This sweet bell ringing
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Description
The account is of an auditory apparition (or audition) with no visible agency or source. The sound of small bells, which could be heard only by one person, emanated from a specific location within a room. The ringing was notable not only as an inexplicable phenomenon but also for the timing of the occurrence: the precise anniversary of a child’s death in the same place two years previous. The sounds mimicking the ringing bells were manufactured from reiterated micro-samples of my articulation of the words ‘bell’ and ‘bells’.
Source Text
Many years ago, the Revd Mr T. Evans, the curate of Caerleon, writing below stairs at night, heard near the fire like the sound of sweet, small bells. He called Mrs Evans from bed to hear it. She came, but heard nothing. He called the maid, and she also heard nothing. Mrs Evans desired him to go to another room to see if he could hear it. He did, but could hear nothing. That time, two years hence, their child died in that room, and that part of the room where he heard this sweet bell ringing. Here it is plain that this was the agencies of some invisible beings or spirits who exactly knew the time of his child's death, so long before (to the farther conviction of Atheistical, Deistical men, and Sadduceistical principles, which have no foundation but the corrupt, perverse fancies of men).
Source Reference
The Appearance of Evil, 97.
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Description
The account is of an auditory apparition (or audition) with no visible agency or source. The sound of small bells, which could be heard only by one person, emanated from a specific location within a room. The ringing was notable not only as an inexplicable phenomenon but also for the timing of the occurrence: the precise anniversary of a child’s death in the same place two years previous. The sounds mimicking the ringing bells were manufactured from reiterated micro-samples of my articulation of the words ‘bell’ and ‘bells’.
Source Text
Many years ago, the Revd Mr T. Evans, the curate of Caerleon, writing below stairs at night, heard near the fire like the sound of sweet, small bells. He called Mrs Evans from bed to hear it. She came, but heard nothing. He called the maid, and she also heard nothing. Mrs Evans desired him to go to another room to see if he could hear it. He did, but could hear nothing. That time, two years hence, their child died in that room, and that part of the room where he heard this sweet bell ringing. Here it is plain that this was the agencies of some invisible beings or spirits who exactly knew the time of his child's death, so long before (to the farther conviction of Atheistical, Deistical men, and Sadduceistical principles, which have no foundation but the corrupt, perverse fancies of men).
Source Reference
The Appearance of Evil, 97.