Black magic and Stepanov's divination. From stuttering for a woman

What is a mage? Probably, for many modern readers, this word is associated with don Juan, the hero of the mystical ancient American teachings expounded by Carlos Castaneda. Many, of course, will remember the deceased Vitaly Akhramovich, who himself called himself a magician, and really was one, not in the sense of practicing “witchcraft”, but because he always, in any everyday situation, felt himself an integral part of the environment (primarily urban). Moreover, this environment for him was not a dead substance; it is alive and mysterious, it obeys invisible laws that are still poorly understood by us. These are the laws of magic.

If we ignore the fabulous image of an old man in a robe embroidered with stars and a pointed cap, then the magician can be compared to a hunter, to whom sudden silence or footprints in the sand speak much more than an ordinary person. The world for the hunter-mage is full of secrets, but they do not frighten him; he will never unexpectedly enter the lair of the beast. Because he is a man of knowledge.

Knowledge? Yes, sure. Only it does not mean book science, but practical, concrete knowledge - but at the same time, however strange it may seem to a modern European, knowledge is comprehensive. In any tradition, the magician is perceived as a person almost omniscient. Here are just his Russian names: "sorcerer", "healer"; Siberians simply talk about such a person - "knows a lot." In any case, more than others.

Magic is as old, if not as the world, then as humanity. Traces of the techniques of "natural magic" are found in the burials of the Paleolithic era, the ancient stone age. At the dawn of time, magic was taken for granted, without evaluation according to the principle of "good - bad." It was just possible to know a lot - or a little. A sorcerer-magician could be a leader, a priest, a healer, a warrior, an executioner... Only later, as culture developed, when the whole world was divided into right-left, higher-downward, heavenly-infernal, only then did ideas about white magic and magic appear. black. (One of the clearest, most universal examples of this kind is the evolution of views on the ancient Chinese symbol yin - yang. We are now talking in connection with it about the opposite of feminine and masculine, left and right, wet and dry, etc.; originally yin symbolized the shaded slope of the mountain, and yang - the illuminated slope. So understand what is “good” and what is “evil”: the mountain is one and the same ...)

Of course, it is not difficult to imagine the textbook black magician as a person who uses his power, his power over the forces of nature to kill and suppress everything and everyone except himself. Legends say that such "definitely black" magicians once destroyed Atlantis - so thoroughly that the great culture disappeared almost without a trace, along with its mainland. But how then to evaluate the activities of village healers, who with their witchcraft cure very specific diseases and help people, or the deeds of, say, the biblical Solomon? According to legend, he used the services of evil demons, "genies" - but he did it in a completely different way than the black magicians of the Atlanteans. Solomon subjugated the spirits of evil and forced them to build the Temple - not the idol of demons, but the Temple of the One God, the Creator of the Universe. Of course, then, probably, Solomon had a lot of problems in order to get rid of the connection he created with these genies ...

Now it is difficult for us to imagine how exactly the ideas about white and black magic developed. One can only assume that in the era of the domination of patriarchal religions (that is, in the last millennia), the function of a priest - a servant of higher powers - became associated with goodness and masculinity, with white magic. At the same time, the settlement of everyday affairs, unambiguously not connected with the heavenly world - this whole range of problems began to be correlated with evil and with the feminine principle, since it was on women’s shoulders that the burden of material affairs fell (even the word “matter” itself is a substance opposed to the spirit in modern philosophy - in many European languages ​​it is consonant with the word "mother").

Indeed, we know from history that women were more often accused of black magic than men. The most eloquent in this regard is the history of late Christianity, which, starting from about the 10th century, punished healing witchcraft by excommunication from the Church, sometimes with subsequent execution. True, for a long time civil law was more tolerant than church law and somewhat softened the situation. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, the leading jurists of Europe distinguished natural magic (“only a more accurate knowledge of nature”) from magic “harmful, evil, illegal”, “performed with the help of demons or endangering body and soul”. Still, by the 16th century, the church position as a whole prevailed, and mass executions began ...

However, magic is still alive today - simply because it is a well-defined area of ​​​​human knowledge, both theoretical and practical. The secret of the vitality of this knowledge is simple. Magic is resorted to when the "official" means of medicine, "scientific" psychological techniques, or methods of resolving conflicts between people do not help.

In any field of human knowledge, one must somehow get used to it. It is unlikely that anyone will be able to find a living "teacher-sorcerer" now. So there are books. One of them is brought to the attention of readers. The collection from the series “Your secret” includes an essay by the candidate of philological sciences Valentina Ivanovna KHARITONOVA “Black and white magic of the Slavs”. The scientist-folklorist has a positive attitude to this knowledge, which has survived to this day in ancient stories, legends and tales.

You will also read works of a practical orientation - the works of Natalia Ivanovna STEPANOVA. She practices white magic herself; I compiled my books in response to letters from students - sometimes skeptical. And this is not surprising: remember how almost all of us recently perceived all these slander, fortune-telling, divination, potions ... And now we are slowly starting to realize how far-sighted the advice of traditional healers coming from the depths of centuries can be.

The value of the work of N. I. Stepanova has already been proved in a rather original way. When Natalya Ivanovna began to produce them in small limited-circulation pamphlets (in Novosibirsk), fakes immediately appeared. However, they, according to the author, are not only harmful, but also unsuitable for work. ONLY RIPOL Classic PUBLISHING HOUSE guarantees a verified edition of these works (information about some previous, equally carefully checked editions is given at the end of our collection).

Will you read these books and ... enrich yourself with knowledge? gain the power of a magician? get another book for your collection? comprehend a new layer of culture of your people? Everyone is looking for their own, everyone has their own tasks. But in any case, these books can be useful to you if you want to avoid the blows of fate, to understand the world and yourself in it in a new way, if you want to get out of a stressful situation not broken, but renewed. When you get this book, you will no longer have to look for "knowledgeable people" if necessary - especially since you can sometimes make mistakes in them.

Maxim OSHURKOV

I only managed to find out that in their world there are rivers, and lakes, and trees, and fields, that partly devils live in it, who were first created by God as good, but then fell away with Lucifer, and partly - the souls of dead people, not worthy of hell, but those who have not received the hope of purgatory and are condemned to languish on earth until the second coming, that they are always happy to talk with people whom they see like a light in the darkness, but they can not approach everyone, but only those who are capable of this and who are not closed a shield of service to God.

V. Bryusov. Fire Angel

To understand some of the oddities of the modern world, or at least to get to know them better, you need to turn to folklore and ethnographic information. They fix those unusual phenomena that still amaze human consciousness. There are incredibly many of them in non-fairy folk prose. And even an uninitiated listener becomes clear, for example, that our world is not the only one on the planet. There is another habitable environment where we go after death. The most interesting thing is that there are some creatures that can influence our lives, and special people can establish contacts between the two worlds.

Well, then, thank God, I remembered what a sorceress told me back in the war. She remembered, but went into the yard: I think, you see, she, the old bitch, was going to play cattle - here, it’s clear what she did! I took a shovel and let's dig into the sheds. And break me all over, the shovel fell out of my hands. I'll lift it up and dig again. And I did find it! I found in the very corner, almost under the threshold, an old can, covered with some kind of rag, but I don’t know what it was, it was impossible to look.
I took it and went to the pasture: I swear, as much as I have strength - I know, I’ll get tired as soon as possible. But the legs don't move. Well, I somehow got to the pasture, stood there with my back, to the cemetery, and like a chiriz, I throw my left shoulder off, a jar! she flew away, and behind me such a noise, and whistle, and cackle! Well, I chiriz spit something back and forth. And she byagu - behind me for a long time there was noise. Yes, you can’t look back, I don’t know what was there. ” (From the author's archive.)
To remove the sent illness, damage, evil eye from a person or cattle could either the sorcerer who did this, or another, but necessarily stronger. If a connoisseur of black magic was not going to bring a person to death, often he himself appeared with an offer of help. But it was believed that it was necessary to urgently look for someone who could help, and then also reveal the name of the enemy to the victim and, if possible, take revenge.
Revenge was carried out in different ways: sometimes such a villain was simply beaten or dishonored in front of people, but more often a stronger sorcerer did something against his rival, and he even left the village. And sometimes the sorcerer was punished with such terrible suffering that he began to be torn apart, pulled apart by an unknown force in different directions.
The results of the deeds of sorcerers are various and numerous. Sending terrible diseases and torments to a person, they can disfigure his appearance (the nose swells and loses its shape, the lip changes, the eyes crawl out of their orbits, scars and stripes appear on the body, legs and arms are taken away, the stomach swells, which may contain worms, a mouse , fish, women experience labor pains, etc.). Sometimes under their influence a person loses his mind, spatial orientation, mobility. The latter is sometimes used as a punishment.
“Grandfather and grandson once carried a cartload of wheat, ground it at a mill, and are going back. Well, it's getting dark. Onet to Grishka Bosyak:
- Let us spend the night. Well, he: come in.
They say, they say, the cart needs to be started. And he: nothing, nothing. Let there. If Th happens, I, soaring, give my own.
They get up in the morning: five men walk around in a circle of carts with bags, but they cannot leave. Grisha approached them, tapped each of them on the shoulder and said: well, thank you for your service. They dropped their bags and left!” (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
Witches are usually vindictive. They do not forgive anyone for a bad word said even about them behind their backs, because they know everything that is being done. Revenge among sorcerers often coexists with envy, the desire to punish human pride.
“It was at a wedding at one. We arrived there with Vasya. The party began. Well, everyone is drunk, they sing songs. And I love to sing. My voice is beautiful. I sing - everyone is surprised. And there was one uncle there. He came up to me and said, "Let's have a drink with you." And I have no idea that something can happen. I refused to drink with him. He chuckled and went.
Then they started singing again. And I'm in a good mood, I sing again! Suddenly I notice that everyone looks at me strangely and is silent. And then I realize that I'm singing, but I can't hear my own voice at all. I want to say something to people - but there is no voice at all, but it seems to me that I just scream with all my might! Then I became so scared, I cried. Well, they brought Vasya here. He looked at me and understood everything. After all, Vasya, we have a sorcerer himself, but he doesn’t confess, his mother passed it on to him.
He sent for that uncle. He goes - and Vasya stood at the door, rested his hands on the jambs and stands, does not let him in. And he also stood in front of him. And here they are, looking at each other. Well, that uncle could not stand it. He averted his eyes and went. Vasya follows him. I don’t know what they were doing there in the yard, only Vasya came for me, took me out into the yard, and he was sitting there on the mound. Vasya says that before that I should kneel down and ask for forgiveness. There is nothing to do: I knelt down, and I myself think, how can I ask for forgiveness if I can’t utter a word? I want to say something like that - it doesn’t work, but to ask for forgiveness - the voice comes. Well, I asked his forgiveness. He says to me: “Get up, young woman, don’t brag anymore!” I got up and went. And everything was fine with me. I just cried a lot.” (From the author's archive.)
Wizards often ruin weddings they were not invited to. Usually at such a celebration, the sorcerer should be a friend or guest of honor. If the black magician was bypassed, then he would either stop the wedding train, or spoil the bride, groom, and the train. Often with such damage, if they did not come to bow to him in time, people died or remained crippled. They say that a strong sorcerer could turn all the travelers at the wedding into wolves for as long as was ordered by the sorcerer. This was done in order to force oneself to be respected and feared, as well as to receive the traditional reward. Many sorcerers lived mainly on such alms.
“There was a wedding ... But this old man was not invited ... When time passed, the bride and groom began to treat. When they left the tables, they began to treat, once they brought wine, then the second - and that's it, they began to roll over!
And this old man in Ushumun is there. He knew what it would be, this old man ... These harnessed a couple of horses, but there ...
- So and so, Uncle Cyril ...
“But, oh, they won’t die!” They won't die! Let's wait and go. Repented. Go.
- Don't drive the horses. Why overtake them? ..
We've arrived.
- But, oh, nothing, they will depart. - Then he adjusted the water in a glass, sprinkled on them - that's it! The bride and groom got up, as if nothing had happened ...
Then he went home, the owner ... he was loaded with a cart - five or six sacks - and they took him. He earned, worked up, which means that he tortured people. ” (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
Not only people, but also livestock were subjected to witchcraft damage. Cows were especially often spoiled, since they were the main breadwinners on the farm. A spoiled cow stopped giving milk, milked with blood, and then began to suffer and could die if the spoilage was not removed in time. Witchcraft of this kind was more practiced by women, who were called witches. They could be easily identified by the one who ruled the cow. He said exactly when and why the sorceress who spoiled the cattle would come to the house. If she was given the required item, the healing would lose its power, otherwise something would happen to the witch herself. You could call the enchantress to the house yourself. For example, on St. George's Day, before dawn, it was necessary to milk a cow, pour milk into a metal vessel, throw a few needles into it and boil it on the fire: usually the witch immediately appeared.
Such sorceresses in the villages were often severely punished if their deeds were found out. Relatively recently, in Volyn, healers could force a witch, bare-haired and undressed, to appear in a barn to a cow spoiled by her. Sometimes the owner beat the culprit almost to death.
Among the sorcerers there were lords of snakes. With the help of spells, they ordered creeping reptiles to appear in a certain place or, conversely, not to visit it. It is interesting that the sorcerer punished a snake that bit someone contrary to an order or disobeyed.
“... He, gyt, took a knife, went into this shrubbery, cut off a thin aspen, such a long one, sharpened it. And so he went out, where they mowed it down, on a koshenina, first drew a circle for her, with this little donkey, and stuck it in the middle, he says, this little donkey. Now I'm looking...
And now I look: one, gyt, these snakes from different sides, - well, straight, gyt, here, like a scattering of kaka - everyone is rolling towards this stick from all sides, only the grass is noisy! ..
And she, the one she bit, guilty, stretches behind. He commands her:
But come on, come on. What are you afraid of? - commands her. And then, it means, she stopped behind. He, now, suddenly did something, he says, - they all dispersed, all the rest fled. But this one remained. He came up and let's whip her with a twig. She, she says, is spinning like a wheel, jumping, but not running, nothing going anywhere ... " (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
Commanding snakes is not limited to general commands. The sorcerer can take snakes in his hands, put them on his shoulders and neck. Snakes sometimes guard the house, guard the children of the sorcerer and even sleep next to them.
“... Yes, he leaves with his wife (she told this, in her words), leaves her:
- Don't be afraid. Here the snakes will come, they will lie with you - do not be afraid. They guard.
And then ... she then got up, woke up (the lamp is on): at the threshold, such a healthy snake lies. She looked: from this side, and from this side, the snakes are guarding her. (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
A powerful sorcerer also commands other living creatures. He can send worms to the garden and, conversely, remove them from there; during the hunt, the necessary animals run to him, and he is free to take them away from other hunters. The same happens with fishing. By the way, the sorcerer is sometimes credited with the ability to understand the language of animals and birds and make contact with them.
In addition to the animal world, the sorcerer commands the natural elements. He knows how to send wind, rain, hail, blizzard or ward off bad weather. The hail will never kill his crops, even if all the fields around him are destroyed. He or the people protected by him can walk quite calmly during a terrible storm, without feeling it. The weatherlords, or cloudbreakers as they were called, seemed to rely on their own magical power. In any case, here, as in communicating with living creatures, it was important to know what word, action and object help in a particular situation. For example, ordinary people who knew that for this they needed to throw a bread shovel or some other stove utensils into the yard could also stop rain and hail.

Spelling damage

Incantations from witchcraft are described very little. Most of them do not talk about any unusual behavior of the sorcerer, but contain only some specific threats (“Well, you still remember me!”, “Well, well, try to play a wedding without me!”) Or some peculiar compliments, expressed with a feeling of envy (“You have a good cow!”, “Look, how your girl has grown fat, growing by leaps and bounds!”). Usually, after this, malaise began immediately, which later turned into terrible suffering. A person often himself guessed what had happened to him, or the closest relatives, noticing oddities in his appearance, behavior, speech, understood what had happened, and, after asking the victim, looked for someone who could help him.
Sometimes, in order to send damage, it was enough for the sorcerer to touch a person or animal. The sorcerers did this with just their eyes - the most terrible weapon in their arsenal. Under such a look, a person felt how his heart stops, everything inside grows cold.
Representatives of black magic sometimes let spoilage into the wind, without predetermining who it is intended for. They probably do this when they are overwhelmed by dark forces. They are forced to bring disharmony into the world, but do not have a specific victim.
In the folk tradition, there is a distinction between letting corruption into the wind and sending a bad wind. The first is done by trained sorcerers, and the second by those who have evil spirits under their control - they call on a bad wind, a whirlwind (from the "damn" swamp, from a deaf unclean place) and send it to their enemy. From such a wind, a person receives "underwater" - an indisposition, which, as it were, is identified with evil spirits. It is believed that the wind, especially the whirlwind, is unclean. If you accidentally get into a whirlwind, then something bad will happen to a person.
A sorcerer can also send damage down the wind out of self-interest, for example, in order to heal himself later and receive a reward. In such situations, the sorcerer or sorceress almost immediately comes to the victim and offers their help.
Damage and other misfortunes are often sent to a person through the load - specially slandered objects that are thrown into the house or buried next to it. Any ordinary thing, sometimes as if accidentally dropped, can be a load. If an inexperienced person took it and even managed to somehow use it, it threatened the most terrible suffering, often leading to death. You can get rid of such a "gift" only with special knowledge. Old, experienced people never took the bags with their bare hands, but touched them through a rag, paper, and mittens. Such an object was usually thrown out with the utterance of spells, in a place where no one walks.
The situation was more complicated with packages buried in the ground or hidden in the house. For example, in order to settle evil spirits that harm the owners, a rag doll was hidden in the house. The owners could get rid of the obsession only by finding the slandered toy and throwing it away. It is difficult to say what exactly was buried as objects that cause damage. The deposits included things that came into contact with the one to whom the damage was intended, or some attributes reminiscent of the devil's power: in jars that were dug out or found somewhere, there were human hair, manure, cut nails, rotten eggs, animal hair.
Curls, or twists, which are made by sorcerers in the field, are similar to lays. These are intertwined ears of corn, broken, oddly connected bunches of grain. If such a twist was not noticed and, having been squeezed, threshed, it fell into the bread, and the people who ate it could no longer be helped. Having discovered curls, damage could be removed with the help of an experienced sorcerer in the same way as from any other load. The twist was pulled out by protected hands with spells and destroyed in the place where the human foot does not set foot; sometimes curls were burned right in the field, but also with special actions, amulets and spells.
Witchcraft spells were also sent through drink or food. In this case, one can, of course, assume that some kind of poison was mixed into ordinary products. But it often happened that what was said only affected the one to whom it was addressed. However, special warnings were often given that drinks or food should not be used by anyone other than the one for whom they were prepared.
Sometimes drink and water intended for a person were offered to the offending sorcerer if a stronger sorcerer took revenge at the request of the offended. The reaction to food or drink with a slander was sometimes just terrible.
“... So she fed us, sat down herself, dipped a piece into a kulaga and just took a bite - immediately on the floor, foam from the mouth, she began to beat ... Father told; here she was whipped, the excitement was tearing her hair ... " (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
It was possible to spoil a person with the help of a slander on his footprint left by a bare foot. Enchantment was induced either on the spot, for which needles with a slander were stuck into it, or the trace was taken out and the sorcery took place already at home, by the stove or in the bath. Enchantment on the trail served both for ordinary damage and for love divination.
A sorcerer could exterminate a person with the help of impure evil forces. He sent devils to the man, who tormented him at night.
“... Until twelve o’clock at home, and then, as soon as he jumps up, he starts circling around the hut. Spinning, spinning - and like a rooster crows, falls and lies.
And it was also: he would take two buckets of sand, sprinkle himself and sleep like that. And in the morning he wakes up - and the sand is in buckets. Devils, you see, they collected. (From the collection of V.P. Zinoviev.)
This is how the story tells about the unfortunate man who was tormented by his own witch mother.
Corruption With the help of the unclean could be sent under the guise of hiccups. It was as if a personal demon was possessed in a person. Hiccups and hiccups, also called hysterics, suffered terribly, because the attacks began at the most inopportune time. Often the demon sitting in them said what they themselves did not want to tell others. Such sufferers could not enter the church, or during the service they began to hysterize there: they fell and fought on the ground in writhing and torment. In hiccups, several stages of the disease are distinguished. “The son already has the fact that the talker has lagged behind, and the “mute” has begun, he does not have a rumor, like people, but only a roar and a cry, like a forest animal, the wolf would, or something, say. There is one thing that is bad for such and such: from the “non-fly” the “mortal” itself is born. The other person beats and beats, starts to break him from right to left with all sorts of convulsions, and in them death itself happens. After all, a hundred demons gnaw at their stomachs.
Treating hiccups is especially difficult. Sometimes they were scolded in the church, but it was more correct to turn to a strong sorcerer. When reprimanding or praying, the hiccup-maker himself named the sorcerer who instilled a demon in him.

love divination

The deeds of the sorcerer, embodied in verbal form, sometimes reached the general public. Usually those spells became known that were not considered especially serious and harmful. So, on the border between what was permitted and what was not permitted, there was sorcery associated with love charms. Not only sorcerers, but also healers often engaged in bewitching love couples and sending cold spells on lovers. They were actively assisted in this by the interested persons themselves. There are some differences in the love cures and cures used by different spellcasters. Healers of white magic used those conspiracies that, in content, did not contradict their practice. Sorcerers, of course, turned to the diabolical world. Inexperienced spellcasters used what they managed to learn by chance. It was believed that the influence of the sorcerer and his texts is much stronger than the healer. But they were often afraid to turn to representatives of black magic, fearing divine retribution for themselves and harm to the one to whom the spell was addressed.
By uttering a conspiracy, the caster renounces divine power and transfers himself into the hands of the devil. Apparently, this was seen as a single appeal to evil spirits - a sin that can later be prayed for.
“Without praying, I go to bed and without crossing myself, I get up without blessing, I go from door to door to three doors, from gate to gate to three gates, to clean fields. There are three forges on the sea in Okiyana, on the island in Buyan. Blacksmiths forge on four machines. Bes Salchak, do not forge white iron, but chain a good young man (or a fair maiden) with skin, body, heart (such eyes and curls). Do not burn a walnut tree, but burn a zealous heart in a good fellow (red maiden); I wouldn’t sink in my nature, I wouldn’t drink in a drink, I wouldn’t fall asleep in a dream, I would honor and magnify me in everything, brighter than the bright moon, redder than the red sun, dearer than my father, mother, clan and tribe. The key is heaven, the castle is earth.
Similar conspiracies are also pronounced when cooling down. In them also, the impure ones act as helpers.
“I will get up without blessing, I will go without crossing myself, from the hut not by the door, from the yard not by the gate; I will go out through a smoky window, a salary log, I will not go into an open field.
Not in an open field there are stumps and roots. On this singing on the root stands a hut on chicken legs; in this hut there is a cold stove, a cat and a dog are sitting on this stove. As they sit chapa, spit, spit, do not give into each other's hands, so (name) did not give into each other's hands, chapa, scratched, spat, spit, and hated for a century.
However, love spells can be different and resemble ordinary healing spells. In all likelihood, adherents of white magic used such texts.
The sorcerer always addressed his requests only to black forces. If, for example, he wanted to send hiccups, he would utter the following renunciation: “I renounce God and His Life-Giving Cross, I give myself into the hands of the devils ... Stick to this man of sorrow, called hiccups, shake and torment (name) until the end of life ... How will it dry this salt, so dry and (name), depart from me, devils, and proceed to him ... "
A person attached to black magic could see or not see the force he invoked. Sometimes helpers appeared to him in their natural form. Sometimes, if they were constantly with the sorcerer, some people could see them.
It could not only be devils. Knowledgeable people sometimes called other creatures of the unreal world. In order to turn, for example, to the goblin, on the Kupala night it was necessary to go to the forest, “having found an aspen, cut it down so that its top fell on the eastern side; on the stump of a cut down aspen, facing east, bend down and, looking into the hole formed between the legs, say: “Uncle goblin, show yourself not a gray wolf, not a black crow, not a fiery spruce, show yourself like I am.”
There was a similar opportunity to call the courtyard. According to one of the methods, a person, having performed a series of ritual actions, had to go out to the barn door in the middle of the night with a spell: “Uncle courtyard, come to me not green like an oak leaf, not blue like a river shaft, come like me, I I will give you the testicle of Christ.
It was also possible to communicate with the water man at the initiative of a person. But knowledgeable people tried not to conclude any deals with him, but simply with the help of spells to take away his property from the water man.
Belief in the power of those attached to the sphere of black magic until recently in the East Slavic villages was almost absolute. There is a lot of talk about sorcerers and witches even now.
By the way, if we were a little more attentive to ancient knowledge, we would not make many mistakes, actively invading the unknown sphere of our being. For example, the hasty general fascination with telesessions of psychotherapists, as you know, instead of improving the health of many people, leads just the opposite. Ah, if only we knew and remembered that folk medicine was so careful with regard to biofield treatment! Our ancestors were well aware that not every person can be treated by a healer, and not even everyone is affected by a sorcerer. This was done selectively, as, however, the healer and witchcraft art was very selectively transmitted - they were looking for a person similar in type to the field. Popular culture is well aware that the world is bipolar, based on the confrontation of two principles.
It seems that the numerous questions of the still mysterious world in which we live could find their answer much faster if we knew our own past better. Perhaps then we would learn to behave more carefully in this world so as not to violate its integrity and balance, and also not to harm ourselves and others.

II
N. Stepanova
Books of magic and witchcraft

white magic

From the author

If you decide to comprehend white magic, you should know the following about it. The master of white magic, unlike the master of black magic, pursues only good goals. He will never do evil. That is why white magic is called blissful, that is, doing good, good deeds. The master should not refuse the one who knocked on his door for help, even if he knows for sure that, having removed the damage from the patient, he himself can get sick. Of course, in order to avoid the consequences of removing damage, there are special amulets and healing conspiracies for these cases, which you will learn from this textbook.
You must absolutely believe that you will cure the patient, not for a moment doubting how bad he may be. Your unwavering faith in the power of white magic is the guarantee of success. There is no doubt about the truly powerful power of white magic. You can't brag about what you've healed. It is forbidden to say: "He was dying, and I raised him from the grave." For the one whose health you boasted of will fall ill again. It is impossible to satisfy someone's curiosity to show the secret. Those who will ask you to show a “miracle” as proof of your strength do not understand that this will take away your strength in white magic and you will never be able to help people. Know how to behave worthy of the Master of light deeds. Take care of your gift and spare no time and effort to help those who suffer. Rejoice and thank God when you see that you have saved a person from illness and inevitable death. Do not take food and towels, scarves and lard for your treatment. This cannot be done. Don't aim at making money. Your goal is salvation and help. Do not wear black clothing on days when you treat people and animals.
When you correct spoiled lands in the gardens, make sure that the one who comes for help has a cross on him. Ask if the person is baptized; if not, persuade them to be baptized. An exception happens when a person is unable to walk and there is no way to invite a priest for baptism at home. In this case, at least 12 candles should burn during the treatment.
Do not forget to ask the owners if the cattle was bought or born on their farm before you undertake to treat sick animals. If the cattle is bought, splash while reading the hex with the left hand. If not, then right. If the slander says that you need to put together a finger with a finger, an index finger with an index finger, or a little finger with a little finger, then you can’t stand and think which finger is ring and which is middle. Everything must be done quickly and accurately. Learn the order of the fingers in advance: little finger, ring finger, middle finger, index finger, thumb.
Try to less often give people a hand when greeting; greet with words, not hands. Take care of your fingers. If any finger is injured, refrain from treatment, unless, of course, it is urgent. Do not see off the threshold of those who have been treated with you, say goodbye without leaving the room.
Is it possible to treat a person if he laughs at the occult sciences or does not believe in such help, and also when the whole body is covered with tattoos, that is, drawings applied with a needle and ink? Undesirable. There is little use, and it is hard for the master. A sick person should ask for help from the master and wait for healing with faith. If a person does not ask for treatment and, moreover, does not believe, why treat? As for the ridicule of the occult, here's an example. A woman turned to my student Lyudmila Ivanovna Zyryanova for help. She claimed to see the image of a person at night at a certain hour. He enters the room, sits down at the table and begins to make random movements with his hands, as if pushing the lying cards apart, looking for the one he needs. The patient, on the advice of Lyudmila Ivanovna, removed the table from this room in order to deprive him of the opportunity to linger in this room, and also to find out what the stranger would do without a table. On the next visit, the patient said that at night a man in black visited her again, sat down at the feet of a woman (let's call her Larisa) and began to look at Larisa with incredibly evil eyes. She began to read "Our Father", and the man disappeared.

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Natalya Ivanovna Stepanova
Magic

Man in the magical world

What is a mage? Probably, for many modern readers, this word is associated with don Juan, the hero of the mystical ancient American teachings expounded by Carlos Castaneda. Many, of course, will remember the deceased Vitaly Akhramovich, who himself called himself a magician, and really was one, not in the sense of practicing “witchcraft”, but because he always, in any everyday situation, felt himself an integral part of the environment (primarily urban). Moreover, this environment for him was not a dead substance; it is alive and mysterious, it obeys invisible laws that are still poorly understood by us. These are the laws of magic.

If we ignore the fabulous image of an old man in a robe embroidered with stars and a pointed cap, then the magician can be compared to a hunter, to whom sudden silence or footprints in the sand speak much more than an ordinary person. The world for the hunter-mage is full of secrets, but they do not frighten him; he will never unexpectedly enter the lair of the beast. Because he is a man of knowledge.

Knowledge? Yes, sure. Only it does not mean book science, but practical, concrete knowledge - but at the same time, however strange it may seem to a modern European, knowledge is comprehensive. In any tradition, the magician is perceived as a person almost omniscient. Here are just his Russian names: "sorcerer", "healer"; Siberians simply talk about such a person - "knows a lot." In any case, more than others.

Magic is as old, if not as the world, then as humanity. Traces of the techniques of "natural magic" are found in the burials of the Paleolithic era, the ancient stone age. At the dawn of time, magic was taken for granted, without evaluation according to the principle of "good - bad." It was just possible to know a lot - or a little. A sorcerer-magician could be a leader, a priest, a healer, a warrior, an executioner... Only later, as culture developed, when the whole world was divided into right-left, higher-downward, heavenly-infernal, only then did ideas about white magic and magic appear. black. (One of the clearest, most universal examples of this kind is the evolution of views on the ancient Chinese symbol yin - yang. We are now talking in connection with it about the opposite of feminine and masculine, left and right, wet and dry, etc.; originally yin symbolized the shaded slope of the mountain, and yang - the illuminated slope. So understand what is “good” and what is “evil”: the mountain is one and the same ...)

Of course, it is not difficult to imagine the textbook black magician as a person who uses his power, his power over the forces of nature to kill and suppress everything and everyone except himself. Legends say that such "definitely black" magicians once destroyed Atlantis - so thoroughly that the great culture disappeared almost without a trace, along with its mainland. But how then to evaluate the activities of village healers, who with their witchcraft cure very specific diseases and help people, or the deeds of, say, the biblical Solomon? According to legend, he used the services of evil demons, "genies" - but he did it in a completely different way than the black magicians of the Atlanteans. Solomon subjugated the spirits of evil and forced them to build the Temple - not the idol of demons, but the Temple of the One God, the Creator of the Universe. Of course, then, probably, Solomon had a lot of problems in order to get rid of the connection he created with these genies ...

Now it is difficult for us to imagine how exactly the ideas about white and black magic developed. One can only assume that in the era of the domination of patriarchal religions (that is, in the last millennia), the function of a priest - a servant of higher powers - became associated with goodness and masculinity, with white magic. At the same time, the settlement of everyday affairs, unambiguously not connected with the heavenly world - this whole range of problems began to be correlated with evil and with the feminine principle, since it was on women’s shoulders that the burden of material affairs fell (even the word “matter” itself is a substance opposed to the spirit in modern philosophy - in many European languages ​​it is consonant with the word "mother").

Indeed, we know from history that women were more often accused of black magic than men. The most eloquent in this regard is the history of late Christianity, which, starting from about the 10th century, punished healing witchcraft by excommunication from the Church, sometimes with subsequent execution. True, for a long time civil law was more tolerant than church law and somewhat softened the situation. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, the leading jurists of Europe distinguished natural magic (“only a more accurate knowledge of nature”) from magic “harmful, evil, illegal”, “performed with the help of demons or endangering body and soul”. Still, by the 16th century, the church position as a whole prevailed, and mass executions began ...

However, magic is still alive today - simply because it is a well-defined area of ​​​​human knowledge, both theoretical and practical. The secret of the vitality of this knowledge is simple. Magic is resorted to when the "official" means of medicine, "scientific" psychological techniques, or methods of resolving conflicts between people do not help.

In any field of human knowledge, one must somehow get used to it. It is unlikely that anyone will be able to find a living "teacher-sorcerer" now. So there are books. One of them is brought to the attention of readers. The collection from the series “Your secret” includes an essay by the candidate of philological sciences Valentina Ivanovna KHARITONOVA “Black and white magic of the Slavs”. The scientist-folklorist has a positive attitude to this knowledge, which has survived to this day in ancient stories, legends and tales.

You will also read works of a practical orientation - the works of Natalia Ivanovna STEPANOVA. She practices white magic herself; I compiled my books in response to letters from students - sometimes skeptical. And this is not surprising: remember how almost all of us recently perceived all these slander, fortune-telling, divination, potions ... And now we are slowly starting to realize how far-sighted the advice of traditional healers coming from the depths of centuries can be.

The value of the work of N. I. Stepanova has already been proved in a rather original way. When Natalya Ivanovna began to produce them in small limited-circulation pamphlets (in Novosibirsk), fakes immediately appeared. However, they, according to the author, are not only harmful, but also unsuitable for work. ONLY RIPOL Classic PUBLISHING HOUSE guarantees a verified edition of these works (information about some previous, equally carefully checked editions is given at the end of our collection).

Will you read these books and ... enrich yourself with knowledge? gain the power of a magician? get another book for your collection? comprehend a new layer of culture of your people? Everyone is looking for their own, everyone has their own tasks. But in any case, these books can be useful to you if you want to avoid the blows of fate, to understand the world and yourself in it in a new way, if you want to get out of a stressful situation not broken, but renewed. When you get this book, you will no longer have to look for "knowledgeable people" if necessary - especially since you can sometimes make mistakes in them.

Maxim OSHURKOV

I
V. Kharitonova
Black and white magic of the Slavs

Where do visions come from?

I only managed to find out that in their world there are rivers, and lakes, and trees, and fields, that partly devils live in it, who were first created by God as good, but then fell away with Lucifer, and partly - the souls of dead people, not worthy of hell, but those who have not received the hope of purgatory and are condemned to languish on earth until the second coming, that they are always happy to talk with people whom they see like a light in the darkness, but they can not approach everyone, but only those who are capable of this and who are not closed a shield of service to God.

V. Bryusov. Fire Angel

To understand some of the oddities of the modern world, or at least to get to know them better, you need to turn to folklore and ethnographic information. They fix those unusual phenomena that still amaze human consciousness. There are incredibly many of them in non-fairy folk prose. And even an uninitiated listener becomes clear, for example, that our world is not the only one on the planet. There is another habitable environment where we go after death. The most interesting thing is that there are some creatures that can influence our lives, and special people can establish contacts between the two worlds.

In addition, beings of another world quite often visit the world of the living.

“When the middle time came between noon and sunset, on Friday they took the girl to something they had made like a cornice at the door, she put her feet on the hands of men; climbed this ledge, said something in her own language and was lowered. Then they raised her a second time, she did the same as the first time, and she was lowered; lifted her a third time, and she did as the first two times.<…>I asked the interpreter about her action, and he answered me: the first time she said, “I see my father and my mother!”, the second time, “I see all the relatives sitting!”, the third time she said: “Here I see my master sitting in the garden (in paradise. - V. X.), and paradise is beautiful, green: adult men and boys are with him, he calls me, therefore, lead me to him. This is how the Eastern traveler Ibn Fadlan describes one of the rituals at the funeral of a noble Russian, which he witnessed. The answers of the girl prepared for the role of the victim - the companion of the deceased, contain ideas about the world of the dead, which were characteristic of a person of the 10th century. The narrative conveys to us, of course, the echoes of beliefs that are much more ancient. But even in the works of folklore recorded in the 20th century, similar views on the structure and nature of the other world are found. It is only complicated by the influence of Christian teaching.

What were, in the most general terms, the views of our ancestors, the Eastern Slavs, on the structure of this world and its inhabitants?

The human consciousness, which tends to animate everything inanimate and endow it with a form of being similar to a human, has created a world of other being.

Death itself was perceived as a space-time transition from one life to another, since it was difficult for a person to imagine the non-presence in a certain space of someone who had recently been in his habitat.

Since ancient times, those who have gone to the other world have been treated very respectfully, since they were perceived as beings endowed with unearthly super-knowledge and power. Gradually, the cult of ancestors was formed, which included peculiar forms of worship.

Everything that was connected with the transition of a person into other existence was ordered. This even gave rise to the rituals of seeing the elderly to the next world. The death of the victims was not perceived tragically. It was arranged solemnly for them too and meant for the person chosen as a victim the achievement of power, a more significant magical potential.

Strict regulations were developed for communicating with the dead, the nature of the possible contacts themselves was comprehended both in time and in space. Of course, first of all, these rules provided for the invasion of the ancestors into the world of the living.

From the side of the ancestors, knowingly endowed with super-knowledge and power, one could expect both bad and good. Therefore, in different calendar periods, it was necessary, observing certain rules of conduct, to appease representatives of the unreal world, especially if they appeared in the world of the living. One of these periods is the winter Christmas time, when there was direct contact between the two worlds. It was believed that under the guise of Christmas carolers, dressed up in the villages, the ancestors go from house to house, reminding of themselves. The mummers performed magical chants - good wishes (carols, oats, grapes, schedrovki), for which the newcomers had to be presented with ritual food, often the same one that was treated during the wake.

It was believed that contacts with the world of the dead also necessarily take place on Maslenitsa, St. George's Day, Trinity-Rusal Week, post-Easter Radunitsa, Parents' Saturdays, Mikhailovsky and other memorial days.

Contact with the other world was interpreted as two-way: not only the ancestors could be alive, but a person also had the right to contact them in any important cases. This was manifested, for example, in the tradition of divination, which has been stable to this day, precisely at the time when the boundary between the worlds is supposed to be open. Any attempt to find out fate was associated with a direct appeal to the spirits of unreal space.

The appearance of mysterious aliens for the initiates was not a surprise and was not very scary: the system of amulets and forced resistance to the otherworldly force was developed in folk practice in great detail.

Some people could constantly turn to the other world. This was the lot of those who were related to magic.

But for all other people, the appearance of the inhabitants of the unreal world in the world of the living was not limited to calendar terms. Some spirits were always invisibly present, as it were, nearby, and sometimes they could appear in their real-irreal image. These are spirits whose existence was associated with the idea of ​​patronage or possession of certain spaces and elements. So, for example, a human dwelling had its own ancestor-patron in the form of a brownie, Leshy was in charge in the forest, Water in the water, barn in the barn, bannik in the bathhouse. Man comprehended their existence in accordance with his own life: they had wives and children, they needed workers, for which spirits could also use people.

The spirits of the so-called lower mythology have firmly taken root in the real world. But, besides them, the unreal space was inhabited by creatures that had to be perceived with much greater precautions. They were pagan gods. With their appearance, the unreal world became three-dimensional, correlative in its division with the idea of ​​the world tree. Good and evil polarized in it, and three unreal spaces arose, as it were: the world of the gods, the mountain world, and the world of the negative divine beings opposing them, the world of the underworld. The spread of Christianity among the Slavs practically ousted pagan deities from the popular consciousness.

Perhaps the most clearly preserved in the folk tradition is the cult of Perun with all the attributes (veneration of his tree - oak, day of the week - Thursday, associating a thunderstorm with the battle of a deity and a mythical serpent, often replaced these days with a devil).

In some cases, pagan gods have been combined with Christian successors. For example, it is extremely difficult to explain who Ivan Kupala is, whose day is honored in different ways by church and folk traditions.

The spirits of lower mythology still surround man, as evidenced by numerous oral folk bylichki.

However, they began to be revered as unclean and belong to the infernal world of the devil. But even this did not cause a person to have an absolutely negative attitude towards the creatures of the unreal world. Therefore, the veneration of the spirits of the house was still preserved, although it was not excluded that the devil could also enter the house.

The Eastern Slavs formed the so-called dual faith. It not only determined the attitude of a person to the other world, but also to the magical principle in this world.

Magic as an idea of ​​the supernatural abilities of a person takes place in almost all religious systems. The realization of these abilities is differentiated depending on what forces feed them. Magic is divided into black and white.

White magic is, as it were, a half-permitted sphere of human activity. It was absolutely permitted and necessary in the system of pagan religions. The monotheistic religion denies any magical manifestation, believing that a person is completely dependent on God, and everything else is from the evil one. But such a ban was by no means always observed in relation to white magic: sometimes even the clergy themselves reprimanded the demoniac, sick with a fever with the help of Christian prayers and even more ancient spells.

Black magic at the stage of paganism was permissible in certain cases. Christianity, however, resolutely rejects it as a means of negatively influencing the world and man with the help of devilish forces.

According to the system of Christian beliefs, people admitted to magic can be given powers that come directly from the devil. At the same time, the person himself turns out to be largely dependent on him. However, this only applies to black sorcerers. Most of the magical abilities are turned to the forces of good. Any representative of a magical clan in our world is an unusual, super-strong person, capable of knowing, seeing and doing what others cannot. His strength depends on his own internal energy base and on who he contacts in the unreal world.

A person can be endowed with super-knowledge and power and by special command from above for righteousness or some other special behavior. Prophets and clairvoyants, as it were, combine the knowledge of the divine and human levels.

Belief in the possibility of contacts with the other world and in this world itself is preserved by people, apparently under the influence of thousands of years of magical practice of ancestors, transmitted genetically. In any case, we often encounter so far unknown incarnations of matter and spirit.

A world in which we live not only

Are there ghosts or not? I ask the cat.

- Yes and no! the cat on the box answers drowsily.

– If you see them and believe them, then they exist. If you only have two eyes and no more eyes, then no.

L. Mironikhina. family story

The mysterious world of our fellow planets lies in wait for us everywhere, sometimes appearing completely unexpectedly, and sometimes at the request of a person. Contact with beings of non-human nature is most easily found by people who are called healers, sorcerers, witches in the villages. These people are extremely interesting in their own right. They have almost unlimited possibilities: their impact can extend not only to people and animals, but also to natural phenomena and elements.

Here is one of the stories.

“A woman from Palesya came to our village. And then there was the war. They were fugitives. Well, they settled, but you have to work. Then the collective farm began to give them work. And this woman, her name was Palashka, began to carry eggs from the poultry house to the area. Yes ... But she drove them on a cart, but not like everyone else, in boxes, but folded into bags, then bags on a cart, knitted with a rope, and even sat on top herself. Like this. And you know, I never broke a single testicle!

Well, then rumors about her spread all over the place: a witch, they say, from Palesia. And she was such a silent woman, she didn’t make friends with anyone, she was all alone. Why, you can't keep silent for a whole century. And people are on the side of a fighter. I, apparently, was not afraid of her. She walked past my house. No, no, yes, and at least a drink of water will come in. So I’ll talk to her, and I’ll feed her with something - they, the fugitives, didn’t have anything at all, but we still lived in our little house, even though the war ...

And once my Pelageya came in, and I was watering the garden, but I had to carry water far: there was no well. Here she is, hearty, looking at me and saying: Natasha, why are you so anxious? Let me dig a well for you under the window in the yard in one night! You don’t care, but in the morning he’s ready to wake you up! - Wow, no! - I'm talking. - I, Pelageya, cannot get such gifts. Yes, and you don’t tell me about that, otherwise I’ll be afraid of you!

Well, she went, didn't say anything to me. And then, when they all began to leave after the war, she told me more and more how to frighten sorcerers from herself. Yes, she did a lot of things here: she used to tell people who didn’t come from the war ... But everyone was afraid of her ... " (From the author's archive.)

But no matter how they treat witches and sorcerers, they are still beings of human nature. They are feared in the villages, but they know the means of harming them and getting rid of them. A witch can be called an ordinary sorceress or one who "specializes" in taking milk from cows. The witch could, turning into a snake or a toad, enter the barn and suck milk. But sometimes it was enough witchcraft without werewolves.

“I went once before dawn to the zhito, otherwise it was on Yurya. I went out, I looked, and my neighbor Marya was so straight down in her life. And she, Marya, knew a lot of things. Well, let me think, and I'll ride! She took off her clothes, stayed in her underwear, and let's ride! And we used to say that the dew on Yurya would cure everything, and I thought that she, Marya, was curing.

And I came home, took off everything that was wet and left it to dry on a rude, and went to the stove myself. I’m doing something there - I looked: fathers of light! Yes, I have a hut full of water! Where is this trouble coming from? I look, and I have something from the bottom of my skirt, I put it to dry, the water is a stream!

Well, I rather threw my skirt into the yard, and myself to Marya under the window: what does she have? I look out the window, and in her underwear you lie on a loom, and milk runs from it in a stream. Here I believed that people were telling the truth about her - she is a witch! (From the author's archive.)

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Natalya Ivanovna Stepanova
Magic

Man in the magical world

What is a mage? Probably, for many modern readers, this word is associated with don Juan, the hero of the mystical ancient American teachings expounded by Carlos Castaneda. Many, of course, will remember the deceased Vitaly Akhramovich, who himself called himself a magician, and really was one, not in the sense of practicing “witchcraft”, but because he always, in any everyday situation, felt himself an integral part of the environment (primarily urban). Moreover, this environment for him was not a dead substance; it is alive and mysterious, it obeys invisible laws that are still poorly understood by us. These are the laws of magic.

If we ignore the fabulous image of an old man in a robe embroidered with stars and a pointed cap, then the magician can be compared to a hunter, to whom sudden silence or footprints in the sand speak much more than an ordinary person. The world for the hunter-mage is full of secrets, but they do not frighten him; he will never unexpectedly enter the lair of the beast. Because he is a man of knowledge.

Knowledge? Yes, sure. Only it does not mean book science, but practical, concrete knowledge - but at the same time, however strange it may seem to a modern European, knowledge is comprehensive. In any tradition, the magician is perceived as a person almost omniscient. Here are just his Russian names: "sorcerer", "healer"; Siberians simply talk about such a person - "knows a lot." In any case, more than others.

Magic is as old, if not as the world, then as humanity. Traces of the techniques of "natural magic" are found in the burials of the Paleolithic era, the ancient stone age. At the dawn of time, magic was taken for granted, without evaluation according to the principle of "good - bad." It was just possible to know a lot - or a little. A sorcerer-magician could be a leader, a priest, a healer, a warrior, an executioner... Only later, as culture developed, when the whole world was divided into right-left, higher-downward, heavenly-infernal, only then did ideas about white magic and magic appear. black. (One of the clearest, most universal examples of this kind is the evolution of views on the ancient Chinese symbol yin - yang. We are now talking in connection with it about the opposite of feminine and masculine, left and right, wet and dry, etc.; originally yin symbolized the shaded slope of the mountain, and yang - the illuminated slope. So understand what is “good” and what is “evil”: the mountain is one and the same ...)

Of course, it is not difficult to imagine the textbook black magician as a person who uses his power, his power over the forces of nature to kill and suppress everything and everyone except himself. Legends say that such "definitely black" magicians once destroyed Atlantis - so thoroughly that the great culture disappeared almost without a trace, along with its mainland. But how then to evaluate the activities of village healers, who with their witchcraft cure very specific diseases and help people, or the deeds of, say, the biblical Solomon? According to legend, he used the services of evil demons, "genies" - but he did it in a completely different way than the black magicians of the Atlanteans. Solomon subjugated the spirits of evil and forced them to build the Temple - not the idol of demons, but the Temple of the One God, the Creator of the Universe. Of course, then, probably, Solomon had a lot of problems in order to get rid of the connection he created with these genies ...

Now it is difficult for us to imagine how exactly the ideas about white and black magic developed. One can only assume that in the era of the domination of patriarchal religions (that is, in the last millennia), the function of a priest - a servant of higher powers - became associated with goodness and masculinity, with white magic. At the same time, the settlement of everyday affairs, unambiguously not connected with the heavenly world - this whole range of problems began to be correlated with evil and with the feminine principle, since it was on women’s shoulders that the burden of material affairs fell (even the word “matter” itself is a substance opposed to the spirit in modern philosophy - in many European languages ​​it is consonant with the word "mother").

Indeed, we know from history that women were more often accused of black magic than men. The most eloquent in this regard is the history of late Christianity, which, starting from about the 10th century, punished healing witchcraft by excommunication from the Church, sometimes with subsequent execution. True, for a long time civil law was more tolerant than church law and somewhat softened the situation. As early as the beginning of the 17th century, the leading jurists of Europe distinguished natural magic (“only a more accurate knowledge of nature”) from magic “harmful, evil, illegal”, “performed with the help of demons or endangering body and soul”. Still, by the 16th century, the church position as a whole prevailed, and mass executions began ...

However, magic is still alive today - simply because it is a well-defined area of ​​​​human knowledge, both theoretical and practical. The secret of the vitality of this knowledge is simple. Magic is resorted to when the "official" means of medicine, "scientific" psychological techniques, or methods of resolving conflicts between people do not help.

In any field of human knowledge, one must somehow get used to it. It is unlikely that anyone will be able to find a living "teacher-sorcerer" now. So there are books. One of them is brought to the attention of readers. The collection from the series “Your secret” includes an essay by the candidate of philological sciences Valentina Ivanovna KHARITONOVA “Black and white magic of the Slavs”. The scientist-folklorist has a positive attitude to this knowledge, which has survived to this day in ancient stories, legends and tales.

You will also read works of a practical orientation - the works of Natalia Ivanovna STEPANOVA. She practices white magic herself; I compiled my books in response to letters from students - sometimes skeptical. And this is not surprising: remember how almost all of us recently perceived all these slander, fortune-telling, divination, potions ... And now we are slowly starting to realize how far-sighted the advice of traditional healers coming from the depths of centuries can be.

The value of the work of N. I. Stepanova has already been proved in a rather original way. When Natalya Ivanovna began to produce them in small limited-circulation pamphlets (in Novosibirsk), fakes immediately appeared. However, they, according to the author, are not only harmful, but also unsuitable for work. ONLY RIPOL Classic PUBLISHING HOUSE guarantees a verified edition of these works (information about some previous, equally carefully checked editions is given at the end of our collection).

Will you read these books and ... enrich yourself with knowledge? gain the power of a magician? get another book for your collection? comprehend a new layer of culture of your people? Everyone is looking for their own, everyone has their own tasks. But in any case, these books can be useful to you if you want to avoid the blows of fate, to understand the world and yourself in it in a new way, if you want to get out of a stressful situation not broken, but renewed. When you get this book, you will no longer have to look for "knowledgeable people" if necessary - especially since you can sometimes make mistakes in them.

Maxim OSHURKOV

I
V. Kharitonova
Black and white magic of the Slavs

Where do visions come from?

I only managed to find out that in their world there are rivers, and lakes, and trees, and fields, that partly devils live in it, who were first created by God as good, but then fell away with Lucifer, and partly - the souls of dead people, not worthy of hell, but those who have not received the hope of purgatory and are condemned to languish on earth until the second coming, that they are always happy to talk with people whom they see like a light in the darkness, but they can not approach everyone, but only those who are capable of this and who are not closed a shield of service to God.

V. Bryusov. Fire Angel

To understand some of the oddities of the modern world, or at least to get to know them better, you need to turn to folklore and ethnographic information. They fix those unusual phenomena that still amaze human consciousness. There are incredibly many of them in non-fairy folk prose. And even an uninitiated listener becomes clear, for example, that our world is not the only one on the planet. There is another habitable environment where we go after death. The most interesting thing is that there are some creatures that can influence our lives, and special people can establish contacts between the two worlds.

In addition, beings of another world quite often visit the world of the living.

“When the middle time came between noon and sunset, on Friday they took the girl to something they had made like a cornice at the door, she put her feet on the hands of men; climbed this ledge, said something in her own language and was lowered. Then they raised her a second time, she did the same as the first time, and she was lowered; lifted her a third time, and she did as the first two times. I asked the interpreter about her action, and he answered me: the first time she said, “I see my father and my mother!”, the second time, “I see all the relatives sitting!”, the third time she said: “Here I see my master sitting in the garden (in paradise. - V. X.), and paradise is beautiful, green: adult men and boys are with him, he calls me, therefore, lead me to him. This is how the Eastern traveler Ibn Fadlan describes one of the rituals at the funeral of a noble Russian, which he witnessed. The answers of the girl prepared for the role of the victim - the companion of the deceased, contain ideas about the world of the dead, which were characteristic of a person of the 10th century. The narrative conveys to us, of course, the echoes of beliefs that are much more ancient. But even in the works of folklore recorded in the 20th century, similar views on the structure and nature of the other world are found. It is only complicated by the influence of Christian teaching.

What were, in the most general terms, the views of our ancestors, the Eastern Slavs, on the structure of this world and its inhabitants?

The human consciousness, which tends to animate everything inanimate and endow it with a form of being similar to a human, has created a world of other being.

Death itself was perceived as a space-time transition from one life to another, since it was difficult for a person to imagine the non-presence in a certain space of someone who had recently been in his habitat.

Since ancient times, those who have gone to the other world have been treated very respectfully, since they were perceived as beings endowed with unearthly super-knowledge and power. Gradually, the cult of ancestors was formed, which included peculiar forms of worship.

Everything that was connected with the transition of a person into other existence was ordered. This even gave rise to the rituals of seeing the elderly to the next world. The death of the victims was not perceived tragically. It was arranged solemnly for them too and meant for the person chosen as a victim the achievement of power, a more significant magical potential.

Strict regulations were developed for communicating with the dead, the nature of the possible contacts themselves was comprehended both in time and in space. Of course, first of all, these rules provided for the invasion of the ancestors into the world of the living.

From the side of the ancestors, knowingly endowed with super-knowledge and power, one could expect both bad and good. Therefore, in different calendar periods, it was necessary, observing certain rules of conduct, to appease representatives of the unreal world, especially if they appeared in the world of the living. One of these periods is the winter Christmas time, when there was direct contact between the two worlds. It was believed that under the guise of Christmas carolers, dressed up in the villages, the ancestors go from house to house, reminding of themselves. The mummers performed magical chants - good wishes (carols, oats, grapes, schedrovki), for which the newcomers had to be presented with ritual food, often the same one that was treated during the wake.

It was believed that contacts with the world of the dead also necessarily take place on Maslenitsa, St. George's Day, Trinity-Rusal Week, post-Easter Radunitsa, Parents' Saturdays, Mikhailovsky and other memorial days.

Contact with the other world was interpreted as two-way: not only the ancestors could be alive, but a person also had the right to contact them in any important cases. This was manifested, for example, in the tradition of divination, which has been stable to this day, precisely at the time when the boundary between the worlds is supposed to be open. Any attempt to find out fate was associated with a direct appeal to the spirits of unreal space.

The appearance of mysterious aliens for the initiates was not a surprise and was not very scary: the system of amulets and forced resistance to the otherworldly force was developed in folk practice in great detail.

Some people could constantly turn to the other world. This was the lot of those who were related to magic.

But for all other people, the appearance of the inhabitants of the unreal world in the world of the living was not limited to calendar terms. Some spirits were always invisibly present, as it were, nearby, and sometimes they could appear in their real-irreal image. These are spirits whose existence was associated with the idea of ​​patronage or possession of certain spaces and elements. So, for example, a human dwelling had its own ancestor-patron in the form of a brownie, Leshy was in charge in the forest, Water in the water, barn in the barn, bannik in the bathhouse. Man comprehended their existence in accordance with his own life: they had wives and children, they needed workers, for which spirits could also use people.

The spirits of the so-called lower mythology have firmly taken root in the real world. But, besides them, the unreal space was inhabited by creatures that had to be perceived with much greater precautions. They were pagan gods. With their appearance, the unreal world became three-dimensional, correlative in its division with the idea of ​​the world tree. Good and evil polarized in it, and three unreal spaces arose, as it were: the world of the gods, the mountain world, and the world of the negative divine beings opposing them, the world of the underworld. The spread of Christianity among the Slavs practically ousted pagan deities from the popular consciousness.

Perhaps the most clearly preserved in the folk tradition is the cult of Perun with all the attributes (veneration of his tree - oak, day of the week - Thursday, associating a thunderstorm with the battle of a deity and a mythical serpent, often replaced these days with a devil).

In some cases, pagan gods have been combined with Christian successors. For example, it is extremely difficult to explain who Ivan Kupala is, whose day is honored in different ways by church and folk traditions.

The spirits of lower mythology still surround man, as evidenced by numerous oral folk bylichki.

However, they began to be revered as unclean and belong to the infernal world of the devil. But even this did not cause a person to have an absolutely negative attitude towards the creatures of the unreal world. Therefore, the veneration of the spirits of the house was still preserved, although it was not excluded that the devil could also enter the house.

The Eastern Slavs formed the so-called dual faith. It not only determined the attitude of a person to the other world, but also to the magical principle in this world.

Magic as an idea of ​​the supernatural abilities of a person takes place in almost all religious systems. The realization of these abilities is differentiated depending on what forces feed them. Magic is divided into black and white.

White magic is, as it were, a half-permitted sphere of human activity. It was absolutely permitted and necessary in the system of pagan religions. The monotheistic religion denies any magical manifestation, believing that a person is completely dependent on God, and everything else is from the evil one. But such a ban was by no means always observed in relation to white magic: sometimes even the clergy themselves reprimanded the demoniac, sick with a fever with the help of Christian prayers and even more ancient spells.

Black magic at the stage of paganism was permissible in certain cases. Christianity, however, resolutely rejects it as a means of negatively influencing the world and man with the help of devilish forces.

According to the system of Christian beliefs, people admitted to magic can be given powers that come directly from the devil. At the same time, the person himself turns out to be largely dependent on him. However, this only applies to black sorcerers. Most of the magical abilities are turned to the forces of good. Any representative of a magical clan in our world is an unusual, super-strong person, capable of knowing, seeing and doing what others cannot. His strength depends on his own internal energy base and on who he contacts in the unreal world.

A person can be endowed with super-knowledge and power and by special command from above for righteousness or some other special behavior. Prophets and clairvoyants, as it were, combine the knowledge of the divine and human levels.

Belief in the possibility of contacts with the other world and in this world itself is preserved by people, apparently under the influence of thousands of years of magical practice of ancestors, transmitted genetically. In any case, we often encounter so far unknown incarnations of matter and spirit.

A world in which we live not only

Are there ghosts or not? I ask the cat.

- Yes and no! the cat on the box answers drowsily.

– If you see them and believe them, then they exist. If you only have two eyes and no more eyes, then no.

L. Mironikhina. family story

The mysterious world of our fellow planets lies in wait for us everywhere, sometimes appearing completely unexpectedly, and sometimes at the request of a person. Contact with beings of non-human nature is most easily found by people who are called healers, sorcerers, witches in the villages. These people are extremely interesting in their own right. They have almost unlimited possibilities: their impact can extend not only to people and animals, but also to natural phenomena and elements.

Here is one of the stories.

“A woman from Palesya came to our village. And then there was the war. They were fugitives. Well, they settled, but you have to work. Then the collective farm began to give them work. And this woman, her name was Palashka, began to carry eggs from the poultry house to the area. Yes ... But she drove them on a cart, but not like everyone else, in boxes, but folded into bags, then bags on a cart, knitted with a rope, and even sat on top herself. Like this. And you know, I never broke a single testicle!

Well, then rumors about her spread all over the place: a witch, they say, from Palesia. And she was such a silent woman, she didn’t make friends with anyone, she was all alone. Why, you can't keep silent for a whole century. And people are on the side of a fighter. I, apparently, was not afraid of her. She walked past my house. No, no, yes, and at least a drink of water will come in. So I’ll talk to her, and I’ll feed her with something - they, the fugitives, didn’t have anything at all, but we still lived in our little house, even though the war ...

And once my Pelageya came in, and I was watering the garden, but I had to carry water far: there was no well. Here she is, hearty, looking at me and saying: Natasha, why are you so anxious? Let me dig a well for you under the window in the yard in one night! You don’t care, but in the morning he’s ready to wake you up! - Wow, no! - I'm talking. - I, Pelageya, cannot get such gifts. Yes, and you don’t tell me about that, otherwise I’ll be afraid of you!

Well, she went, didn't say anything to me. And then, when they all began to leave after the war, she told me more and more how to frighten sorcerers from herself. Yes, she did a lot of things here: she used to tell people who didn’t come from the war ... But everyone was afraid of her ... " (From the author's archive.)

But no matter how they treat witches and sorcerers, they are still beings of human nature. They are feared in the villages, but they know the means of harming them and getting rid of them. A witch can be called an ordinary sorceress or one who "specializes" in taking milk from cows. The witch could, turning into a snake or a toad, enter the barn and suck milk. But sometimes it was enough witchcraft without werewolves.

“I went once before dawn to the zhito, otherwise it was on Yurya. I went out, I looked, and my neighbor Marya was so straight down in her life. And she, Marya, knew a lot of things. Well, let me think, and I'll ride! She took off her clothes, stayed in her underwear, and let's ride! And we used to say that the dew on Yurya would cure everything, and I thought that she, Marya, was curing.

And I came home, took off everything that was wet and left it to dry on a rude, and went to the stove myself. I’m doing something there - I looked: fathers of light! Yes, I have a hut full of water! Where is this trouble coming from? I look, and I have something from the bottom of my skirt, I put it to dry, the water is a stream!

Well, I rather threw my skirt into the yard, and myself to Marya under the window: what does she have? I look out the window, and in her underwear you lie on a loom, and milk runs from it in a stream. Here I believed that people were telling the truth about her - she is a witch! (From the author's archive.)

Why we created such a section is because the books "Conspiracies of the Siberian Healer" by Natalya Stepanova are very widespread. And since these books by Natalia Stepanova carry a thinly disguised form of Satanism, so many people suffer from them. It is not known whether a person with that name actually exists, it is not known, but it does not matter. It is important that many are looking for this name, seeking to buy or download books by Natalia Stepanova. At the same time, we do not know of any evidence confirming that this "healer" exists in reality, and is not a figment of the imagination of the employees of the Ripol Classic publishing house, known for its success in the field of magical (that is, satanic) literature.

As usual on our site, the main information is practical. That is, the main materials are the testimonies of those people who read the conspiracies of the healer Natalya Stepanova and fully experienced the influence of this magic on their lives, the lives of their families.

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Short stories of readers about the experience of reading books by Natalia Stepanova (1)

If you want to destroy your life, use the magic of Natalia Stepanova. I myself did not suffer much from Stepanova's magic. I quickly realized that it was bad. But here's my own aunt as obsessed with her. At first, the conspiracies worked, and the husband began to love, and the money poured in, and everything is going smoothly with work, and everything is fine with health, and the long-awaited second pregnancy, and the daughter entered the institute and studied well. But you have to pay for everything. It all started with a miscarriage. And she could not get pregnant anymore, no matter how hard she tried, because both began to have health problems. And with work, everything went to hell. They are up to their necks in debt without a job.

Short stories of readers about the experience of reading books by Natalia Stepanova (2)

One guy showed interest in me, and in order to speed up the process, I bewitched him according to the books of Natalia Stepanova. With a love spell, I wanted to please him even more. But the guy suddenly became cold to me, and I was overcome by a lustful passion and hatred for his indifference.

Short stories of readers about the experience of reading books by Natalia Stepanova (3)

My husband has been driving for 15 years, and there has never been a single accident, and he didn’t break the rules, everything was always fine until I wrote him a conspiracy from the police based on the book by Natalya Stepanova. A week later, his license was taken away and he was deprived of a year and a half, allegedly for drunkenness (he does not drink, he has an ulcer). I don't know, maybe it's a coincidence, or maybe the book "helped".

Short stories of readers about the experience of reading books by Natalia Stepanova (4)

And then Stepanova's book appeared, lying on the mezzanine, donated by a "caring" friend. Hands immediately leafed through the desired section - love magic. I must say, I never believed her "Orthodoxy" - for a true Christian would not advise revenge, as she did in one of the books in response to a letter from a reader. But this did not stop me - I really wanted to return that person, I found the “strongest”, according to the author, love spell, and did everything according to the instructions. I was not embarrassed by the most terrible words in the conspiracy. There were even swear words.

Short stories of readers about the experience of reading books by Natalia Stepanova (5)

I have always been interested in such literature, about three years ago I started to have a kind of mania, I bought up all the books by Stepanova that I came across. Basically I just read them and didn't do anything about them. Somehow we had a fight with my - at that time common-law husband. It was my fault, he left. I had a wild hysteria, and foolishly decided to resort to Stepanova's books. I made a conspiracy for melancholy and a love spell in the photo - read a few lines, looking at the photo ...

Natalia Stepanova's books didn't make me happier

My acquaintance with the books of Natalya Stepanova began as a child - I had a girlfriend whose mother bought the first book of conspiracies, and we, the children, also read these conspiracies very willingly. I tried to use some conspiracies in practice - for success in learning, for example, or to get rid of enemies ...

How the conspiracies of Natalia Stepanova affected me

My acquaintance with the books of Natalia Stepanova began with the fact that my parents divorced, and our neighbor gave my mother the book "Black Magic". As far as I know, my mother never took the risk of using this book. For many years she lay on a shelf unnecessary to anyone, but one day I became interested, and I tried the plot “to the wrath of my mother”, probably just out of curiosity. Indeed, my mother was so kind to me - that day I broke something, but she did not even notice it ...

How I practiced according to the "Big Book of Magic" by Natalia Stepanova

I read the “Big Book of Magic” in order, and when the conspiracies from the first book (“White”) did not work, I turned to the second. As you guessed, the second one was called "Black". Although at that time I was, of course, terribly far from Orthodoxy, the name still confused me. Suddenly there were doubts about what kind of book this is, what I want to do. I sent a letter to Stepanova, in which I asked if it would turn out that by doing black magic I was selling my soul to the devil? The stupidest answer came to me: “Use books and advice from them. No one needs to sell their soul."

Natalya Stepanova made my child disabled

I had a difficult period in my life, I got in touch with a man who believed in magic, hated the Church and denied the teachings of Christ. All his bookshelves were full of all kinds of books on magic, it was enough for me to live with him for three months, then I ran away from him. But I believed in the books of Natalia Stepanova through his stories ...

Natalia Stepanova: myth or reality?

For many, Stepanova's books opened the gates to the world of magic, including me. It was from these books that I embarked on the path leading to the death of the soul. At that time, it didn’t seem so to me, I was completely sure that magic is a tool with which I can make changes in my life and the lives of other people.

Took the books of Natalia Stepanova to the trash

My acquaintance with this person began with the book "The Big Book of Magic 5". I was intrigued by the beautiful cover and low price. From the first lines I realized that it was like horror stories for the night, nothing more, but, nevertheless, I read the book overnight. Thank God, it didn’t come to mind to read something for a child, you see, intuition saved. Then it began as a break, I wanted more and more books, as a result, 7 books by Natalya Stepanova turned out to be in my collection. I decided to read the plot from nervousness ...

Is the healer Natalya Stepanova really a Christian?

Almost every bookstore sells many books by the Siberian healer Natalya Stepanova. Books mislead people who consider these books to be Orthodox. We asked the priest of the Orthodox Church to comment on some aspects of the activities of Natalia Stepanova (or those who speak under her fictitious name). The priest of the Intercession Cathedral of the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese, Hieromonk Izosim, decided to help us.

Books of conspiracies by Natalia Stepanova in my life (1)

I will now try to describe some of those conspiracies of Natalia Stepanova, to which I resorted. For example, in the books on the magic of Natalia Stepanova it is written that in order for the hair to be thick, you need to wash it with charmed eggs, which I did, which caused a strange disease on my scalp - scabs that disappeared only when I stopped doing all this . I have always had a hard time enduring my periods, and there was a conspiracy in the books: on the first day of menstruation, drink the water heaped. It was the second day, but the pains were strong, I drank water (then I used it for the first time), and - lo and behold - all the pains and the periods themselves immediately stopped, but they appeared after 2.5 months and for the whole summer.

Books of conspiracies by Natalia Stepanova in my life (2)

Of course, after rejecting the satanic books of Natalia Stepanova, I began to endure all sorts of temptations. If before coming to the Church I was haunted by fears, anxieties, panic attacks, then it got worse: as soon as I read a prayer, a large number of thoughts appeared in my head, not mine, and each of them thought on my behalf, but on its own; there were so many of them and it lasted about two weeks ...

Books by Natalia Stepanova evoke night guests

My passion for magic began precisely with the books of Stepanova Natalya Ivanovna. I accidentally stumbled upon these “miracle books” by a Siberian healer in a bookstore. After reviewing the contents, I thought that such a thing would come in handy in the household, and how did I manage without them before! There are so many useful things there: conspiracies for good luck, for love, for money, all kinds of amulets, protection from the evil eye, damage, etc. It seemed to me that after reading such books, I could have everything I wanted and without much effort.

Siberian healer Natalya Stepanova or Welcome to hell

Books by Natalia Stepanova stood next to volumes of Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. They were given "to read at night", given for the holidays, passed on by inheritance. And at the same time they reached out to the opening Orthodox churches, kissed the holy Images and lit candles in batches. Those who lost their spiritual heritage, the destroyers of churches and the murderers of priests, who blinded themselves with their own hands, tried to find the way to salvation by touch.

The conspiracies of the healer Natalia Stepanova give rise to problems

During this period, five books of the healer Natalya Stepanova appeared in the house, they tried everything, everyone found something for themselves there. Something, of course, got better after reading the conspiracies, but then another problem appeared five times worse than the previous one ...