
If my house burns down, know that I did it in the name of pseudo-science.