STRANGE PHEMOMENA - ANGELS OF MONS 'The Bowmen of Mons', drawn by A. Forestier, and used as a double-page spread in the Christmas edition of London Illustrated News. The caption refers to the growth of the legend, which almost certainly originated in the story The Bowmen, by Machin, which had been published in the previous year. The story tell how Saint George brought the spirits of the bowmen of Agincourt to help the English in the fight against the Germans. In his book On the Side of the Angels, Harold Begbie suggested that Machin had received the story telepathically from the brain of
STRANGE PHEMOMENA - ANGELS OF MONS 'The Bowmen of Mons', drawn by A. Forestier, and used as a double-page spread in the Christmas edition of London Illustrated News. The caption refers to the growth of the legend, which almost certainly originated in the story The Bowmen, by Machin, which had been published in the previous year. The story tell how Saint George brought the spirits of the bowmen of Agincourt to help the English in the fight against the Germans. In his book On the Side of the Angels, Harold Begbie suggested that Machin had received the story telepathically from the brain of a wounded or dying soldier at Mons, who actually had seen the vision.
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