Kauffmann expresses the opinion that the noises were due to clonic spasm of the tensor velum palati, and states that under appropriate treatment the tinnitus gradually subsided.
The introduction of foreign bodies in the ear is usually accidental, although in children we often find it as a result of sport or curiosity.

There is an instance on record of a man who was accustomed to catch flies and put them in his ear, deriving from them a pleasurable sensation from the tickling which ensued.

There have been cases in which children, and even adults, have held grasshoppers, crickets, or lady-birds to their ears in order to more attentively listen to the noise, and while in this position the insects have escaped and penetrated the auditory canal.

Insects often enter the ears of persons reposing in the fields with the ear to the ground.

Fabricius Hildanus speaks of a cricket penetrating the ear during sleep.