death-drums

Updated: March 26, 2026

The moment the strange concourse, human and mythological, began to move, the conch-shells, horns, trumpets, sackbuts, pipes, dulcimers, flutes, and harps rent the air with wild wailing; but above the din rose the deep, booming, measured beat of the death-drums.

Anna Harriette Leonowens - The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok