Los ángeles de Mons
The Angel of Mons - Paul Paree
Los ángeles de Mons,
la historia de Arthur Machen para el periódico
del Evening News de Londres para el 14 de septiembre de 1915,
con la aparición de arqueros fantasmas ingleses desde el campo de Agincourt durante
la terrible retirada de Mons. Citó el testimonio de un oficial de la siguiente
manera; “En la noche del 27 yo viajaba a lo largo de la columna con otros dos
oficiales … Como lo recorrimos juntos fui consciente del hecho de que en
los campos, a ambos lados del camino por el que marchábamos había una gran
cantidad de gente a caballo.”
“Los otros dos
oficiales dejaron de hablar. Por fin uno de ellos me preguntó si veía algo en
el campo. Les dije lo que había visto. El tercer oficial confesó que él también
había visto a esos jinetes durante los últimos veinte minutos. Tan convencidos
estaban realmente de la caballería que a la siguiente vez mandaron a un oficial
para reconocer el terreno, pero no encontró a nadie allí. La noche llegó y todo
se oscureció, no se vieron más”.
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ANGELS
OF MONS, the
story by Arthur Machen, a London journalist, in the Evening News for
September 14, 1915 on the apparition of English phantom bowmen from the field
of Agincourt during the terrible retreat from Mons. He quoted the testimony of
an officer as follows: "On the night of the 27th I was riding along the
column with two other officers... As we rode along I became conscious of the
fact that in the fields on both sides of the road along which we were marching
I could see a very large body of horsemen.
The other two officers had stopped
talking. At last one of them asked me if I saw anything in the fields. I told
them what I had seen. The third officer confessed that he, too, had been
watching these horsemen for the past twenty minutes. So convinced were we that they
were really cavalry, that at the next halt one of the officers took a party of
men out to reconnoitre and found no one there. The night then grew darker and
we saw no more."
Confirmations began to pour in.
Similar visions of phantom armies were related from different battle fronts.
Books were written on the occurrence. Harold Begbie, in On the Side of the
Angels, quoted testimonies of soldiers. A dying prisoner spoke of the
reluctance of the Germans to attack the English lines "because of the
thousands of troops behind us." Then Machen confessed that he invented the
whole story. A revelation in 1930 added another feature to the complexity of
the problem. Friedrich Herzenwirth, a director of the German espionage system,
published his memoirs in February, 1930, and writes that the Angels of Mons
were motion pictures, projected by German flyers on the clouds to make the
English troops believe that even. God is on the German side.
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Enciclopedia de ciencias psíquicas, Nandor Fodor
Angels of Mons (Reve Mystique), cubiera de una obra de piano de Sydney C Baldock
Batalla entre las tropas inglesas y alemanas
Representación de los ángeles durante la batalla
Representation of angels during the battle
Representación de los ángeles durante la batalla
Representation of angels during the battle
Arthur Machen
Portada del libro de Arthur Machen
Bookcover of Arthur Machen
Representación de los ángeles durante la batalla
Representation of angels during the battle
Representación de los ángeles durante la batalla
Representation of angels during the battle
Representación de los ángeles durante la batalla
Representation of angels during the battle
Proyección de una película sobre las nubes. Según el testimonio de Friedrich Herzenwirth
A film about the clouds. According to the testimony of Friedrich Herzenwirth
Proyección de una película sobre las nubes. Según el testimonio de Friedrich Herzenwirth
A film about the clouds. According to the testimony of Friedrich Herzenwirth
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