Where it
was reported.
Every case the archive holds, on the country whose archive holds it. Shade is how many. Pick a zone, an era, an evidence tier or a form, and the map and the list below move together. Every combination has its own address.
Western Europe
12 countries. A case that names two countries is counted under both, so these do not add up to the number of cases.
- United Kingdom Western Europe 8
- France Western Europe 6
- Italy Western Europe 4
- Belgium Western Europe 2
- Portugal Western Europe 2
- Spain Western Europe 2
- Finland Western Europe 1
- Greece Western Europe 1
- Ireland Western Europe 1
- Poland Western Europe 1
- Sweden Western Europe 1
- Switzerland Western Europe 1
What this map is not
It is a map of where the records are, not of where anything happened. France and the United States are dark because both governments preserved their files and published them, and Britain because its National Archives released theirs. A country with no shading has not been quiet; it has been unread, or its archive is closed, or nobody has gone looking yet.
And it is barely a map of forms at all. Of the 52 cases that report an entity, 14 have a record that resolves a body: a face, a head, eyes, hands, proportions. The rest resolve a suit with nothing described inside it, or a silhouette, or nothing whatsoever while a vivid description circulates somewhere else entirely. Filter by The record shows and watch the map empty out. That emptying is the most honest thing on this page.
14 cases are placed in a morphology family. Where that is shown it is the archive reading a recorded description, not the record classifying itself, and the case page says which words it read.