Land creatures. Russia

It's a story passed in our family from generation to generation. Told her our grandmother Taisia. It was in 1930-ies, before the Second world war. My grandmother lived in her own house in the city of Kasli of the Chelyabinsk region. Next to him was an old cemetery.

It just sounds a bit scary. However, when you live near the cemetery, get used to it - fear, superstition, fear is not attending. This cemetery has been preserved to our days. It is somewhat different from the modern: there are a lot of large and small cast-iron figures, and on the Central Avenue stands in the historic chapel.

It happened on a warm Sunny day in early September. Evening was approaching, the district was quiet even there was no wind. My future grandmother, and then another girl, Tasia redid all the things around the house and decided to go to the cemetery to clean the graves of relatives. She quickly got ready and after five minutes entered the cemetery gate. Not the first time she had been there alone, because she boldly went on the main track at the end of which stood the already mentioned beautiful chapel, decorated with iron casting. TAS had to venture off the beaten track. She habitually crossed to the chapel and continued on his way. There was not a soul, only the cawing of crows broke the silence. The sun was still out and shining brightly enough. Suddenly grandmother sensed something was wrong- she was filled with unimaginable terror. She looked around and noticed that along the paths and around her feet there appeared a strange "snake" from the swirling of the fallen leaves (as in winter spread along the ground blowing snow).

The TASE is very scared, because the wind still was not! Leaves swirled stronger and stronger, until it had a vortex, like a giant funnel. Tasia could not move from terror she lost the leg. Then she fell to her knees and crawled back to the chapel. Beside her was spinning column of leaves by height in meter, I heard the roar, howling and strange sounds, reminiscent of an evil giggle. Most grandma scared this laughter. She heard it clearly. To his feet she still couldn't and continued on my knees to crawl to the chapel. Along the way she had been baptized and was praying, who taught her mother. Fear words were confused, the language was forming. And meanwhile, the vortex increased. Finally Tasia got to the chapel, climbed the small porch and cried. She sat on the porch and closed his eyes, praying that I could remember. And before her hovered a gigantic vortex of leaves, the humming sound and laughter. And all this happened under the Sunny calm weather!

It took about half an hour. Finally, the whirlwind died down, the sounds and the laughter stopped. Tasia managed to get to his feet and with great difficulty reached home. On the way from the cemetery no one was found.

She later told the priest about his experiences in the Church. He listened to her very carefully and explained that she was on the "bloody wedding". Saved her in that moment of prayer and sanctified place chapel. "Devil's wedding" among people as a natural phenomenon when the vortex carries the cloud of dust.

The famous Russian scientist, the author of the "Explanatory dictionary of the live great Russian language" Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl wrote: "the Russian peasants believed the whirlwind of the result of a bloody wedding, or the wedding of Satan and the witch". According to other legends, it's the wedding of the Goblin from lishugou. Life grandmother sincerely believed in God and tried that faith to give us.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»