Can a person die from witchcraft? Death of the black witch How the witch dies on the roof of the house.

And sorcerers have existed on earth for a long time. Their life was shrouded in mystery, people were afraid of them, but often came to them for help. After all, a witch is really capable of giving a person what he wants. The soul of a witch is in the power of the devil, communicating with demons through special rituals, she receives necessary knowledge for your predictions.

Physically, people with supernatural powers, just as ordinary as everyone else. That is, they go through the main life stages in exactly the same way: birth, maturation, aging. But with death, not everything is simple for them. There are many stories about the death of famous witches, but they all have a certain pattern.

By giving her soul to dark forces, the witch, roughly speaking, rents out her body to them. Everyone has heard that sometimes psychics and mediums can speak in a voice other than their own. For example, a woman may suddenly growl during the ritual, say something in a frightening, hoarse bass voice, although there is no such possibility in her voice. This phenomenon can be seen in people obsessed evil spirits. But witches are also possessed, but their consciousness is able to control their obsession, and the demons living in them are very cunning and resourceful.

How a witch passes on her gift before death

When the time comes for a witch to die, her evil spirits need a new “home.” This house should be a person who is not against selling his soul to the devil in order to adopt witchcraft abilities. If such a person is found in advance, then the witch dies calmly, transferring her demonic energy to him. According to eyewitnesses, the successor (usually a young unmarried relative) holds the hand of the old witch for some time, who lies in bed, awaiting death. If the witch has no relatives, any daredevil can receive the “gift” at his own peril and risk. If people from her environment flatly refuse to accept her energy, then the sorceress begins to rage. She hurls threats and curses, throws objects, displaying superhuman strength.

When no one is around, the witch is doomed to hellish mortal torment. If the witch is very strong, then something very creepy happens to her. She physically feels how her body is covered with ulcers, begins to decompose and rot. But she cannot die, since the demons have nowhere to “move”, and they hold her. Her own soul is already leaving afterworld, and the body continues to live under the control of spirits. She becomes something like the Baba Yaga from fairy tales.

There are not many powerful witches, but ordinary bodies still die. But their spirit remains alive in the house, which instills a lot of fear. People who know how to ease the death throes of a witch advise dismantling the ceiling above her head.

Since ancient times, many rituals and ceremonies have been associated with the death of a witch. It is believed that when someone who collaborated with dark forces dies, you cannot be nearby because you can take over the terrible gift.

During their lives, witches sin a lot, because it is with their help that rites and rituals associated with evil spirits, damage, curses, and love spells are performed.

Not everyone knows how a witch dies. Unlike common man, the one associated with evil spirits, dies painfully and hard. Old house dying witch she was nailed tightly and no one was present at the moment of her death. Sometimes people heard wild screams and screams for several days and nights in a row. But, if a witch transfers her gift before death, then she dies easily and quickly, without suffering.

It is believed that just before death, the souls of those whom the witch killed come to her. It is the souls of the innocent who are killed that make the sorceress experience torment. They had never approached a dying witch or given her anything. The sorceress felt the end approaching and tried to make her last minutes easier by trying to transfer her dark power to another person, even if he was against it. And along with power, she transferred all the sins for the created damage, curses and love spells. It was not uncommon for her to be responsible for the death of more than one person. People unknowingly took responsibility for everything created by someone else and, after death, were held accountable for the sins of others at the judgment of God.

There is also a version that the life of a dying witch is supported by the entities that served her and performed menial work. These spirits and demonic creatures do not want to be left without their owner, so they support her body, increasing torment and suffering.

So how to make the death of a witch easier and protect yourself from terrible gift or last-gasp curses? This question interests many people. In the old days, in order for the spirit of the witch to leave the body faster, men dismantled the roof of the house or raised the ridge on which the roof slope was installed. It was believed that in a closed space a sinful soul cannot find a way out and therefore is in no hurry to leave the body.

But all these measures are good if the witch lives in a private house and it is possible to dismantle the roof slope. But for those who live in an apartment, dying is much more difficult, because you can’t make out the concrete ceiling. But even in this situation, you can help a dying person. To do this, you need to open windows and doors throughout the apartment. Those entities that were the sorceress’s assistants leave through these peculiar portals. And with the departure of the evil spirits who served the dying woman, her torment decreases.

It is also necessary to close all the mirrors in the dying person’s home so that the witch does not go through the looking glass and harm the people who will live in the house or apartment after her death.

Even in the old days, you can ease the death throes of a witch with the help of a spindle made of aspen. The spindle must be new. It was given into the hands of a dying woman and the woman had to pronounce all her sins and terrible deeds on this thing. After which the spindle had to be broken in half and burned in the fire. To make a fire it was necessary to use only spruce paws. After the spindle burned out, the witch calmly and without suffering gave up the ghost.

Also, in order for a person’s death to occur as quickly as possible, the room in which the dying person is located must be fumigated with incense. This smell is unpleasant and scary for dark entities who do not want to leave their owner and prolong her life.

Not all people know how witches die. This is a long and scary process. If possible, it is desirable to facilitate the departure of a sinful soul, but at the same time one must be wary of the transfer of terrible witchcraft power.

Hello everyone, my name is Pavel, I’m 22 years old. I live in Ukraine in the city of Makeevka (Donetsk region). Since I was probably 10 years old, I have had a great interest in mysticism, all sorts of stories, etc., I have a large collection of books on white magic, but True, I’ve never done anything like this, I just read, it’s very interesting to me......but now, in principle, this is not about that) The mother of my 2 friends (they are brothers) told me this story about 5 years ago, her name is Olga. So, they lived all together in one big house, a big family - Grandmother, Daughter, Granddaughter (the same Olga who told me this story), her husband and 2 children (my friends) Kirill and Sergei, they were then 5 and 6 years old, they weather. Their grandmother always had a bad reputation not only on their street, but throughout the village as a whole, everyone knew that she was a witch and not white at all! And then the moment came when grandma had to say goodbye to this world!!!
Now I will continue the story on behalf of OLGA: “- Grandmother was dying very hard and painfully, for 2 days. She urgently needed to pass on her skill to someone, but no one wanted to accept it, later she began to call her youngest grandson Kirill to her, but I strictly strictly forbade him to approach her, because she knew what she wanted, because in order to transfer her witchcraft, a witch just needs to take a person’s hand and the job is done!
In fact, the skill should be passed on only to relatives and only through the female line, but if there is no other way out, then it can be done by a man. It’s good that one neighbor told us to open all the windows and make a hole in the attic, then she says she will leave us, otherwise she I will suffer here for a very long time. And so they did. About half an hour later, the granny began to leave this world with wild screams. One day has passed. I am lying with my husband on the bed, the time is somewhere around 23.00, the children are sleeping in a separate room, Everyone was already asleep except me, I kept tossing and turning, in the corridor (in the house there is a very long corridor, like a veranda, with windows) the sconce is on, it is always on at night, if suddenly the children get up to relieve themselves, and so I lie and hear that I Grandma calls me “Lyolyaya, Lelyayaya” - that’s what my family affectionately calls me.
At first I was taken aback, out of fear I felt that even my toes began to go numb………then I accidentally looked back at the veranda and saw that on the opposite wall there was the outline of a coffin, and someone was lying in it. I blew myself up like crazy and woke up my husband and mom, we went out onto the veranda together, the outline didn’t disappear, everyone could see it, we started moving the furniture, having no idea what could be shading it like that, but the shadow never disappeared, needless to say, that night no one else except the children slept?!!! So we lived until the morning) All day long everyone went about their business, some slept, some cleaned, my husband was at work.
In the evening, everyone gathered at one table, ate, I took the children away and put them to bed, returned to the table, 10 minutes passed, when suddenly a deafening cry of children was heard from the nursery, my heart froze, I lost my temper and flew into the room, when I ran in, then I saw that Sergei was sitting on the bed in hysterics, and the younger Kirill was lying on the floor and something was pulling him under the bed by the hand, the force of his tightening was even visible, and the child was resting and grabbing the leg of the bed. I started screaming Jesus, save me, God, in general, everything that came to my mind, nothing better could have come to my mind at that moment, and I began to pull the child back as soon as I said God forbid, my child remained in my hands. All this happened within 30 probably seconds, even the rest of the family didn’t have time to reach the room yet.
My mother said that my grandmother will not leave us alone, she is angry with us, she has not passed on her knowledge to anyone, she wants to take someone away! We didn’t sleep that night either, there was the outline of a coffin on the wall again, mom said that it was one of us in it!!! At about two o'clock in the morning, an inexplicable thing began in the kitchen, some sighs, muttering, dishes began to break, but none of us entered the kitchen, we closed the door from the veranda and sat like that all night, as soon as it began to get light, everything was quiet. At 5.30 we went into the kitchen, it seemed that no one had cleaned it for 30 years, everything was broken, the pots and pans that were in the cabinet were now lying on the floor. I can’t convey the horror that we all experienced in those days It seemed to me that all this couldn’t happen, that it was unreal...... but still it happened here, with me and now. Horror! In the morning I went to our old neighbor, who lived in the countryside for a very long time, I think maybe she knows something, but the neighbor didn’t really know anything, she said, leave food on the table for your grandmother, maybe she wants to eat, since She caused a pogrom in the kitchen, maybe she’s giving you a sign!? I did just that, left everything on the table, and got ready, took the children and left this house for 2 days to go to the dacha, since I couldn’t stand 3 nights like that.
After 2 days we returned home, the picture was impressive, everything in the house was scattered and even heavy furniture had been moved!!! in the kitchen there is the same picture and all the food on the floor that I left. We lit candles, walked around the whole house, said prayers, it was getting towards evening, and because of this, my hands were already starting to shake. But strangely enough, this at night everything was quiet and there wasn’t even any outline on the wall. So everything got better. And after 1 month, my mother died……… now I realized who was in that coffin on the wall!
THE END And on my own behalf I would like to add that I personally know this family, and indeed after the death of the grandmother, her daughter died a month later. And I also heard from the neighbors that really very strange things happened there. This is the story guys, no fiction and not a fairy tale, but a reality that happens around us, ordinary mortals) After this story, I began to believe in many things......after all, everything in the world is possible!

It doesn't really matter whether you believe in supernatural forces. Even better, if you are a non-believer, healthy skepticism has never hurt anyone...

Zaburovo village - the sorcerer died for a long, painfully long time. He was old and wanted death himself, but it still did not come. Why? The whole village was whispering about this: a sorcerer cannot die until he gives his gift to someone. To do this, he just needs to touch the person... But none of his loved ones wanted such a “gift”. So the old sorcerer was toiling.
In the end, he gave up and stopped begging his sons to come to him. And soon he pointed with his eyes at the ceiling above him and ordered to dismantle it...
There is a popular belief that when a witch or sorcerer dies and cannot die, the roof or at least the corner of the house above the place where the dying person’s bed is located should be dismantled. And you also need to unlock all the locks and constipations in the house, open the doors. This seems to help the sorcerer die.
The sons agreed, and calling the neighbors, they began to dismantle the roof. We had almost finished when we heard the old man’s laughter from the house. Sensing something was wrong, they went down from the roof. And the sorcerer’s granddaughter Masha comes out of the entryway. She admitted that she felt sorry for her grandfather, who moaned and kept asking for water. So I brought him a cup. And the old man in the hut kept laughing...
According to researcher A. Gorbovsky, who wrote down this story, the family then took the girl to church and chastised her with prayers. But it didn't help. She accepted the gift. And now the sorceress Masha is well known not only in the surrounding villages, people come to her from the city and even from the region.
Not everyone will be chosen by the sorcerer as his successor. But even if the choice is made, this does not mean that this person will be able to cope with the unusual “gift”. For some, this can turn into a real disaster.

Here is another case stored in the archives of researchers of phenomena of this kind.
...For her eyes, Marfa Petrovna was called a witch and her “evil eye” was feared like fire. As soon as the witch looked at some kid on the street, he began to act up and get sick. She herself died at 86 years old. But how! All loved ones were forced to leave home because things went crazy there. And the neighbors even called the police - there was an incredible noise in the apartment, you never know.
But, as you can see, the old witch was unable to pass on her witchcraft inheritance to anyone during her lifetime. When Marfa Petrovna was buried, she lay in a coffin covered in bruises - marks from the end of the world at home. But even on the street, as soon as the body was taken out to the bus, something incomprehensible began to happen. Suddenly it got colder, a hurricane wind blew in, and a snowstorm began.
A resident of the Amur region, Alexandra Ch. (granddaughter of Marfa Petrovna), said:
-At the cemetery, when I approached the grave to hang a wreath, I suddenly felt that someone grabbed my legs with both hands at the ankles. Despite the wind and cold, I started to sweat. I tried to lift my feet off the ground and leave, but an unknown force wouldn’t let me. The ridiculous situation lasted for a minute, but then it seemed to me that it lasted an eternity. Now I don’t remember how I returned home. From that time on, something inexplicable began to happen.
One day, I was writing my thesis at night. Suddenly I hear someone scratching in front door. I thought - this is our cat. I opened it, and there was no one there. Then the folding bed behind me began to creak. I come to her, and a strange breeze blows in my face, even my hair is swaying. I straightened them and then received such a slap on the wrist that even sparks fell from my eyes. And, as you understand, there is no one at home. Since then I have been afraid to sleep without light...
Another case. One summer night I was sitting and sewing a new dress for myself - in the morning I was getting ready to fly to my friend in Zaporozhye. It's hot outside, so the windows are open but the curtains are drawn. Suddenly I see with my peripheral vision that some lights and shadows flashed between the curtains. For some reason I wasn’t scared at first, I said:
“Come in, Master, it will be more fun!” So that means I invited the brownie... Then a gray smoky cloud appeared on the chair in front of me. It shifted as if getting more comfortable, and suddenly a glowing eye the size of a saucer stared out of it at me. Can you imagine what happened to me?..
This kind of “misunderstanding” haunts Alexandra Ch. constantly. She believes that she caught this “infection” in the cemetery many years ago, when she was burying her witch grandmother.
If you believe the messages that sometimes come to us from researchers of this kind of phenomena, it is sometimes possible to become infected with “devilishness” without any participation of witches and sorcerers. You just need to go to the cemetery.

…Incredible events began to happen in Stefa Grigaitiene’s apartment (Veshvele, Lithuania) after she returned from the local cemetery after All Souls’ Day.
That same evening, in the previously quiet apartment, something began to creak and tap... At night the noise intensified. And soon the incredible began to happen. For no apparent reason, furniture began to tip over and dishes flew off the shelves.
Some “miracles” were by no means harmless. Before the owner's eyes, a pan with cooking meat flew off the stove and... disappeared without a trace. Torn off by an invisible force, a sharply sharpened knife flew across the room and stuck at the very feet of a dumbfounded woman...
Further more. Strange wounds began to appear on Grigaitenė’s legs and side. The doctor who examined the affected areas said that it looked like a trophic ulcer. And a local psychic explained: this can happen when a supernatural force absorbs a person’s energy...
The rumor about the “invisibility” quickly spread around the town. Among other curious people, journalists also came to visit Stefa. They examined the scene of the incident and interviewed eyewitnesses.
Witnesses said that before their eyes, lids flew off pots, chairs turned in place, and one man was pressed against the wall by an enraged table. During the impromptu experiment, the “spirit” was asked questions, and he very willingly explained himself to the curious by knocking.
For example, the question was asked: “How many people are sitting in the room?” Or: “How many of them have gold watches?” And the invisible man never made a mistake...
Local residents think that the spirit of a girl who once also lived in this house, but several years ago committed suicide because of unhappy love and was buried in the very cemetery that Grigaitenė visited on Memorial Day, has settled in the house of Stefa Grigaitenė.
Curious journalists went to the rector of the local church with a request from Grigaitenė to bless her apartment, and at the same time asked whether, from the point of view of the clergyman, the spirit of the suicide girl could have burned ulcers on the skin of the unfortunate Stefa, and at the same time stolen a pot of meat? But the priest refused any comments.
Experts call such anomalous manifestations -. But this is just a word that does not explain anything, because the essence of the phenomenon remains a mystery.
This phenomenon not only has not yet been studied, but does not even officially exist.
It would be appropriate to say that poltergeists do not only occur among “ordinary citizens.” An invisible entity was rampant in the apartment of the pilot-cosmonaut V. Aksenov, and in the apartment of the physicist and full member of the Academy of Energy Information Sciences O. Dobrovolsky. But it did not have any influence on the “official circles” and did not force them to change their demonstratively skeptical attitude towards poltergeists.
We will not consider here all the features of known poltergeists and all the hypotheses that explain them.
And we mentioned this phenomenon, which has not yet been explained by anyone, only due to the fact that it is often accompanied by the so-called “sorcerer’s gift.” But in no case should one hang the stigma of “sorcerer” on people in whose homes a “noisy spirit” is raging. First of all, these people are victims of a phenomenon that has not yet been studied.
How can you protect yourself from it? Alas, there is no universal advice.
So what to do if miracles begin at home? Practice has shown that fighting them is as useless as fighting a runny nose. You just have to endure it, and after some time everything will go away on its own.
However, several years ago, when something similar happened in a Moscow apartment, its owner, who had tried all the methods and was completely desperate, hung signs on all the walls with the inscription: “No entry to otherworldly!” The joke worked and the poltergeist stopped.
We conclude: even in hopeless situations, humor can be an effective weapon.
Let us believe that you and I will not receive such “gifts”...

The sorcerer/witch, dying, wants to transfer his power to other people

There was a witch in their village, and any person you looked at, he was sick. Many animals died. And she died for a whole week. They’ve already opened the roof and put a cross on it, but it still won’t die. She kept repeating the same thing: “Take it, take it.” So she took Paradise from us, although she didn’t become a witch. Only then did the witch die when she gave away her “gift”.

There were rumors about Baba Tanyusha, nicknamed Tap Dance, that she really was a witch. When she died, her children and relatives stood next to her. She extended her hand, clenched it into a fist and began shouting: “Here, take it!” But no one dared to approach her. Finally, one of the daughters came up to her and took something from her hand.

Then she (the daughter) went out into the hallway and threw what she had in her hand into the attic.

Recorded in s. Lugovatka, Verkhnekhava district, Voronezh region. from Titova M.M., born in 1924 Recorded by Titova N.V., 1999 AKTLF

In the village there was a grandfather, a sorcerer, who worked with his own son: how to sow - the horses die. But then the horse was everything. Then the son went to the profit, and the grandfather was there and said: “Find a place in the yard where the horse foaled, and dig up the afterbirth* that the sorcerer grandfather buried.” Found this afterbirth. Then the grandfather-sorcerer got under attack* and shouted in a voice that was not his own: “What have you done to me? You took everything out of me." I went to visit them for Christmas. And so he kept shouting: “Here! Here!” And no one took it from him. And then my daughter came: “Dad, come on!” And they broke out the boards where the pipe was, and then the sorcerer began to die.

Recorded in s. Zaprudskoye, Kashirskoye district, Voronezh region. from Evdokia Nikolaevna Erenkova, born 1941, Recorded by Bolshakova E., Samoilovich E., 2004 AKTLF

In one village Voronezh region There lived a woman whom everyone considered a witch, a sorceress. Everyone was afraid of her and avoided her house. When she got old, she got sick. But no one approached her, because they knew that before she died, the old woman must transfer her strength to someone.

But the parents of one little girl left the child walking alone. When the girl passed by the old woman's house, she called her and asked her for water. When the girl gave her water, the old woman touched her and, giving away her strength, died.

As the girl grew up, strange things began to be noticed about her. They say that she turned into a dog and chased people, and whoever she bit became seriously ill.

Recorded in s. Ternovoe, Ostrogozhsky district, Voronezh region. from Sotnikova E.I., born in 1932 Recorded by Alekhina N., 2002 AKTLF

When I was little, my mother forbade me to go to the other side of the pond. And not only me, but everyone was afraid to go there, they warned everyone, because there was a witch living on the other side of the pond. She was always doing some nasty things to people. And when the time came to die, she did not die (According to legend, witches must pass on their skills to someone before death, but she lived alone) She was already over a hundred, but she still lived and suffered.

All dried up. Many who were on that side of the pond say they saw her. She still walks like a ghost and cannot die.

Recorded in s. Krasnovka, Talovsky district, Voronezh region. from Varvara Nikolaevna Varnavskaya, born in 1917. Recorded by Arsentyeva E.A., 1998 AKTLF

My grandmother in Matrenovka told me that they had a house, and a witch died there. And they, sorcerers, when they die, they feel bad. They rush around and shout: “Take it! Take it!” And she never died. And someone said that we need to move the mother*. She was dying for three days, she wanted to give up her strength so that she could go to the next world with a pure soul, but no one would take it. And only when they touched the mother, she died. And in this house where she died, now the cattle get sick and die all the time. Perhaps it was her strength that remained in the house.

Witches die hard, for a long time - 3-4 days, for weeks. They shout: “Here!” (they give up their strength). People say: “Stick it in the wall.”

They say that a witch lived in an alley on Chizhovka. Everyone was afraid of her. She sat near the house in the evenings and whispered something. Maybe it was because of old age that my lips moved. But everyone considered her a witch.

And so, when she was dying, and they say a witch cannot die, she shouted: “Here, take it, here, take it!”

Everyone was afraid to approach. And then one woman came up, took her hand and said: “Well, well, come on, come on, come on.” The sorceress looked at her and died.

Since then, this woman who approached was considered a witch. Recorded in Voronezh from Klavdiya Ilinichna Shevtsova, born in 1930, native of Novaya Usman. Recorded by L. Gorozhankina, I. Nazarova, I. Sheveleva, Y. Yakovleva, 1993 AKTLF

Once an old man was dying, and a boy was nearby. He gave him a broom.

The boy brought the broom home, but he did not know that the old man was a sorcerer. And at night, evil spirits began to appear to the boy, and terrible things happened, until the parents turned to the grandmothers, who told him what was going on. The broom was burned. No one else seemed to come to him.

Recorded in Voronezh from Olga Nikulina, born in 1981. VSAU students of veterinary science. Recorded by Gruzdova N., 2001 AKTLF

And what should I tell you? Don't even know.

Well, I remember when I met your grandfather, he was hanging out with another girl. Oh, and she was feisty, and her mother was that witch. But I was young, I had no intelligence. Well, your grandfather proposed to me, and I agreed. And the mother of that girl said: “This will come off as bad for you.” Well... they celebrated the wedding, ate too many potatoes, and went to my husband's house. Just as we were going to bed, suddenly there was a crash, something fell from above, and it began to crumble - it was a can that fell and didn’t quite reach our bed. Passion is so scary. Grandfather Pashka was 26 at the time - he was fine, but I was 18, oh, I was scared. And then I realized that it was that sorceress who wanted to kill us.

And after 2 years she began to die. I suffered for a long time while my daughter sat out. A witch cannot die until she transfers her power to someone. And Ninka (daughter) did not want to take a sin on her soul. Oh, she screamed like a hunted animal. But Ninka had to approach her mother, and she said something to her, took her hand, and then died. That's what passion is.

Recorded from Maria Alekseevna Borodina, born in 1930. in the village Troitskoye, Lipetsk region. Record by Batrakova V.E., 2001 AKTLF

The witch cannot die until a hole is made in the ceiling

About 50 years ago there was a house on Nepochetovka, an old house, an abandoned house for a long time, but an old woman lived in it, her name was Galya. No one talked to her, no one visited her, only grandma Nastya, a neighbor, dropped by occasionally. This old woman lived alone, she had no children.

They said that she was a witch, that she was a witch. When she was young, she used to carry all the earth in bags from the cemetery. And when someone died, she went to the relatives of the deceased and begged for water in which they bathed the dead person. This woman Galya never went to church. One year, I remember, there was a mortality rate, cows were dying, half of the herd died out. Everyone blamed her. Well, what is it, people think, but no one can prove anything. The women said that there was no one to pass on their witchcraft to. She wouldn’t give it to Baba Nastya

She was already old, and there was no one else, no one went to her, everyone was afraid of her.

This witch began to die and began to scream. A neighbor, Baba Nastya, came running, what should I do?

Does not know. And the witch screams and screams. Well, the locals suggested that we should call the priest.

And she shouts: “No need for father!” Here those who know this matter say: “If you open the roof, she will die. Show her the sky."

Well, what can we do, the men started to open the roof, they almost died, the house is old, the roof is dilapidated. One guy fell and broke his leg. That means the roof has been opened. They say that this grandmother saw the blue sky and died immediately. It’s true what they say, they witches die hard, they suffer. The Lord punishes them for this.

Recorded in the village of Shishovka, Bobrovsky district, Voronezh region. from Myagkova A.T. Born 1918 Recorded by Terekhova A., Sionskaya A. 2007 AKTLF

This was somewhere around thirty years ago. In our village lived the witch Akulka. She did both good and evil deeds: she could bring damage and cure the evil eye. There were those who hated her, and those who were grateful to her. But I won’t tell you about this, but about how she died, oh, and her death was terrible. They say that before they die, sorcerers must pass on their skills and abilities to someone; to their children, nephews or students, and therefore, just as Akulka was expelled from her native farm for her deeds a long time ago, her relatives disowned her, the men were afraid to marry her, in general, she found herself alone on the day of her death, there was no one to teach everything that She knew how, and there were no hunters to take over her unclean power. So, when she was dying, there was no one nearby, and unclean power began to come out of her, she was twisted all over, she was beating on the floor, then on the walls. If someone had cut through the ceiling in her hut, all the evil spirits would have escaped through the pipe, and since there was no one to do this, she hit the ceiling with her hump until she broke through it, fortunately her hut was made of straw. People who lived in the neighborhood were fearful all night from the sounds coming from the witch’s house, and in the morning they found her mutilated body on the floor, everything around was stained with blood, and there was a hole in the ceiling.

So, then they said that it was someone who dealt with Akulka for her atrocities, and the apostles learned that they would have to transfer their witchcraft to her, and she would die in peace.

Recorded in the village of 2-e Selyavnoye, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region. from Tatyana Stefanovna Nevryueva, born in 1938. Recorded by Meshkova L., 1997 AKTLF

I would never have believed that there were witches if I had not seen them with my own eyes. In the evenings, the residents of our village saw a huge pig. I also saw her several times. A pig is like a pig, only too big. No one knew where it came from. She appeared after 12 at night, pestered people who were returning home after 12 o'clock. No one tried to go beyond the outskirts. One night, the brave men gathered and went to the outskirts. Having caught the pig, they beat it severely and left it to die. Arriving there the next morning, the pigs were not found. On the same day, one woman came into the house, she did not immediately recognize her neighbor - she was lying on the bed covered in bruises, contusions, abrasions, with a broken head, with broken arms and legs. To the question: “What happened to you?” she replied: “I fell into the cellar.” The woman called other women and men. The men, seeing their neighbor, told the women that they had caught a pig last night, severely beaten it, and in the morning it was missing. The women began to realize that their neighbor was a witch. The whole village came to see the witch. I was there too. The woman lay in pain, but could not die. She kept saying, “Here, take it.” But no one said anything to her in response. An old woman from another village came and said that she would not die until she passed on her witchcraft to someone or until they made 7 holes in the ceiling. The men began to make holes, and when they made the last 7th hole, the witch gave up her spirit.

Recorded in s. Verkhnee Turovo, Nizhnedevitsky district, Voronezh region. from Pelageya Nikolaevna Nazaryeva, born in 1934. Recorded by E.V. Turbina, 2003 AKTLF

Witches often lived in the past. One witch's husband fell fatally ill. He was supposed to die, but his wife’s sins did not let him into the next world. An unfamiliar old grandfather was walking from a distant village. He advised: “Remove the back area above the kimnata (bedroom).” And so they did. The “witch” (the witch’s husband) was lying in the room in the very corner. The roof boards were removed from above it. He sighed several times and died with a clear face. And no one ever saw this adviser - grandfather. People sprinkled the place with holy water just in case.

Recorded in s. Fomenkovo, Petropavlovsk district, Voronezh region. from Natalya Dmitrievna Kobtseva, born in 1930. Recorded by Gitman Z., Bondareva G., Sadchikova S., 2003 AKTLF

In one village there lived a lonely grandmother. Everyone in the village thought she was a witch. She died a terrible death because she did not pass on her skill to anyone. All night long the village heard terrible screams. All night her back was hit against the ceiling until she broke through. And then all the blackness came out through the broken hole, and the grandmother died. And in the morning her mutilated corpse was found in the house.

Recorded in Voronezh from Larisa Lvovna Meshkova, born in 1971. Recorded by Khokholkina N., 2002 AKTLF

In one village there lived a grandmother. And everyone knew that she was a witch. As you know, sorcerers and witches cannot die without transferring their witchcraft to someone.

Now the time has come for her to die. And since everyone knew that she was a witch, they were afraid of her, and no one came to her. For three days she could not die, she still lay there and screamed terribly. Nobody wanted to take her magic. One man took pity on her and said: “Why don’t you help her die, because it’s impossible for a person to suffer like that!” And he climbed onto the roof of her house and dismantled it, pulling out some kind of beam or matrix. According to legend, this makes it possible for sorcerers to die. As soon as he pulled it out, the grandmother immediately gave up the ghost.

Recorded in Voronezh from Mozgovaya Praskovya Antonovna, born in 1915. Recorded by Anoshina E.A., 1997 AKTLF

It's... It's she who died. And Iago and Vitya are seeing off. And my grandson is having a send-off. Vitya has this one. And we came from there, from the wires. Prokhorova, Volokova and me. And so. Their feces, the feces of the corner appeared to be something white. And then I see - it’s a dog. Shaggy. I say: “Look! Women!" I say: “We’ve never had such and such a dog!” And then I got a pounding in my head. I remembered what Vitka told me. Say: “Come on.” Then open the door, then close the gate. Yona came in.

I then moved this bench away and shouted: “Sit down, Nesterovna!” She was Nesterovna, her name was. She jumped onto the bench. Volokhova and Volgushka. Etta. We totally screwed ourselves. She sat and sat. I say: “Okay, go now.” She got down and walked along the road, back to them. Well, she knew something. She was about to go out. Hold something in your hand, especially when the sun rises. Come out, hold it in your hand. Cross yourself, from the arms and to the sides. And what did she have, what did she know?

Well, when did she die? Well, she took a long time to die. She told Polina Kogdratova that she was in the first house with us. Polina came to talk, but Fedorovna, my daughter, didn’t come up to her. She didn’t come up to her. But Polina did.

Well, she had an ax lying under this. Under the coffin.

Well, they put an ax under the coffin so that she.

The spirit left quickly.

The spirit has left; they are tearing off the floorboards under the ceiling. And they lay down the ax.

I haven't heard that. Fedorovna then said that Polina. Polina helped her out of grief.

Recorded in Voronezh from T.I. Mishina, born in 1946, native of the village. Kulagi Surazhskogogor-on the Bryansk region. Record of Kovalenko M.A. 2008 AKTLF

The sorcerer's refusal of Christian funeral services

The sorcerer died. Before his death, he said that no services should be held for him - “For his repose.” He himself refused this. And when they began to perform his funeral service and invited the worshippers, the chairs in the room began to jump. Personally, I was not present at this. This happened several years ago. We knew him. People said that he was a sorcerer.

Recorded in s. Bityug-Matrenovka, Ertilsky district, Voronezh region. from Ivanova Maria Ivanovna, born in 1939 Recorded by Telkova O., Bukshi M., 2005 AKTLF

The sorcerer dies only after performing a Christian funeral rite

We often went to all sorts of witches to bewitch and turn away. One woman had a husband, he left her, so she went to bewitch him in a neighboring village. And the witch said that they had visited her before. Her husband returned to her, and they lived happily again. Recently one of our grandfathers, Grandfather Philip, died, so he seemed not to be a sorcerer, but he could not die. Until the priest came and administered unction to him, he did not die.

Recorded in the village of Shishovka, Bobrovsky district, Voronezh region. from Myagkova A.T. Born 1918 Recorded by Terekhova A., Sionskaya A. 2007 AKTLF

She went to Moscow to visit her daughter; she was dying for a long time. This needs to be passed on to someone. Witchcraft. And she called us from Moscow: “Let Natasha be here... this is the same... (she also knows a little now)... Let her read a little, so that I die.” Well, this Natasha seems to have read it. Well, that grandma died. My daughter called and said: “Thank you, I was exhausted, otherwise I couldn’t do anything.”

Recorded in the village of Nizhnyaya Baygora, Verkhnekhava district, Voronezh region. from Varvara Mikhailovna Dolgikh, born in 1931, a native of the village of Chkalova, Dubensky district, Saransk, Mordovia. The recording was made by the studio. M. Kovalenko and O. Golovneva in 2008 AKTLF

The appearance of a sorcerer after death

There was an old house, and there on the wall appeared the image of a dead sorcerer. What they didn’t do. The wall was whitewashed, but he still appeared.

Recorded in s. Muds of the Ertilsky district of the Voronezh region. from Natalya Slashcheva, born in 1969. Recorded by Gryaznova A., Svezhentseva P., 2005 AKTLF

One night I was walking from my grandmother’s, but it was already twelve o’clock or the beginning of one. I pass by the house of Grandma Fyokla, who died a year ago, and there I hear steps and someone is singing. But the house is empty and no one lives there. My heart sank. She ran so hard that she almost fell into a ditch on another street. I came home barely alive, I told my mother, and she said that Grandma Thekla was a witch during her life, and now her soul cannot calm down.

Recorded in Belgorod from Natalya Vladimirovna Shcherbinina, born in 1984. Recording by Kishkina I. AKTLF

The witch was buried in our village. Everyone knew that she was a witch; they avoided her house. And the bravest men volunteered to bury. They buried her in the cemetery, but it’s a holy place for us, so it doesn’t accept her, the cross falls and that’s it for you. Then they decided to move her grave outside the cemetery, they argued for a long time, so, they say, they want to dig it up and bury it. But we decided to postpone it. Only after this was done, rumors began to circulate around the village that a witch in white robes was flying. They didn't know whether to believe it or not. Yes, I just didn’t believe it until what happened to me.

I was on my way home from work, but I just stayed there with the guys, so much so that it was 12 o’clock at night. Suddenly, I see something white, as if flying towards me. Well, I think it’s already imagining that I need to sleep more. No, she’s getting closer and looks like a woman, and her hair is black, long and flowing. Then I realized that the witch was ours, only she seemed younger. And she smiles at me like that, then sits down behind me, steps on my heels and says: “Van, sleep, sleep, Van” - and so on many times. I wanted to run, but my legs felt numb. But there is God. I crawled home. Only a week later I was sick and delirious. And then I had to disturb her again and drive an aspen stake into her chest.

Recorded from Dmitryashevka, Khlevensky district, Lipetsk region. from Dedov Ivan Nikolaevich, born in 1941 Record by Beregudova O.V., 1997 AKTLF

The witch is buried in a cemetery, but separately from everyone else

There is one part of the village, it is called Lipea. It is called that because a witch used to live there. She is now buried in the cemetery, but separately from everyone else. There is an old story that this witch ruined the brownies among all of us, and the brownies then strangled people. A neighbor told me, Grandma Olya, that a brownie chased her sister around the house and killed her, stabbed her to death.

The recording was made in the village. Nikolskoye 2 Vorobyovskogogor-on Voronezh region. from Sergey Sorokin, born in 1989, from the village of Manino, Kalacheevsky Mountain, Voronezh region. Recorded by Fomina E., Sorokina I., Obukhova E., 2001 AKTLF