Pagan admiration for living and inanimate nature, the materialization of one's own ideas are characteristic properties that manifest themselves at different times in different peoples. That is why legends and myths born in distant corners of the earth turn out to be so similar. Who is not among their heroes: witches, devils, goblin … And including mysterious creatures, very similar to tiny people, but endowed with superhuman spiritual capabilities. In different countries they are called differently: gnomes, gentry, fairies, sylphs, fions, elves …
In the history of Norway, protopicts are mentioned who previously allegedly inhabited this land: "They were barely taller than the pygmies, in the mornings and evenings they worked miracles of city planning, and at noon they completely lost all their strength and hid in fear in small underground dwellings."
One of the Irish legends tells:
- On a cold January day, two young hunters approached the most beautiful, grotto-riddled mountain Ben Doody in Country, which was enveloped in heavy white clouds of fog. Suddenly they saw a gentleman. This tiny creature was dressed in something blue, like a cloak with a ruffled headdress. When this creature approached the young people, they heard a soulful, melodious voice: “The less often you appear at this mountain, the better for you. Mister, - the creature turned to one of the hunters, - a young lady living here wants to kidnap you. Then the little man asked the hunters not to shoot, saying that the gentry do not like noise, and when they began to leave, he told them not to look back.
Gentry live in different countries, in beautiful castles located in the mountains. They are very mobile, able to appear among people and not be identified. They especially love Ireland, Spain and the south of France. Gentries show great interest in people, their affairs and always stand on the side of justice. They can be invisible and are able to inhabit people of a certain spiritual level, transmuting their body into their own. They say about themselves that they are sinless and therefore immortal. Their food does not contain salt, they eat fresh meat and drink clean water. They marry among themselves and have children, and some of them marry good and chaste mortals. Of particular interest is the fact, common in legends, that they can appear in various forms and can change their height.
In Ireland and France, there is a belief that if you are carried away by wizards, then in no case should you try their food, otherwise you may never return home.
One peasant grazed his cattle near a large mountain. Like all shepherds, he loved to play the flute. At the sound of his melody, small creatures similar to people gathered. They sang and danced around the musician. To the carried away peasant, the fionas (as they are called in Brittany) were offered as a gratitude small cakes, which seemed to him unusually tasty. As a result, a person who found himself among the fions temporarily forgot about his past and lost track of time. When, by an unknown method, after three weeks he returned home, where he was already considered dead, when his wife asked where he had been missing for so long, he reacted with surprise, saying that he had been absent for only three hours.
In the Middle Ages, the most educated people testified in writing about the numerous meetings of man with strange unknown creatures. Fairies and gnomes created in people visions of flying sparkling houses, including bright lamps at night, from which radial rays of light emanated. These flying machines did not require any fuel. Mysterious creatures could paralyze witnesses and move them "through time." They sometimes hunted animals and people and took them with them. The chroniclers of those times called them representatives of the "secret federation".
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On the island of Aramor in France, a man named Old Pétain said that twenty years ago, near Bedd-of-Dermot and Grazia, on one of the hills, crowds of wizards were seen who hunted a deer. In pursuit of the deer, they crossed the entire island. Another time they chased a horse.
One of the residents told the following story:
“Once, as a child, I was picking berries along a hedge, and something made me turn a flat stone that I noticed in a ditch nearby. Under the stone, I saw an unusually beautiful little creature that could be compared to a luxurious doll. Shocked, I put the stone back and ran after my mother, but when we returned, we found no one.
Four guys from Puono-la-Chetiv in France once noticed a strange round-shaped car about two and a half meters in diameter near a cemetery, standing on three legs. A man four feet tall with big eyes on a hairy face emerged from it. Black clothes in cut resembled a curet's cassock. In his hands he was holding a lantern, a strong beam of which illuminated the guys and said something in an incomprehensible dialect. The children got scared and ran away. Looking around, they saw high in the sky some kind of brightly glowing object of a rounded shape. There was no strange car in the same place.
In European legends dating back to the VIII-X centuries, heavenly monsters are very common. In books on magic and demonology, these heavenly beings are associated with "heavenly signs." Thus, in the "Magical Works" by Henry-Cornelius Agrippa, a strange category of devils called "Friday demons" is described. These devils were supposedly the height of an average person of a rather attractive appearance, and their appearance was preceded by a bright star. These devils "flew through the air at the speed of light, riding a cloud."
The Celtal Indians living in Mexico associate flying ikal or ikal creatures with lights and fireballs glowing in the sky. The Ikals are three feet tall, black hairy flying creatures who “carry something on their backs that spews fire, attack people and kidnap their children. Words such as "ik" and "ikal" are characteristic of all dialects of the May-Sankan linguistic group. Among the Celtal Indians, these two words are an adjective form and mean "black" or "black creature", and in the ancient Maya language "ik" means "wind", and "ikal" means "spirit".
In the second half of the 17th century, the Scottish priest Reverend Kirk, professor of theology at the University of Edinburgh, wrote the manuscript The Secret Federation of Elves, Fauns and Wizards, where he collected many stories about these fabulous creatures.
The most interesting conclusions of this author: “They (beings) have a nature intermediate between human and angelic. They have very light "fluid" bodies, comparable to a condensed cloud. They can be seen especially often at night. They can appear and disappear at will. They are smart and curious enough. They have such strength that they are able to carry away whatever they like. They live underground, in caves, where they can penetrate through any gap that allows air to pass through ("flow" like ball lightning). Until people settled most of the world, they lived on Earth and were engaged in agriculture. They thrived in a time when there was nothing around but waters and forests. Their civilization left traces in the high mountains. At the beginning of each three-month period, they changed their place of residence. Their chameleon-like bodies allow them to float through the air with all their belongings. They are divided into tribes, they have children, nannies, weddings, funerals are held. They speak little to each other, their voice consists of whistling sounds. When communicating with people, they use the local language and customs, which allows them to invisibly penetrate the human environment. Their philosophy - "movement is a common law", they believe: nothing dies, everything develops cyclically, constantly renewing and improving, passing from one form to another. Through magic, they can be made to appear at the request of people. "which allows them to invisibly enter the human environment. Their philosophy - "movement is a common law", they believe: nothing dies, everything develops cyclically, constantly renewing and improving, passing from one form to another. Through magic, they can be made to appear at the request of people. "which allows them to invisibly enter the human environment. Their philosophy - "movement is a common law", they believe: nothing dies, everything develops cyclically, constantly renewing and improving, passing from one form to another. Through magic, they can be made to appear at the request of people."
Paracelsus, famous for his discoveries in medicine, wrote that "you can make alliances with these creatures, that you can force them to appear and answer questions, but this is fraught with diseases that can fall on those who try to make these contacts." According to medieval occultists, “all invisible beings can be divided into four classes: I - angels, gods of the ancients; II - devils or demons, fallen angels; III - the souls of the dead; IV - elemental spirits. These four groups also include gnomes living on the ground, similar to the inhabitants of the dungeons - wizards, goblins, pixies, corrigens, leproshes, brownies, as well as sylphs who live in the air. Paracelsus believed that if many of these invisible creatures can freely pass from the material to the spiritual state, then bodies, for example,elementals are composed of "semi-material essence" so ethereal that ordinary human vision cannot fix them.
Author - Boris Artamanov
