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P.G. Pessler, a German priest, suggested in 1798 that all coffins have a tube inserted from which a cord would run to the church bells. If an individual had been buried alive they could draw attention to themselves by ringing the bells. This idea, while highly impractical, led to the first designs of safety coffins equipped with signalling systems.
Historically, a bell would be rung on three occasions around the time of a death. The first was the "passing bell" to warn of impending death, followed by the death knell which was the ringing of a bell immediately after the death, and the last was the "lych bell", or "corpse bell" which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church. [1]
A dead bell or deid bell (Scots), also a 'death', 'mort', 'lych', 'passing bell' or ' skellet bell ' [1] was a form of hand bell used in Scotland and northern England [2] in conjunction with deaths and funerals up until the 19th century.
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Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.An additional road (Township Road 123A) and an oil well have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure, [2] [3] which were installed in the early 2000s [4] and are expected to disappear once the oil well is abandoned.
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The bells were passed between generations of successive abbots and clerics, and served a number of communal functions, including the marking of canonical hours and calling for mass. However, by the 12th century hand-bells had largely been replaced by larger church tower bells, and although many stayed in use, their production declined. [6] [9]