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“There was no way for the toboggan, not a stop watch, but ordered Esmi to ride by the old vulgar road past their settlement to the Cherepovsi forest … “- it says in the ancient letter of Prince Belozersky Andreyevich. That road went through a swamp, and in a settlement, apparently, all evil spirits were found … Otherwise, where so many stories about terrible Cherepovets swamp? Casting aside fears, try figure out where the truth is, and where is the fiction.
A deserted swamp lies between Sheksnoy and Yagorboy, on both to the sides of the Komona River, begins at the very city of Cherepovets and stretches to the north for 30 versts. Its area is 80 square versts. Among the swamps are several lakes, of which the main ones are Ivachevskoe and Desert. The surface of the swamp itself consists of an elastic layer having a wavy appearance, broken in places from the pressure of the more fluid layer, which is why the so-called swim, or windows. The depth of the swamp reaches only two and a half fathoms (a little more than 5 m), its bottom is dense, clay. “Singing” swamps north of the city – this is not only a tradition, but also a result long-term observations of many people … “- so wrote the doctor Paul Gryaznov in his doctoral dissertation “Experience of comparative studying the hygienic conditions of peasant life and medicotopografiya Cherepovets district “, which he defended in St. Petersburg in 1880. True, they are found in that swamp and very deep places … Cherepovets swamps are poorly studied area in the Vologda region. Nowadays about her it’s customary to speak as an anomalous zone, because here it has long been there were mysterious disappearances of people from the roads, frequent suicides, an inexplicably large number of lunatics in nearby villages and strange behavior would seem to be quite healthy people. Scientifically, a swamp is a complex ecosystem with its own special flora and fauna. For education swamps, the proximity of groundwater, a certain humidity climate, topography and soil. It only seems like water in a swamp stagnant. In fact, it is updated here every five years. Even lake water requires more than three times as much time. In dry times, large swamps can stop and Forest fires. Almost half of the volume is kept in the bowels of the swamps Baikal waters. Swamps regulate the flow and feed small and big rivers. The Dnieper and Volga, for example, originate from swamps. The peoples of the Khanty and Mansi believed that the whole world was born from the “liquid land “, that is, from the swamp. It turns out that this is not such a bad place. Experts have calculated: every year one hectare of swamps is absorbed from atmosphere on average more than a ton of carbon dioxide and emits about half a ton of oxygen. This is an order of magnitude more than capable process one hectare of forest or meadow. Also swamps attract and absorb dust particles, which in calm weather moves towards a lower temperature (and the temperature above the surface of the swamps is always lower than around). One hectare of swamps can “swallow” up to three tons of dust per year! STRANGE SWAMP Russia can be considered the birthplace of swamps – nowhere are they in such a quantity and volume, as we have. And certain character traits in There are also people living in estates and villages surrounded by swamps. In notes of rural healers of the 19th century very often mention of a typical Russian spleen, which may well be clinical signs of the bad influence of swamps. According to statistics XIX century, in the area of the Cherepovets swamp, the number of suicides 3-4 times exceeded all-Russian indicators, was 9 times higher crime. In these parts, suicides usually injured themselves the head. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that the ancient swamp in Cherepovets surroundings are overgrown with their myths and legends.
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“In ancient times, one of the Belozersky roads began to disappear people are mostly nonresident merchants. Merchant people drove out one city – and they didn’t get to their destination, – narrated in notes by Pavel Gryaznov. – At first, people thought that a robber gang appeared in the vicinity. But gradually this version was discarded … Once upon a time people from the city with weapons combed the neighborhood and found on the shore of a large swamp abandoned cart. No horses, no merchant, no guards at the cart it turned out. And the goods stood intact … And in all cases, traces people who rode in carts went into the swamp – without a trace of struggle or some kind of anxiety … People disappeared alone and large in groups. No one returned from the swamp. Except for one person … ” This happened in the XVI century – the merchant disappeared for ten whole years. Of course, not all this time he wandered through the swamps, but experienced by him the horror was so great that he could only come back through many years. The merchant said that on the road he changed the route and went in places unknown to him. “Having approached the edge of the swamp, I almost drowned – such fear attacked him. Horror and the desire to kill yourself rather. Having kept a small fraction of consciousness, the merchant ran away from this places without even remembering the product and not thinking of coming back for it. ” Local merchants did not believe it, but he volunteered to show everyone a place. The merchant’s words were fully confirmed: on the shore of the swamp stood abandoned many years ago already collapsed carts with a merchant good. HOLIDAY OF THE SPIRIT Most researchers of abnormal phenomena occurring in the Cherepovets swamp, determine these places as “obsessed with the dark spirit.” What is the nature of this spirit – no one knows. Spirit is a hero of local traditions, some elemental dark force, bearing evil and suffering without any motive. Ancient the Celts called the swamps “gates of spirits” – where seemingly solid the soil instantly leaves under the feet, the gates to the world open mysterious spirits of nature and deities. Therefore, the Celts worshiped swamps and they came there with sacrificial gifts. In Slavic mythology in the swamp lives kikimora – an evil swamp spirit. Shown to people rarely prefers to be invisible and only screams from the swamp in a loud voice. He likes to dress up in “fur” from mosses, weaves into hair forest and marsh plants. Kikimora wading drags gaping travelers into a quagmire where they can torture to death. Therefore, they did not go far and alone into the swamp. It was believed that fearlessly walking through swamps can only sorcerers and witches.
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“The spirit appeared in the swamps a long time ago,” wrote the doctor Gryaznov in 1879. – No one knows what gave birth to him: the dense nature of swamps, dark the powers of the earth, the sins of people living in this area – or even himself spirit, having settled in this area, created comfortable for him life and dense swamps. “And here is a record from another Cherepovets source, made even earlier, in the middle of the XIX century: “He howls, this spirit. It’s worth one day to get there so that he forever stays with you. It absorbs the brain. He thinks and makes him silent … “” His you can be scared, – we read in a letter of a certain Perfilyev, a native these places, treated for his “swamp blues” at the doctor Gryaznova. – Do not talk about him, do not show him the way, he lives in the very center, where the forest is surrounded by a small red dough, looking like an elongated circle. Our forester calls him a witch. Himself afraid, afraid, and invites others to listen. I began to walk into the forest without guns. Everyone knows: his predecessor shot himself at home. Earned to the eldest and shot himself, but did not leave the city. And did not have time. Or he couldn’t … And even better – to be silent. Go and be silent. And it is not will be able to steal a voice. “” Father drove me out of the city, – witness and witness of the Cherepovets swamp of the middle of XIX century. – I got an education and returned. From now on, it is no longer possible to leave. These swamps will be found everywhere. How can you deal with such a colossus smelly peat? And how beautiful this swamp is when you find it first! And there are almost no berries, and there are few birds. This is not a swamp at all. A how can you hear him in the city! I already knew the three who hear him … ” This is confirmed by Perfiliev in a letter written in 1905: “All the best people really leave Cherepovets or die here … This is not mental – some other disease. Human ceases to wait for the best … and as if he hears in the morning, like somewhere in the north, the Lake sighs. And that water lives a strange life. She subjugates the people who fulfill her will. “Two years later Perfiliev himself already had this strange disease … VEGETABLE SOUL For a long time it was believed that plants have no feelings and “plant soul” is primitive. Modern biologists are gradually come to the conclusion that plants are not so different from people and animals. They can see, feel touch, smell, they have hearing and even taste. Instead of eyes plants have proteins that subtly respond to any radiation of energy. Flavoring enzymes found on the roots that help underground find “delicacies”, such as mushroom spores. With the help of smells plants communicate with each other. Plants may experience emotional stress and establish contact with a person. Quite it is likely that plants possess all of these properties due to the water in them, which is able to “remember” information and change its structure under the influence of sound and electromagnetic waves. The experiments were conducted with individual plants, however, the matter never reached the study of large plant an organism immersed in water, that is, having access to a kind of water “information library”. For example, like a swamp. And completely in vain. After all, if every plant so “animated” as it can be alive and feeling sustainable ecological system! It is noteworthy that only on swamps come across a species of predator plants. This is understandable, because in everything is rational for nature: in the water of swamps there are few substances needed by plants – they are washed and carried away by water. Here, for example, a sundew gets them from insect organisms that it feeds on. DESTINY Cherepovets “MONSTER” “I took peat analyzes from this strange places, – says the same doctor Gryaznov in his notes. -He sent samples to St. Petersburg and brought all the familiar scientists to bewilderment: besides plant debris in peat there were traces more highly organized life, which (traces) previously never met and not observed. Colleagues wrote to me that the swamp rare, unusual. “Other details and” material evidence, “shedding some light on the story with Cherepovets swamp, we do not know. Suggest that the swamp is in the form in which it terrified the entire district, died somewhere on the turn of the 1920-1940s. Rather, it did not die – it just stopped manifest himself, at least openly. Otherwise, how would it be allowed such a rapid construction of the city and development industry? And resist the active tide in Cherepovets fresh people swamp could not. Surrendered … Or hid? In every case, now in the city and surrounding villages people are calm and measured life, madness and crime are no more than in other places. Only occasionally visiting adventurers, who decided on their own, without the help of local ones, to master the marsh wilds, faced with something supposedly inexplicable. In fact, everything mysterious due to swamp gas emissions or to ordinary manifestations of life in the swamp. In the study of the Cherepovets swamp in 1992 a curious phenomenon was really revealed “loss of voice.” As eyewitnesses describe, the sound floated, It was difficult to talk. Thirty steps away screaming loudly, but was heard barely, but a couple of steps in side – and audibility became beautiful. However such acoustic phenomena sometimes occur on others, not such “terrible” swamps. In all likelihood, thanks to the special the wavy terrain effects here are observed, similar to the propagation of sound in anechoic chambers, where in porous and fibrous are used as absorbers materials. In the swamp, sphagnum moss and other moss can play this role. loose marsh vegetation and its remains. MANAGED WITHOUT FEATURES In the works of the most famous writers of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries more than 300 quite sharp stories associated with swamps. M. M. Prishvin in the story “Pantry of the Sun” told the story of the Fornication of the Swamp (Fornication, because you can get lost there). The writer tells about trees growing in a swamp as living people, about how close each other’s plant and animal worlds, calls the swamp “pantry sun. “Borina (a sandy hill in the middle of a swamp, covered with high boron) – like a living creature: it “was filled with bird songs, howling, moaning and screaming of animals. Not all of them were here on Borin, but from a swamp, damp, deaf, all sounds gathered here. Borina with forest, pine and sonorous on dry land, responded to everything. “And now the weather is changing: “… the gray gloomy man advanced tightly and covered everything the sun with its life-giving rays. The evil wind rushed very sharply. Rooted trees, piercing each other with branches, for everything The fornication swamp growled, howled, moaned. “Doesn’t this suggest thoughts about the presence of all kinds of “spirits”? And the writer answers this question: “… Many still only know about these great pantries of the sun, that the devils live in them: all this is nonsense, and there are no devils in the swamp. “Author: Anatoly Vladimirov
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