Bells
Bells in a dream carry whatever they are rung to announce — tolling, they can mark loss or sorrowful news of distant friends; pealing merrily, a wedding or glad tiding. The dream tends to touch the sound that calls us to attention, and to ask what is being announced, and in what spirit it rings out.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bells, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will worry you.
Liberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a wedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell tolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the tolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her.
Anonymous, 1894
Bells.—To dream you hear the bells ringing denotes a speedy marriage, and that you will receive some very good news.