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The attitude to the future and human fate among the Yakuts is deep fatalistic. According to local beliefs, everyone’s plan before his birth is recorded in a special book by one of the supreme Yakut deities – Chyngys Haan. Therefore faith in prophecy, various fortunetelling and prophetic dreams do not contradict the fundamental religion of the Yakuts: since the future is completely predetermined, then in you can look into it.
It is believed that in heaven man can be bestowed “full” or “incomplete” fate. The one who was awarded the “complete” fate is not no misfortunes and adversities are terrible: he can lead the most reckless lifestyle, but will die in old age, lying in the warm the bed. But a person with an “incomplete” fate risks going to forefathers in the prime of life and health, becoming a victim of the ridiculous an accident.
Below we present two characteristic stories of the lucky with “complete” fate.
Princely Bastard
This happened in pre-revolutionary times in one of the deaf corners of Yakutia. The local prince in old age tired of him fat, middle-aged and also barren wife, and he set off for love affairs. After some time, the poor girl among servants gave birth to her master a boy.
The joy of the prince, who had long dreamed of a son, knew no bounds. Is worth say that the attitude to the illegitimate offspring of noble persons was much better in these parts than, say, in Europe. Therefore the prince not only did not hide the birth of the bastard, but also publicly curled that an illegitimate son will become his full heir. Mother the boy was left to live under the roof of her lover on privileged position.
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It is clear that the wife of the prince was not enthusiastic about such a turn events, but could not argue with her husband, because women in nineteenth-century patriarchal Yakutia did not have voting rights. Then it occurred to her to eliminate the baby.
The offended princess went to the neighboring village where she lived the famous predatory shaman who did not shun for a worthy reward play the role of a killer. The guest brought the sorcerer money and gifts and stated that she wants to get rid of the born bastard. In those times babies quite often died for natural reasons, and that’s it was in the hands of the shaman: hardly anyone would suspect him of the death of a child. The sorcerer accepted the payment and assured the customer that he would spare no efforts fulfillment of her request.
Without postponing the matter until later that evening, he began the incantation. First, the shaman summoned evil spirits to his hut, subordinate to him. Then he stamped his foot on the ground (in many booths there weren’t sex), the earth collapsed – and began to fill the pit so called “dead” ink-black water. The sorcerer took a piece of birch bark, instilled in him the spirit of a baby and set sail on a puddle.
After that, the shaman and his supernatural helpers began throw stones at an improvised boat to sink it and make the child’s soul leave the body forever. With all their best efforts did not manage to cope with this, at first glance, simple task. Either the sorcerer’s hand trembles, then the birch bark as if by herself dodging danger. Even the spirits could not do anything. IN all the stones went around, but the shaman never achieved what he wanted. At dawn, the “dead” water went underground, and the ritual was forced completed.
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When the prince’s wife came again, the sorcerer informed her that the baby born with a “complete” fate, and therefore does not seem to destroy him possible. The shaman also warned the woman not to made such attempts, otherwise it will cause disaster.
Taiga danger
In the late nineteenth – early twentieth centuries of Yakutia attracted many people who wanted to rapidly grow rich. To the gold mines in the city of Bodaibo from all over Russia gathered thousands of romantics, honest workers and, of course adventurers. As usual, robbery began in these places, and many “lucky” lost huge fortunes even faster than earned.
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The hero of our story, a young prospector from Yakutsk, in I decided at a certain moment that I had earned enough and decided return home to relatives. The return road brought him to the trans-shipment point, which in the taiga was a great many. In such a place you can it was dinner, a drink and relatively safe to spend the night.
It just turned out that all the rooms in the house are occupied and the owner can accommodate a newly arrived guest only in the barn. Thats not became picky, closed inside with a heavy bolt, settled down on the bed and soon fell asleep soundly.
And he had a terrible dream: as if he was lying on the same boardwalk and can’t move, but from under the trestle bed you can hear quiet sobs, whispers and fuss. The guy with an effort turned his head and saw in the faint light of the moon pouring through the window, as if from under a bunk on some naked woman crawled out on all fours. When she got up to his feet, it became clear that the unfortunate man had his throat cut, and from larynx hanging tongue. The dead woman approached the young man and kissed his lips with such an icy kiss that he instantly woke up in a cold sweat.
To calm down a little, the guy lit a lantern and wanted to go out into the yard to smoke. He pushed the bolt on the door – and he suddenly fell on the floor. “Blende!” – understood the guest, and the next second found that the barn is locked outside. The guy rushed to the couch and pushed him to the side – under the bed was carefully disguised door to the underground. Opening it, the young Yakut with horror I saw below a mountain of corpses, which was crowned by a woman’s body with throat cut.
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The young man recoiled from the pit and put out the lantern. Now everything has become clear: the owner of the transshipment point, goes out, is hunting robbery. is he kills its guests and throws them into the ice cellar, where due to permafrost, the bodies do not decompose.
Meanwhile, quiet voices were heard from the courtyard. Closing the subfield the guy put the trestle bed in place and threw clothes under the covers to in the dark, this heap was mistaken for a sleeping man. Armed with a false deadbolt, he froze near the door. Soon she is quiet opened, and two entered the barn – crept up to the bunk and several once hit the blanket with a knife.
Without thinking about anything else, the young man rushed into the courtyard, where the owner in the company of another gangster he was waiting for his accomplices. Zvezdanow the taken aback leader with a heavy latch on the head, the guy rushed away from a terrible place. The other three robbers rushed for him.
The chase lasted a long time, and the young prospector, exhausted, began to mentally say goodbye to life. He considered himself good. runner, but the attackers did not seem to concede and even superior to him in stamina. Distance between the fugitive and his pursuers inexorably reduced …
Suddenly, a deep ravine several meters wide appeared ahead meters. Deciding that it’s better to die falling from a height than to be stabbed, the young man accelerated and made a huge leap. He almost fell from the opposite edge, but still managed to hold equilibrium. And one of the bandits who wanted to repeat this trick, fell into a ravine and crashed. The other two did not want to take risks and stopped the chase. “Lucky you, creature! Probably your fate “Full”! ”- one of the cried after the failed victim them.
And our hero, running back to a safe distance and catching his breath, suddenly realized that all this time he was wearing a heavy backpack with mined wealth. Here is a young Yakut guy whom higher forces awarded “full” fate, saved not only his life, but also money earned by honest labor.
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