In Russia, dolls, amulets made of improvised material - wood, fabric, thread, straw, bones.Each doll was made for a purpose, had its own name, its own history, its own rite of preparation.In principle, any of them you can do herself as a oberёg for yourself or for loved ones.Without nagovornyh words, passed down from generation to generation, Ward will be weaker, but still worked perfectly.
Doll Charm "Krupenichka"
At its core - a canvas bag with buckwheat decorated with thread, fabrics.(In those places where there were problems with crap, it was replaced with peas and other grains, and these dolls have called differently - Zernovushka, peas).
This doll lures in the house wealth and promised a good harvest and the future addition to the family.
But with dolls, called "Kuvadki", "play" man!
Yes, yes!do not be surprised!
They bring these dolls in a bath, where in the old days women took birth.These dolls were to deceive evil spirits and keep them to the baby and the new mother.The magical rites of protection from evil forces and called - "couvade".
After giving birth to him in the bed underlay special doll Charm - "Pelenashku"
the same purpose - to deceive the evil spirits, they put a doll instead of the child.As you can imagine, like a doll Charm it can not be bought.Just make your own.
makes it second-hand from a piece of homespun clothes.Such clothes carried a warm person, and this heat is transferred doll, along with a part of the human life force.
This doll served as a talisman against the evil eye and.The guests looked at the child and a doll and said, referring to the doll - "Oh, how kuklenok something good!", So as not to jinx the baby.
"Pelenashku" could not be tinkering with a needle or scissors - it could "hurt the doll" and damage, and in fact in such a doll was invested maternal love and concern.First, put a toy into an empty crib - that it obzhilas there.And then put it next to the baby, saying "Sonnitsa, insomnia, do not play with my little child, and play with that doll!"
Another Doll Charm - "Stolbushka"
of birch or aspen Poleshko (or a tube made of birch bark) "dressed" with the fabric and thread and Poleshko turned into a doll-woman.
Amulets for ransom
All these dolls somehow carried a oberegovuyu force.Some dolls were made not only for themselves or for their loved ones, but also "for the ransom."Buy these dolls can not lose strength, but to redeem - without ceremony.The main thing - the soul of the masses to choose exactly the pupae that yours!In order to see this doll, do you feel that it's yours, you already know where to put it or put .. Only this doll is a talisman for you.Well, the place where lay the doll, put the ransom - money, goods, food.
dolls without faces
Interestingly, Slavic doll (as well as in some other nations of the world) are a characteristic feature.In these dolls do not have faces.More precisely - the face of the doll can be vyvyazan any conventional pattern, threads, natural materials.However, the faces may not have the eyes, mouth and nose.It was believed that this doll will not allow the evil spirit to dwell in yourself and do evil around him, but other than that - such a doll can not be double of man and with its help you can not harm a person.
Fly doll
Until the 30s of this century, "ash dolls' gifts to the newlyweds during wedding ceremonies.Toys had no arms or legs, but only in the form of a ball head, obtained from the sieved and then compressed and moistened ash.His head was wrapped with a piece of white cloth and tied at the bottom of the thread.Dense, thick torso folded fabric and stuffed with waste from the processing of hemp.Then sew a skirt, collecting it on a complication attached breasts.
When the doll was a small kuklenok.His body is wrapped in a diaper, and swaddle.And dolls and kuklenok were made with the "empty" person.Details deliberately lowered, otherwise, according to legends, going from ancestors in the game lodge an evil spirit that is capable of playing jinx the baby.
Adult fly doll had a symbolic meaning.Ash has long meant a home, and was originally a generic focus.The villagers worshiping existing customs, not scatter ashes, anywhere, and pour it in a quiet place not far from their homes.Gradually, the hill rises higher and higher.The inhabitants of the home kept adequately.Neighbors take them kind of strong, rich and prosperous.That is why the doll made of ashes of his home, had a ritual, magical significance.
As the ash particle descent, she carried the idea of preserving the family, multiplying offspring.Handing her the bride and groom, relatives, saying: "For the children you have had so much good."Newlyweds gratefully accepted a sacred gift, treasured it up to the time when they were growing up and emerging children, began to play with her doll fly kuklenkom.Growing up, they learned the meaning of a simple magic toys, aware of their relationship with the outside world.
Russian women are also often used kuklami- "lihomankami" or "rush".
example, learning about their own pregnancy, the woman made a crowd of pupae-spins (they also do without scissors and needles, twisting and tying pieces of matter).After that it entered into with one of a kind dolls covenant - I say, to you with all my heart, bright cloth, ribbons, but you do not leave, let the pregnancy proceeds without problems.If all went well, doll stand out the brightest and most rags pride of place on the shelf at the icons.If the bad doll helps a woman threw her out of the house and enter into agreements with the following.
Especially for combustion Pancake made fire and other dolls - lihomanki.They had to be 12 or 13 - the magic number.The manufacturing process of turning into a real ceremony.Dolls lihomanki - a conventional "stolbushki" that bound with linen thread.Each doll has a magic and magic.Burning at the stake, doll lihomanka allegedly carried away - lure - trouble at home, and have accumulated over the winter disease.
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