Our ancestors were sure that a brownie lives in every residential building. But over time, multi-apartment buildings began to replace individual residential buildings, and the legends about them seemed to begin to fade. But no!
Poltergeist, he is a drummer, he is a brownie
At the end of the last century, when Voronezh was seething with stories about alien visits, stories about brownies were revived in a new version - then it became fashionable to call them poltergeists and reels. It turns out that the spirits of our homes have not gone anywhere at all.
So, in some apartments on the streets of Savrasov, Kholzunov, Koltsovskaya, Lenin Square and private houses in the area of the Voronezh State University in the late 1990s - early 2000s, spontaneous combustion of things began to be observed.
Alla T. talked about a fire in her apartment in 1997:
“The fire did not start from an outlet or a wire, but straight from a table heaped with papers, and no one had ever smoked in the apartment. Surprisingly, we dispensed with firefighters, although it seemed that the whole room was on fire. Several buckets of water that my husband poured out managed to put out the fire. Almost everything burned out, except for the SONY TV, which had a bad plastic top bent from the high temperature. The TV remained in working order. It seems to me that these were the tricks of the brownie. A week before the fire, every night we heard a rumble in the kitchen at night, someone walked along the corridor and stomped angrily. I immediately thought - the brownie is angry, we began to swear very often lately, so he didn't like it, and he so attracted our attention.
In one of the private houses near Voronezh University in 1998, an unknown person terrified the owners of the house every evening: he turned on and off the lights, blew up electric bulbs and even howled. They say that he calmed down only to the songs of Lebedinsky.
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Many residents of Voronezh probably remember the case when, in 1989, in one of the apartments on Heroes of the Stratosphere, the wall moved away from the ceiling, dishes and a TV set fell to the floor, and the wall immediately returned to its place. The Committee on Anomalous Phenomena, then existing in Voronezh, visited the scene, but could not explain what happened.
They are nearby
In the "Afanasyevsky Collection" of the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University, which contains various stories and legends of residents of the Voronezh region, one can read not only amazing stories of old people about encounters with the unusual, but also evidence of contacts with house-keepers of middle-aged and even young townspeople.
By the way, these bylichki confirm the opinion that with the great exodus of people from private houses to high-rise buildings, brownies did not die out.
“In the new apartment, my father was sleeping on the sofa, and suddenly he woke up from a sharp blow to the side. But there was no one in the room. He went to the kitchen and heard that someone was trying to break into the apartment. So the brownie warned about the danger. Recorded in Voronezh from Drozdova Galina Lvovna b. 1956. in 2003
“I woke up once because someone called me by name, some man's voice. But no one was at home and no one was in sight. It was like this for several days until I was advised to supply the housekeeper with milk and gingerbread. In the morning it turned out that somehow, miraculously, there was no plate of gingerbread! But all two days I was at home alone! Only after that everything became calm. Recorded in Voronezh from Maya Viktorovna Parfenova, born in 1965. in 2003
"When we moved here, they called their brownie with them:" Brownie, brownie, we have a new house, come with us. " My friend also said that the brownie lives in the kitchen in the right corner of the door. And the truth is, when I put a semi-dry flower in this corner, it grew greatly, and then I had to rearrange it from there, and it dried up. " Recorded in Voronezh from Vasilisa Yurievna Chaplenko, born in 1978. in 2003
And here is a completely fresh story about the brownie.
When the cold came in September 2017 in Voronezh, and the heating in the apartments had not yet been turned on, one friend said that someone was sleeping with her for several nights in a row:
"He does not choke me, does not misbehave, but I feel that there is someone else under the covers." A friend suggested that this is a brownie who is freezing and climbs under the covers at night. I advised to buy her a heater. A few days later - a call: "I bought a heater, heated the house and - can you imagine - I slept alone!"
How to find out that a brownie lives in your house
Unreasonable noise in the apartment, especially at night. The brownie clinks dishes, drops things, thereby hinting that the house is a mess.
Strange behavior of pets. The dog can look warily into a corner, then wags its tail and begins to play with itself. Most likely - with a brownie. The unrestrained fun of the cat, when she plays with nothing, can also be explained by communication with the brownie. Brownies generally love cats. They say that if a mustachioed pet lives in the house, the "grandfather" will never be bored.
Various small items and sweets disappear in the house. Brownies are very fond of sweets. To appease him, it is recommended to leave a few candies or gummies in a secluded place in the kitchen. And so that he does not get bored, put a deck of cards for him in the same place.
The feeling in a dream that someone is pressing on you - the brownie warns of danger. Often people who woke up from such a warning discovered a gas leak in the apartment or strangers at the front door.
Well, if life in the house does not go well, everything collapses, then you either could not make friends with the brownie, or he left the house.