- Thunderstone (folklore)
A thunderstone is an apparently worked stone object - often wedge-shaped, like an
axe blade - alleged to have fallen from the sky. Tales of thunderstones are found in many cultures around the world, from Greece to China, and are often associated with athunder god .In recent times, it is known that these objects are often the result of a lightning strike into the ground.Fact|date=June 2008 Under the enormous heat induced by the lightning, sand in the soil melts into a solid block of
silica . This is why "thunderstones" in a desert tend to be larger and more cylindrical, whereas in grassland they are often shaped like a blade and are significantly thinner.They are also known as "thunderaxes", "storm stones", "sky arrows", "thunderbolts", "lightning stones", "sky axes", and "thunder teeth". In Brazil, a thunderstone is known as a "raio" ("lightning flash").
ee also
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Meteors
*Star Jelly
*Perkwunos
*Mjolnir
*Ukonkirves
*Battle-axe culture
*Celt (tool) References
*Blinkenberg, Christian Srensen. "The Thunder Weapon in Religion and Folklore". Cambridge University Press, 1911. pg. 100.
*Fort, Charles. "The Book of the Damned ." 1919. [http://www.resologist.net/damn08.htm Chapter 8] .
*Tyler, Edward Burnett. "Primitive Culture". 1871. v.2, pgs. 237-9.
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