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Calendar of Slavic Fairy Tales is a series of experimental miniatures inspired by old beliefs.

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Another beautiful video from the Bui Sisters.

And The Lore is Thick... Bear with. Read this from the description included with the video itself:

The short film "Rodzanice" - is another installment in the Calendar of Slavic Fairy Tales series, produced by the Bui Sisters thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. This time, during the long autumn evenings, we delve into the roots of one of the most popular Polish customs – St. Andrew's Day. It's an artistic vision of a rendezvous with destiny, woven from folk beliefs and the desire to know the future.

RODZANICE (also known as Narecznice, Sudiczka, Aurora, or Zorzeczenki) – in the beliefs of ancient Slavs, RODZANICE were the invisible weavers of fate. They appeared at the cradle of a newborn child to inscribe its future on its forehead and weave the thread of life. They determined the length of its life and whether it would be happy. Although usually associated with birth, their presence was felt wherever a person's fate was at stake – including in matters of love.

ST. ANDRZEJKI AND PAGAN JĘDRZEJKI - Contemporary St. Andrew's Day echoes ancient pagan rituals that took place during the autumn-winter equinox. It was a liminal time when the veil between the human world and the afterlife became thinner, which favored all kinds of divination. The Church, unable to eradicate these practices, Christianized them, associating them with the figure of St. Andrew. For the ancient maidens, this evening was not a merry-making affair, but a deadly serious ritual. It was believed that properly asked questions and performed actions could bend the thread of fate or at least allow one to glimpse it.

WAX POURING AND SYMBOLISM - The most famous custom—wax pouring (ceromancy)—has deep magical roots. Why wax? As a bee product, it was considered a pure, sacred substance with the power to connect with the spirit world. Pouring it through a key (symbolizing the opening of secrets and gates to the afterlife) into cold water was meant to solidify the future. The shadow cast by the casting on the wall was a message from the "other side." The film used an authentic spell – a song asking for a good husband, addressed directly to Rodzanice (Aurora). This text was discovered and preserved in ethnographic notes in the monthly Geographical and Ethnographic Monthly "Wisła" (1887/1905). This is evidence of how strongly belief in the agency of these mythical guardians persisted in the people, intertwined with Christian prayer.

SPELL - "Aurora, aurora, there are three of you: one in the morning, the other in the afternoon, the third in the evening. Give me fate, happiness, Love, and a companion for my Aurora, my preceptors! All of you, my little sisters! Get on your black horse and go for my companion. So that he can neither sleep, nor eat, nor sit, nor talk without me. So that he will like me in my condition, at work, in my desire. So that I will be grateful and pleasing to God and people, and to this companion of mine."

Therefore it seems the lyrics of the piece in this video is the actual spell-song recited in Polish.