During the World Cup in South Africa, Paul the octopus, who predicted many outcomes, including the final victory of Spain, became the most popular animal on Earth. The unfortunate cephalopod did not survive such attention - and already in the fall he quietly died at the age of two and a half years in the aquarium of the Center sea life"Oberhausen.
To be honest, I’m pretty tired of the World Cup,” Paul said in an interview with one of my colleagues in July 2010. - I thought that all this madness would end after Euro 2008, but, alas. Now I seem doomed to play the role of a jester for the rest of my days. You know, in Lately all my three octopus hearts are visited by forebodings. I don't have much left.
As we see, poor Paul was right and, contrary to the promises of his owners, he never saw the free waters of the ocean. But he left an indelible mark on history, and after him many imitators appeared: pigs, monkeys, parrots, rats. Everyone predicted something and everyone was presented to the world as oracles.
The need for magic is inherent in people from childhood, says the permanent expert of SE-Voskresenya, a psychiatrist from the Serbsky Institute Timur Nenashev. – Football is a game, and in any game there should be a place for miracles. The story with the octopus, as well as with its successors and imitators, is direct proof of this. Why did people accept "octopus magic" so easily? Because it diversified the pathetic seriousness of such an event as the World Cup.
Attempts to use supernatural forces in football were made both before and after the famous octopus.
On the eve of the same 2010 World Cup, FIFA sent a letter to the organizers, warning them about the inadmissibility of performing African magical rituals during the tournament. The formal reason was an incident in Swaziland, where football players damaged the fields of the country's main stadium by burying amulets and charms in the turf, as well as scorching these places with fire. In Africa, black magic with its indispensable talismanic attributes is commonplace. Everyone remembers the success of the Senegal team at the 2002 World Cup and the group of men with diamonds and amulets in the stands. They say that in the budgets of most African football clubs there is even a special item of expenditure on witchcraft (in formal language this is called “psychological preparation”), and sponsors have always generously paid for the services of shamans. And the best African football players, moving to European clubs, bring their traditions to the Old World.
FOOTBALL TEAM USING VOODOO by mbalekin
Sometimes, however, witchcraft led to tragic consequences. For example, in 2008, the English Daily Telegraph wrote about a sad incident that happened in Democratic Republic Congo in the city of Butembo. The goalkeeper of the Niuki System team began to cast magic right during the game with the Sokozaki club, which first provoked a fight between the players, and then riots in the stands. As a result, everything escalated into citywide pogroms, the police used special means, and 13 people died.
Things are very serious in Haiti, where Voodoo sorcerers live. As you know, they are not to be trifled with, so the whole country treats this cult with great respect. In 1996, the Racing team from the city of Gonaives became the national champion, but on the order of one of the competitors, one night the Voodoo sorcerer sprinkled the doors of the club office with the blood of a black rooster, and Racing could not win anything for 12 years. The curse was lifted only in 2008, when the team again became the champion. Maybe an even more powerful sorcerer has been found?
Often, ordinary crooks pose as Voodoo sorcerers, offering fans for 10 - 20 euros to perform a ritual in honor of their favorite team. During major tournaments there are enough such “magicians” in all cities. In Spain, during the 2008 European Championship, “Voodoo kits” were sold in all major supermarkets. Interestingly, one of the dolls, which had to be pricked with a needle, was dressed in the uniform of the Russian national team.
However, there is another kind of magic. In particular, on the Internet you can find many advertisements like “hereditary sorceress predicts the outcome of football matches”, or “I will bewitch a football player”, or “the sexiest football player suitable for you” and stuff like that. Since there is a lot of supply, it means there is also demand - in any case, the services of fortune tellers are not cheap.
And there is such a thing as dreams and their interpretations. Here’s what, for example, old man Freud’s dream book says: “If in a dream you play football, you are used to manipulating people and don’t think at all that others may not always like it. If it’s important to you how people will treat you , whom you consider to be your friends, then you need to change your behavior. Watching someone else play football - do not attach so much of great importance someone else's opinion. Surely you yourself have been convinced more than once that someone else’s opinion is not always correct.”
Or here's another version. “Play by yourself: there will be disputes over property, money, dividends.”
Well, as we see, the mysterious and inexplicable occupy an important place in football. Some will call it magic, others – superstition. Be that as it may, it would be much more boring without all this.
Dmitry ZELENOV
A thoughtful study of ancient cases of witchcraft, with which the archives of the Detective and Robber Orders, as well as the Order of Secret Affairs, are full, gives a very interesting picture. In fact, it turns out that there are practically no sorcerers as such. But there are other categories of “walking people” who, even in today’s humane times, should be in prison.
Drug trafficking of the 17th century
Here is the case of Mtsensk inhabitants of the clergy from 1653. “Priest Vasily strikes with his brow that his children Filka and Ivashka were at the monastery... And the abbot’s son Anichka and the Assumption sexton Ivashka brought his mash to the children, and in that mash there was mixed an unknown kind of poisonous potion, and they, having drunk that herb, laughed like a beast until loss of shame, and they became out of their minds, they lie without memory, they don’t speak, and when they jump up, they climb the wall.” Cases of “witchcraft damage” were hastily opened. But a couple of days later the details became clear. “The sexton Ivashka testified that he received this unknown herb from a guest, Dementy Rusinov. The same Dementiy said that a passer-by gave him the seeds of that herb, and he got them from a merchant, and dragged them to the garden, and she saw it there, and they began to mix it into a drink, as that merchant said.” Judging by the description, there is no smell of witchcraft here, but rather the banal use of a narcotic drug. plant origin. The concept of a “drug den” did not exist then, so the accused got off lightly - the grass and seeds were confiscated from them, and they themselves were ordered to undergo church repentance.
In 1636, one tavern owner, fearing competition, denounced his colleague Petrushka, “that he, Petrushka, brought an unknown root from the field, boasting that from that root everyone in his tavern would be drunk.” The investigation began. At first, the matter also had a “witchcraft” connotation. But the ends were found surprisingly quickly. They kept Parsley in prison and, having made sure that the “witch’s root” was a banal dope for strengthening beer, they poured batogs on him and imposed a significant fine for cheating.
In general, a significant part of “witchcraft” cases turn out to be ordinary crimes. And brothel keeping, as well as storage and distribution of drugs are clearly in the lead on this list.
Doctors without a license
Many are misled by the terms of those years. In cases of witchcraft, the word “torture” is almost the most commonly used word. The imagination completes the picture of a gloomy dungeon, a rack, red-hot pincers... In reality, “torture” only meant “to interrogate”, that is, to conduct an interrogation. The bailiffs who were tasked with conducting the investigation rarely resorted to the services of an executioner. Firstly, these services cost money, and a lot of it. Secondly, it often turned out that sorcerers were just healers. Only operate without a license, at your own peril and risk.
In 1630, under the new governor, a directive was sent to Lebedyansky district: “Take care so that there is no robbery, murder, whoredom, sorcery and any other theft in Lebedyansky.” And then, as luck would have it, a denunciation comes against a certain woman: “That grandmother did the magic, looked at her before her eyes and rummaged through her insides.” The case was started: “Order that grandmother-witch to be seized and, having really asked what kind of sorcery she does and what she uses to tell fortunes, torture her about everything, and report this to the sovereign, and order her to be kept tightly until the decree.”
While the grandmother was kept under lock and key, witnesses were interviewed. No serious crime was found, but the professional inclination of the “witch” was revealed. For the 17th century, the specialization was very advanced - ophthalmology. Thus, one witness’s grandmother “treated his eyes by removing the liver from a sheep.” For another - “she treated the eyes, and poured millet into the water, and Nazara washed me with that water, and Nazara put milk in my eyes.” To the third - “she treated the eye near the eye and cast a spell over it with a baked onion.” For what diseases you can use water infused with millet, God knows. But vered, that is, an abscess, can really be treated with baked onions - here the grandmother’s qualifications are worth envying. The same can be said about raw lamb liver - it helps greatly against suppuration. Well-known anyway Emelyan Pugachev 150 years later, he very effectively treated his wounds received in the face near the eye.
Everyday and concrete
So was there “real” witchcraft? It depends on what you mean by this word. Our Moscow style of witchcraft did without waving a magic wand and flying to the Sabbath. Everything is ordinary and concrete. In 1647, a certain “woman Agashka admitted that she was making trouble for her lover Fedka because he walked past her to Safroshka’s wife.” That is, to put it simply, she tried to make a man impotent out of jealousy. Another woman, a certain Daritsa, also, by the way, out of jealousy, decided to kill her lucky rival. And so, when the newlyweds returned from the wedding and went to the upper room, “that Daritsa lit a splinter and threw that splinter at the bride under the stairs, and then began to bite on that splinter with a sentence and a whisper, and the bride began to waste away three days later.” Moscow justice in such cases showed itself from the humane side. In enlightened Europe, they burned indiscriminately right and left for much lesser offenses, but here Agashka was sentenced to batogs and church repentance, Daritsa - to the whip, tearing out of her tongue, nostrils and exile.
Perhaps the reason for this is the passion for witchcraft in the highest circles of the state. By the way, Ivan the Terrible is credited with witchcraft origins. Prince Kurbsky following many haters of the formidable king, he argued that Vasily III, for a long time being childless, “he looked for evil enchanters everywhere to help him with fruitfulness, sent for them all the way to Korela, got satanic advisers there, and with their help, from the most vile seeds, his son, a depraved bloodsucker, was born.” In light of this, it is especially interesting that in 1584, while dying, Ivan groznyj I trusted not just any sorcerers, but just the Karelian-Lapland ones. Over the course of several months, the king’s special expedition caught six dozen “dashing women” in those regions who had become skilled in witchcraft. They were taken to Moscow and put under lock and key, awaiting predictions. And the predictions began. The Karelians announced that they must wait for the death of the Tsar on March 18. He did not believe it and ordered, after waiting for this number, to “burn the bad women alive.” But the execution was late: as soon as boyar Belsky went to order the execution, the tsar sat down to play chess, fainted and soon died.
In civilized countries, when people hear the word “witchcraft,” they most often remember the books about Harry Potter and the film “The Exorcist.” However, there are corners of the world where witchcraft is still considered the norm of life today, regulated by law, and people recognized as sorcerers or witches have every chance of being left homeless, without a family, and sometimes behind bars.
Congo
Residents of the Congo tend to explain many childhood illnesses or inconsistencies in behavior by witchcraft, possessed by an evil spirit, and even more often by the fact that the child himself is a witch or sorcerer. Caring parents take such children to an exorcist, where he forces them to drink a whole bowl of strong saline solution, pokes his fingers into their eyes and stomach, and performs other unpleasant procedures. Those who do not have the desire, strength and money to bother with this unpleasant procedure simply throw the children - “sorcerers” out into the street. Today in the Congo there are about 50 thousand homeless children, kicked out of their homes by their parents because they were considered witches and sorcerers. Cameroon
In 2016, Cameroonian President Paul Biya called on citizens of the country to fight against armed groups representing the Islamic organization Boko Haram, using their witchcraft abilities. He even decided to forget for a while that witchcraft in the country is prohibited by law - especially since everyone knows that Cameroonians still go to sorcerers - “marabouts” - for treatment, consolation, good luck talismans and damage to their villainous neighbors. True, they have not yet demonstrated much success in the fight against Boko Haram. India
In rural India, belief in witchcraft is still very strong. Hindus divide sorcerers into two categories. The first is witches, or “dayans,” who cause fear and disgust in people. If the village classifies any woman as a “dayan”, she will no longer have life there. Such women are beaten, raped, burned with a hot iron, and can even be killed. There are also black tantric sorcerers. The Hindus are also afraid of them, but they believe that they have nothing to oppose to the forces of the tantric. People come to them for the cure of any disease - from malaria to epilepsy, and pay regularly, believing that otherwise the tantrik will send mortal damage to them. Swaziland
Witchcraft in Swaziland is a highly respected profession that is regulated by law. So, witches have every right to brew and sell potions and even fly on a broom - but at an altitude of no more than 150 meters from the ground. By the way, this law applies to all small aircraft– from drones to kites. But, although local residents are periodically punished for violating this law with their air toys, not a single witch has yet been punished. Saudi Arabia
IN Saudi Arabia the accusation of witchcraft is taken very seriously, and it poses a significant danger to anyone suspected of practicing magic. The accused immediately falls into the hands of the religious police - Mutava - and his case is sent to court. If the judge finds the evidence sufficient, the alleged sorcerer or witch is executed by beheading. And no Harry Potter for you here! Nepal
Becoming a widow is the worst thing that can happen to a woman in a Nepalese village. If her husband died, then it is her fault, the Nepalese believe, and immediately classify the newly-made widow as a bokshi - a witch. Further, all the troubles that can strike the village, be it drought, someone’s death, or chickens that have stopped laying eggs, are blamed on the bokshi. She is threatened, beaten, burned with hot metal, stoned, and sometimes even burned alive. In the harsh conditions of Nepal, a widow is an extra mouth to feed, she is not able to feed herself, and no one intends to stand on ceremony with her. Uganda
In Uganda, witches are feared and hated, but the fear of them is so strong that no one, not even the authorities, dares to stand in their way. The richest and most influential people in the country turn to them for both treatment and talismans for good luck. Using official cover, people calling themselves witches and sorcerers do truly terrible things. For example, they periodically steal children and kill them because they need children's flesh and blood for potions and spells. But even for these terrible crimes, witches and sorcerers are not punished. Iran
In 2011, a number of aides and advisers to then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were removed from their posts due to accusations of witchcraft and summoning jinn. It must be said that even more people in the Arab world believe in the latter than in the existence of witches and sorcerers. One of them, in his defense, stated that the president himself persuaded him to communicate with the genies in order to find out whether they were working for Israeli or American intelligence. Some of the ill-wishers immediately said that perhaps the president himself had fallen under the spell. So the belief in witchcraft almost completely changed the political landscape of Iran in a few days. Papua New Guinea
Until 2013, in Papua New Guinea, you could kill a person and get away with it by claiming to be a witch. In 2013, it was prohibited to freely kill sorcerers - but in rural areas no one is going to give up this good tradition. If someone in a village does not die of old age, especially if it is a young man or a child, the residents immediately call for “voice meri” - a good wizard who is able to identify a witch or witcher among the residents. There will be no mercy for the one to whom the “voice of Mary” pointed - he will be tortured until he confesses everything, and then he will be burned. Colombia
Colombians don't like turkey. Why? Yes, because this bird is considered the embodiment of a witch. That is, any Indian could turn out to be a woman with the devilish gift of casting spells and changing her appearance, turning into a bird. According to Colombian beliefs, witches are almost exclusively women. And although the laws of the country do not in any way support these beliefs, there are still periodic reports from rural areas of Colombia that yet another woman was killed by her fellow villagers due to suspicions of witchcraft. Gambia
In Gambia, witchcraft is considered the worst crime, and the witch hunt is led by the president of the country himself. Those suspected of witchcraft are taken (sometimes entire villages) to remote places, trying to treat them with strange potions, from which many go crazy or die. The government even hired sorcerers from neighboring Papua New Guinea to exorcise the witches' spells. They go on tours around the country, looking for witches and applying their own methods of treatment to them, among which beating a potential witch to death is considered the most effective. Kenya
Kenya is perhaps the most Europeanized country in sub-Saharan Africa, and its leadership is seeking to bring the country's laws in line with modern Western standards. Therefore, witchcraft has been removed from the sphere of official, legal medicine. But, however, it is not punishable - just like turning to the services of a sorcerer for health or good luck. Therefore, all the pillars in Nairobi are plastered with advertisements from local waganga - sorcerers, and every decent Kenyan has his own waganga, whose witchcraft he considers the most powerful. Tanzania
Tanzania was never a Western colony, so the ancient dark arts flourish here. Even Christians and Muslims in Tanzania turn to witches and sorcerers when all other methods of coping with the problem have failed. Tanzanian witches pose a great danger to local albinos who are regularly born in Tanzania. Their blood and flesh are considered powerful ingredients for potions, so hunting for albinos is a kind of national sport here. Albinos themselves are considered cursed, they are expelled from villages, and even with their relatives they cannot always find protection. Indonesia
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in Indonesia. Even ex-president country, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in his memoirs describes not so much the political intricacies of the country as his encounters with the unknown - like the case when he, with a prayer to Allah, drove out a black cloud from his house, undoubtedly sent by sorcerers. The Indonesian government has been trying for decades to pass a bill that would outlaw witches, but so far it has not been successful: the resistance of the elite is too great. Romania
In Romania, according to statistics, every tenth resident of the country turns to fortune tellers and sorcerers. It is not surprising that this profession is considered very profitable. However, when the government imposed a 16% tax on their income in 2011, the sorcerers announced that they would poison the water of the Danube with mandrake root, so much so that only the greedy authors of the law would suffer. However, for some reason, for six years, not a single complaint was received from the government. Shurik at Grandfather's is a story by Nikolai Nosov that will be of interest to children of all ages. It shows the life of two brothers with their grandparents in the village. The guys crawled around the whole house from the first day. Here they found real treasures: a galosh, a glass jar and a fishing rod. Find out what other adventures await the brothers from the fairy tale with your children. She teaches the ability to explore the surrounding space, invent games, and plunge into fun adventures on their own without the help of adults.
In the summer, Shurik and I lived with my grandfather. Shurik is my younger brother. He is not yet in school, but I have already entered first grade. But he still doesn’t listen to me... Well, don’t!.. When we arrived, we immediately searched the entire yard, went through all the sheds and attics. I found a glass jam jar and a round iron shoe polish box. And Shurik found an old door handle and a large galosh for his right foot.
Then we almost got into a fight with him in the attic over a fishing rod. I was the first to see the fishing rod and said:
- Damn it, my!
Shurik saw it too and let’s shout:
- Damn it, my! C'mon, my!
I grabbed the fishing rod, and he also grabbed it and started taking it away.
I got angry - like a jerk!.. He flew to the side and almost fell. Then he says:
- Just think, I really need your fishing rod! I have galoshes.
“So kiss your galosh,” I say, “but there’s no point in tearing the fishing rod out of your hands.”
I found a shovel in the barn and went to dig for worms to catch fish, and Shurik went to his grandmother and began to ask her for matches.
- Why do you need matches? - asks the grandmother.
“I,” he says, “will make a fire in the yard, put a galosh on top, the galosh will melt, and it will turn into rubber.”
- What else can you come up with! - Grandma waved her hands. “You’re going to burn down the whole house here with your mischief.” No, my dear, don’t ask. What kind of toys with fire are these? And I don’t want to listen to anything.
Then Shurik took a doorknob that he found in the barn, tied a rope to it, and tied a galosh to the other end of the rope. He walks around the yard, holding the rope by the handle, and the galosh follows him on the ground. Where he goes, so goes she. He came up to me, saw that I was digging for worms, and said:
“You don’t have to try: you won’t catch anything anyway.”
- Why? - I ask.
- I will enchant the fish.
“Please,” I say, “do magic for your health.”
I dug up the worms, put them in a box and went to the pond. The pond was behind the yard - where the collective farm vegetable garden begins. I put a worm on the hook, sat down on the shore and cast the fishing rod. I sit and watch the float. And Shurik crept up from behind and let’s shout at the top of our lungs:
Conjure, woman, conjure, grandfather,
Conjure, gray bear!
Conjure, woman, conjure, grandfather,
Cast your spell, little gray bear!
I decided to remain silent and not say anything, because it’s always like this with him: if you say anything, it will be even worse.
Finally, he cast a spell, threw his galosh into the pond and began dragging it through the water on a rope. Then he came up with this thing: he would throw his galosh into the middle of the pond and throw stones at it until he drowned, and then he would start to pull it out from the bottom with a rope.
At first I endured it in silence, and then I couldn’t stand it:
- Get away from here! - I shout. - You scared away all the fish for me! And he says:
“You won’t catch anything anyway: the fish are enchanted.”
And again I splashed my galoshes into the middle of the pond! I jumped up, grabbed a stick - and went to him. He starts to run away, and the galosh jumps after him on a rope. He barely ran away from me.
I returned to the pond and began to fish again. I caught and caught... The sun had already risen high, and I was still sitting and looking at the float. The fish won't bite, even if you crack it! I’m angry with Shurik, I’m ready to beat him straight up. It’s not that I believed in his witchcraft, but I know that if I come without fish, he will laugh. No matter what I did: I cast the fishing rod further from the shore, and lowered the hook closer and deeper - nothing worked.
I felt hungry, I went home, and suddenly I heard someone banging on the gate: “Boom-boom! Bang-bang!
I go up to the gate, look, and it’s Shurik. He took out a hammer and nails from somewhere and nailed the door handle to the gate.
- What are you nailing for? - I ask.
He saw me and was happy:
- Hee hee! The fisherman has arrived. Where is your fish?
I speak:
- Why are you nailing the handle? There is also one handle here.
“Nothing,” he says, “let there be two.” Suddenly one comes off.
He nailed the handle and still had one nail left. He thought for a long time what to do with this nail, he just wanted to drive it into the gate, then he came up with an idea: he put the sole of the galosh against the gate and began to nail it.
- What is this for? - I ask.
- So simple.
“It’s just stupid,” I say.
Suddenly we see that grandfather is coming home from work. Shurik got scared, let’s tear off the galosh, but it won’t come off. Then he stood up, blocked his galosh with his back and stood.
Grandfather came up and said:
- Well done, guys! As soon as we arrived, we got to work right away... Who came up with the idea of nailing a second handle to the gate?
“This,” I say, “is Shurik.”
Grandfather just grunted.
“Well,” he says, “now we will have two handles: one on top, the other on bottom.” Suddenly some short man will come. He can’t reach the top handle, so he can reach the bottom.
Then grandfather noticed the galosh:
- What else is this?
I just snorted. “Well,” I think, “now Shurik will get from his grandfather.”
Shurik blushed, he didn’t know what to answer.
And grandfather says:
- What is this? It's probably like a mailbox. The postman will come, see that no one is home, put the letter in his galosh and move on. Very cleverly thought out.
- I came up with this myself! - Shurik boasted.
- Really?
- Honestly!
- Well done! - Grandfather threw up his hands.
At lunch, grandfather kept throwing up his hands and telling grandma about this galosh:
- You see, what a witty child! You won’t even believe what you came up with on your own! You understand, I'm heading to the gate, huh? I’ve been saying for a long time that I need to nail down the mailbox, but I can’t figure out what’s easier than using galoshes.
“Okay,” the grandmother grinned. “I’ll buy a box, but for now let the galosh hang.”
After lunch, Shurik ran into the garden, and grandfather said:
“Well, Shurik has already distinguished himself with us, and you, Nikolka, have also probably accomplished something.” Just admit it and make grandpa happy.
“I,” I say, “caught fish, but no fish were caught.”
-Where did you fish?
- In the pond.
“Eh...” said grandfather, “what kind of fish is this?” This pond was recently dug. Even the frogs haven't bred here yet. And you, my dear, don’t be lazy, go to the river. The current is fast there near the bridge. On this rapids and half.
Grandfather went to work, and I took the fishing rod and said to Shurik:
- Let's go to the river and fish together.
“Yeah,” he says, “I was scared!” Now you're sucking up!
- Why should I suck up?
- So that I don’t do magic anymore.
“Do some magic,” I say, “please.”
I took a box of worms and a jam jar so that I had somewhere to put the fish, and went. And Shurik trudged behind.
We came to the river. I settled down on the bank, not far from the bridge, where the current was faster, and cast my fishing rod.
And Shurik is hovering around me and muttering:
Conjure, woman, conjure, grandfather,
Cast your spell, little gray bear!
He will be silent for a moment, silent, and then again:
Conjure, woman, conjure, grandfather...
Suddenly the fish bites, I suddenly pull the fishing rod! The fish sparkled in the air, fell off the hook, fell onto the shore and, well, danced near the water itself.
Shurik will shout:
- Hold her!
I rushed to the fish and let's catch. The fish jumps along the shore, and he throws himself straight at it with his belly, but cannot catch it; She almost ran back into the river.
Finally he grabbed her. I filled a jar with water, Shurik put the fish in it and began to look at it.
“This,” he says, “is a perch.” Honestly, perch! See how striped he is? C'mon, it'll be mine!
- Okay, let it be yours. We'll catch a lot more.
We fished for a long time that day. We caught six perch, four minnows and even caught one pipefish.
On the way back, Shurik carried a jar of fish and didn’t even let me hold it. He was very happy and not at all offended when he saw that his galosh had disappeared, and in its place there was a brand new blue letter box hanging on the gate.
“Well, let it be,” he said. “In my opinion, the box is even better than the galoshes.”
He waved his hand and quickly ran to show the fish to his grandmother. Grandma praised us.
And then I told him:
- You see, you did magic! Your witchcraft doesn't mean anything. I don't believe in witchcraft.
- Ugh! - said Shurik. - Do you think I believe? Only savages and old ladies believe this.
By this he made the grandmother laugh very much, because although the grandmother was old, she also did not believe in witchcraft.
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From the book Before and After Dinosaurs author Zhuravlev Andrey YurievichThe little gray top came... Even ancient predators were distinguished by complex behavior. Their modern “colleagues” more often attack their victims from only one side, since each hemisphere of the developed brain performs a strictly defined job. These features of predatory
Bear
From the book The Last Autumn [Poems, letters, memoirs of contemporaries] author Rubtsov Nikolay MikhailovichBear The forester shot the bear. The mighty beast clung to the pine tree. The shot got stuck in the shaggy body. The bear's eyes are full of tears: Why did they want to kill him? The bear didn't feel guilty! The bear went home, so that it’s bitter at home
Woman do magic, grandfather do magic...
From the book The Lord Will Rule author Alexander AvdyuginWoman cast a spell, grandfather cast a spell... The doorbell rings. - Father Alexander, I need a prayer. The neighbor, with an extremely disheveled and pitiful face, interrogatively and pleadingly demands an immediate solution to her problem. - What other prayer? My appearance is no better than the neighbor's. Two days
Bear
From the book In theater and cinema author Annensky IsidorBear After graduating from the Film Academy, I naturally turned to my theater experience. And chose for thesis Chekhov’s “joke” (as the author called it) – the vaudeville “Bear”. There were many objections to this choice. In the thirties, the concept of “cinematography”
Bear
From the book Tales of the Stone Townspeople [Essays on decorative sculpture of St. Petersburg] author Almazov Boris AlexandrovichBear Bear is a symbol of good nature and rage, heroic strength and clumsiness, gluttony. In the ancient world, the bear symbolized positive maternal qualities. In addition, in Ancient Greece, a piece of bearskin was used as protection against love interests:
BEAR
From the book We sew soft toys, pillows and beanbags author Ivanovskaya Tatyana VladimirovnaBEAR You will need scraps of soft material for the main parts of the toy (fleece, knitwear or faux fur with short pile), some finishing material, synthetic padding, 2 buttons or ready-made eyes for the toy, a ready-made blank for the nose or
Gray pet
From Felting's book. Amazing crafts made from felted wool author Preobrazhenskaya Vera NikolaevnaGray pet You will need carded wool in white, pink, gray colors, coarse felting needles No. 36 and 38, glass eyes or beads, Secunda glue, felting mat. Work procedure Fluff the white wool and divide into three unequal parts: one small and two
Bear
From the book English Ghosts by Ackroyd PeterBear Richard Baxter, author of the book “The Undoubted Existence of the World of Spirits” (1691), cites such a case. “Simon Jones, a strong man of excellent health from Kidderminster (not in the least prone to melancholy or other quirks), often told me that when he was a soldier
Baba Yaga (Yaga Yagishna, Ezhi Baba)
From the book Secrets of the Slavic Gods [The World of the Ancient Slavs. Magic rituals and rituals. Slavic mythology. Christian holidays and rituals] author Kapitsa Fedor SergeevichBaba Yaga (Yaga Yagishna, Ezhi Baba) B national traditions the image is multifaceted and contradictory: the Greek nymph Calypso, Naguchitsa in the fairy tales of the peoples of the Caucasus, Zhalmauyz-kempir in Kazakh fairy tales, grandmother Metelitsa in German ones. In Russian fairy tales, Baba Yaga is repulsive
27.3. The fairytale Baba Yaga is the golden woman of the Ostyak-Aztecs
From the author's book27.3. The fairy-tale Baba Yaga is the golden woman of the Ostyak-Aztecs. In conclusion, we note an interesting touch. The famous English author Giles Fletcher, having visited Rus', allegedly published his book “On the Russian State” in 1591. However, this essay was most likely written or
Cowardly bunny gray
From the book Encyclopedic Dictionary of Catchwords and Expressions author Serov Vadim VasilievichCowardly little gray bunny From the song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest...” (1906), written by composer L. K. Bekman (1871 - 1933) to poems (1903) by the Russian poetess Raisa Adamovna Kudasheva (1878-?). See also Born in the forest
Bear and woman
From the book Russian Treasured Tales author Afanasyev Alexander NikolaevichThe Bear and the Woman The woman was plowing in the field; The bear saw her and thought to himself: “Why have I never fought with women? Is she stronger than a man or not? I’ve broken quite a few men, but I haven’t had a chance to mess with the women.” So he approached the woman and said: - Let's fight! - What if you, Mikhaila
Chapter 1 A little gray wolf will come and bite...
From the author's bookChapter 1 A gray top will come and bite... The second volume of the academic publication “History of Europe” enlightens the reader: “The climate of medieval Europe remained cool and rather dry until the 5th century, then, especially in the 6th and 7th centuries, became wetter in arid zones and drier in
