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This story happened in one of the uluses (districts) of Yakutia shortly after the end of World War II. She was told in some time grandmother, who at the time of the events described below was still a little girl.
The young Yakut lived with her parents in the village. Her father, recently returned from the front, began to actively restore household. Having built a new house, he began to help in the construction housing and fellow countrymen – for a rather modest material reward. The mother of our heroine was a good tailor who again provided its services in exchange for various family benefits like sugar, tea, kitchen utensils, etc.
In short, the family, despite the difficult post-war period, does not in poverty. On the contrary, some rare things appeared in the house, which not all Yakuts could afford. For instance, mechanical sewing machine, which played an important role in this story.
Once, late at night, when the girl’s father was away, and other relatives were sleeping peacefully, something strange happened. Our the heroine woke up from an unusual sound, as if someone was climbing the head of her bed. There were no cats in the family, so the child quickly I realized that what was going on was beyond the ordinary.
Frightened, the girl took cover with a blanket with her head and froze. Through for a few seconds someone jumped on her chest and slowly walked towards legs. Although the mysterious entity was almost weightless, her sharp claws digged into the skin of the yakut through a thick blanket. The baby smelled poisonous rot and, being neither alive not dead from fear, continued to lie numb in her unreliable shelter.
Meanwhile, the creature jumped to the floor and headed for her mother’s bed, near which the sewing machine was standing on a pedestal. Suddenly the device worked in the dark, starting to spin and knock idle. The girl did not dare to look out, but she heard as mother tossed and turned and moaned in a dream. The machine has worked yet for a while, and the woman continued to moan softly.
Then the device fell silent, and the mother of our heroine calmed down. The girl heard a quick clatter of claws on the wooden floor, the word the uninvited guest escaped to the wall, and the house finally drowned in silence. Soon, the baby also fell into a dream.
But at dawn it turned out that a tragedy had occurred. Mother of a girl late in pregnancy woke up in the morning with severe abdominal pain. We ran to the neighbors, called the peasants. Those the woman was loaded onto a cart and taken to the district center, where she was nearest maternity hospital. Alas, it was not possible to save the child – it happened miscarriage.
Our heroine did not dare to tell adults about what she witnessed the day before. Yakutia kept this secret until old age, all my life analyzing the frightening events of that night and trying to find an explanation for them. According to the woman, the Abasy (evil spirit) came to the family home to feast on the spirit of the unborn child, and the essence used the sewing machine as peculiar millstones to grind the unfortunate astral body baby.
Our heroine reproached herself to death for not picking up the courage to jump out of bed and wake up the mother. Maybe then she I could save my brother.
By the way, other cases of local folklore are also known predatory spirits used improvised items to poison life to people. So, in another legend it is said about the Yakut elder who really boasted of his surekh (breast cross) and did not part with precious adornment not for a minute. Once the headman fell ill and began to dry up literally before our eyes. The village shaman who came to he threw up his hands from the doorway and declared that it was all the fault man’s pride. Allegedly, the Abassi enchanted the cross, and he continuously sucked vitality from Yakut. And every night the spirit sneaking into the house and absorbing the energy reserves collected by this “accumulator” of thin energy. These are they Yakut legends and tales, you don’t even know how to believe all this …
Time Life of Yakutia
