Mystery Circles: Our Golden Opportunity

Paul Fuller

Magonia 31, November 1988

 

By 1988 some crop-circle investigators were beginning to realise that atmospheric phenomena explanations for the crop circle mystery were just not adequate to cover the increasingly complex forms that were being created. However there was still a great reluctance to concede that most, if not all, of the complex circles were made man-made. This article may have been one of the last attempts to reconcile Meaden’s ‘vortex’ theory with what was happening on the ground.

Nightmares, Sex and Abductions

Manfred Cassirer

Magonia 31, November 1989

Demonologists of the Renaissance – generally much less enlightened or humane than one would have expected – subtly distinguish the male incubus from his female counterpart (succubus). The former derives etymologically from incubate (‘to lie down’), while the latter is a derivation of succubare (‘to lie under’).

The (Urban) Legendary Elvis

Michael Goss

Magonia 31, November 1988

 

As the late Gilbert Harding used to say of dyspepsia: 'Of course I get it, but I don't suffer from it' ... I can take the Sunday Sport or leave it alone. Often I leave it alone for weeks at a time until some temptingly outrageous headline like 'Hitler was a Woman' makes handing over the 35 pence not only justifiable but essential. On grounds of research into contemporary rumour-legend dissemination processes, you understand. But you knew I was bound to say that.