#wodnik

[kdotokdyvidel]

career goals: vodník

[niespokojne-mysli]

Stworzyłam profil na insta poświęcony zodiakalnym wodnikom ♒💙

Będzie mi miło, jeśli ktoś zajrzy, zrebloguje, cokolwiek 🔮❤

[slavstory]

Tydzień Rusalny (Rusal Week)

Tydzień Rusalny also known as Rusalia is a magical and special week which begins on may 2nd. At that time people slowly begin to prepare to say goodbye to spring and welcome summer. It is an important, solemn and magical time.

It was believed that during this period, the souls of the dead, brought by Jaryło who appeared together with the coming spring, reside in the world of the living. Everyone must be really careful because at that time "unclean souls" are very dangerous, that is, the dead, unmarried girls who during this week turn into rusałki. It is forbidden to bathe in lakes and rivers during this time, go out alone to the fields and move away from home.

People wanting to bribe the rusalkas and win their favor left gifts for them. Women hung white pieces of linen on the branches of the trees, and girls released wreaths made especially for the rusalkas into the water. Salt and bread were also left as an offering.

Rusałki could bring rain during a drought and help female fertility, therefore people preferred not to have enemies in them.

Some believed that rusałki were running across the fields and meadows in the form of beautiful women and seduced young men who could not resist their charm. When the boys succumbed to their spell, rusałki turned into old women with empty, dead eyes, and caused men to die of fear when they saw them.

On these days, Wodnik was to release the souls of drowned people, so they could finally set off on their way to Nawia.

pictures: wilkstepowyniezyje.flog.pl & panistefan.flog.pl

info: mojesredniowiecze.blogspot.com

[itaksiezlamie-blog]

Lubię Twój uśmiech

i (z)wodniczą charyzmę

I to, że w venus nie możemy być bardziej kompatybilni

i lubię

naprawdę

dużo rzeczy w Tobie

zdecydowanie za dużo

tylko że

nie lubię

nie słyszeć Twojego głosu

i nie łapać kontaktu wzrokowego

tak długo

jak to robimy

i nie lubię jeszcze

że tak trudno wyrzucić Cię ze mnie

bo zajmuję się milionem rzeczy

ale starczy

że zobaczę

chociaż kawałek Ciebie we mnie

i czuję

NK, 26/10/2017

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[chujtamwsumie]

Lubię Twój uśmiech

i (z)wodniczą charyzmę

I to, że w venus nie możemy być bardziej kompatybilni

i lubię

naprawdę

dużo rzeczy w Tobie

zdecydowanie za dużo

tylko że

nie lubię

nie słyszeć Twojego głosu

i nie łapać kontaktu wzrokowego

tak długo

jak to robimy

i nie lubię jeszcze

że tak trudno wyrzucić Cię ze mnie

bo zajmuję się milionem rzeczy

ale starczy

że zobaczę

chociaż kawałek Ciebie we mnie

i czuję

NK, 26/10/2017

[katytroll]

Vodník

In Slovak, Slovene and Czech folklore the features of vodník are markedly different to the East-Slavic conception; he has a completely human constitution and habits, except for few differences – vodníci have gills, webbed membrane between their fingers and their skin is algae-green in colour as well as their hair. Their overall dress and appearance is weird, sometimes even resembling a vagrant; patchy shirts and (by modern standards) odd hats are commonplace. They can withstand lingering for hours outside their ponds.

The folk tales have both evil and good vodníci (relative to human beings) who do (or don’t, respectively) try to drown people when they happen to swim in their territory. Vodníci would store the souls of the drowned in porcelain lid-covered cups. They consider their cups as the most valuable heritage and display their “work”, and number these cups they see as proportional to their wealth and/or status among other vodníci. When the lid of such a cup is removed, the soul within (in a form of a bubble) will escape and be liberated. Otherwise, vodníci spend their time by running their territory or – in their spare time – playing cards, smoking pipes or just sitting at the water surface and loitering. Fishermen ask the vodník for help by placing a pinch of tobacco in the water and saying, “Here’s your tobacco, Lord Vodník, now give me a fish."