about it, few people know very much, he rarely goes out.The mystery of nature, around which many contradictory and sinister legends.This is the Rat King.This is not fiction and not a hoax was believed at one time scholars.King does exist!It is a few rats, fused tails.Tightly.Perhaps this is the only thing about him is certain.
Previously, I always wondered what Hoffman in "The Nutcracker" rat king of the three heads.Is the storyteller of the XIX century did villain evil mutants in the spirit of modern fighters?But it turns out, his king Hoffman took medieval German legend, based on the true facts.Although very rare.There are only about 60 documented findings, and those at one time was considered a hoax.As if there were lovers of black humor, linking the rat by the tail.
Scientists have long puzzled over the emergence of the royals.Even thought that such a strange way the rat pups warm.We now know that rats tails fused in the womb or through some time after birth, while the tails still soft and flexible.As a rule, all life side by side (literally) spend 3-7 rats, but found balls of 42 or more individuals.For obvious reasons, the king almost unable to move.He did, and there is no need.Nationals drag it on their backs.They fed it, watered, groomed and nurtured.The strongest and most aggressive males females tend to him.The power of the king in the pack is boundless, his appearance breaks the social organization of the rats, and the warring flock together under his patronage.
But the king would die without his subjects.Even if he tried to keep in captivity, he just refuses to eat, and die with dignity is truly royal.
Bow rat tangle
Rat King - the creation of (or all of the creation?) Mystical surrounded by contradictory and sinister rumors.In the Middle Ages it was considered an accomplice of the devil, it gives a great power and magical power, the ability to direct pestilence, famine and natural disasters.It is also believed that the King is able to turn around a man (that is attributed to all the rats) and fulfill desires.
Nakhodka King rats foreshadowed trouble.Especially to the poor fellow, whose shed or pantry liked the many-headed rat as apartments.Inquisition itself and led to the king, and with the owner pantry uncompromising struggle.A man who found the rat master, citizens looked askance.But to believe that if the king to bow from the waist, then that meeting will bring good luck and wealth.Unless, of course, strong nerves: not everyone can weigh ceremonial bows tangle rats.
Few, apparently, bowed, most immediately destroyed fiend.
This case is preserved in urban chronicles Darmstadt, people found a huge rat king, which was divided into two smaller ones.When one of them tried to kill the rats themselves gnawed each other's throats.Another king was thrown into the fire, and the flames will turn sinister green.
Who knows, maybe in your own pantry sits and moves his thick tail, His Majesty, regaling food from your table?According to eyewitnesses, "in 1918. After World War I the rat left the city. The first in the procession carried off on their backs large multi-headed creature - his king."Briefly
- With age, the rat king grows in size and minds.
- In one of the laboratories of King artificially divided.The individuals that make up it, were normal rats lost their mystical power.
- puts forward the version that the rat king endowed with telepathic abilities.
Lords rats
the famous Pied Piper of Hamelin, charmed the rats playing flute, were predecessors.The Local History Museum Hameln kept plenty of evidence: documents, engravings, etchings XVII-XVIII centuries.Roux kopis 1430 - "The Book of the miracle" - contains scenes of rituals and spells to banish rats.The people involved in this, called exorcists.Some of them like the Pied Piper of Hamelin of rats led away through music, others read a spell or prayer.
power of these people on rats explained only as of the devil, because the Inquisition at every opportunity, cracking down on rat-catchers.But, apparently, not only the devil could give a person power over gray enemies.And among the European Saints were those that were able to drive out the rats.St. Ulrich of Augsberga, holy Magius Switzerland.A St. Gertrude even pictured with his staff, in which the rats climbed.Her cult of Westphalia came to North Saxony.
Eventually charmers replaced sellers rat poison.Their figures have inspired many artists of the time.
in Russia were called rat-catchers lords or masters of rats.Their services are often used by the owners of the mills, where the gray rodents were carried out hordes.Host rats could not only take away the pesky neighbors, but also incite them to objectionable to him.The son of a miller remembered such a case: the mill rats divorced myriad.Miller went somewhere and brought wizened peasant.He went through all the nooks and crannies where the rats were performed.He banged on the floor and said: "Your master has come. Listen to me."He told me to open the gate, drew a circle on the road and stuck a knife into the center of the handle away from the mill.I got up in the circle and began to whisper something.From all the cracks and doors have got rats.They ran in silence, without a peep in the direction as indicated by the handle of the knife.Circle with a man gray avalanche rounded, none has stepped over the line.
In 1939, again according to witnesses, a guy with his comrades went to the car body.The road was covered with rats per kilometer ahead.A huge number of rats moved in silence, people rodents did not pay attention, although they could overcome and a herd of cows.The question "Where so many of them?"The answer was: "The owner drove from collective barns."- "Master?"- "Man alone, they listen."
Rats - creating a tenacious and clever.And we with our modern poisons and traps a lot we can do against them.But whether there is now a man who, as in the ancient legend, may waive the rats the whole city?
N.Kontsedalova
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