Marvells of Science
Marvells of Science (AKA "Marvels of Science") is statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, originates in Ambrose Bierce's "The Man and the Snake (fiction)", with a shout-out in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival (fiction)".
Description
It is of veritable report and attested - of so many that there be now, of wise and learned, none to gainsay it! - that the serpent's eye has a magnetic property that whosoever falls into its persuasion is drawn forwards in despite of his will, and perishes miserably by the creature's bite.
Apparently an older book of wild and fanciful "scientific" "facts" concerning anecdotal accounts of weird prodigies of biology, geography, geology, cryptozoology, anthropology, archaeology, meteorology, astronomy, religion, and the like, such as the supposed "well-known" ability of snakes to mesmerize their victims, accounts of demonic possession and witches' sabbats, sightings of dog-headed men in far-off lands, rains of fish and toads and stones, sightings of strange planets in the night sky, monstrous births, strange appearances and disappearances, the remains of entombed giants uncovered in farmers' fields, mermaids caught in sailors' nets, visits to strange islands and lost continents, etc. Scattered among these accounts are verifiable references to actual Mythos lore.
- author: Ambrosius Morryster
- date: (unknown, late 1500s to early 1700s?)
- language: English
- number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
- last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
- study: several weeks
- sanity loss: minimal
- mythos lore: minimal
- occult lore: minimal
- spells: ?
Associated Mythos Elements
Appearances
- fiction: Ambrose Bierce's "The Man and the Snake (fiction)" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival (fiction)" (only brief references with the short quote above from Bierce)
- sourcebook: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook
