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The Sounds of Infinity

by Ber Weyde
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On Dalby mountain the old Manx people used to put their ears to the earth at ‘Sheean ny Feaynid’ (the Sounds of Infinity), to hear sounds which were like murmurs. They thought these sounds came from beings in space; for in their belief all space is filled with invisible beings.


(source: Wm. Cashen’s Manx Folklore (1912); photo)

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