Legends and tales, and later historical chronicles, attributed the possession of skills and knowledge in military magic to both epic heroes and quite real historical figures. So, Volga was able, according to legend, to turn into a beast, a similar rumor went about Prince Vseslav, who ruled the Polotsk land in the middle of the 11th century, and, probably, the chroniclers had no reason to doubt the truth of these rumors, since they mentioned his ability to address into the wolf in "The Lay of Igor's Campaign."
The Kiev prince Svyatoslav, the uncle and mentor of prince Vladimir Dobrynya, as well as the Zaporozhye Cossacks, also owned the secrets of ancient military witchcraft. According to some researchers, the Cossacks owe their incredible victories even over an enemy that is many times superior in strength to knowledge of combat magic: they could learn in advance about the plans of the enemy, move with supernatural speed, for a long time be without harm to their health in extremely unfavorable, difficult conditions. deprive the enemy of strength and courage.
Despite the fact that the glorified heroes took many of the innermost secrets of combat sorcery with them to the grave, thanks to the efforts of folklorists, researchers of antiquity and ancient magical traditions, it became possible to fill this gap in the knowledge of modern man a little. The ancients understood perfectly well that a military clash or battle takes place not only at the level of the physical world, but also at the subtle, astral level, therefore only those who took care of the protection or strengthening of the body of their astral counterpart in advance can count on victory even over the superior in strength and number of the enemy. And although the highest military magic, which made it possible to destroy the enemy at a distance with one effort of will or completely transfer the duel to the astral space, was available only to professional magicians of high flight,there were many fairly simple rituals that allowed them to gain advantages over the enemy.
So, for example, the ability to create a weapon that endows a warrior with great strength and allows him to emerge victorious from all battles was called "Kiy-Biy". To create it, a warrior, on a dark moonless night, went with his weapon to the forest or to the wasteland and put it under a large stone, covering it with oak and St. John's wort leaves. After that, he made a fire near the stone and sat with him all night long, with his back to the stone. The cry of a bird of prey or a wild beast, heard in the silence of the night behind the back of a fighter, meant that the weapon was ready for battle. If this did not happen, the ritual was repeated again. Taking out the weapon from under the stone, the warrior said: "For protection and care, against any daring."
In the arsenal of the Zaporozhye Cossacks there was a method of depriving the enemy of strength and courage at a distance, and this power was transferred to the magician himself. Is this not the secret of the Cossack victories, inexplicable from the point of view of military science, when a detachment of poorly armed, not protected by armor could utterly defeat the elite army of Polish knights? Mastering this technique is quite difficult and requires a certain level of psychic ability. A warrior who wants to gain the strength of the enemy had to clearly imagine him and imagine a fast and strong river flowing from the enemy. At the same time, it was necessary to utter the words: "As the river flows, so do you, power, flow from it to me." Success depended on the vividness of the caster's imagination, on the realism and brightness of the mental image of the enemy created by him and the power flowing from him. It should be notedthat similar witchcraft techniques are used today by almost all magicians and are an integral part of many rituals that are not at all related to war and weapons, and the ability to create a clear, expressive image of the desired result is one of the basic skills of any occultist.
A similar rite was used in ancient times to gain strength before a battle. On the eve of the battle, one should go to the spring, collect water in the palm of your hand and drink it with the words: "I drink the water of power, I drink the water of power, I drink the water of invincibility." After that, you need to wipe your hands on the weapon, clearly imagining that you are endowing it with power and strength. Then, turning his gaze to the sun, the warrior said: "As I see (name) this day, so let me, Almighty God, see the next one."
A significant part of Slavic military magic refers to folk magic, which gives exceptional importance to the casting of a spell or the formal performance of any ritual action. Probably, this could give a tangible result if the person possessed innate extrasensory abilities or firmly believed in the power of the rite performed by him. There were hundreds of conspiracies intended for protection in battle, for gaining heroic strength and courage, animal dexterity and endurance, and all invariably contain images and objects familiar to many more from epics and folk tales: Sea-Okiyan, Buyan Island, Alatyr stone, sword-kladenets. The spell form also almost always remained unchanged, but, as mentioned above, one can hardly expect a tangible result from such rituals of village folk magic.
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Many secret knowledge was passed on in oral tradition from father to son and was rarely made public. Among such knowledge, until recently, kept in the strictest confidence, is, for example, the development of the abilities and skills of a berserker.
The word "berserker" means in one of the Old Norse dialects "a warrior who fights without a shell." Berserkers were beloved heroes of sagas and legends.
In the modern world, the use of berserk abilities can be found in many areas of life, and not necessarily related to war. For example, the possession of these skills can save lives in extreme conditions or in a situation where a person, by chance, is isolated from civilization alone with the wild. Partial use of berserk skills, without completely switching off consciousness, can help athletes who are going to record, or those who are engaged in hard physical labor. However, it must be remembered that the berserk state is a powerful psychological doping with all the ensuing consequences: after leaving this state, physical strength depletes. Therefore, the ability of a berserker should be used only in extreme cases, when the entire stock of conventional means is exhausted or a short-term mobilization of all the forces of the body is necessary.
The future berserker must develop and develop a sense of unity with nature, completely excluding the consumerist or barbaric attitude to the world around him, which is so characteristic of modern man. You can master special psychotechniques for gaining energy from trees and wildlife, which will further enhance the feeling of an inextricable connection with all living things. A good exercise for developing the skills of receiving energy from nature and increasing awareness of the harmony and strength reigning in wildlife can be the following training. It is necessary to find a clearing in the forest, hidden from prying eyes, where the student can regularly come and spend several hours alone with the forest, freeing his thoughts from worries and anxieties. In the warm season, it will be useful to take off all your clothes for this time in order to make it easier for yourself to overcome stereotypes,imposed on modern man by civilization. The future berserker must take care of his clearing, treating it as a living being.
All these preparatory exercises, despite their apparent simplicity and lightness, are of great importance. Mastering the skills of a berserker is inconceivable without overcoming the consumer attitude to all living things so typical for a modern person, without developing a sense of an inextricable connection with nature, which is almost completely lost by most people in our time. After these preparatory lessons, you need to choose an animal with which the practitioner will identify himself in the future and which will become his second "I". You can opt for several species (no more than three), and, contrary to popular belief, not only on predatory mammals, but also on birds and even insects. You need to try to observe the animal in its habitat, trying to get used to its image as much as possible. Now the most difficult part of all training begins - the development of the ability to identify oneself with an animal, accompanied by a temporary shutdown of logical, rational thinking. Try to look at the world through the eyes of an animal, live with its feelings and sensations. It is necessary to clearly and distinctly understand the difference between an animal and a person: an animal cannot control its actions, it is not capable of lying or hypocrisy, and is not capable of making long-term plans for the future. Avoid endowing the selected animal image with human features and thoughts, this can make it very difficult to enter the berserk state. Before falling asleep, you should fully focus on your animal, which will allow you to feel your merger with him in a dream.rational thinking. Try to look at the world through the eyes of an animal, live with its feelings and sensations. It is necessary to clearly and distinctly understand the difference between an animal and a person: an animal cannot control its actions, it is not capable of lying or hypocrisy, and is not capable of making long-term plans for the future. Avoid endowing the chosen image of the animal with human features and thoughts, this can make it very difficult to enter the berserk state. Before falling asleep, you should fully focus on your animal, which will allow you to feel your merger with him in a dream.rational thinking. Try to look at the world through the eyes of an animal, live with its feelings and sensations. It is necessary to clearly and distinctly understand the difference between an animal and a person: an animal cannot control its actions, it is not capable of lying or hypocrisy, and is not capable of making long-term plans for the future. Avoid endowing the selected animal image with human features and thoughts, this can make it very difficult to enter the berserk state. Before falling asleep, you should fully focus on your animal, which will allow you to feel your merger with him in a dream.it is incapable of lying or disingenuous and incapable of making long-term plans for the future. Avoid endowing the chosen image of the animal with human features and thoughts, this can make it very difficult to enter the berserk state. Before falling asleep, you should fully focus on your animal, which will allow you to feel your merger with him in a dream.it is incapable of lying or disingenuous and incapable of making long-term plans for the future. Avoid endowing the chosen image of the animal with human features and thoughts, this can make it very difficult to enter the berserk state. Before falling asleep, you should fully focus on your animal, which will allow you to feel your merger with him in a dream.
After the student has mastered this exercise, you can move on to the most responsible part of the training - entering the berserk state. In the warm season, you need to retire in the forest and live the life of your animal for several days. The only thing you need to have with you is a small knife and a loincloth, preferably made from the skin or feathers of the selected animal. These exercises have a lot to do with survival training in extreme conditions; one should eat only natural food, and go without fire and all the comforts of civilization. But the main difference is that at this time you should completely identify yourself with the animal, imitate its habits, make sounds typical for it, completely turning off human thinking. Of course, these trainings should be carried out away from settlements,otherwise, the consequences of a collision with a civilized person can be very dire.
There are three degrees of immersion in the berserk state. When entering the first degree, the student fully retains control over himself and his actions, but does not receive either the strength or the dexterity of the beast in full. In the second degree of the berserk state, separate glimpses of rational human thinking are preserved, but the practitioner almost completely feels like an animal, gaining superhuman strength, agility and endurance. It is most difficult to maintain in this state, and beginner berserkers either return back to a controlled degree, or, conversely, completely lose all human features, reaching an absolute degree of identification with the animal. It is possible to be in this altered state of consciousness from several hours to several days, depending on the level of physical fitness,and after leaving it (the person finds himself lying on the ground in complete exhaustion), the berserker cannot remember anything that he did as an animal.
Further training is mainly reduced to the development of the ability to quickly enter the berserk state and remain in it for a long time, without completely losing awareness of what is happening and control over oneself. Having managed to fully identify himself with the animal once, the student will always be able to find an acceptable method for him to further develop these unique skills.
K. Borzov