1658. Moreover, they also spoke through my gums, so that the gums together with the teeth received it with an almost painful sensation. There was a clear sensation of tightening of the gums, so that even the teeth, though of course not hurting, still came close to doing so. They said that this kind of speech with their own people does squeeze the teeth in a way that they feel pain from it, and that it was the speech of the kind of spirits who had not yet become angels, thus who had recently come into the other life. Evidently, the sound of speaking streams in by a different route, namely, the Eustachian tube* [see 1541]. * In the index at Loqui: ". . . the speech entered into the ear through the Eustachian tube."