One of the strangest of the many fantastic tricks lightning flashes play is the "fulgurite," which is sometimes found on the sands of a beach. It is a tube of a glassy substance, projecting above the ground like a stump of a bush. Beneath the sand it is often several feet long with many branches and twists, much like a root. It is caused by a direct stroke of lightning, the tremendous heat of which fuses the wet sand into a hollow glass tube. Another prank of lightning was the bolt which tore the clothes from a man's back without killing him. His perspiration apparently had been instantly transformed into steam by the mightly electric current. The miniature explosion blew; off Ms clothing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 11 (Supplement)
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