Faced with inexplicable riddles of the surrounding world, a person in himself is a considerable riddle. Despite the fact that the functioning of the body and its features have already been studied in detail, there are still many questions. In particular, human blood is a no small mystery, which presents more and more surprises.
The magical properties of blood
Since ancient times, it was believed that human blood has special magical properties. A large number of rituals among different peoples were based on this conviction. It was believed that human blood has a direct connection with it, even leaving the body. Therefore, having obtained this liquid, sorcerers could influence its owner remotely, up to causing death, or complete submission.
No less importance was attached to the blood of the deceased person. The ancient Arabs believed that where blood was shed and a murder occurred, a terrible spirit would appear - afrit, which would take revenge on everyone who met on its way. To prevent his appearance, the Arabs drove a new nail into the blood stain.
This substance was credited with magical properties in medieval Europe. It was then that the heyday of alchemical science, and the people who were engaged in it, were in no small honor. Alchemists also paid great attention to this liquid - with its help they tried to artificially create ghosts and thus get in touch with the soul of a deceased person. For this, the blood was heated on special braziers. Some eyewitnesses claimed that the outlines of ghosts could indeed be discerned in the clouds of smoke.
Rituals using blood still exist today. It is known that in some secret societies to this day, when a new participant is initiated, it is customary to drink the blood collected from all participants in the ritual into a single vessel. This gesture contributes to the fact that the new member of the society becomes a brother to everyone present at the dedication.
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Vampirism and bloody rituals
It was also believed that blood is the real elixir of youth. Some sorcerers in ancient times believed that there was a certain substance in the blood that could restore youth. It is for this reason that the famous Countess Elizabeth Bathory committed her atrocities. This Hungarian countess has earned the title of the bloodiest serial killer in history, as she took the lives of more than 600 young girls. She killed them in sophisticated ways to get the blood from which she took baths. This method of rejuvenation was suggested to her by a certain witch. But in the end, the countess's atrocities became known, and she was punished for them.
The stories of vampires feeding on the blood of living people are also based on the belief in the magical properties of the substance. These creatures, according to legends, are the living dead, who also need the blood of a living person to maintain their existence. In the legends of many peoples there are similar creatures, but especially often these characters appeared in European folklore.
Such a craving for blood today is explained by a very rare disease - porphyria. As a result of this disease, the blood ceases to produce red blood cells, so the amount of hemoglobin decreases. A person has constantly pale skin, a sickly appearance and an unbalanced psyche. This disease could well have led to the emergence of legends about vampires in the Middle Ages.
There is another type of vampire - these include persons with mental disorders, who develop a pathological thirst for blood. This category includes the case of the American bloodsucker James Brown, the French Joseph Vasher, the German Fritz Haarmann. All these people secretly killed their victims and sucked out their blood completely.
There is also another type of vampirism - alien. Ufologists are aware of many cases when they found completely exsanguinated corpses of animals with internal organs removed in an unknown way. Before that, as a rule, UFO flights and hovering are observed. Studies of corpses show that the removal of blood and internal organs is carried out using technologies that are not available to humans.
Recently, the number of finds and human completely bled and mutilated remains has also become more frequent. In some cases, there are witnesses who say that a person was previously abducted by a UFO. Ufologists explain this behavior of aliens by the fact that they need the biological and genetic material of people to update the genes of their own race.
Human blood is a unique substance that presents more and more mysteries to scientists. This fluid is capable of shedding light on many fundamental questions, including the origin of man. Therefore, the study of blood and its features is one of the most important areas that should be given the greatest attention.