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Audio version: Magic herbs in Slavic culture Our ancestors believed that plants are capable of curing diseases and scaring away evil spirits. At first, only the sorcerers-greengrocers possessed the secret knowledge of the power of herbs, but over time, herbalists and healers appeared in the families of peasants and townspeople. They described in detail the magic and medicinal plants and their properties. "Kultura.RF" tells how to find treasure with the help of herbs, become brave and learn to understand the language of animals. Historian Ivan Zabelin wrote that in ancient times pagans treated plants as living beings: according to legends, herbs could move from place to place, change their appearance and suddenly disappear, talk to each other, scream and cry. The ancestors also believed that each plant had its own character and disposition. They picked up herbs at a certain time and in protected areas. Meadows, forest edges and swamps with the necessary plants were found by "knowledgeable" people. The plants were collected, observing the rituals: one sho Grass uld "fall face down to the ground and pray to the mother - to the earth, so that she would be pleased to take any medicine from herself." Before picking the flower, it was surrounded on four sides with silver coins, jewelry made of precious metals or expensive cloth. Not all plants were shown to an ordinary person, magic herbs were given into the hands of only healers, sorcerers and sorcerers. The most valuable were the plants collected early in the morning, before sunrise, on the holiday of Ivan Kupala (July 7). They believed that it was on the Kupala night that magical flowers bloomed and magic herbs were shown. Village healers and sorcerers stored plants for a whole year, and brave young men went to the forest on the night of Ivan Kupala to the forest for the mythical fern flower. It was believed that the one who found the flower would acquire the ability to find treasures, become invisible, or be able to understand the language of animals. On the Kupala night, they collected Adam's head, tear-grass, thistle and other medicinal herbs. Other plants have the same extraordinary properties ... Grass Mary-Magdalene helps from melancholy, Pansies from the evil eye, Ivan da Marya and sweet clover - from damage, robbery-grass - from blood stagnation, Bogorodskaya grass - from damage to the sorcerer and brownie, when he falls on a sleeping person at night, there are spills or breakouts, if girls are washed with their infusion, it promotes hair growth. Initially, the sorcerers-greensmen kept the knowledge of magic herbs in secret and passed on from generation to generation only to the initiates. Over time, handwritten herbalists have emerged based on their experiences. The collections were used by healers, but then they spread among the peasant environment, and were popular among merchants and burghers. The medical books described where magical herbs and flowers grow, what they look like, when to collect them and how to use them. Not all recipes were used in practice, some of them were just entertaining reading. The herb Bel Talentz, to insist on it and drink it with other herbs of the same kind, or just one, - you will know all sorts of herbs and what you need; if you go wherever, then herbs and all sorts of things will speak to you and will affect, but what is needed; with the same and other animals, reptiles and beasts voices you will recognize that they are talking among themselves, and you will know all the wise. Despite the detailed descriptions of flowers and herbs in these collections, it is rather difficult for folklorists to identify real plants in magic potions and somehow classify them. Herbs and flowers had many varieties, often the same plant was called differently depending on the region, and, conversely, up to a dozen herbs could bear one name. The head of Adam was often mentioned in herbalists. It was believed that the plant served as an attribute of sorcerers and healers, it was harvested early in the morning on Ivan Kupala. According to popular beliefs, the root of the Adam's head helped to see the hidden evil spirits, and the person who used the infusion “will see” on whom the damage lies. Many wonderful properties were attributed to the herb: it facilitated difficult childbirth, inspired courage in soldiers and helped to heal wounds. The carpenters took her with them to the high-rise construction of churches and chambers in order to overcome the fear of https://jiji.ug/kampala/garden/grass-yWIbAegvCD8tgNEqE0K0rrAg.html