Case file · Folklore / legend
Angel of Mons
British soldiers were said to be shielded by angels at the 1914 Battle of Mons.
1914 CE · 50.45, 3.95 · status: legend
The account
The story spread rapidly in wartime Britain as proof of divine protection.
The sceptical view
Traced to Arthur Machen's short story 'The Bowmen', which readers mistook for fact — a documented case of fiction becoming folklore.