How Russians executed BELLS
09 May 2021, 20:55 GMT+10
In Russia, church bells were treated as persons: they had ears, tongues - and names. And, albeit not having their own volition, bells could be. executed and exiled for sounding at the wrong time or for the wrong person.
In 1592, in Uglich, Russia, a strange event took place. A 320-kilogram bell was dragged into the city square. A blacksmith was summoned to tear out the bell s tongue (the internal clapper) and to cut its ears (the contraptions the bell is hung onto). After that, the bell was scourged 12 times with heavy whips and sent to exile. About 60 families of Uglich people, which were exiled to Tobolsk, Siberia, dragged the bell with them for about a year.