In the summer of 2008, a resident of the city of Pervouralsk, the owner of a small trading company, Vladimir Andreevich Ivankov, received unexpected news: his cousin, who had died a few months earlier, had left him a small two-room apartment in Yekaterinburg. This gift turned out to be very timely for the Ivankovs, since their daughter Elena studied at one of the Yekaterinburg universities and was forced to live in rented apartments.
Bad apartment
On the very first night, when Vladimir Andreevich and Elena settled in the donated apartment, frightening and strange things began to happen in the dwelling: the floorboards creaked every now and then, as if someone was carefully stepping on them, the interior doors opened and closed by themselves. And in the morning, a frightened daughter ran into her father's room and said that there was someone in her bedroom - because of the cold breath of a mysterious stranger, the girl, in fact, woke up.
Vladimir Andreevich carefully examined Elena's room, but did not find anything unusual, except for an old woman's dress that ended up in the closet, which he inherited along with the apartment. And the very next day, real devilry began to happen here.
At first, for no apparent reason, plates, glasses and other utensils began to fall from the kitchen shelves. After that, cutlery began to rise into the air and beat against the walls: knives, forks and spoons. At some point, the very dress that Vladimir Andreevich found in the closet early in the morning flew into the kitchen from the next room.
The frightened Ivankovs ran out of the terrible apartment and began knocking on the doors of their neighbors, one of which was opened by an elderly woman. Inviting uninvited guests to her place, she told Vladimir Andreevich and Elena that Ivankova's aunt, Vera Dmitrievna, who died at the age of 81, was a healer and even conjured a little. Shortly before her death, she allegedly strenuously searched for a person to whom she could pass on her sacred knowledge, but she could not find one, which was very saddened.
On the advice of a neighbor, Vladimir Andreevich invited an Orthodox priest to a bad apartment, who read prayers for a very long time and walked around the rooms with a candle that stubbornly did not want to burn. When the priest began to sprinkle the corners and walls with holy water, it suddenly, to everyone's amazement, began to turn into wine. After which the priest declared that he could not overcome this power, and left …
Poltergeist classifications
Realizing that there is nowhere to wait for help. Vladimir Andreevich sat down to books on occult sciences, rummaged through a bunch of sites on the Internet, and after a while he learned a lot of curious things about the restless spirit, which has the official name "poltergeist", and is popularly called "drumhead".
In particular, Ivankov found out that there are many types of ghostly creatures living on the border of the subtle and dense worlds. These spirits cannot find peace due to various circumstances. The most dangerous and powerful are the restless souls of people who, during their lifetime, engaged in black magic and necromancy, as well as committed bloody crimes or died because of their sinful activities (death penalty for murder, death as a result of revenge on the part of someone for stolen property or inflicted physical harm and so on).
Another type of malevolent spirit inflicts pain on women and children. Such poltergeists usually attack this category of people, giving them both emotional and physical suffering, but, as a rule, disappear when adult men appear.
The well-known category of brownies includes close and distant relatives who, during life and after death, did not receive due respect, care and respect. These noisy spirits disturb their loved ones, as if reminding themselves of themselves, play with pets and small children, without harming anyone.
The spirits of people who have stained themselves with theft during their lifetime usually hide things in the house, which after a certain time are miraculously found.
The most unfortunate are the spirits of suicides, doomed by karmic laws for a long time to be attracted to the world, which they hastened to leave. Such entities sigh heavily or groan, sometimes their transparent images appear to people.
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They don't like it
Due to the fact that barabashki belong to entities of a lower order and require constant feeding with negative energy, they cannot stand everything that concerns high standards of morality, moral and physical purity, and religiosity. Thus, a poltergeist never settles in apartments where church bells can be heard ringing or from the windows of which the domes of the temple are visible. The spirits are also deterred by the recitation of prayers of all known traditional beliefs and the smell of church incense.
Noisy ghosts usually do not live in families that adhere to a sober lifestyle, in which they do not scandal, especially at the dinner table, and maintain a constant cleanliness of the home and body.
Intrusive subtle entities are scared off by open fire (fireplace, stove, candle), knocking and snapping fingers. For example, in India, one of the oldest ways to get rid of a poltergeist from a home is the uniform tapping of a bamboo stick on the walls of the house. In Tibet, while yawning, it is customary to snap your fingers around the head or mouth of a person so that the evil spirit does not enter him through an open mouth.
Coolness and fresh air, which periodically need to fill their home, as well as hunger, are contraindicated for reels. It is generally accepted that domestic ghosts are happy to eat up pieces of food left open after a meal.
Sacred practices
A lot of practices have accumulated in the world that allow you to drive out poltergeists: from classical church rituals to dangerous rituals of the voodoo religion. So, in the countries of the Caribbean region and southeast Africa, in order to save oneself from such spirits, it is customary to call a pagan priest who performs a complex rite of sacrifice of poultry. In Ireland and northeastern England, druid priests are successfully fighting the poltergeist, whose rituals include fiery actions, sprinkling with earth taken from sacred hills, and ashes from burnt "ancestral" trees.
Residents of Asia often use a completely simple technique when, having felt the influence of subtle entities on themselves (this is expressed, as is commonly believed, in the appearance of tremors in the body and a feeling of sudden coldness), a person turns around and throws angry glances around. Another equally simple way is to scandal the poltergeist, scolding him and threatening him with big trouble.
Vladimir Andreevich Ivankov nevertheless did not dare to independently conduct rituals to cleanse housing, with which he managed to get acquainted in detail, and on the advice of his wife he found a woman in his native Pervouralsk who agreed to clean the apartment of the terrible tenant. For this, the witch asked for a photograph of the late aunt, a mysterious old dress found by Vladimir Andreyevich in the closet, and told the Ivankovs not to enter the apartment for a day.
When at the appointed time Ivankov appeared on the threshold of the donated apartment, he was greeted by a pale and exhausted witch who said that the house was clean, after which she handed the man a dress burnt in several places, ordering Vladimir Andreevich to bury him in his aunt's grave.
Two months later, a major overhaul was made in the kopeck piece, and by the beginning of the new school year, Elena Ivankova moved into her apartment, in which no one bothered her anymore.
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №5. Author: Sergey Voron