Are crop circles something new?
No. Crop circles have been appearing for at least centuries. In the Middle Ages for instance, the bisshop of Lyon was summoned to the king of France in the year 800, in order to explain the weird patterns that kept appearing in the fields surrounding Lyon. People feared the work of the devil...
Another old document describes the forming of a ring in grass near Assen (in the north of the Netherlands) in August 1590. According to eyewitnesses the ring was formed by dancing, mythical, humanoid beings and it involved a swirling gust of wind. "The circle remained from the day after... till the next winter when the plough cut it out". (From Robert Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire, 1686).
In 1678 a crop circle article was published in Hartfordshire (England). The crop had been flattened in a way "...no mortal man was able to do the like". Also in this case people feared the work of the devil, as was written in the article with the appropriate title: "The Mowing Devil".
In 1686 Robert Plot's National History of Staffordshire was published, in which several pages were dedicated to the crop circle phenomenon, varying from circles and half circles to squares, hexagonals, squares surrounded by circles and circles surrounded by rings.
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In other words, crop circles are not something new. Maybe they already appeared in prehistoric times and maybe that's why our ancesters built circular sacred sites.
There is something new about this phenomenon though. In the late seventies, the crop circle wave began. Both quantity and quality grew considerably...
