Silk stockings for the women of Mars! (colour litho)

Silk stockings for the women of Mars! While the peasant Rosa Lotti was crossing a grove in the locality of Poggio d'Ambra in the municipality of Bucine (Arezzo), she would have been stopped by two little men no more than a meter tall, dressed in a strange way. The two, who looked like Snow White's gnomes and who spoke an incomprehensible language, would have stolen from the woman, but always smiling, a bouquet of flowers and a black silk stocking in her hand. Not far away, when the door was open, a curious device in the shape of a double spindle was waiting for them. All this results from a complaint presented to the police by Lotti, who considers them to be Martians and swears, like the protagonists of many other similar cases attributable to self-suggestion, that the incredible story and true from A to Zeta. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 14 November 1954.