Passing Bell
A passing bell — tolled for the dying — often touches unexpected word of an absent one's sorrow or illness, with ill health and reverses if you ring it yourself. The dream may ask whose distant trouble is about to reach your ears, and whether the solemn toll is for another's hard turn or a warning about your own.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for passing bell, 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 a passing bell, unexpected intelligence of the sorrow or illness of the absent.
To ring one yourself, denotes ill health and reverses.