Forteann.adj.

1920 B. Hecht in Daily News (Chicago) 21 Jan. 12/3 Whatever the purpose of Charles Fort, he has delighted me beyond all men... Mountebank or Messiah, it matters not. Henceforth I am a Fortean. I believe.

1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away xii. 143 All four volumes have since been published in an omnibus volume (The Books of Charles Fort) with an introduction by Tiffany Thayer, a devout Fortean.

1991 M. Gardner New Age xxx. 214 Like so many Forteans who seem unable to comprehend that the Fortean Society was a joke, Arnold was inclined to take seriously every published UFO story, no matter how outlandish.

2002 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 15 Jan. The Forteans have strange cults and weird beliefs but they retain their skepticism.

1931 N.Y. Evening Post 27 Jan. 3/2 The event..was the birth of the Fortean Society, whose purpose is to promulgate and celebrate, not to say propagandize, the work of Mr. Fort.

1946 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 16 June 12/1 Some of the material..is strictly Fortean: let non-Forteans beware.

1973 (title) Fortean Times.

1989 C. A. Hoyt Witchcraft (ed. 2) xi. 158 Folktales, legends, or rumors of ‘other dimensions’..have been with humankind since the dawn of consciousness. Fortean writers..have kept many of these cases before our eyes.

2001 Fortean Times Jan. 66/1 Ball lightning is a rare example of a fortean phenomenon that has been, reluctantly, accepted by the scientific community.