I suspect that after all, we’re useful, that among contesting claimants adjustment has occurred or something has a legal right to us, by force, or by having paid out analogues of beads for us to former, more primitive owners of us – all others warned off – that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this Earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received – from Somewhere else – in our mysterious usefulness." -(The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort, 1919)
