Are
genetic defects - Book
of Daniel
| P144 Myths about strange creatures, who from time to time collide with a man, harming or sometimes helping him in something, exist everywhere in world. These beings have different names, however, irrespective of their place they have common features. They live in indistinct places of woods, bogs, mountains, on the deserted cemeteries and in ancient ruins. They either frighten, or tempt, protect cattle or steal children and food, warn about death or eat people, help in home economy or drink blood and so on. People either admire them or are afraid of them. They can be ugly dwarfs or hairy giants, undersized monsters or perfect girls and young men, awful old witches and wizards or nice small people with transparent wings. However, despite of their external displays, all of them are vindictive, egoists, indifferent or ill-intentioned to people, with which they collide. And even those who show apparent care, are dangerous to a man, though in many cases a man understands it too late. Africans
are familiar with small hairy spirit named tokolush,
who lives near flows and frightens the travelers, and also with the small
gray-haired people of Senegal, who dance in lunar light. In Australia people
think, that mimis
- the tiny spirits, live in cracks of rocks, and they are the vegetarians, but
sometimes they eat people. In Iran these are peris,
which live in trees. In Japan - Kappas
- harmful water spirits, which grasp the swimmers in lakes and rivers, and tengus
- winged fairies of forest. In Middle East - afrit
and afrita
- djinns, which can be good and bad, small and large? Sometimes they marry
people. To enter their city, it is necessary to achieve the changed condition of
consciousness. Spirits
of desert - ghul
and ghulla
sometimes eat people. And mazikeen,
shideem and shehireem
are winged seductive fairies. In Russia they are the cannibal baba
Yaga; thirsty for human love mermaids;
watermen,
kikimoras and leshiys, aspiring to ruin the man; and hairy dwarfs - hobgoblins,
which help at home. In the Netherlands - alvens
- invisible night fairies. In Greece and Rome they are naiads
and nereids -mermaids, nymphs
- air fairies, dryads
- fairies of trees. In Northern America -
mekumwasuck
– harmful hairy small people of wood; the wood spirit
bokwus heats the fishermen, and the Arctic water spirit kul,
on the contrary, helps with the catch*. ___________________________________ *Eileen Holland - www.open-sesame.com |