_Phantom Bells--"The Death Bell"_ (Vol. vii. passim).--I have never met, in
any work on folk-lore and popular superstitions, any mention of that
unearthly bell, whose sound is borne on the death-wind, and heralds his
doom to the hearer. Mickle alludes to it in his fine ballad of "Cumnor
Halle:"
"The _death-belle_ thrice was heard to ring,
An aerial voice was heard to calle,
And thrice the raven flapp'd its wing,
Arounde the towers of Cumnor Halle."