According to various myths, legends and ancient legends, our world is populated not only by people but also by different entities.Everyone has heard of goblins, sprites, Bog, frights, but few have seen them.One of the most interesting characters of folklore - a mermaid.This is referred to as being in the Slavic texts, and in European.Who is she?What is a mermaid?
Different and mysterious
Names that have a great many maidens.Our ancestors styled her kupalkoy, leshachihoy, loskotuhoy (schekotuhoy) Aqueous, Navka, Mavka.In every region of Russia were in the course of their names, and in Europe it is most often called the sea maid.Slavs believed Aqueous spirit ponds and fields, and depended on what looks like a mermaid.
Traditional Russian Navka was outwardly similar to an ordinary human girl, the only difference of which were long and always flowing brown hair (a correlation of the words "fair" - "Mermaid").The fact is that in those days the girl or woman to appear bareheaded, without braids, was considered shameful and unacceptable.
Residents of the northern part of the country had a different idea of what it looks like a real mermaid.According to them, this is a woman hideous appearance, shaggy, scruffy, certainly with a huge bust, somewhere in the Ukraine these creatures had the appearance of pale-skinned girls or adolescents with hair the color of slime.
Unexpected meeting
It looks like a mermaid, depends on its origin, and with it, too, the situation is ambiguous.Mermaid might be drowned consciously shorten currently century, and the victim of the water and died before baptism, baby, damn woman.At the same time the Celts originally recognized those virgins independent beings - fairies, guardians and Bereginya ponds and wells.For the most part our ancestors kept the mermaids for malicious and dangerous persons, but not too afraid.There has been an opinion that they can bring a wraith, swirl, get lost traveler, tickle him to death.
love these girls dance and sing songs (mostly sad) about his bitter lot, and ruined lives, most often they catch the eye mermaid in the days of the week.It was stories of these meetings and give us the opportunity to present the look of a mermaid.The signs of the cross, they are afraid, as did most other similar creatures, as are impure world.Another Repeller for them is grass-Chernobyl (wormwood).
often in contact with people trying with the cards Mermaid traditional riddle: "Wormwood or parsley?"Whoever picked parsley, threatened to be tickled.Most people who allegedly met loskotuh claim that clothes they have no or there, but quite shabby, torn, more names than the clothes.Therefore, at a meeting with the representative of the subtle worlds considered obligatory to give her a piece of cloth.It could be a shawl, apron.If there was anything at all, it should shred tear on your clothes.
course, the technological age people who have lost faith in miracles, is unlikely to see what it looks like a mermaid.In life, consisting of haste and the pragmatists, there is no room for magical creatures, but maybe somewhere else there are clear cold lake, which under the deceptive and alluring beauty of the moon splashing-Navka ...
