Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
CHAPTER XII.
ELECTRIC STORMS.
Byron’s fire--Myths of the lightning--Causes of thunder storms--Strange freaks of the lightning--Numerous fatalities--Some curious cases--A lightning stroke a Divine favor--Thunder--Peculiar incidents--Lightning little to be feared--Foolish precautions--A “dysentery conductor” wanted--St. Elmo’s fire--Electric halos--Their part in history--The aurora--Popular myths--Aurora described 220