the drowned bell of Wdzydze / and why the lakes here 'ring' before someone dies

Kashubia, northern Poland, lake country. quiet, foggy, very old Slavic-Kashubian folk belief layered under the Catholic stuff. the motif i grew up with around Wdzydze and the surrounding jeziora: a church bell that sank into the lake — versions say it fell off a cart, or a whole church/village sank ……