2972. About belled spirits
I heard recently, I think [2862, 19 Aug.], and again just now, spirits sounding like cows with little bells, who were moving toward the front regions from afar, out of the region of the left eye, striking fear wherever they go. I also felt fear in myself from them, the spirits no doubt feeling a greater one. The sound of the bells was saying, "tager du den, sa tager jag den, tager du mycket, sa tager jag litet."* Wherever they go, they purify the plain of the world of spirits from evil ones, driving them to flight. So it is also a kind of east wind, for the purpose of dispersing them, and dissociating societies wrongly joined together [see 2121-7]. 1748, 28 Aug. * Swedish for "if you take this one, then I take this one, if you take a lot, then I take a little."