Title

Rain of frogs recorded in 1355 (1557). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Rain of frogs recorded in 1355 (1557). Accounts of deluges of frogs and fish date back to biblical times. The phenomenon ocurs when a waterspout or tornado passes over a body of water and sucks the water, and whatever may be in it, up into the air, dropping it later elsewhere. From Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon by Conrad Lycosthenes. (Basel, 1557).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1557

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_020

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (2,2Mb) / 10,7in x 10,9in / 3203 x 3272 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather cloud clouds animal unusual religious country religion Switzerland meteorological meteorology science raining rain church bizarre frog amphibian Christianity Swiss location century downpour concept natural phenomena B&W MONOCHROME Rainstorm black & white black and white B W 14th century 16th century Fourteenth Century sixteenth century Oxford Science Archive woodcut Unknown Conrad Lycosthenes Lycosthenes Conrad woodcut