folk beliefs brought us a lot of terrible legends about ghosts of dead children.And if the other ghosts can not be against the people of aggression, these, on the contrary, stressed hostile.
Of course, life in the Middle Ages was more severe, and the like - more violent than it is now, but of course, the killing of the child could not touch the conscience of the person who committed this terrible crime.Perhaps the ghosts of the children so often tells folklore.- Is not nothing but a product of guilt, tormented killer.After all, the imagination of a man tormented by his conscience, is able to create a truly terrible images ...
Abandoned in the snow
example, the Eskimos since ancient times was common belief in angyaka - very bloodthirsty spirit, able to destroy the whole village.The lack of food forced some families to get rid of extra mouths to feed - babies killed throat snow and left to die away from human dwellings.However, if the child has already been given a name, then after a while he would be reborn in the guise angyaka.
traveler crossing the icy wilderness, must fear heard in the silence of the polar night, a baby crying.If you do not turn from the path, then after a few minutes the person will hear the flapping of wings - over his head fly owl, and the road will be a little man, covered, like an animal, brown hair.His sharp claws and fangs, more terrible than the animal, which he immediately let into play.The child ghost, who knew the parent hugs, squeezes its prey so tightly that she loses consciousness, and soon life.It is said that within a year after the death of angyak comes at night to his mother and fed her milk, sucking at the same time of her life.Woman thinks just dreaming baby, healthy and rosy-cheeked.And only when the disease begins to undermine its power, in the head miserable creeps thought that maybe at night, she is visited by the ghost.
in his boat from dog skulls rowing oar of dog bones, angyak floats on the sea, sometimes arranging a terrible storm and the storm.Then killed those who once has advised the mother to carry her child to die in the snow ...
Ruthless Avengers
In Scandinavia, the specter of the murdered baby called myling, which translated from the Norse meaning "child, handed down from the house."Just as angyak, myling.As a rule, first of all is ruining their parents.If a woman had a child before marriage and secretly get rid of it, the baby could be the ghost of her right to a wedding where it occurs.Many rural legends tells of how half-decayed corpse of the child suddenly bursts in the door of the house where feasting unsuspecting peasants.These stories in the spirit of "all the secret becomes clear" to an end, as a rule, death or madness mother's killer.
Legend has it that myling able to turn into a haze to slip through the keyhole.Attacking a ghost could grow to the size of haystacks.Its strength is that it can simply crush a person to trample on it.like an insect.In the minds of the people completely helpless being turned into an all-powerful being - ruthlessly ruined, myling not know mercy.
Woe to him who accidentally wanders into a place where parents bury their child - there myling could attack anyone.If the traveler was quite careful, he could see in the distance a figure of a child with a distorted face with rage and clenched fists.Sometimes people also saw a white owl or a big black dog.Then, behind a man's heavy footsteps were heard loud - the specter of persecution began, and hide from it was impossible ... Only the water of the river could save the traveler from chasing after him myling.Some also believed in the magical power of iron objects - in the views of the ancient people of iron, which is born in the fire, was a powerful talisman against all evil forces.
«Not having a back»
Slavs also believed that children who die unbaptized become evil spirits.They are called Mavka or Navka.The Slavic root "Nav" means death, it is also possible that the word "Mavka" comes from Gothic mawi - girl.Both explanations are possible, given the fact that mavok represented as children or maidens in white shirts with long flowing hair.Sometimes Mavka ask the traveler scallop, which is received, accepted combing her hair, and a person can gradually get out.Some beliefs say that mavok on the back is not the skin, which is why you can see their insides.For this they are also called "non-back".
mavok burst of activity is observed in the mermaid week (the week before the feast of the Holy Trinity).These days they can be seen in the fields, they run amidst verdant bread, singing: "My mother gave birth to me, unbaptized buried!" Mavka recall caused them harm and revenge people knocking travelers off the road, luring them into the thicket of the forest or swamp. Sometimes Mavkalike mermaids, may tickle the victim to death.
Mavka, punched in a ghostly appearance at least seven years, can be saved. To do this, sprinkle it with water with the words "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" - and the ghost will turn into an angelwho will go to heaven, where would say a before God, the word of his benefactor.
Ice palm
Castle Gisland that in Cumberland (England), is famous for the following grim story. One day in one of the upper rooms as a punishment for disobedience was lockeda little boy. The child died, forgotten by all in a cold room, where no one thought to kindle fire. Since then, the castle is often seen his ghost. He was trembling from the cold and plaintive whines. Sometimes he sits on the bed beside the sleeping and putting his forehead humanhis icy hand, whispering: "The cold, eternal cold, cold will soon devour you!" After this visit a person usually becomes ill and short-lived.Cold Castle Gisland really able to pin down the most courageous heart ...
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