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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16558, 23 May 1914, Page 16

The antics played by lightning an* sometimes almost beyond belief. A com men trick is that of stripping its victims. In 189 S two girls and an elderly woman were standing by a reaping machine during a storm. A lightning flash struck the woman and killed her on the spot, while the two girls were stripped to the skin, even their boots being torn from their feet. Otherwise, they were safe and sound—rand astonished. In 1855 a man was struck bv lightning near Vallerois, in France, and completely stripped. All that could be round afterwards of his clothes was a shirt*, sleeve, a few other shreds, and soma pieces of his hob-nailed boots. Ten minutes after he was struck he regained; consciousness, opened his eyes, an-Lcora- \ plained of tho eolcL