![]() He awakens and declares it to have been the most terrible night he had ever experienced. Back on Earth the lifeless body of the watchman is found and he is brought to a hospital, where they take his shoes off, breaking the spell again. ![]() There he meets several Moon men who all wonder whether Earth is inhabited and decide this must be impossible. As he wishes he could visit the Moon the shoes send him flying there. A watchman unknowingly fits on a pair of magic galoshes that can grant people's wishes. " The Galoshes of Fortune" (1838) by Hans Christian Andersen.Edward Young's poem entitled The Complaint, and the Consolation or, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), was a favorite of poets and painters of Romanticism including William Blake and Samuel Palmer.Pan Twardowski, a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil in Polish folklore and literature, is depicted as having escaped from the Devil who was taking him to Hell and ending up living on the Moon, his only companion being a spider from time to time Twardowski lets the spider descend to Earth on a thread and bring him news from the world below.Hans Christian Andersen's 1838 " The Galoshes of Fortune": the magic shoes take a watchman to the Moon, which he finds terrible. The invention of the telescope hastened the popular acceptance of the concept of "a world in the Moon", that is, that the Moon was an inhabitable planet, which might be reached via some sort of aerial carriage. įrom the first telescope to Apollo 11 (1608–1969) The Moon is then rescued by humans with the aid of an old wise woman. After getting stuck in a bog, it is imprisoned by evil creatures. A fairy tale titled The Buried Moon features the Moon walking on Earth in its anthropomorphic form. ![]() In this depiction, the Moon is where everything lost on Earth is to be found, including Orlando's wits, and Astolfo brings them back in a bottle and makes Orlando sniff them, thus restoring him to sanity. The English knight Astolfo, seeking to find a cure for Orlando's madness, flies up to the Moon in Elijah's flaming chariot. The protagonist Orlando, having been thwarted in love, goes mad with despair and rampages through Europe and Africa, destroying everything in his path. One of the earliest fictional flights to the Moon took place on the pages of Ludovico Ariosto's well-known Italian epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516).It is among the first texts of any culture assuming the Moon to be an inhabited world and describing travel between it and the Earth. ![]()
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