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Bullard, JAF 102 (1989)

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The kidnap narrative keeps its skeletal order and both signature wounds · time that went missing and memory that is either blank or blocked · across a century and a complete change of costume. Bullard's own title concedes the structure: the supernatural kidnap narrative 'returns in technological guise.' Same episode grammar, different vehicle.

300 abduction reports follow eight episodes in fixed preferential order · capture, examination, conference, tour, otherworldly journey, theophany, return, aftermath. No report contains every episode, but episodes almost never appear out of sequence; aftermath includes memory gaps ('missing time') the experiencer cannot close.

set against Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in…

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