Also known as a "Carib ax", a THUNDERBOLT is a dark green, almost black, nodular stone shaped like a "celt" that is found, according to Bahamian natives, at the base of dead trees once struck by lightning THUNDERBOLTS may be the rare petrified products of when lightning "electromagnetically precipitates" manganese salts within certain trees at the speed of light
A thunderbolt is a flash of lightning, accompanied by thunder, which strikes something such as a building or a tree
A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination
The thunderbolt is represented in heraldry by a twisted bar in pale, inflamed at the ends, surmounting two jagged darts in saltire, between two wings expanded, and usually has streams of fire issuing from the center