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Signs about the house and about domestic spirits

The house is the most sacred and expensive, that each person has in his life. He who will construct the house is the owner, but also in any way we cannot mention some mystical forces, which faithfully and truly preserve the house and is the true owner and even a member of family. First of all this is known for every one since the childhood the spirit of the house - Domovoj. Nobody knows where exactly he lives, but everyone knows, that it can turn into any animal. Sometimes Domovoj is described as a small little man with unusually thick hands and legs, all in wool. According to the appearance of that house spirit people can judge prosperity in the house. If his paw is naked it means poverty. There exists a belief, that the cat - the relative of the house spirit and replaces it when that leaves on affairs. That is why the peasant, getting a kitten, chooses it carefully, selecting such painting which corresponds to color of hair of the owner of a house. This spirit can play tricks on people: to confuse hair on the head of the sleeping person, to throw tools, to hide things. It is also considered, that Domovoj becomes seen before coming nearer misfortune. And sometimes leans on the owner at night and starts to oppress, warning of fast changes in life. For rescue it is necessary to read a pray.

It’s known that Domovoj has a wife. She can bitterly cry at night to a trouble. And they have many sisters and the brothers living in the house and around of him. They are spirits of bath, of a barn, of the fields and some others.

Whence all these spirits have undertaken, the ancient legend tells us. The first people, Adam and Eve, after their fall gave birth to the children who were so ugly. Adam wanted to throw them into the Euphrates River; Eve interceded for the children and asked the husband not to kill them and to hide so that no one could see them. Since that time all these children were scattered all over the world. They are hidden from people, and only occasionally they play some dirty tricks. But if the person is kind to them and reckons with their presence they help them.

The spirit of a wood who misdirects people in a wood and frightens them, and the spirit of water, lakes and rivers, and mermaids, eternally young and beautiful girls with long hair who lived in palaces at the bottom of the rivers – they all are such spirits and each of them is very interesting in its own way, therefore it is possible to speak about them very much. That’s why all the spirits and the mermaid have become heroes of Russian national fairy tales.


Date: 2015-02-03; view: 1127


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