We used to think that the time for secrets and mystics - is primarily a night.At this time of day highlights the dark silhouettes of ghostly moonlight, sneak some shadows, creaking floorboards and mysterious howling wind.Day somehow not particularly suitable for secrets.All you can see, the sun is shining, there are no mysteries.
However, in Russia knew a demon, whose time was just a day.Moreover, not just a day, noon - when the sun is high overhead.This time, the celebration of light when things cease to cast a shadow.It is more active, not only in the wrong time and in the wrong place for a demonic - in the open field where you can see everything at a glance.The name of this demon afternoon.Sometimes - poludennitsa (if it is believed that he is a female).
The Spirits fields in Slavic mythology was some subordination.Midday, or, as it is called, the field was the eldest among them.It was a relative of a brownie, and he answered in the order of sowing.In his assistant went poludennitsy - perhaps relatives mermaids (in any case, to tickle travelers midday loved just like a mermaid).
the hills, and the field could not tolerate those who work in the afternoon, and could be punished by deprivation of reason for it.These children of Slavic mythology - minor deity associated with fertility of the land and, therefore, people's imagination and settle them, they say, in the open field.Poludennitsy responsible for the way grows rye, wheat and oats, closely followed by people who came into their possession, and it is not like when people stayed to work in the field at midday.
Poludennitsy were not only the spirits of the fields, but also the spirits of the intolerable heat of the sun, to the scorching heat which the sun pours on the ground, climbing as high as possible in the sky.It was believed that if the employee remains in the field at noon, he insults the field of spirits, and those by nature not being particularly evil can take revenge on him and even kill.So at noon peasants did not work, it was forbidden.Poludennitsy could catch.And could not catch - a man he stopped and could not take his eyes from them.
Poludennitsy could be in the form of beautiful maidens with long blond hair loose, dressed in white garments.Their eyes shone with unearthly blue cornflower (by the way, cornflowers sometimes called "Poludnitsyn eye").If you suddenly come across poludennitsu casual traveler, then he ought to pray, but if he sat in the snack, the part of the food left in the victim and pale white-haired beauties.
not only fascinated by the beauty of poludenitsy, but also dance.There was a legend that the spirits of the heat, love to dance and achieved extraordinary skill in this matter.If suddenly unexpectedly found herself in the field will meet a girl and her pereplyashet poludennitsu, then that would give her enormous wealth as a dowry.
But in general, meetings with poludenitsami not sought.Wealth - a good thing, but it is possible and say goodbye to the life, beliefs warned and advised to be especially careful to young mothers who took in the newborn babies.Legends warned that abandoned on the border poludennitsy child may steal for yourself or tickle to death.
Poludennitsy were born national consciousness is not just.It is obvious that people who are engaged in agriculture, afraid of heat stroke.When you heat the body is unable to maintain normal body temperature, which leads to serious violations.For example, sunstroke able to frustrate the work of the brain and lead a man to death.Death, according to doctors, is likely in 30 percent of cases.
should be especially careful to people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.For them, it might end in coma or cardiac arrest.Heat stroke can occur quickly.It seems that was hotter than usual, well, a little dizzy - I think of it, what does not happen in the heat.Suddenly, people could fall to the ground and lose consciousness, or to begin to see what is not there, talk to the air, to behave wildly and strangely.Since
reasonable explanation that people have not seen, and they have come up with poludennits who allegedly let in a man volshbu and tortured him.Could, for example, get to answer questions.In this they are a bit like the Sphinx - Egyptian monster, too, liked to think of the puzzle.However, Sphinx ate slow-witted and poludennitsy just killed - cannibalistic habits behind them is not noticed.
It was believed that if a person is unlucky, and he met with poludennitsey, then he has a chance for salvation.As this creature was strong only in the afternoon, should play for time until the sun will come out of the zenith, for example, very slowly, thoroughly boring and answer questions.As soon as the afternoon passed, poludennitsa disappeared, and the man remained unhurt.If poludennitsa won, it turns a man into a creature like himself - made him the spirit of the field.
have poludennits in Slavic mythology was contrasted character - the so-called moth.This, too, were the spirits of the female sex.But poludennitsy were basically harmless.There was even a legend that they are punished only for business - negligent, malicious, lazy and disrespectful to the gods.Some researchers believe that poludennitsy were classified Bereguinias - divine beings, designed to protect something (in this case - the crops and harvest).
But Myotis were one hundred per cent demons and divine origin could not boast.They were childless witches who after death have not calmed down and turned into evil.They were engaged in the same things, according to the villagers were engaged in life.
They allegedly stole milk from cows and eggs from birds strangled chicks unleashes the disease and crop failure, putting a spell on infants, beaten and pinched infants so that children cried all the time and not allowed to sleep anybody in the house (hence another name Myotis- Creeks).Outside they could be different.Sometimes they describe as a high-haired woman dressed in black, entered homes through windows or doors.But bat could call any nightmares - dreamed worms, ghosts, bats, dried old women and old men, the Ravens.
For fear of bats mother afraid to leave after sunset in the yard diapers, go out and bear a child.They closed the cradle of the canopy, and do not bathe the children and washed diapers and laundry in the water to stand overnight.And certainly surrounded baby charms to Creeks could not come close.For example, put a pillow under the branch thistle - this herb, as the name implies, is credited with the magical ability to drive devils.
over the cradles could hang doll-kuvatka - not stitched, but stranded of rags, with the head-unit, no hard parts.On the one hand, it was a child's toy, but on the other - a talisman, which distracted the attention of evil spirits (faces of the dolls, by the way, was not).First kuvatku mother makes the child, even when pregnant went, and in the manufacture did not use any needles or scissors.Sharp objects, apparently associated with something negative.
Donashivaya a child, my mother put her doll to bed with, and then when the child was born, the doll was sent in his bassinet.It was believed that a rag kuvatka protects baby from the evil eye, illnesses and Creeks.There was even a conspiracy, which is pronounced when twisted doll "Crixus-Varaksa, these are Zabavka, play with her, but the baby is not in May."
But if the child is, despite all these tricks, still crying and sick, the mother may decide that bat too strong and clever, and because she did not flatter a doll or thistle is not afraid.Then staged a special ceremony to kick out the bat.For this fumigated the house different plants, they were placed on the windows of dolls made of rags and diapers (not to bat snuck into the window).Well, he performed the rite for the expulsion of bats.
a woman with a knife incisions are made on the walls, to boil water in the boiler and cut off a lock of hair of the child.The mother had to ask: "What are you doing?".And the woman answered her: "I cut, and cook bats soar."Mother completed the ritual dialogue with the words: "Drive, boil, par, Cut them so that they never come back."
seems that the bat - is a generalized image of the night of terror, such as beeches, which today sometimes scare small children if they do not want to go to bed.Like, do not fall asleep - then come to you beech.Who is the beech, is not explained, and the child himself is itself something very, very scary.Sometimes beech called the Bab, or babaykoy that, in principle, the same thing.
These spirits who frighten only children are likely to degenerate Myotis.Only Myotis frightened all, without exception, while the beeches powder enough only for minors, because modern adults do not believe in it.And they cast beech and does not come to mind.The best that I agree - do not turn off the lamp (but children are usually satisfied and this - is that beech can not stand the light, and comes only in the dark).
Degeneration - a sad thing, but it's better than to disappear without a trace.Of course, the beech is not as terrible as Myotis, but still he - a creature that everyone knows about anyone beech nothing no need to explain, it's a popular character.But antipodes bats, poludennitsy of national consciousness disappeared altogether, as if they had never existed.They simply no room.
For example, people living in the city, goes to work from nine to six, all the time spent in the room - or at the office, or in a cafe, or in the apartment.Yes, and the field can only see in the picture on the internet or on TV - the terms of the asphalt.In the village of poludennitse too rarely remembered.First, for a long time there was a struggle against prejudice and superstition (that's right), during which many legends and myths have been lost (which is sad).
Secondly, today's peasant labor became mechanized.No sows without plowing and reaping by hand - there harvesters and harvesters have a roof that protects from the sun's rays.Third, heat stroke ceased to seem some mysterious ailment that arise for no apparent reason.Known to his causes, symptoms, how to prevent it and what to do if it did happen.The mystery was gone, and with it disappeared, and the myth of the beautiful blonde virgins with cornflower-blue eyes.And this myth, perhaps, a little pity.
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