Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

IX Western Transdanubia - IX-4 Belfry from Felsőszenterzsébet

• Language of bells The sound of bells used to regulate the rhythm of daily life. Bells at dawn called people to work, at noon they commemorated the victory at Nándorfehérvár; when János Hunyadi and his army defeated the Turkish Sultans forces and after the evening belts people retired to bed. On Sundays and holidays bells summoned the congregation to prayer The bells tolled when somebody died and when they were buried. The deceased is "accompanied" by the bells to the grave. The tolling even indicated who had died because there was a different sound for men, women and children. They warned of dangers such as one storms, floods, outbre fire, and enemy Continuous ringing wf the bells are rung in ur called "the verse". The ringer was usually a < cal employee. Bells often used for makini nons during World Wa