Do you believe in little bitch? Not? And he believes in you! How home spirits manifest themselves in modern apartments in our material
Step into history
Not everyone knows that there is such a holiday: Kudesy - the Day of treating the brownie, it was celebrated by our ancestors on January 28. They considered the brownie as their neighbor, the guardian of the house. They thought that if in Kudesy he was left without a treat, then he would turn from a good spirit into an evil one. Therefore, on this day, after dinner, the hostess always left a pot of dishes behind the stove.
In general, brownies, like goblin and water, in the ancient Russian pagan pantheon are considered the children of the main god - Veles. The brownie is a kind spirit who was sent to the earth to help a friendly family that looks after the household. If you do not deal with the house, then the brownie was naughty and showed character.
On the Day of Treating the brownie, it was customary to feed and honor him. It was in the tradition of our ancestors. Are there any people now who believe in the drum?
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The Amur people tell the most interesting when you ask them about a meeting with invisible spirits. Here's what we heard.
Darina, travel agent:
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- My mother had a story. She slept in the hall at night, woke up from some noise, looks, and opposite the bed is an incomprehensible creature. Mom was so scared that she ran out of the hall at breakneck speed. But I don't know what it was, maybe it was really a brownie.
Tatiana, supermarket cashier:
- I can say that I have been living next door to a brownie for 15 years (smiles). I see him as a dark male silhouette. As I moved to a new apartment, I immediately felt his presence. It even happened that he choked me at night, but then I put some sweets for him on a saucer and he seemed to be kind. Sometimes he makes a noise and the cat reacts to him. But I'm not afraid anymore.
Olga, journalist:
- When my husband and I moved to a new apartment, there were strange strange sounds in the kitchen and in the bathroom all the time, as if someone was putting cups on the table, in the bath the curtain twitched, the cat hissed at the corners. And then the husband found a huge rusty needle in the old mattress, threw it out, and all the sounds stopped. Well, my husband thinks so, I don't really believe in it.
Ivan, musician:
- In general, I do not believe in any brownies. True, sometimes I hear sounds in the kitchen at night, but it seems to me that these are just neighbors walking around, for some reason they cannot sleep (laughs). I don’t believe it, so I don’t see any point in feeding something that doesn’t exist.
Ekaterina, client manager:
- My husband and I lived with my mother, we have a two-room apartment. Mom is in one room, we are in another. So, I'm sure that a brownie lived in our house. And for some reason he disliked my mother. At night, when she was asleep, the brownie would come and bother her: he would pull sharply by the hair, then he would sit on her neck. When she spoke, at first I did not believe. But then we decided to switch rooms. And then I felt his presence on me. I don't know, maybe he considered himself the owner of these square meters, but one night, when my husband was on duty, I woke up because someone was pushing me in the back. I turned around, but the pressure was tremendous, and until I jumped out of bed, it did not stop. Another time I woke up when something fluffy and warm settled on my neck. I thought it was a cat, but I turned my head and saw a cat sitting on the ottoman next to the bed. Then I just jumped up and ran to my mother's room. After this incident, soon my husband and I moved to a separate apartment. The brownie doesn't seem to bother mom, but sometimes she hears some sounds, just from that room. Believe it or not, I don't know, laughter, of course, but there is something supernatural after all.
Julia, pediatrician:
“I don’t know if I believe in brownies or ghosts, but I think we are receiving some signs from the other world. At least at night I can't sleep for a long time, I listen. It seems to me that something is constantly knocking, rattling, buzzing. Maybe this imagination works like that, maybe there really is something.
Expert opinion
Maxim Chekmarev, psychologist:
- People's ideas about the irrational part of reality have nothing to do with intelligence or education. They are determined by a completely different dimension of the psyche - spiritual development. There is a problem with the concept of spirituality today. Therefore, magical thinking is very common. Its main purpose is to manipulate reality. When people are obsessed with the idea of manipulating each other, they want to manipulate the realm of the intangible, for example, by feeding brownies. The feeling of the presence of a brownie can mean anything and is found among both healthy and mentally ill people. Each case must be considered specifically.
Svyatoslav Shevchenko, Orthodox priest:
- In Russia, paganism existed for a long time, when people tried to deify the sun, moon, atmospheric and natural phenomena. And when they faced, as they would say now, with paranormal things, they tried to build them into their belief system. But when Christianity came to the Russian land, it explained the nature of all these goblin, water, field, brownie. In the church tradition, they are called fallen angels, demons, demons. These are infernal entities that were once the beautiful Angels of Light. Here is what the last book of the Bible, the Apocalypse, says about them: “And there was a war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought [against them], but they could not resist, and there was no longer a place for them in heaven … And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceived the whole universe,he was cast out to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him "(Apt. 12: 7-9).
Now read the pagan interpretation of events: “But among them there are those who descended from heaven to Earth and settled among people: these are ancient heroes: volotomania, asilka, the spirits of the ancestors, as well as the spirits of forests, fields, waters and mountains. Those of them who got into the forest - became devil, some into the water - water, some in the field - field, and some into the house - brownie. That is, those same demons.
Moreover, this is not a matter of bygone days, a tradition of deep antiquity. All this is still happening. Only today, people who are faced with the manifestation of evil forces call demons poltergeists, reels, etc. As a priest, many times I had to go on call to such "bad" apartments, where people saw terrible visions, heard strange sounds, animals behaved anxiously … Sometimes these creatures even allow bodily contact with residents of such houses. There were even cases when something tried to strangle a person.
Sometimes people themselves open the door to these entities: witchcraft, terrible sins, murders, suicide … After that, strange things begin in the dwelling where all this was happening. The task of the clergyman is to consecrate such a dwelling with a special rank and to read a special prayer "for the temple, which is cold from evil spirits."
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