1590
MAGICK AND THE OCCULT:
North Berwick witches' coven attempts to sink King James' ship.
1591
1592
WEIRD SCIENCE:
The "Phiri Rhis Map" is drawn which shows the coastline of Africa and South America accurate to within a .5 degree of longitude. The map clearly shows features of the earth that nobody should have known in the late 16th century. On the map he wrote that he had borrowed and copied from 20 earlier ancient maps. Some of the maps dating back to Alexander the Great and older. Without an accurate timepiece there was no way to figure longitude on a sailing ship. It wasn't until 1790 that the first accurate marine timepiece was invented.
1593
FOLKLORE:
England, London: A "flying dragon" surrounded by flames was seen over the city.
1594
1595
1596
1597
1598
FOLKLORE:
French authorities arrested Jacques Roulet, a beggar, after they found him crouched in a bush and covered with blood from the badly mutilated nearby body of a 15-year-old boy. In his confession Roulet said he had slain the youth while a werewolf, a state he entered via the application of ointment.
