Ancient magic of ancestors: secret pagan knowledge. The magic of the Slavs - the ancient rituals of our ancestors

Many millennia ago, the ancestors of the Slavs were pagans. Ancient magic Slavs - this is witchcraft, which was aimed at getting rid of bad energy, curing diseases, helping in solving everyday and family issues. Slavic sorcerers and magicians were known far beyond the borders of the Russian state. They were revered as good healers and seers.

Sorcerers Ancient Rus' they relied on their intuition, performed rituals based on feelings and ancient knowledge about deities and spirits that were passed on from one generation to another.

Before the arrival of Christianity in the Russian lands, pagans celebrated holidays that were based on the change of seasons and very often coincided with Christian ones. IN old times man was an integral part surrounding nature, with the help of which he could be cured of diseases and find out the future. Many Slavic holidays are associated with cleansing rituals. On the day of Maslenitsa or Ivan Kupala, the wise men could deliver from damage and the evil eye, protect livestock and the future harvest.

The magic of the ancient Slavs was part of traditions. Sorcerers and wise men asked the Gods to intervene in life. For this, all kinds of love spells and lapels, conspiracies for good luck in battles were used. The ancient priests controlled higher powers.

There was worship of the gods underworld and black witchcraft. Sorcerers could cause damage, send diseases, crop failure or pestilence to livestock.

Such rituals were called damage. There were a lot of them. Initially, damage was created in order to protect one’s land from enemy attacks. Later they began to use it against fellow tribesmen and unwanted people.

Paganism is not characterized by light and dark Gods. They live in different worlds and each perform their own tasks.

In the old days Slavic magic there was no white and black witchcraft. Some magicians used their knowledge to cause harm.

Ancient Slavic magic was quite strong. In Ancient Rus' there were no sorcerers and magicians; there were magi with special power and the ability to predict the future.

The Magi prayed to the deities, made sacrifices to them and knew how to turn to the forces of nature. The Magi performed rituals secretly, in complete solitude. As a rule, the dwellings of the Magi were located far from settlements. The priests led a life hidden from prying eyes.

Performing rituals, they turned to the forces of nature, which gave them special energy:

Rituals of the ancient Slavs

The basis of ancient Russian magic lie not only the rites of the Magi, but also seasonal holidays. Not only the chief priest, but also all fellow tribesmen became their participants. Each community had its own sacred place for festive rituals.

Usually the community gathered to make a request to the deity, to ask for protection or a rich harvest. It was obligatory to offer a sacrifice in the form of a ritual animal. The Magi conveyed the requests of their fellow tribesmen to God.

Each ritual ended with round dances, games, and songs.

Currently many modern people turn to ancient Slavic pagan traditions. An important part of their life was unity with nature, with the spirits of their ancestors.

Pagan religion gives knowledge about the world and what awaits a person after earthly life, therefore pagans are brave and not afraid of death.

Rules of rituals

People who have been practicing pagan religion for a long time warn that an inexperienced and unprepared person may encounter dangers. Paganism requires a lot of preparation. Communication with the forces of nature will become possible if a person develops:

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Witchcraft in Paganism
Slavic paganism

But a person could not always go his own way life path, due to their weakness and unreasonableness, therefore in difficult situations it was customary to turn to the Gods for help, who not only helped solve certain life problems, but also guided them on the true path, helped them accept correct solution. At the same time, all the magical means available to man also brought man closer to higher powers.

IN Ancient world It was customary not to fear the Gods, but to respect and honor them. Sometimes a person even openly opposed himself to higher powers, entered into peculiar battles with the Gods, sometimes cunned and deceived his Elder brothers, but the Gods treated man in exactly the same way. People believed that since higher powers sometimes cause harm, they delay the rain needed for Agriculture, cause natural disasters, then a person has the right to do the same.
Slavic paganism

Today we know much less about the pagan Slavs than we would like. Unfortunately, there is not much reliable information on this topic; very few sources have survived to this day, but even on their basis you can draw conclusions about how and how our distant ancestors lived.

Vladimir Krasnoe Solnyshko's attempt to create a unified pantheon pagan gods led to the baptism of pagan Rus'.

It is worth immediately noting that in the Slavic world there was no single pantheon of Gods. The only attempt to create such a pantheon was made by Vladimir the Red Sun, who subsequently baptized pagan Rus'.

Each tribe believed in the existence of different Gods, but they were revered in different ways. If the tribe was warlike, then it made the God of War its main God, if the people in the tribe were engaged in agriculture, then their deities were Mother Earth and the God of Weather, etc. But the tribes communicated with each other, traded, and over time, faith in the Gods spread.
The magic of the Slavs

The Slavs believed in the Gods of Nature, worshiped them, tried to live in harmony with the world around them and did not renounce their roots. That is why Slavic magic is based on calling on the forces of nature and the Gods, who personify these forces. Each element, each deity had to be worshiped and asked for help at a strictly defined time of year and time of day.

With the advent of Christianity in Rus', paganism, and even more so Slavic magic, were outlawed. Magi and priests were persecuted, and often died at the hands of Christians, but the witchcraft of our ancestors did not fade into oblivion, it survived and has survived even to this day, although it still remains a closed topic, because the clergy continue to condemn and threaten all the torments of hell for everyone interested in their roots.

Although the magic of the Slavs has not disappeared from the face of the earth, it is still condemned by the church and, at the same time, continues to live.

Magic has reached our days thanks to the fact that with the advent of Christianity it was formed a large number of secret societies, in which pagan witchcraft continued to be practiced. In addition, simple protective rites and rituals continued to be inherited from mother to daughter and from father to son.

Over time, these folk conspiracies were reworked due to the influence of Christianity, but the main thing is that, although in a modified form, they have survived to this day and we can study the culture and tradition of our great ancestors.

To some extent, any ritual that uses fire, water, earth, air, moon, herbs and other elements of the world around us can be called pagan. After all, it was on the forces of nature that the magic of the Slavs was based, and it is from it that all such rituals originate. It doesn’t matter that in these conspiracies an appeal to God, to Holy Mary The Mother of God, to Jesus Christ or to the Devil himself, all these characters appeared much later than the rituals of the pagans, on the basis of which the modern school of magic, with all its features, was built.

The forces of nature have almost limitless power; if you use this power correctly, you can achieve any goal, no matter how hopeless it may seem. If you believe in the power of the elements, if you believe in your own strength, then with the help pagan witchcraft you will be able to solve any problems and change the entire world around you in any way convenient for you.

The pagan witchcraft tradition is magic that allows a person to interact with the world around him and have a special impact on it. If their own strength was not enough to realize what they wanted, people turned to their ancestors and Gods for help.

Witchcraft in Paganism

Today, many say that since in paganism a person communicated with his Gods and even asked them for help, thereby he belittled their greatness, their power. In reality, this is not at all the case, at a time when paganism was the main religion, man did not belittle, but communicated with his deities, and everyone understood that even though man is like the Gods, and the Gods are like people, higher powers have always been and will be senior , wiser, stronger than people. With such a view of the Gods, a person could not have the thought that his life is just a series of sufferings, and the worse he gets in life, the better it will be in death.

Witchcraft pagan rituals released a huge amount of energy and gave strength to the Slavs to fight the hardships of life.

The pagan was never afraid of life, nor was he afraid of death. A person always knew what he needed to do, how to behave, and what would happen to him after death. By adhering to certain principles in life, a person could get the desired place in another world. According to these judgments, a warrior should always be strong and fearless, a woman brave and faithful, an old man wise, etc.

Slavic magic was an integral part of the Vedic Traditions of our ancestors. Slavic witchcraft is based on the intervention of Gods, spirits and forces of Nature in human life, and the ability to control these forces.

It is safe to say that the Slavs have used witchcraft for many centuries to achieve their own goals. Our ancestors used a wide variety of magical means: from love spells and lapels, to spells for good luck in trade and battles.

SLAVIC WITCHCRAFT

Slavic witchcraft is presented by the Judeo-Christian Church as something dark, evil, sinful. But all these prejudices were created artificially to discredit Vedicry and show ancient beliefs in a negative light. In fact, in the Slavic magical tradition there are only positive rituals and conspiracies.

It is important to remember that most rituals are based on calling one's own Ancestors. Hence the question: how can our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers be evil? But it is to them that Slavic sorcerers often turn for help.

In fact, the magic of the Slavs is witchcraft aimed at creation, at helping in life, at curing diseases, at getting rid of negative energy. Do not listen to those who accuse the Vedic Slavs of all mortal sins, because for many centuries the magicians and sorcerers were revered far beyond the borders of the Slavic lands as excellent healers who could protect against the most terrible ailments.

Of course, where there is light magic, there is always a place for black witchcraft, or dark witchcraft, as our ancestors called it. This magic is based on working with dark forces, the gods of the underworld (Marena, Chernobog and others).

In Slavic countries, all harmful rituals and conspiracies are usually called damage, of which there are a great many. Some sources say that damage itself appeared in order to protect one’s own lands from foreign invaders, and only then did it dark sorcerers They began to use this remedy against their own enemies, fellow tribesmen and simply unwanted people.

It is worth highlighting separately the fact that in Vedicism there are not, and cannot be, evil or good Gods, they all perform their own functions, they are all necessary for life in different worlds. From this we can conclude that all Slavic magic is positive, black witchcraft does not exist, it just exists evil people, ready to use their own strength and knowledge to cause harm to others.

The basis of the magic of the ancient Slavs is usually called seasonal and festive witchcraft rituals. In the process of carrying out such rituals, not only the performer, the sorcerer, participated, but also all residents of the tribe or community. Each community had its own sacred places where people gathered to perform magical sacraments.

The entire population of the tribe gathered together to convey certain information to the Gods or spirits, ask for protection, make sacrifices, etc. The Magus acted only as a guide between the inhabitants of the earth and the inhabitants higher spheres. Required elements rituals in which many people participated, there were dances, songs, round dances and other actions.

Based on all that has been said, we can say that people who use Slavic magic live inseparably from the worlds and laws of Prav and Navi, they use the power of spirits and the energy of their own ancestors, they live according to the laws of the universe and nature. The Vedic Slav knows what all three worlds are, knows what awaits him in these worlds, and therefore is not afraid of anything on this earth - neither death nor life.

SLAVIC CONSPIRACIES

Slavic magic was not limited to the power of the Magi and festive rituals. All of the above applies exclusively to strong rituals, the effect of which should have been directed at all members of the community. But individual people could and did use special conspiracies and spells aimed at helping in Everyday life. Every woman and every man knew special whispers that could help in various situations.

A SIMPLE HEALTH SPELL

This is a simple conspiracy that will suit you if you want to protect your entire family from illness and negative magical energy. Conspiracy words:

“Perun, heed the One calling You, be Glorious and Trislaven. Send down bread, health and kindred to all my children (names of children), show Your power, the power of the Thunderer, the power of the Dazh. Rule over everything, Perun, help everyone from my glorious, ancient family. From now until the end of centuries, from circle to circle. So it was, so it is, and so it will be.”

CONSPIRACY TO MAKOSH FOR HEALTH

The words of this conspiracy address the Goddess Makosh, who controls the fate of man and patronizes crafts. Speak words into the fire:

“Mother, Makosh, empress, heavenly mother, Mother of God. You are a woman in labor, you are a mother, you are Svarog’s dear sister. Come to my rescue (name), Goddess. Grant good luck to my home, grant protection to my children, health to my children (names), happiness to all small and great. From now on and forever and ever, from circle to circle. So it was, so it is, and so it will be. Exactly".

ANCIENT SPELL FOR LOVE

This is very strong conspiracy, which will help you arrange your personal life. Conspiracy words:

“On the eastern side, in the far edge, in the deep sea-ocean, the island lies wide. On the island there lies an oak block, and Fear-Rakh sits on it. I will bow to Fear-Rahu, I will pray to him. Help me, Fear-Rakh, create seventy-seven strong winds, seventy-seven vortices. Gather the midday winds, the midnight winds, the dry winds that dried up the forests, that crushed the dark forests, that cut up the green grass and dried up the fast rivers. Let them also dry the child of God (the name of the beloved). Let him pine for me, miss me, think about me and never forget. From this day until forever and ever. So it was, so it is, and so it will always be.”

CONSPIRACY FROM DISEASES ON WATER

This magic spell will help you get rid of various physical and spiritual diseases and disorders. To perform this ritual you will need clean spring water. Fill a vessel with water, bring it to your lips and whisper the words of the conspiracy:

“Pain and illness, you are from someone else’s box, where you came from, that’s where you went. Whoever sent you, sickly, to the child of God (name), missed you. I (name), I conjure you, I send you back. Fly beyond the blue rivers, beyond the high mountains, to where no one’s conspiracies will find you. Return, sickly, to your master, who sent you, who has not yet known grief. Stay with him, the disease, forever, and never come back here. Let it be so"

The patient should drink the charmed water three times a day, a third of a small glass. Under no circumstances use boiled or stagnant water for this ritual, as this can lead to negative consequences.

I praise our bright Sun!

I glorify our Motherland!

I praise the bright day and dark night- Great Spin!

I glorify the Native Gods, the Heavenly Family and our Ancestors!

I glorify the Earthly Race and all relatives who live according to the Truth!

I glorify the World's Single Source, which laid the foundation for everything!

I glorify our Native Faith - Ancestral Knowledge!

I glorify the Custom of the Ancestors - to live according to Conscience and in harmony with Nature!

I praise the Wisdom, Strength and Health of our Family!

Slavic Gods symbolize your ancient Slavic ancestors. We Slavs are direct descendants of our Slavic Gods. Although Slavic Gods they are not omnipotent, they help their descendants in any way they can - sometimes with some happening events, sometimes with good advice that comes to your mind.

The Slavic Gods always rejoice when everything goes well for you, their descendant. For the success of their help to you, you must not forget your Gods and thereby force them to sadly and disgustingly turn away from you, from their pathetic unworthy descendant.

Our great Gods will live without us - nothing has power over them, but we, the Slavs, without our primordial Gods, without the memory of them, without their proper veneration, will never become a worthy united people living in joy and power among other peoples planets. The trampling and oblivion of our primordial Slavic Gods is convenient only for those who want to divide our people and reign supreme over them. Therefore, the god of a foreign people was bloodily introduced into Rus' precisely by the enslavers Eastern Slavs- foreigners (this began the thousand-year slavery of the Slavs on their own ancestral land from all sorts of foreign, foreign-speaking masters who came to Rus').

You can turn to the Slavic Gods - glorify them or ask for something - in any form - either verbally, or with some solemn actions, or mentally without words. The main thing is to remember your Gods (your glorious ancient ancestors) and treat them kindly, with sincere reverence (if they weren’t there, you wouldn’t exist).

There should be no slavish worship in the veneration of the Slavic Gods - these are your great ancient ancestors who once became Gods, and they need your achievements, joys and victories, your desire for strength and perfection, your proud independence, in which they can be next to you for equals, shoulder to shoulder.
Always be worthy of your Slavic Gods, continue and multiply your Slavic family with dignity - and then your unity with the Gods will become a great indestructible force.

Slavic Gods live next to us - in the nature around us, in our homes, in our thoughts and feelings. They can constantly reincarnate both in the images of disembodied spirits and mythical creatures, into real living beings - for example, into birds, into butterflies, into various animals, into plants...

Our Gods carefully observe our lives - the lives of their distant descendants - they rejoice at our successes, are sad about the stupid things we do, try to protect us from troubles, give good reasonable thoughts, signs or various phenomena warn us of danger. But few Russians listen to them these days...

In order to correctly understand the signs of the Slavic Gods given to you, you must be attentive to your surroundings and to your feelings, not to allow your soul to go blind, to fall into insensitive dullness. To communicate with our great Slavic Gods, you always need a clear, unclouded mind, attention and acuteness of feelings.

Imagine yourself observing the life of your distant descendants, to whom you can communicate something important and necessary only with the help of various signs and hints - and you will understand everything.

You must always remember your primordial Gods, treat them with kind respect, listen sensitively and use their advice, warnings and tips.

To honor the Slavic Gods, you can make a small shrine in your home, for example, on a table, placing images of your Gods on it, various items and jewelry that you consider sacred. Or you can make a sanctuary near your home or somewhere in nature - in a forest, in a field, on the bank of a river or lake. The main thing here is that the Gods of this sanctuary are always with you, in your soul, in your memory.

You can create a sanctuary of your Gods, incomprehensible to strangers - for example, consider some grove or part of the shore, or a stone sacred to yourself, without in any way designating them with images of your Gods. You should sometimes visit such a sacred place, spend your holidays there, or just sit in thought, turning to the Gods for advice and support. And our Slavic Gods will always help those who remember, love and sincerely honor them as their great ancestors.

Unlike the money-hungry Jewish God, the Slavic Gods do not need your money or any hunger strikes. The great Slavic Gods do not at all need their descendants to be hungry. On the contrary, their descendants must be well-fed and full of energy in order to always have the strength to maintain their independence, for achievements and for the healthy extension and multiplication of the Slavic family. The god of an alien, cunning people, brought with him by foreign enslavers to Rus', brought hunger strikes so that the enslaved people would have more funds to pay taxes to the authorities and priests.

Our great Slavic Gods only need your good memory of them, your proud desire to always be worthy of them in everything. Therefore, never allow anyone to trample on your honor and never be anyone’s slave. If you can be like this, then you will understand the all-conquering power of unity with your primordial Slavic Gods.
Give joy and strength to your Gods with your achievements - and then your Slavic Gods will stand next to you and give you their Divine power.

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What do we know about our ancestors - the ancient pagan Slavs? Descriptions of their cultural traditions can be found in historical literature. Much less is known about the secret knowledge and magical rituals that they practiced for many centuries.
Its adherents saw paganism as a guarantee of freedom. One of the first commandments of traditional beliefs said: neither on the rack nor on the scaffold should you confess the essence of faith. Why were the pagans forbidden to reveal the “details” of their religion? Yes, for the same reason that there are numerous secret orders, where access to the uninitiated is closed - in order to keep the magical knowledge underlying the teachings secret.
Secret knowledge was preserved by the Volkhov (priestly) class. The pagans did not have monotheism. Each natural element was personified by a specific deity who was worshiped at the appropriate time of year, day and night. Each divine cult had its own mystical sacraments.

Purgasova Rus' Take, for example, the peoples of the Volga region. The Russian-speaking population there mixed with the Mordovians, and during the years of the baptism of Rus', many Slavs, not wanting to accept Christianity, joined the Moksha and Erzya tribes, which the church did not touch. This is how Purgasova Rus developed in the Volga region. The first mention of it occurs in 1080. “Purgas” in the local Mordovian dialect means “newcomer” - this is what Russian refugees were called.
Many witchcraft techniques of the Volga Slavs were aimed at protecting soldiers in battle. To protect the warrior from wounds, they put on a transparent shirt made from the hair of close relatives, and a slander was made on it.
Another type of protective ritual: they took the measurement of a person with a rope, and then folded this rope in three and, tying it in a knot, kept it during the warrior’s absence. Similar rituals with slander are still practiced, for example, before sending off young men to the army.
Cossack Spas There were many “free people” walking along the Volga who did not want to submit to any authority. They often became robbers, and among them were not only reckless daredevils, but also ideological fighters against despotism. At the same time, atamans traditionally performed princely (military) and priestly functions. In particular, it was the atamans who charmed their people against bullets and damask steel. Moreover, the functions of leaders of such pagan bands could also be performed by women. Perhaps this is how the Cossack battle magic - Spas - was born.
They say that during the invasion of Genghis Khan southern Rus' his two leading tumens (20 thousand fighters) met in the area between the Don and Volga rivers with unknown warriors who easily dodged flying arrows and even caught them at their chests.
They fought with two swords at once, standing on the saddles of horses, avoided any blows and were not afraid of death. It happened more than once in battles that the Mongols suddenly fell into madness and began to fight each other.
Many of them were killed in this battle. The invincible warriors belonged to the South Slavic tribe of the Dzhanians.
The modern Don Cossacks were formed when the Novgorodians, who fled the tyranny of Ivan the Terrible, merged with the Slavic-Cherkasy branch of the freemen.
Novgorod the Great was then one of the spiritual centers of Rus', opposing Orthodox Church. The Novgorodians, who traced their ancestry back to the Aryans of Hyperborea, were very sophisticated in spiritual practices, and their power complexes “Fist of Perun”, “Buza” and “Skobar” were not inferior to the fighting styles of the southern Dzhanians. From joint knowledge, the great art of combat, survival and healing was born - Cossack Savior.
The basis of the Savior is a special spell, the Word Spell, the symbol is Voz (the constellation Ursa Major, preserved on the coats of arms and seals of the Zaporozhye Cossacks). Characterists (this is the name given to those who master the magical techniques of the Savior) do not recognize priests and priests, communicating with the Higher Powers directly, through “manu” meditations.
In 1920, 25-year-old White Guard Colonel Vasishchev, with 54 Cossacks, captured an entire corps of the Red Army. The Red Army soldiers tried to shoot at the White Cossacks, but for some reason all their guns misfired.
Having disarmed the prisoners, the colonel released them. A little later, on the crowded parade ground of the liberated village of Naurskaya, he jumped off his horse, unfastened his belt and shook out his clothes: bullets from Red Army rifles rained down like peas at his feet! In the story “Keeper of Antiquities” by Yuri Dombrovsky, a veteran Civil War recalls how, during the battles with the Cossack rebels, the famous chieftain Marusya was captured. The tribunal sentenced her to death, but none of the conscientious fighters dared to lead the Cossack woman with the reputation of a witch to the place of execution. The narrator, the unit commander, plucked up courage and led Marusya.
In the steppe, already almost there, the atamansha in one movement freed him tightly tied hands, and then tried to put the narrator into a trance, disarm and kill.
The red commander managed not to succumb to the spell and shot the Cossack woman. He saw how she was buried, and then wandered around the steppe for three days in an incomprehensible semi-fainting state.
When he returned to his unit, he was given a letter planted by someone. “You shot me badly,” it said, “I’m still alive. Your Maruska." Apparently, the atamansha mastered the elements of the Savior, which included binding and hassle-charms, as well as werewolf.
Cult of the Werewolf The ability to transform into animals and birds, apparently, came to the south with the pagan Novgorodians, initiated into the northern cults of “ulfednar” (wolf people) and “berserker” (bear people). The latter cult was popular among the Vikings, who were related by blood to the Novgorodians.
The initiates used this exercise to demonstrate their abilities. The naked warrior sat down in the snow and began to meditate, opening in himself the channel of internal energy Zdrava (in the Sanskrit tradition - Prana). His body became so warm that the snow around him melted and he did not feel the cold. In Tibet, a similar exercise is still practiced, when monks dry wet sheets in the cold, wrapped naked in them.
Initiation into the cult of animal people contained two main parts, the first of which developed the ability to put oneself into a state of combat trance. This made it possible to see the enemy’s actions in slow motion, easily dodge blows, arrows and swords, and also feel the direction of flight of “your” arrow or bullet (at this moment the back of the rescuer’s head goes cold). Werewolfism is dual in nature: in some cases, a person’s consciousness can move into a bird or animal, subordinating the animal to his will, or the battle magician only inspires opponents that they see a wolf or a bear.
“Thunder Arrows” The ancient tribes who went into the forests left behind amazing recipes for healing diseases. At the Nizhny Novgorod fair in the 19th century, “magic” stones were in great demand: jade, quartz crystals, as well as belemnite, an animal mineral formed from extinct marine cephalopods.
The most famous of the belemnites is the “Devil's Finger”, more often called the “thunder arrow”. According to legends, it is formed from a lightning strike into the ground. “Thunder” or “witch’s arrow” contains calcium salts in abundance, which, when in contact or consumed in crushed form, tend to change the acidity of human skin. In turn, this affects the functioning of organs, the nerve endings of which are projected onto the treated part of the skin. Thus, belemnite or the water in which it is crushed can have a healing or wound-healing effect.
The thunder arrow served as a necessary attribute of pagan medicine practice.
They put it in water, said certain words to it, and gave the patient the infusion to drink.
Sometimes they pricked sore spots with a stone. This was accompanied by a conspiracy, or even a complex ritual: driving out the brush, the healer roared, rushed about and beat the invisible enemy with a whip, and in the end hit him with a stone arrow.
After the ritual, the doctor drew signs on the patient’s body with the same arrow and watched how the skin reacted to this.
Red stripes remained at the exit points of the nerve endings of the unhealthy organ. There the stone gave another chemical reaction– people said: the disease burns! These areas of the body were moisturized and treated more intensively. The art of the healer was explained solely by action magical powers. Nizhny Novgorod peasants considered the stone magical, and doctors considered this method of healing to be quackery.
“Witch's ointment” The ritual of water placement also deserves attention, elements of which were used to hide from the advancing enemy. Ethnographers have noted that Komi sorcerers go to bed under water on the night of Ivan Kupala. The ritual dates back to the ancient Slavic cult of the toad. Thus, in the villages of the Nizhny Novgorod region there are still ponds where toads are specially bred and protected. Now we pick up a warty amphibian with disgust, but our ancestors revered the toad as a divine creation. And for good reason! If you take the green inhabitant of the pond in your hands and squeeze her, she will secrete toad venom. In this case, it is not poison, but medicine. The healing liquid serves as the most effective remedy for skin diseases, in particular, warts, promotes better absorption of oxygen by the skin and, in addition, saves from asthma. Toad venom is collected in the dark and mixed with some kind of oil.
The result is the so-called “witch’s ointment,” the properties of which are lost in daylight; apparently, photons of light decompose some useful material. But if you rub yourself with freshly prepared ointment overnight, they say you can stay under water for a long time. The lungs do not require air, because there is enough oxygen in the blood to support vital functions.
True, you can’t move or think underwater - there won’t be enough oxygen. The magician or sorcerer falls into an altered state of consciousness. He even begins to feel vital vibrations - low-frequency sounds that accompany the life of humans, animals and plants. Legends tell about particularly “skillful” people who even manage to sleep under water.
Very similar to modern yogis... By the way, the ritual of placing water was necessarily carried out during initiation into witches.
Not any water was suitable for this, but only “living”, vibrating water. Before initiation into the water, I first lay down experienced witch to hear the rhythms generated by the jets of water and make sure of their “vitality”.
An ordinary person was unable to distinguish “living” water from “dead” water, so speech it's already underway about a purely magical phenomenon.
But the ritual of making rain has a purely material explanation. They built a large fire of horsetail and ferns. These plants have a silicon base. When smoke rises into the clouds, the silicon particles it contains cause moisture to condense, leading to precipitation.
Sacrifice to Mother Earth The pagan Slavs also had the practice of sacrifice. If livestock began to die somewhere, local peasant women performed the so-called plowing ritual. At the same time, an animal was sacrificed. However, if any man came across the path of the procession, he was considered the personification of illness or death, against which the ritual was directed.
Such a poor fellow was beaten with whatever was necessary until he was beaten to death. Therefore, when they saw the procession, all the males tried to run away or hide.
During droughts and epidemics, peasants often looked for someone to blame and turned their anger on him. Most often, these were people mistaken for sorcerers and witches, capable of spoiling livestock or even bringing pestilence to their fellow villagers.
Echoes of this magical tradition have survived almost to this day. In the century before last, historian V. Antonovich described an incident in the village of Gumenets in Podolia. In 1738, a pestilence raged there. The peasants decided to hold procession to discourage terrible disease. At night they walked across the field with a cross and prayers and accidentally encountered a resident of a neighboring village who was looking for his horses that had escaped from the stall. For some reason, the participants in the procession decided that the man wandering around the field with a bridle was a sorcerer. He was first beaten and then burned with the permission of the local priest.
It has long been believed that in the event of mass disasters, a sacrifice should be made to the earth - the mother-nurse. In 1855, in Novogrudok district, during a cholera epidemic, an old woman was lured to a cemetery, pushed into a pre-dug grave and covered with earth.
And in 1861, one of the residents of the Turukhansk region, in order to escape from the epidemic fatal disease, voluntarily sacrificed his young relative, burying her alive in the ground. This cruel tradition dates back to the times when the life of the Slavs was a constant struggle with the hostile forces of nature.
To this day we unknowingly observe many pagan rituals. Even the celebration of the New Year and Easter, not to mention Maslenitsa, is primarily a mystical event that guides a person through the cycles of the natural cycle.
Let's turn our attention to history...

Prepared by Diana MERLIN
"Secret Power"

Pagan magic and witchcraft

Almost nothing is known about the ancient pagan Slavs. Some information about Slavic culture can be found in the literature. But about magic, the secret knowledge of our ancestors, knowledge is mostly lost. Magi and sorcerers hid their secrets from the uninitiated with special care.

Witchcraft

Witchcraft among the Slavs was traditionally practiced by women - witches. They were the keepers of ancient knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This knowledge contained witchcraft rituals, healing methods, and obstetric knowledge. Women witches told fortunes and practiced witchcraft and even sacrifice. The Magi did almost the same thing. But men produced more public magical rituals, while women were leaders in home fortune telling. There was a belief that a witch in a family was the eldest woman. In ancient times, witches were held in high esteem, because they protected the family hearth from various troubles and adversities.

At the very beginning, damage, also called harmful magic, played important role in the fight against enemies. Over time, the ancient Slavs began to rely more on military craft for defense than on magic. Then the damage began to be directed at personal enemies and for personal needs.

The damage was caused intentionally and accidentally. The Slavs believed that those who knew how to cause damage did not need to carry out special rituals at all, it was enough just to look. The “evil eye”, or as it was also called the “evil eye”, was considered strong magic. They tried to hide people who had weak protection from witchcraft (sick people, old people, pregnant women and women in labor, children) from sorcerers.

They also caused damage with conspiracies. They preferred to make a slander on food or drink, and they were not embarrassed even ashes. The place where a person sleeps was also subject to witchcraft. Ritual enchanted objects were sewn into the pillow of the unwanted person.

There was another type of damage - slander. This is a word that accidentally came out of my mouth and at absolutely the wrong time. Any person can cause such damage, provided that he has unkind thoughts.

Love spells

For love spells, sorcerers and witches in most cases used water. Since ancient times, water has been perceived as a strong and pure conductor of energy, which is why ancient Slavic magicians paid a lot of attention to it. The sorcerers cast a spell on the water; this water had to be subsequently presented to the person they loved, or added to food or drink.

Sometimes water was replaced with honey or milk. In particular strong love spells They used the blood of the person who especially wanted love.

In some cases, homeopathy was used. This method called for the union of two lovers. Two frogs spoke, which after a certain ritual were buried in the ground.

Protective magic

People's neighbors were invisible spirits - good and evil. The Slavs needed protection from evil neighbors. Since ancient times, amulets have been used for protection. Local sorcerers and healers offered plants in the form of amulets to protect against evil. So that he doesn't enter the house evil spirit, a sprig of a talisman plant was often placed above the door or behind the threshold. Such plants were sewn into a bag and carried with them under their clothes.

Common among the Slavs were protective spells. Often conspiracies were accompanied by a ritual round dance. With the adoption of Christianity, in addition to pagan amulets, they began to use religious protective paraphernalia - a cross, holy water, icons.

IN modern world There is a close connection between Orthodoxy and pagan magic. Water is a symbol of purification, for pagans an egg is a symbol of the renewal of nature, and for Christians it is a symbol of resurrection.

This fusion of two traditions led to the strengthening of magical skills.