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TNP99: John Michael Greer on Monsters + Magical Beings

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The Grenlin in the Early Wooden Airplanes

The traditional notion of a gramlin was that is a vaguely humanoid, u elf ish sort of creature that is only found in an aeroplane. I'm quite convinced it was very traditional back in the days when ships were made of wood, for there to be ship spirits,. People saw them. Mariners all knew about them. It was standard when the wooden ships were replaced with metal, they went away o old housesmade from large trunks of trees. And in the same way, the early, the earliest airplanes, airplanes through through the first world war, into the 19 twenties, were generally made by hands, typically of wood. And they all had tead remans, m

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