Weasel braids the mane. Who braids the horses' hair? How a weasel braids horses' pigtails

At the beginning of winter, when the snow had not yet fallen, I was returning from the stable with Dasha, the instructor. We did not go along the road past the bear biostation, where I usually go, but straight through the forest. We talked with her, of course, about horses. Suddenly, she stopped abruptly and listened. I, too, fell silent and heard rustling and crunching. We looked around and a squirrel sat straight two meters from us and gnawed at a bump, not at all embarrassed by us. We watched her and moved on. The conversation turned to other animals that are found in our forest. She told me that once she saw a weasel in the stable. In general, in winter, when the snow is fresh, its traces are clearly visible, and in general it comes quite often, because the manes of horses are often tangled in the morning. I asked what she needed there, and why she confuses the mane with horses. It turned out that weasels climb on the neck of the horses, hang on the mane and lick the sweat from the horse's shoulders. I thought that such a remarkable animal should have a special place in folklore, and began to search for information on this topic. Here's what I managed to find.

Weasel is one of the most popular animals among many peoples. She is a symbol of a bride or a young married woman. Her name is Panna, Khorugvitsa, Khubavichka (from Bulgarian - "Khubavitsa" - beauty), Vlasitsa, daughter-in-law, little wife, Lelichka, Bainovka, Tsar's bride, Lasitsa.

Among many Slavic peoples, it is believed that the weasel by origin is a young woman.

The Greeks have a legend that a girl who loved to spin turned into a weasel. Aesop's fable is known about how Aphrodite turned into a girl a weasel in love with a beautiful young man so that they could get married. But during the wedding, the bride saw a mouse, chased it and turned back into a weasel. The Greeks, in order to protect their daughter’s dowry from affection, speak to her: “Little girl, we will give you gold and silver, we will give you a husband so that you get married, have your own house and become a mistress.” The Greeks put a spindle in the house where the weasel settled with yarn, since "she loved to spin while she was still a girl."

Also in Sicily, they ask the weasel living in the neighborhood not to choke the chickens: “Dove, dove, do not touch the hens, and I will marry you as soon as I have the opportunity. If you are a woman, I will give you a king's son; if you are a peasant, I will give you a king's daughter."

Weasel should not be offended, she can gnaw off eyebrows or hair at night. If you tease the weasel, she will spit in the eyes and the person will go blind. Weasel is a kind brownie. What color is she - such and cattle are picked up, a dog, a cat, and sometimes a bride They turn to her: "Welcome, my dove, welcome, my daughter-in-law."

Among the Hutsuls, weasel is dedicated to the day of St. Catherine - November 25 (according to the old style), because weasel is the patroness of spinning and marriages. It is believed that the appearance of affection helps a woman giving birth. As you know, a caress ran past Alcmene, who could not give birth in any way, and caused the birth of Hercules. According to another belief, Hera turned the servant of the mother of Hercules into a caress because she helped the successful birth of the future hero.

The Serbs believe that if you do not give the pregnant woman what she asks for, then such a person will be gnawed through the clothes by caress. It is believed that the child will be healthy, under whose cradle a weasel ran. It is also said to protect people from being bitten by snakes.

The Poles and the French believe that affection brings only happiness to the house. If you kill her, then the weasel brood will eat all the hats in the house or poison all the food. Among all animals, no one kills weasels and swallows, say the Hutsuls

The southern and western Slavs have such an epic: mowers, plowmen and reapers, while working in the field, find a nest of affection, and in order not to damage them, they transfer it to another place. Weasel, not finding her cubs, pours poisonous saliva into the vessels with water, but when she finds out that the mowers are moving the nest to its original place, she overturns all these vessels so as not to poison people. She never does evil in vain. Serbs believe that if a hunter shoots at a weasel, the bullet will return and hit him.

Among many Slavic and other peoples, weasel enjoys great reverence as a guardian of the house. Montenegrins, in order to lure affection, bring a nest with her cubs into the house. In Bosnia, it is believed that if the weasel leaves the house in which she lived for many years, this means misfortune for the house. Slovaks call weasel the protector of cattle. The Ukrainians of Pokuttya believe that "weasel will bring happiness if it comes to the hut for the winter." In eastern Polissya there is a custom to go to the barn with a consecrated Thursday candle on Pure Thursday to see the weasel there and determine by its color what color the cattle should be kept.

According to some beliefs, the soul of the hostess is embodied in caress, the soul of the owner is embodied in the snake. Therefore, no one can kill them. Among the Slavs of the Zilskaya Valley, they are most afraid of killing the white weasel. For Estonians, caress is a sign of happiness. "Each farm has its own caress." Among the many beliefs about affection, there are those that it helps a person become rich. The Poles of the old Sącz believe that if you call “lady weasel” several times, she will appear, caress the person and show the treasure. The Greeks believe that as a reward for a good attitude towards her, weasel finds enchanted money and transfers it to the house. There is a belief among Polish Jews that the one on whose bed the caress ends up will be rich.

Weasel is the patroness of cattle, especially horses. In Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, they believe that cattle breed in the color of the weasel. “De in the racks є lasici,” say the Rusyns of Galicia, “there is thinness.” In the Minsk region, it was believed that weasels protect cattle from witches. They tell how in one village all the cattle died, because the weasel was persecuted there. The Hutsuls also do not kill the weasel, fearing revenge from her relatives. To find a dead weasel among Estonians - unfortunately with cattle.

Among other things, the weasel is a well-known exterminator of mice. In different regions of Bulgaria, when they want to get rid of rodents in the house, they invite affection “to the wedding”. Serbs believe that the weasel can exterminate mice in an original way - it inflates them and they burst. Among the Estonians, those people are happy that they saw affection. In Thebes, the weasel was revered as a sacred animal.

And one more curious belief about affection - the Spaniards in Catalonia believe: if you see a weasel and tell her - “you are beautiful”, she puffs up, puffs up, becomes a man, showing her joy in every possible way. Well, a kind word, as they say, is pleasant to caress.

Weasel - a demon animal is associated with the Mill, the Bulgarians even call it the "mill cat" (vodenichno kote). If she gets into the habit of climbing into the chicken coop, she is sent to the Mill with special incantation formulas. In Slavic dialects, there are common names for Laska, marten, ermine, squirrel, badger; Weasel, marten, fox and squirrel are presented as one and the same character in different versions of the fairy tale story about the revived skin of an animal. All these animals have a number of common mythological characteristics in common. The chthonic nature and to one degree or another is found in most of these animals. For example, the ermine in folklore texts: “Like water, he walked and a pike fish, / He flew through the sky and a bright falcon, / Walked through the dungeon as a white ermine.” Treasures “come out” of the earth in the form of white hares, ermines, cats, etc. Weasel can indicate the location of the treasure if you kindly address her. In Belarusian and Ukrainian songs, the archaic motif of the world tree is known: ermine, beavers or sables live at the roots of the tree of paradise; in Russian songs, this corresponds to a tree (cypress) standing on the mountain, which “has grown over with coons, blossomed with sables”. In folk beliefs, a deep relationship between Laska and reptiles is revealed, which is manifested, in particular, in the common names for Weasels and snakes, worms, and mice. Like a snake, the Weasel is considered venomous.

Weasel is able to take milk from cows, and running under a cow, spoil it, which causes blood to appear in it. Weasel and related animals reveal a relationship with a bird, which is determined by the deep mythological relationship of chthonic animals and birds. So, Weasel can be called a “swallow”, be identified with it or be represented as an animal with wings. The names Weasels and swallows are related in origin. Both of them are characterized by female symbols, and both of them patronize cattle, but they can cause the appearance of milk with blood, etc. cats, squirrels, frogs, worms). Among the southern Slavs, it is believed that the killing of Laska (as well as a house snake) will entail the death of one of the domestic or beloved cattle.

The similarities between Laska and the brownie are also manifested in the fact that they torture cattle at night, they drive horses (so that in the morning the horses are in the foam), they braid their mane in the form of a braid. At night, the brownie can also braid braids for women and beards with a pigtail for old people, and Laska can gnaw women's hair at night, and mustaches for men. Among the southern Slavs, the image of Laska is associated with spinning and weaving: in legends, a daughter-in-law is converted to Laska, cursed by her mother-in-law for being too lazy to spin or, on the contrary, did not want to do anything except spinning; as a talisman against Laska, they take it out into the yard and put a spinning wheel with a spindle near her hole.

Among Russians, the role of the spinner and the weaver is especially vividly represented by the “ermine” - a character in the tales of the Ivanovo weavers. An ermine sews a silver stitch in the snow with her paws. The weaver boy helps her unravel the silver snow yarn tangled in the blizzard, for which he receives magic yarn from her, thanks to which the loom works by itself. Ripping off the silver fluff, she spins a tearing thread out of it and, running back and forth, like a shuttle, weaves the silver yarn. The skeins and heaps of yarn that the ermine winds out of her silver hair in the forest during a snowstorm turn out to be snowdrifts. Among the southern Slavs, the names of Laska are common, associated with the names of the bride or the young woman. To appease Laska, she is addressed as a girl with a promise to marry her off. Among Western Ukrainians, the bride in wedding songs is also sometimes called “Lasitsa”. Among the southern Slavs, Laska is used in love magic: in order for a husband to love his wife, she cuts the caught Laska in half and forces her husband to pass between the parts of her carcass.

Weasel - the bride is associated with a number of female spinning creatures, including household spirits and a mermaid, and as weaving horse manes, she makes a brownie Laska related to both the image of a brownie and female spirits (mermaids, etc.). The brownie could appear as a caress. Near the hole weasels put a spindle and yarn. The snake (already) and weasel often act as a brownie. Weasel, as well as snakes and crows, has underground treasures. The appearance of bloody milk in cows in Polissya is explained by the fact that a weasel ran under the cow. The consonance of Vlas - caress - underlies the belief that St. Vlas protects from affection, which can harm livestock. Most often, witches are tortured for milking other people's cows, which they do by taking on the form of a black pig, or weasel, or fox.

The rite of "weasel spell" - it is very effective and attracts unmarried or single guests to the house.

It is necessary to make two animals from the dough called "weasel" female and male. Beliefs say that once in ancient times, weasel was a gentle girl. Once her fiancé left her, and caress turned into an animal from longing. Since then, she has been harming girls and women, preventing them from dating men. To appease affection, you need to do such a rite. Pour honey into a cup, into another cup of wine and put next to it a weasel figurine made of dough, and a figurine of a weasel husband.
Read a spell: “Empress weasel! I will make you gold and silver, I will give you a husband so that you get married, have your own house and become a mistress. Welcome, Empress Weasel!"
It is necessary to store the figurines of weasels and treats in cups until Christmas next year.

This mysterious phenomenon has been known for a long time. In the morning the owner enters his stable, and the horse is trembling with fear, and her mane is inconceivably mixed up, or even braided. Pigtails are neat, beautiful, but more often - in intricate loops and knots, such that you cannot unravel in a day. Who braids horses at night?

DIFFERENT VERSIONS

As V.I. Gershun, in his "Conversations about Pets", popular rumor explained all this by the intrigues of an unclean, brownie (he was also called the "stable neighbor"). And horse breeders believe that this is done by weasel - a small predatory animal that feeds on rodents. She, apparently, is looking for salt crystals remaining on the horse's skin from dried sweat. Running across the croup and clinging to the mane, the nimble animal entangles it into continuous braids and tangles, “braids” it into pigtails. Previously, a goat was specially kept in the stables - it was believed that its smell drives away affection.

Other versions were also considered. For example, that pigtails are formed by themselves when a horse shakes its head, driving away flies and horseflies. If the tips of two or three strands somehow stick together into a lump, then when the horse's head moves, it jumps and falls into the gaps between adjacent strands - either to the right or to the left. Gradually, a spit, albeit uneven, is formed, starting not from above, but from below. This hypothesis was tested by the Russian researcher I.D. Burtsev, and it turned out that this is not excluded.

Now, however, scientists are talking more and more confidently that the braids of the horse are braided by ... Bigfoot! This relic hominoid (bigfoot, sasquatch, yeti, guleyban, almasty, etc.) lives in various places on the planet. And, accordingly, it is called differently.

FROM TEXAS TO MICHIGAN

A couple of months ago, a book by American Lisa Scheel, Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Sliver Signs, UFOs, and Sasquatch, was published. Lisa, now living in Michigan, moved there from Texas. Texas is the south of the United States, and Michigan is the north, but mysterious stories follow Lisa across the country. Maybe the point is that, as she herself says, you need to be able to look - both around and under your feet. Then you will surely find ... traces.

“When I was living in Texas,” says Lisa, “I noticed one morning that my horses had braids in their manes. Not ordinary pigtails, but intricate, complex ones. At first, Lisa did not want to think about the unusual pigtails that appeared overnight. But when it began to repeat itself, she thought. And last year there were more than thirty such cases. But this is already in Michigan, where she settled only a year and a half ago.

“The neighbors tell me that ‘they’ followed me here,” Lisa chuckles. - But maybe everything is explained more simply: I paid attention to this, because I saw this in Texas. I seem to be tuned in to a wave of search ... "Someone even suggests that Liza did not move here by chance - she was directed by some secret forces.

“I saw five rainbows while driving here looking for a house,” she says. - When this happens, you involuntarily think: maybe this is some kind of special sign? Who knows…"

A librarian by profession, Lisa founded the Bigfoot Enthusiast Organization (MUPBO) in Michigan. And the connection of this mysterious creature with braided horse manes has almost been proven ...

OUR PITTES

Pigtails in a horse's mane have been noticed more than once. And they suspected that this was the work of a shaggy “forest man”. No one has ever managed to catch any of these mysterious creatures, but many found their tracks and made plaster casts of them - huge, like from a size 57 leg.

Candidate of Historical Sciences Igor Dmitrievich Burtsev, a well-known hominologist, president of the Russian Cryptosphere Foundation and author of the book “In the Footsteps of Bigfoot in Russia”, believes that the weight of these primates is about 300-500 kilograms, and growth sometimes exceeds three meters. Burtsev investigated their traces in Azerbaijan, Kabardino-Balkaria, near St. Petersburg, in the Kirov region and other places. It is believed that in Russia these giants migrate along the line of the Kirov - Arkhangelsk region. And, sometimes, they weave pigtails for horses!

Recently, I.D. Burtsev published several interesting reports about his research in the domestic press. For example, he describes a case that occurred in Kabardino-Balkaria. Local residents told Kharkiv biologist Grigory Panchenko that in the tract Kuruko al-masty weaves pigtails in the mane of a mare belonging to the caretaker of the state farm barn. Panchenko went to Kuruko. The caretaker allowed the biologist to spend the night in the barn, where a mare stayed overnight, with pigtails appearing in the morning. The barn door was locked, but, according to the watchman, Almasty entered the barn through the window, which had no glass.

And then - a description of what Panchenko saw and heard: “Waking up in the middle of the night, he pushed back the edge of the blanket and saw in the twilight that next to the horse, who was standing at the manger with food, there was someone stooped, without clothes, hairy. He made strange, almost birdlike chirping sounds, smacked his lips and swallowed saliva. After some time, this someone, apparently sensing the presence of a person, moved away from the horse and, jumping high, ended up in the window opening ... In the morning, Gregory found pigtails in the horse's mane, which were not there in the evening.

SUZY'S SECRET LOVE

I. D. Burtsev spent five weeks in the US state of Tennessee, on the "bigfoot farm" of the Carter family, where the owners have been observing the life of the whole Bigfoot community for half a century - old Fox, his children and grandchildren. And, it must be emphasized, the Carters make friends with their independent neighbors, even leave them food under a tree or in a barn. And at night, especially in winter, hungry bigfoots, coming for food, knock on the house, climb into the barn or basement. Sometimes one of them stays here for the night. Janice Carter took Bigfoot babies in her arms more than once, and once (at the request of geneticists) she even pulled out a tuft of wool from old Fox. As it turned out, the wool belongs to an unknown species of primates.

And in Missouri, these giants braid the mare Susie. Marie, the owner of the horse, "spent a lot of time combing her mane ... But as soon as the mare was driven out to free pasture, her pigtails reappeared." And, as Marie herself writes in a letter to Burtsev, “having learned that it was the Saskwa-chi who did it, I stopped undoing the pigtails. But now they themselves untwist the old pigtails and braid new ones in their place, repeating this again and again. And, as a rule, closer to the head, they weave large pigtails, capturing thick strands of hair. And closer to the withers, thin and rather beautiful braids are braided, often twisting them into loops and eights.

But, one wonders, why do these shaggy giants with their powerful hands now and then weave pigtails in a horse's mane? There are different assumptions. Maybe they lick salt off horse hair. Maybe they stupefy the mare in order to suck her milk, and distract her with some movements that lead to the appearance of pigtails. Or maybe they just decorate the horse - out of love for art, so to speak.

At the beginning of winter, when the snow had not yet fallen, I was returning from the stable with Dasha, the instructor. We did not go along the road past the bear biostation, where I usually go, but straight through the forest. We talked with her, of course, about horses. Suddenly, she stopped abruptly and listened. I, too, fell silent and heard rustling and crunching. We looked around and a squirrel sat straight two meters from us and gnawed at a bump, not at all embarrassed by us. We watched her and moved on. The conversation turned to other animals that are found in our forest. She told me that once she saw a weasel in the stable. In general, in winter, when the snow is fresh, its traces are clearly visible, and in general it comes quite often, because the manes of horses are often tangled in the morning. I asked what she needed there, and why she confuses the mane with horses. It turned out that weasels climb on the neck of the horses, hang on the mane and lick the sweat from the horse's shoulders. I thought that such a remarkable animal should have a special place in folklore, and began to search for information on this topic. Here is what I was able to find

L Aska is one of the most popular animals among many peoples. She is a symbol of a bride or a young married woman. Her name is Panna, Khorugvitsa, Khubavichka (from Bulgarian - "Khubavitsa" - beauty), Vlasitsa, daughter-in-law, little wife, Lelichka, Bainovka, Tsar's bride, Lasitsa.

Among many Slavic peoples, it is believed that the weasel by origin is a young woman.

The Greeks have a legend that a girl who loved to spin turned into a weasel. Aesop's fable is known about how Aphrodite turned into a girl a weasel in love with a beautiful young man so that they could get married. But during the wedding, the bride saw a mouse, chased it and turned back into a weasel. The Greeks, in order to protect their daughter’s dowry from affection, speak to her: “Little girl, we will give you gold and silver, we will give you a husband so that you get married, have your own house and become a mistress.” The Greeks in the house where the weasel settled put a spindle with yarn, because "she loved to spin while she was still a girl."

Also in Sicily, they ask the weasel living in the neighborhood not to choke the chickens: “Dove, dove, do not touch the hens, and I will marry you as soon as I have the opportunity. If you are a woman, I will give you a king's son; if you are a peasant, I will give you a king's daughter."

Weasel should not be offended, she can gnaw off eyebrows or hair at night. If you tease the weasel, she will spit in the eyes and the person will go blind. Weasel is a kind brownie. What color she is - they pick up such cattle, a dog, a cat, and sometimes a bride. They turn to her: "Welcome, my dove, welcome, my daughter-in-law."

The Hutsuls dedicate the day of St. Catherine to weasel - November 25 (according to the old style), because weasel is the patroness of spinning and marriages. It is believed that the appearance of affection helps a woman giving birth. As you know, a caress ran past Alcmene, who could not give birth in any way, and caused the birth of Hercules. According to another belief, Hera turned her mother's maid into affectionHercules for helping the successful birth of the future hero.


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The Serbs believe that if you do not give the pregnant woman what she asks for, then such a person will be gnawed through the clothes by caress. It is believed that the child will be healthy, under whose cradle a weasel ran. It is also said to protect people from being bitten by snakes.

The Poles and the French believe that affection brings only happiness to the house. If you kill her, then the weasel brood will eat all the hats in the house or poison all the food. Among all animals, no one kills weasels and swallows, say the Hutsuls

The southern and western Slavs have such an epic: mowers, plowmen and reapers, while working in the field, find a nest of affection, and in order not to damage them, they transfer it to another place. Weasel, not finding her cubs, pours poisonous saliva into the vessels with water, but when she finds out that the mowers are moving the nest to its original place, she overturns all these vessels so as not to poison people. She never does evil in vain. Serbs believe that if a hunter shoots at a weasel, the bullet will return and hit him.

Among many Slavic and other peoples, weasel enjoys great reverence as a guardian of the house. Montenegrins, in order to lure affection, bring a nest with her cubs into the house. In Bosnia, it is believed that if the weasel leaves the house in which she lived for many years, this means misfortune for the house. Slovaks call weasel the protector of cattle. The Ukrainians of Pokuttya believe that "weasel will bring happiness if it comes to the hut for the winter." In eastern Polissya there is a custom to go to the barn with a consecrated Thursday candle on Pure Thursday to see the weasel there and determine by its color what color the cattle should be kept.

According to some beliefs, the soul of the hostess is embodied in caress, the soul of the owner is embodied in the snake. Therefore, no one can kill them. Among the Slavs of the Zilskaya Valley, they are most afraid of killing the white weasel. For Estonians, caress is a sign of happiness. "Each farm has its own caress." Among the many beliefs about affection, there are those that it helps a person become rich. The Poles of the old Sącz believe that if you call “lady weasel” several times, she will appear, caress the person and show the treasure. The Greeks believe that as a reward for a good attitude towards her, weasel finds enchanted money and transfers it to the house. There is a belief among Polish Jews that the one on whose bed the caress ends up will be rich.

Weasel is the patroness of cattle, especially horses. In Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, they believe that cattle breed in the color of the weasel. “De in the racks є lasici,” say the Rusyns of Galicia, “there is thinness.” In the Minsk region, it was believed that weasels protect cattle from witches. They tell how in one village all the cattle died, because the weasel was persecuted there. The Hutsuls also do not kill the weasel, fearing revenge from her relatives. To find a dead weasel among Estonians is unfortunately with cattle.

Among other things, the weasel is a well-known exterminator of mice. In different regions of Bulgaria, when they want to get rid of rodents in the house, they invite affection “to the wedding”. Serbs believe that the weasel can exterminate mice in an original way - it inflates them, and they burst. Among the Estonians, those people are happy that they saw affection. In Thebes, the weasel was revered as a sacred animal.

And one more curious belief about affection - the Spaniards in Catalonia believe that if you see a weasel and tell her - “you are beautiful”, she puffs up, puffs up, becomes a man, showing her joy in every possible way. Well, a kind word, as they say, is pleasant to caress.

Weasel - a demonic animal associated with the Mill, the Bulgarians even call it the "mill cat" (vodenichno kote). If she gets into the habit of climbing into the chicken coop, she is sent to the Mill with special incantation formulas. In Slavic dialects, there are common names for Laska, marten, ermine, squirrel, badger; Weasel, marten, fox and squirrel are presented as one and the same character in different versions of the fairy tale story about the revived skin of an animal. All these animals have a number of common mythological characteristics in common. The chthonic nature and to one degree or another is found in most of these animals. For example, the ermine in folklore texts: “Like water, he walked and a pike fish, / He flew through the sky and a bright falcon, / Walked through the dungeon as a white ermine.” Treasures “come out” of the earth in the form of white hares, ermines, cats, etc. Weasel can indicate the location of the treasure if you kindly address her. In Belarusian and Ukrainian songs, the archaic motif of the world tree is known: ermine, beavers or sables live at the roots of the tree of paradise; in Russian songs, this corresponds to a tree (cypress) standing on the mountain, which “has grown over with coons, blossomed with sables”. In folk beliefs, a deep relationship between Laska and reptiles is revealed, which is manifested, in particular, in the common names for Weasels and snakes, worms, and mice. Like a snake, the Weasel is considered venomous.

Weasel is able to take milk from cows, and running under a cow, spoil it, which causes blood to appear in it. Weasel and related animals reveal a relationship with a bird, which is determined by the deep mythological relationship of chthonic animals and birds. So, Weasel can be called a “swallow”, be identified with it or be represented as an animal with wings. The names Weasels and swallows are related in origin. Both of them are characterized by female symbols, and both of them patronize cattle, but they can cause the appearance of milk with blood, etc. cats, squirrels, frogs, worms). Among the southern Slavs, it is believed that the killing of Laska (as well as a house snake) will entail the death of one of the domestic or beloved cattle.

The similarities between Laska and the brownie are also manifested in the fact that they torture cattle at night, they drive horses (so that in the morning the horses are in the foam), they braid their mane in the form of a braid. At night, the brownie can also braid braids for women and beards with a pigtail for old people, and Laska can gnaw women's hair at night, and mustaches for men. Among the southern Slavs, the image of Laska is associated with spinning and weaving: in legends, a daughter-in-law is converted to Laska, cursed by her mother-in-law for being too lazy to spin or, on the contrary, did not want to do anything except spinning; as a talisman against Laska, they take it out into the yard and put a spinning wheel with a spindle near her hole.


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Among Russians, the role of the spinner and the weaver is especially vividly represented by the “ermine” - a character in the tales of the Ivanovo weavers. An ermine sews a silver stitch in the snow with her paws. The weaver boy helps her unravel the silver snow yarn tangled in the blizzard, for which he receives magic yarn from her, thanks to which the loom works by itself. Ripping off the silver fluff, she spins a tearing thread out of it and, running back and forth, like a shuttle, weaves the silver yarn. The skeins and heaps of yarn that the ermine winds out of her silver hair in the forest during a snowstorm turn out to be snowdrifts. Among the southern Slavs, the names of Laska are common, associated with the names of the bride or the young woman. To appease Laska, she is addressed as a girl with a promise to marry her off. Among Western Ukrainians, the bride in wedding songs is also sometimes called “Lasitsa”. Among the southern Slavs, Laska is used in love magic: in order for a husband to love his wife, she cuts the caught Laska in half and forces her husband to pass between the parts of her carcass.

Weasel - the bride is associated with a number of female spinning creatures, including household spirits and a mermaid, and as weaving horse manes, she makes the brownie Laska related to both the image of a brownie and female spirits (mermaids, etc.). The brownie could appear as a caress. Near the hole weasels put a spindle and yarn. The snake (already) and weasel often act as a brownie. Weasel, as well as snakes and crows, has underground treasures. The appearance of bloody milk in cows in Polissya is explained by the fact that a weasel ran under the cow. The consonance of Vlas - caress - underlies the belief that St. Vlas protects from affection, which can harm livestock. Most often, witches are tortured for milking other people's cows, which they do by taking on the form of a black pig, or weasel, or fox.

The rite of the "weasel spell" - it is very effective and attracts unmarried or single guests to the house.

It is necessary to make two animals from the dough called "weasel" female and male. Beliefs say that once in ancient times, weasel was a gentle girl. Once her fiancé left her, and caress turned into an animal from longing. Since then, she has been harming girls and women, preventing them from dating men. To appease affection, you need to do such a rite. Pour honey into a cup, into another cup of wine and put next to it a weasel figurine made of dough, and a figurine of a weasel husband.
Read a spell: “Empress weasel! I will make you gold and silver, I will give you a husband so that you get married, have your own house and become a mistress. Welcome, Empress Weasel!"
It is necessary to store the figurines of weasels and treats in cups until Christmas next year.

In the private household of the Bordonsky nasleg of the Suntarsky ulus of Yakutia, at night someone plaited the horse's pigtails, YASIA reports. Photos of the mare were sent by her owner, Nikolai Fedotov, via the WhatsApp messenger. Horses are kept separately, in a summer camp far from the village. The owner is at a loss: children and adults usually do not go to the paddock. Yes, and the horses do not let anyone close. And the filly's mane is divided into a beautiful parting and woven so neatly, as if it was combed by an experienced hairdresser. “I heard about this as a child. But I see it for the first time, I never thought that it would be like this with us. I exclude the case when one of the children or women joked in this way. they only come to feed them, so they don't let any strangers in," says Nikolai Fedotov. A lot of incomprehensible and interesting things happen in the world. But they say that such cases occur from time to time for a long time. There is an opinion that it is a brownie or a stableman weaving... There are many opinions on the Internet about this: “It's like a brownie, only he lives in a stable. You need to say hello to him, say goodbye at least to yourself. Treat with delicious pieces, then it will be calm and good in the stable. He is not dangerous, on the contrary, he will protect. There is another belief that a nimble animal weaves pigtails - weasel. “We also had twisted manes in the winter stables outside the city. Mink, weasel were found under the lower crown of the stable, hunted down, although we did not manage to see the braiding of manes. “There is a belief that the brownie weaves pigtails for horses, in fact it is done by a weasel that lives nearby. Moreover, if she doesn’t like the horse, then she will drive it all night.” But there are also those who doubt that this weasel weaves with its small paws: “You can imagine that weasels are really capable of confusing the mane so that some kind of pigtails form on it. "Pigtails are enough to give up the thought of caress. No paws are able to twist and bandage them so skillfully. Pigtails are more like loops made of three strands. Two of them are twisted from bundles of hair. Then one of these two is twisted with a third with a more loosely twisted tourniquet (from which we can conclude that when the third tourniquet was twisted, the hands did not let go of the first two, so it is not so tight.) After that, from about the middle of the length of the tourniquets, all three are woven together into a kind of braid and tied several strong knots, so that a fairly strong loop is formed, it cannot be broken even with great effort. .." And what do you think about this? Author: Angelina VASILIEVA And now, the actual story on the topic: It was, in principle, quite recently, here in Yakutsk. you come to work, take a shift and shout: "Boss, it's me so-and-so came!" at first, of course, at the level of jokes, then it became no laughing matter, in response, something knocks on the battery in response 2 times, like I hear, accepted One girl worked for us, so he disliked her, knocked on the batteries all night, did not let her sleep. cynologists left her to us. So at some point everyone paid attention to her strange behavior, the dog began to bark at the stairs leading to us on the second floor, then began to slowly back away and whine, and then naturally howl and huddle at our feet, in the ensuing silence, everyone heard the creak of the stairs under someone's feet, and then closer and closer, until something stopped near the table, the dog's eyes literally popped out of their sockets, we all suddenly felt such indescribable horror, no one could move, then steps they began to move away, the dog calmed down, and we naturally had a nervous shock, by the way, there were those with us who had previously made fun of stories about the owner, everyone was not laughing. In the morning, this whole story was told to the authorities. The boss was not too lazy and went first to the church, then to some healer, who instructed what to do and how to do it, the boss drew crosses on all the windows, stuck knives in the jambs and poured a glass of vodka with his own hand and put it in the right corner, unfortunately all these actions did not really calm down our stable owner. Over time, they even somehow became friends with this spirit, and did not really pay attention to his tricks. He even helped, woke up if something happened at night

I often asked myself this question, having three beautiful, thoroughbred, athletic horses in my yard. I have had horses for a long time, but it all started about five years ago.

Intricate braids began to appear on horse manes. These are not girlish braids, neatly intertwined from curls and strands. They are chaotically tangled into a real tourniquet, wrapped, intertwined so that they cannot be untangled under any effort.

I turned to horsemen and the Internet. I heard many versions about otherworldly creatures with terrible names, and about incubus and succubus, and about brownies and stables. Who said that if you like a horse, then this creature cherishes and cherishes it, therefore weaving braids. Others said and wrote that these creatures torture horses, drive them into foam and beat them, and they need a scythe to hold on with their paws and drink milk.

Often in the farmstead in the old days, grooms kept saying that horses stand in soap in the morning, with wildly bulging eyes and trembling with fear. As a child, I saw this at a sports stable, but we were children then and assumed that maybe the horses were scared of the sparrows when they fluttered out from under their feet.

But many versions have been put forward that this is a weasel. I did not want to believe that this little animal lives with me under the same roof with horses, hens and chickens. Eggs sometimes go missing, but strashno.com rarely does. I think the chickens eat them themselves or the rats steal them. There are plenty of cats, the dog guards the yard, not a single caress will leak to us.

Once we spent the night in a field with a stallion. My husband and I are sitting by the fire, and the horse is tied to the car. Suddenly we hear the stallion snoring. Horses when they are afraid or indignant, they snore. We shine a lantern on him. He stands all in tension, his neck is swan-like, his withers are on end, like those of an evil dog, his nostrils are inflated, his hooves are pounding ... The ferret is sitting at his feet. To get acquainted, you see, he came, and our boy almost turned him into furs. Barely the polecat carried off its legs.

Now imagine, there is a horse that will not let the owner approach him even in this position. Then a weasel comes and climbs on his neck to weave a pigtail with his clumsy paws. Or pulling a ladder to climb onto a horse, and the horse still substitutes such a back, so that strashno.com would be more convenient for her. Well, complete nonsense.

I found an article where a woman held affection for ten years at home. She denies that this animal is capable of such things at all, at least for slightly tangled hair in a tuft, and even one look at “our” pigtails was enough to abandon the idea of ​​the caress authorship.

The pigtails were rather loops woven from twisted bundles, moreover, from the middle of the length of the strands to the end of them. In addition, woven strands, as a rule, are also tied with knots.

The resulting loop cannot be broken even with great effort. What strength must then have a caress if a person is not able to break this knot? In general, I was confused and decided not to touch this issue for now.

Once my friend called me to a clairvoyant. This woman sees and heals with prayers. I had to go to her for health. strashno.com We talked with her for a long time. Here she tells me at the first session: “Your unclean hair is confusing on your head.” My God, I thought it was after chemicals and paints, but here evil spirits are directly involved.

We met with a friend who went with me, she was also at a session with this woman, we began to discuss what we heard, each about her own. Only suddenly a friend says that this woman told her that an unclean person lives with me, tormenting me and my horse. My eyes popped out of my head, but I didn’t say a word about my pets at the session. A friend also did not talk about such things to this woman.

I come the next day to the clairvoyant and ask the question on the forehead: “What to do with this?”. She took out crosses, some amulets and said to go through the whole stable with holy water, a candle strashno.com with a prayer and willow horses. Palm week just happened. I did so.

What the candle did was something to be seen. She hissed, smoked, went out, blinked. With great difficulty, the procedure was completed. All the caresses packed up and immediately left for exactly a year. Horses again began to have decent manes.

The next spring has arrived. My comb began to pull out tufts of hair on my head because of the tangled hair. At least cry. She cut off her curls, which reached the waist, shortly. It became easier. Somehow my filly comes up, puts her muzzle in my pocket for something tasty, I stroke her ... You, please, have a mane in braids again. Moreover, they appeared during the night. I am for a candle and all the evil spirits of my father and mother. We live quietly again for almost a year.

The next winter came, I stroked the horse - a braid on the mane. Candles at home no church strashno.com. I’ll scream loudly and so that the horse jumped in surprise: “Get out of the way, you worthless scum, tomorrow I’ll go for Father, you’ll look for the fifth corner!” Helped. And so she screamed a couple of times, and the braids stopped.

And then recently my daughter was born, I didn’t have time for horses, I didn’t do them much, my husband mostly. Well, the filly had a foal. It grows, becomes kinder and the filly walks right.

I somehow could not resist and saddled my beauty, rode it and took a walk with the foal. We all ran well; the small one ran away and had to catch up with her on the grass in the waist at a frantic gallop. For a long time I was afraid for my mare, worried that she would fall from such a load. But everything seemed to work out well.

Two weeks have passed since I go out once in the morning, and my mare strashno.com is skinny as a post, burned out overnight. The foal sucks, and the nipples are empty. I am in tears, stroking her, and my fingers are immersed in braided bundles. Again this misfortune with belongings was dragged. Horse milk, you see, she savored it. I left the mare, but there was no time to evict the hairdresser. All three of my animals walk, like scumbags, with tangled manes. And the longer, the stronger.

Today I went to church for candles. I brought one of the five, in an incomprehensible way the rest evaporated from the bag, although they were wrapped in paper. Tomorrow I'm going to drive weasels, let them go to another place to do macrame. Our church is very far away, we must somehow persuade the priest to come and consecrate, otherwise my energy is not enough for more than six months.

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