Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2862

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2862. About traveling spirits, from whom other spirits flee away

I heard spirits making a sound as if with little bells, such as horses drawing carriages and carts are customarily equipped with in England. It was like the sound of little bells, and they had the same gait, so to speak, so that I could not tell otherwise for a long time but that they were such bells. But I realized that they were spirits who make this sound exactly like belled horses before carriages, also trotting quite slowly, and inspiring the perception that they are travelers. They came from the back side of the head and slowly went forward. It seemed as if they were going forward toward the front parts of the head, but this was a pretense and figment arising from their fantasy, which is also used to pretending that they were somewhere else, when yet they remain in the same place. So they make themselves heard everywhere as of they were present.


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