From: "Mitchell A. Bailey" <MAB@lindau.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Tintin?
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 13:32:37 

Nicholas Gevers wrote:
> 
> Allegedly, Columbus pulled off the eclipse trick on
> the inhabitants of Jamaica in 1504--a fact that may
> have influenced both Herge and Wolfe in their
> portrayals of neo-Inca folk being gulled in this way.
> 
...

Wasn't there an "eclipse trick" featured in the 1931 movie "A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" with Will Rogers in the title
role? (it wasn't in Samuel Clemens' book)



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