This story, which happened many years ago, was told by a resident of the city of Kandalaksha Leonid Korshinin.
In 1956. Lenin's mother left for two years to work on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, and sent her son to his grandmother. She lived in a small Kazakh village, 50 kilometers from Alma-Ata.
In an international village
Apart from Kazakhs, the village was inhabited by Russians, Ukrainians, Chechens, exiled Germans and Uighurs. Lenya easily fit into the local international gang of boys, who rushed around the village all day. But his closest friend was the Uighur boy Suleiman, whom everyone called Sulka for short.
An elderly married couple lived in the neighborhood of Lenin's grandmother, both husband and wife - Uighurs. For some reason, the grandmother in the village was called a witch. However, she really looked like her.
… The summer was coming to an end, the villagers were gathering crops in their gardens and orchards. A hot time has also come for young tomboy: at that time, for some reason, it was customary to carry other people's vegetables and fruits (perhaps according to the principle “Others are tastier”). In short, Lenya and Sulka decided to climb into the garden of the elderly Uighurs.
There was no electricity in the village at that time, and people went to bed early. Lyonka waited until his grandmother fell asleep and climbed out the window, behind which his faithful friend was already waiting. The night was clear, the full moon was watching from the sky …
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Night hike that turned out to be a mystery
The boys carefully crossed the grandmother's yard and crept up to the neighbor's one and a half meter fence. Hiding behind him, they began to inspect someone else's estate …
Suddenly they noticed an old Uyghur man bending over a huge wooden trough that was lying on the ground. The children became curious: what is this grandfather doing in the middle of the night? And he, it turns out, was pouring wheat into the trough. When it was filled to the brim with grain, an old woman appeared from the house and suddenly began to undress …
Taking off all her clothes, the grandmother lay down in a huge vessel and began to bury herself in the wheat. The old man helped her until she completely disappeared into the grain. Then the Uighur silently turned around and left.
Frightened and confused, the boys sat, afraid to move. They didn't even think about going into someone else's garden for "prey". The best thing would be, of course, to escape quietly, but something held them in place, perhaps a child's curiosity …
Suddenly Lenya and Sulka saw that the grain in the trough began to move, someone's body appeared from it. It was so scary that the guys gasped. Meanwhile … a young girl got up from the trough. Having stroked her naked slender body with her hands, the beauty slowly went to the house. As soon as she disappeared from sight, Lenya and Sulka, without saying a word, rushed away at full speed.
Rejuvenation for a month
The guys decided not to tell anyone about what they saw: not only would they not believe, they would also laugh.
A few days later, Lenka learned from his grandmother that a Uighur neighbor had gone to stay with relatives. But the grandfather is not alone now, because a granddaughter has arrived in the village from Alma-Ata. A week later, Lyonka met this neighbor's "granddaughter" on the street. Above the girl's upper lip, there was a black mole, the same as that of the Uighur grandmother.
Lenka's curiosity turned out to be stronger than fear, and he began to observe his strange neighbors. The boy saw how the girl's appearance changed over time: her skin began to fade and acquire a yellowish tint, the beauty was getting old before her eyes. Finally, one day, grandmother told Lyonka that their old neighbor had returned home, while the granddaughter had stayed and left for Alma-Ata. However, Lyonka knew what really happened. The boy had no doubt that a month ago he and his faithful friend Sulka witnessed a witchcraft ritual for rejuvenation …
Daniil Myslinsky