The village of Marakesa near Tomsk suddenly became famous as the place where the poltergeist raged
In one of the houses there are knives flying, cabinets overturning, furniture moving. It all started with a mysterious blinking of light, and ended with a report from the district chief of the district police department. But neither the police nor the priests were able to help the residents of the "bad" house. Mystic? Still what kind, but Siberians are not the first ones who are harassed by brownies, so let's get to know these entities better.
Inquisitive minds have been studying brownies since about the end of the 18th century. The mention of the "drum" is found in the work of ethnographer Mikhail Chulkov "ABeVega of Russian superstitions" (1786). Chulkov, having collected many beliefs, writes, for example, that the spirit of the house feeds the cows and goats that he liked, but that cattle that does not like the spirit of the house grows thin and dies. When the owner dies, the drum howls at night.
The “appearance” of the brownie was described by the collector of Russian folklore Vladimir Dal: “As a rule, this is a dense, not very tall peasant who walks in a short gloomy zipun, and on holidays and in a blue caftan with a scarlet belt. In the summer in one shirt; but always barefoot and without a hat. He has a decent gray beard. The brownie was overgrown with soft fluff, even the soles and palms; but the face is naked near the eyes and nose."
The same house with evil spirits in the village of Maraxa. A still from the Russia 1 channel.
The Eastern Slavs represented a reel in the form of a snake with a cock's head. In some legends, a brownie is a gnome who can indicate where the treasures are hidden. Until now, the barabashka remains a big prankster. Here is what Elizaveta Petrova from Kostroma said on one of the forums:
- Until we realized that we have a brownie, we often quarreled with my husband and children. For example, a hungry spouse comes home from work. I want to pour him a soup - but there are no plates. None. He shouts: "You can't wash the dishes for the whole day ?!" But there are simply no plates! I'll borrow it from a neighbor, feed my husband. In the evening, we all sit at the TV and hear someone in the kitchen fiddling with dishes. We go to the kitchen - the plates are in place. Another time the forks were missing. Over time, we got used to his antics and only laughed.
Another forum member with the nickname "Snizhusik" writes:
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- I have a brownie amused with children's toys ("hanging" on the crib go shaking at night). Somehow the kettle turned on for no reason. Someone often rummages in my bag. Once I put it in one place and went out for a minute. I return - an open bag is in the middle of the room. She began to leave treats to the little one. Now he knocks less often and does not touch things. True, sometimes the sound on the TV changes, for which I scold him a little.
The owner Alexander ZHUKOV shows the place where the bookshelves fell. A still from the Russia 1 channel.
My master, come with me
There are a lot of stories that when you move to another house you need to take a brownie with you. Otherwise, there will be no living. When a new house was bought in the villages, when they moved, they said: “My master, come with me. We will live as we have lived”. After these words, they put an empty bag on the floor and left the hut. And then they tied it tightly and carried it to a new house.
Many even now, getting ready to celebrate housewarming, put an open bag at the door of the old apartment and, turning away, say: "Brownie, come with us!" After that, in theory, the darling should jump into the bag. A resident of Voronezh Elena Saprykina shared the following story:
- In the new house, where my acquaintances moved, a tap with water was opened at night, the front door slammed, footsteps were heard. The glass jars on the table were broken the next morning. Once the hostess put a saucepan with raw eggs in the cupboard and closed it tightly. And at night there was a crash. The cupboard was open, a saucepan was lying on the floor, and whole and unharmed eggs rolled through the kitchen.
The priest is convinced: a poltergeist could appear in any family that has forgotten the commandments of Christ. A still from the Russia 1 channel.
Knowledgeable people suggested that this was the work of a brownie who lived here under the previous owners. And they ordered to "bring" a little reel from an old apartment.
The Eastern Slavs, by the way, believed that only one brownie could live in a house. If for some reason there are two of them, they will begin to quarrel and create chaos. Therefore, one of them will have to get rid of.
Brownies can warn about misfortunes in different ways. For example, he scatters multi-colored threads on the floor. A thread is a road. So the brownie indicates that you have gone astray. Muscovite Andrei Prokopov told us about the oddities of communicating with an invisible spirit:
- My grandfather lived in an old apartment on Frunzenskaya. And he more than once jokingly said that a brownie lived with him, he even thought of a name for him: Kuzya. At night Kuzenka rattled pots and, like grandfather, groaned and sighed. Then grandpa moved to the dacha. The apartment was empty, my wife and I lived in a different place, and suddenly at some point we began to notice that something strange was also happening here. The wiring flashed several times, for some reason the floors turned out to be wet. We even summoned the priest - the oddities did not stop. The wife jokingly offered to go after Kuzya - she said that grandfather did not have such outrages with him. I went. I read on the Internet how to act, opened the bag, called. And, apparently, it worked. Wet floors and burning wiring ceased to bother us. Once I even noticed how someone slipped and disappeared behind the refrigerator. Sometimes we heard footsteps. And then my wife began to find red and green threads on the floor. None of the household members threw them around. Apparently, Kuzya wanted to warn us about something.
A disgruntled reel easily lifts furniture into the air.
Knocking on pipes - wait for insults
They say that by the sounds that the brownie makes from midnight to four in the morning, one can understand what he is warning about. Knocking on pipes - to insults, the clatter of dishes - to a fire, sighs - to losses. If at night a person wakes up from the fact that it is as if someone is strangling him, then it is time to throw off the ballast and change something in life. The brownie can detain the owner - and thereby save him from tragedy. For example, hiding the car keys, giving a person a chance to avoid an accident.
The brownie has a special trick: if you need to convey something urgent to the owner, he shamelessly pees at him. Here is what happened to Anastasia Krestinina, a resident of the village of Krasnolipye, Voronezh Region:
- My husband and I were very young then. We lived in a private house. Somehow we went to bed. My husband immediately fell asleep, and I heard a crash in the attic. He grew stronger and suddenly stopped abruptly - as if someone had stopped right over our bed. And then something poured from the ceiling. A drop fell on his lips - the liquid was salty. It was clearly urine. I jumped up, turned on the light, woke my husband up - the blanket was dry, no trace. And in the morning we had a fire.
Children are more aware of the supernatural than adults.
A similar thing happened to Lydia Kozhanova from the Voronezh village of Borshchevskie sands:
- In the morning my husband was going to work, the children to school. At one point, for some reason we all ended up in the same room and saw a wet stain spreading on the ceiling above the sofa. Then we heard a sound like in a toilet. A stream flowed directly onto the pillows from above. I ran to the sofa, but at the same moment the jet disappeared, and the pillows were dry. Two hours later, I learned that my mother had died.
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Daria MIRONOVA, clairvoyant, participant of the first season of the "Battle of psychics":
- Brownie is an accumulation of energy associated with our emotions. The space of the house keeps the memory of everything that happened in it. Brownies can be seen on the film of an old camera as light, strange smudge or blur. In fact, these are bunches of energy formed into certain images. Animals, especially cats, can see brownies: at this moment they can stare at one point. Children under seven also feel them well. Barabashka is rarely shown to the owners. This happens when a person is in severe stress, meditates, or has extrasensory abilities.
There are no concepts of "evil" and "good" brownie. It depends on you. If you sow negativity, the brownie will start to rage. And there is no need to tell that people are doing well, and the dishes are beating by themselves. It means that one of the family members has a stone in their souls.
If the brownie is not worried, the energy in the house is positive. For housewarming, first a cat is allowed into the dwelling so that the brownie comes - he must be in every dwelling. It happens that it is uncomfortable to be in a luxurious apartment where someone lived before you. In such cases, clean the space to attract the brownie.
Aliens are to blame
In the fall of 1988, in a construction hostel located in the Likhobory district of the capital, about the same thing happened recently near Tomsk. The candidate of technical sciences, academician of the International Academy of Informatization and researcher of anomalous phenomena Valentin Nikolaevich Fomenko became interested in the state of emergency. According to his hypothesis, there are so-called Aliens on Earth - representatives of a machine civilization that has overtaken humanity in development. The aliens fear that the interests of the two worlds may one day collide, and want to guarantee themselves priority in the development of extragalactic space. They watch us as potential rivals, and on a subconscious level they can connect to any of the earthlings. “Matrix copies” of consciousness of each of us are stored in the gigantic memory of the Superbrain, from where they are periodically retrieved in the form of a poltergeist. Thus, the aliens are trying to find contact with the human mind.
Hob and traccio
The Poles call the domovoy burnout, the Serbs call the vedogon, the Germans call the vigt, the Irish call the kluracan, the Scandinavians call the tomtra, the Spanish call the traccio, the English call the hob, and the Dutch call the caboter.
Hero of fairy tales and cartoons
Barabashka is depicted in Boris Kustodiev's painting "The Merchant's Wife and the Brownie", Elena Shumakova - "The Brownie and Baba Yaga" and a series of works by Alexander Maskaev. In Boris Buneev's children's film "The Duck Village" there is a brownie Shishka. Barabashki are the main characters of the beloved cartoons "Little Brownie Kuzya" and "Brownie and His Mistress". The song about the owner of the house was recorded by the group "Spleen".
BTW
- Some rituals and beliefs, once associated with the "cattle god" Veles, after the disappearance of his cult passed to the brownie. Our ancestors believed: if a married woman shows her hair to a stranger, the brownie will be angry with her. Beliefs about Veles and the brownie are often associated with hair.
- To appease the brownie, they leave him sweets, bread, every week they pour a glass of brandy. In Russia, water or milk and a plate of porridge were placed in a secluded corner. According to Slavic tradition, on February 10, the brownie celebrates his birthday - "Kudesy". On the night from 9 to 10, besides sweets, they left a coin so that there was prosperity in the house.
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