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=== Aleister Crowley === British occultist [[Aleister Crowley]] reported witnessing what he referred to as "globular electricity" during a thunderstorm on [[Newfound Lake|Lake Pasquaney]]<ref>There is no present-day ''Lake Pasquaney'' in New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire's [[Newfound Lake]] has a ''Camp Pasquaney''. However, part of the lake is known as Pasquaney Bay.</ref> in [[New Hampshire]], United States, in 1916. He was sheltered in a small cottage when he, in his own words, <blockquote>...noticed, with what I can only describe as calm amazement, that a dazzling globe of electric fire, apparently between {{convert|6|and|12|in|cm|spell=in|disp=sqbr}} in diameter, was stationary about {{convert|6|in|cm|spell=in|disp=sqbr}} below and to the right of my right knee. As I looked at it, it exploded with a sharp report quite impossible to confuse with the continuous turmoil of the lightning, thunder and hail, or that of the lashed water and smashed wood which was creating a pandemonium outside the cottage. I felt a very slight shock in the middle of my right hand, which was closer to the globe than any other part of my body.<ref name="AleisterCrowley">{{cite book|first= Aleister|last= Crowley|title= The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autobiography|isbn= 978-0-14-019189-9|publisher= Penguin|date=1989}} Chapter 83.</ref></blockquote>
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