Introduction

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, churches built steeples high into the sky. And on those bells was often inscribed some of the latin phrase folgera frango translated, i break up the lightning flashes. It became a common practice for local bell ringers to climb up into the church's steeple during a major thunderstorm in an attempt to ward off divine wrath. But the theory had two major designd fails built into the plan. In France and belgium alone, over the span of just three decades, 30 years, nearly 400 bell towers were hit by lightning. Many of them burned down to the ground, killing more than 100 bell ringers. So