Chapter 22. In School at Ongole.
… A few years ago, when the missionaries returned home from a preaching-tour, they found all the young men and women in the normal and girls’ schools in great fear: all had left their houses, and slept out in the open air; and many of them begged to be allowed to return to their homes at once, for the mission compound was haunted, and if they remained they would be killed.
They said that every night stones fell on their houses and in their yards, thrown by unseen hands; and some went so far as to assure the missionaries that they had not only heard the stones fall once and again, but that they had seen them. It tasked all the powers of the missionaries to quell the panic, and restore the assurance that devils, however many there might be, could not harm faithful Christians with stones or any thing else, because the everlasting arms of the living God were around his people.
From Darkness to light: a story of the Telugu awakening.
John Everett Clough, 1882.
(it’s possible anyway)