Stories
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Thunderbolts and lightning
Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.
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Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania
How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.
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Titans in the landscape
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
![Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including gout, lightning, war, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1836?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024795/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a comet, lightning, and French soldiers. Coloured lithograph, [c.1847?].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0024807/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning / [William Henley].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0014518/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Lightning striking a rural building during a storm: onlookers react in terror. Engraving, 16--.
Reference: 524640i- Archives and manuscripts
Eyes with lightning aura
Date: 21 February 1983Reference: SA/MAR/379Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Books
Lightning and the central nervous system / by J.H. Paterson and J.W. Aldren Turner.
Paterson, J. H.Date: [1943?]
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Lightning pierces through the clouds, heralding the coming of Christ. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1813, after W.M. Craig.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 10 April 1813Reference: 20165iPart of: Brown's superb Bible- Archives and manuscripts
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Abstract in pencil with lightning
Date: 15 May 1983Reference: SA/MAR/461Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection