i have an excellent coffee-table paperback from the late 70s called STRANGE PHENOMENA which has a cover decorated with falling fishes and tells many excellent tales eg of the French coalminers who dug a strange leathery bird out of a seam of living rock deep underground: the bird stumbled a few paces, gave a single horrible croak, fell over and died…
i would recount more stories but just when i need it — i wanted to show dr vick the story of the “DUCK TREE”* – the BOOK HAS VANISHED!!