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  "thread": {
    "id": 3498,
    "subject": "PEACE: Bell Witch rings a bell",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-10-21T23:03:19+00:00",
    "last": "2002-10-21T23:03:19+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0210-1895@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi",
        "address": "mantis at siriusfiction.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-10-21T23:03:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PEACE: Bell Witch rings a bell",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Roy wrote:\nAlso, the Lorn's strict religious observances make me doubt that they would\ndesecrate a grave or use a gravestone for a doorstep. Neither do I think a\nstrict country preacher would enlist the aid of a heathen \"wise woman\" to\nlay a ghost."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Maybe.  First off, what are/were the Cardiff Bretheren, anyway, who sent\nmissionaries to China?  (Sounds more like free masons to me!)  Granted Mr.\nLorn is an Approved Methodist, but still I'm not certain.  The bit about\nthe stone being a gravestone could be a lie and the rest somehow true.\n\nAs for the girl's own sense, whoa, Margie fantasizes that the China egg,\nwith pictures of the ressurection, will hatch a freaky sharp-toothed demon!\nIn her own way, she is a little Wednesday Addams (and thus a perfect match\nfor Weer); but I will agree in another case that her religion might make\nher repelled by the subtext of the Tilly Tale which was so alluring to the\nnon-religious Olivia."
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        {
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "My question is: what is a Bell Witch?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Check out this site: http://www.bellwitch.org/\n\nThe short answer is \"it\" started haunting in Tennessee in 1817, and it is a\nbit like the ghost of Tilly's wife (using poison at least once), a bit like\nthe banshee, and it seems quite likely that Gene Wolfe knew all about it.\n\nI only read the main text and there was nothing about a ceremony for\nquieting the witch.\n\n(And no, the witch doesn't ring a bell -- it is named after the family it\npersecuted, the Bell family.)\n\n=mantis="
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