Included in the "country devils"

In the middle of the last century, an amazing event happened, according to eyewitnesses, in the British Isles. It is described in detail in the book by the English ethnographer E. Hartland, published in 1891.

A peasant went once to look at his sheep grazing in the meadow. And disappeared. He returned home only after three weeks. By that time too and his body ceased to find. Heartland leads the following details in response to inquiries of his anxious countrymen return of the farmer mumbled like clockwork — like, he was absent at all for three weeks, and some, according to his personal feelings, three hours. And that's what happened to him.

The meadow where the wandering sheep, the farmer came out, strumming on a bit of a plain motif on a homemade flute. He was a musician-self-taught and could not imagine my life without the pipes. And suddenly he was surrounded by little men, who took the farmer in a tight circle. According to him, they began to sing and dance. Their singing and dancing had an effect on the musician's magic. Unwittingly he'd Toot and Toot the whistle and could not stop.

When the little men good laugh plenty, they said goodbye to him, and the peasant thought he entertained them not more than three hours. While actually passed many days.

In the "black notebooks" of our great poet Alexander Pushkin, you can find a cryptic entry: "the Groom disappears three years; his bride will know what is in the woods in an empty cabin three nights to sleep in order to get it. Finds the hut, about her walk, hears his voice, but sees no sign in — see: stroke of the devils between them and the tune it plays."

Here Pushkin lapidary given in a concise form the very core, the essence of people's ideas of what a parallel world, inhabited by the different spirits, is somewhere nearby — somewhere close to our world. And in this wonderful world, in principle, possible to penetrate.

A story about the penetration leads M. Azadovsky in his monograph "Russian fairy tales in Karelia. Old records".

A woman went in search of her missing husband. A local witch has advised her to look for a lost man in the "land of devils." And here the miracles: he clearly and distinctly told her how to sneak into the country. The woman remembered it well, all that said, a sorcerer. Did as he said,... in Short, God knows where she disappeared out of the blue, and when it came back unknown, the most persistent form assured the countrymen that he had been in the "land of devils."

According to her, there in front of her "were the whole series, thousands of them; the dresses are all ednolichno, just one shoulder, it is impossible to distinguish them one from another".

In the famous collection of Zinoviev revealed the story about the incident with a young woman from the village of Bots Chita oblast, which, according to local residents, disappeared one day in broad daylight. The woman went with buckets to the river to fetch water, and did not return. The search for the missing were in vain.

Two months later, the husband disappeared, leaving his hut, locked the outer door with a padlock. And when two hours later he returned home and unlocked the door, found long disappeared without a trace wife in the hallway of the house. Woman lying unconscious on the floor. The man raised the cry that neighbors came running.

The peasant woman Eudocia Rumkin says:

I was a little girl, also went to watch. Rumkin heard with his own ears the story missing that it took a Goblin and that she lived with the devil. Rumkin — the real witness of the incident, the authenticity of which personally she had not the slightest doubt. Onchukov, according to again witness anomalous events recorded: from the village Hammering on the shores of the White sea "the Goblin took the girl in Zimno the zolotica thirty versts".

Simna Zolotitsa — forested land desolate coast. One farmer was riding on reindeer sleigh on the highway through Simno the zolotica. Suddenly hears a woman crying was heard from the forest. Looks, and there, behind the bushes, sitting on a stump girl and crying. The farmer grabbed her in his arms and brought her home. It turned out that the girl disappeared from Kui not more than two hours ago, and it has already began to search. The girl claimed that she was kidnapped by a Goblin. Grabbed under his arm and the air blew...

P. Rybnikov, in turn, included in his well known folklorists-volume edition of the bilicki recorded them at the end of the XIX century in the village of Seredka on the banks of the river Onega. Shortly before the arrival Rybnikova in the Middle disappeared in this village a young child. In the literal sense of these words, he melted into air. The search for the missing in what have not resulted. The villagers told the folklorist:

— Two months after that, the farmer Leonti Bogdanov walked out of the woods and approaching the house, saw at the gate of someone moving. Lo and behold, sitting on the gate the baby... Until Leontius Bogdanov dally, rassuzhdayte, the boy vanished from sight. So, the child suddenly appears for a while two months after his disappearance. Bogdanov pinpoint baby sitting, strange to say, at the gate. The child then disappears again — now, finally, forever. Well, like evil spirits, careless, lost in some point kidnapped her. And then the baby was pulled like a magnet to his native village. But in the next second, evil would have operatives, recollecting himself, and again kidnapped the baby. Now — irrevocably.

Please note: the child twice disappeared instantly into thin air. As according to witnesses often disappear on the empty spot UFOs or ghosts. Literally instantly melted like smoke. The analogy arises. I got the impression it uses a homogeneous technology, included similar mechanisms for communication between worlds, work the same — uniform channels connecting the parallel worlds.

In the book of the Italian anthropologist C. Biocca describes the fate of white women Elena, kidnapped by Indians. The woman lived for many years in their tribe in the Brazilian jungle. She told the ethnographer, in particular, an episode from his life in an Indian tribe:

— Once the boy left the tent and disappeared. The boy searched for three days. On the fourth decided to go to the place where originates one small stream. And that's where my parents saw the missing boy. He was sitting on a tree trunk. His mother called him. The kid turned around and fell into the water. They ran to the trunk, but nobody was there. On the sixth day, the wizards announced that the boy stole the perfume river — imagine. Imagine little. The next day again went in search of the baby. Father and mother saw that the kid sits in the same place. The baby's father quietly crept up behind him, jumped and grabbed his son in his arms.

It turned out that imagine all the time lashed the baby vines. Back, arms and ass he was in the crimson bands. The boy grew up, but nothing remembered of what happened to him. The child was at that time about three years, and he was absent more than six days.

Where was he? What to eat for six days? Back to the story about the observation of the disappearance of a little boy Leonty Bogdanov from the village of Seredka. Let's say his story is not a figment of the imagination. In this case, the question arises: how baby earth managed to survive for two months in a kind of, let's say a parallel world? What to eat there?

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