"SPECTRE" IN A CHURCH.
TRICK OF SUN'S RAYS. During several days in July worshippers attending the services in the church of St. Pierre le Jeune at Strasbourg were astonished to see a kind of spectre near the altar. The figure was crowned with a red aureole and appeared and disappeared intermittently. On investigation it was found to be an optical effect produced by the refraction of the rays of the sun passing through the angle of a stained-glass window. The "figure" naturally moved with the sun's rays, but, in addition, the branches of a tree outside, stirred by the wind, caused it to appear and disappear as they brushed against the window.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19727, 29 August 1927, Page 11
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