1307
October 13
CULTS AND RELIGION:
Philippe IV of France ordered arrest of all Knights Templar for witchcraft and heresies; more than 600 of the 3,000 Templars in France were imprisoned according to Inquisition records. Jacques de Molay imprisoned in the Temple in Paris. From the destruction of the Templars we get some of our modern customs. Friday the 13th is unlucky; it is the day that the Templars were arrested.
1308
June 24
CULTS AND RELIGION:
Knights Templar held an annual chapter in Poitiers for three days, displaying "The Mysterious Head", according to Etienne de Troyes.
1309
October 6
CULTS AND RELIGION:
King Edward II orders the arrest of all Templars in Scotland.
1313
CULTS AND RELIGION:
The Knights Templar are dissolved by papal decree.
1318
CULTS AND RELIGION:
The Portuguese Knights Templar become the "Order of Christ" and receive the approval of Pope John XXII.
1320
WEIRD NATURE / GHOSTS AND HAUNTINGS / UFOLOGY:
After the abbot of Durham Abbey died and was buried, a strange light was seen to descend from the sky and move about over his grave.
1329
MAGICK AND THE OCCULT:
The first recorded appearance of the Tarot in Germany.
1332
November 4
WEIRD NATURE / UFOLOGY:
A report from Robert of Reading: "In the first hours of the night, there was seen in the skies over Uxbridge England, a pillar of fire the size of a small boat, pallid, and livid in color. It rose from the south, crossed the sky with a slow and grave motion, and went north. Out of the front of the pillar, a fervent red flame burst forth with great beams of light. Its speed increased and it flew through the air.”
1341
WEIRD HUMANITY:
A wild boy found in the woods of Hesse, Germany. According to the records kept by the local monks, he appeared to be about 7-years old and supposedly had been kept by wolves. This boy apparently died soon after being captured.
1344
WEIRD HUMANITY:
In addition of the above account from 1341, a second wild boy, this time a 12-year old, is seized in the same region of Germany (but in the woods of Wetterau this time) reportedly lived to the age of 80 years. According to records, both children were wild and immune to cold and discomfort, besides not being able to stand upright, consequently having to move around on all fours.
1361
WEIRD NATURE / UFOLOGY:
A flying object described as being "shaped like a drum, about twenty feet in diameter" emerged from the inland sea off western Japan.
1380
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| Map showing Greenland by Nicolo Zeno (1558, supposedly after 1380). |
WEIRD SCIENCE:
The "Zeno Map" was reportedly originally drawn. It covered a vast area of the north as far as Greenland with amazing accuracy. The map was first published in 1558 by Nicolo Zeno, a descendant of his namesake who supposedly voyaged the North Atlantic in 1380, and is generally regarded as being wholly of 16th century origin. Most historians regard the map and accompanying narrative as a hoax, perpetrated by the younger Zeno to make a retroactive claim for Venice as having discovered the New World before Christopher Columbus.
1387
December
WEIRD NATURE / UFOLOGY:
A "fire in the sky, like a burning and revolving wheel…" was seen in Leicester and Northamptonshire, England. The objects "emitted fire from above, and others in the shape of long, fiery beams".
1394
WEIRD NATURE / UFOLOGY:
A report from England: "A certain thing appeared in the likeness of fire in many parts of England every night. This fiery apparition, oftentimes when anybody went alone, it would go with him, and would stand still when he stood still. To some it appeared in the likeness of a turning wheel burning; to other some a round object, the likeness of a barrel, flashing out flames of fire at the head; to others, the likeness of a long burning lance."
