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Russian Yakutia is a real Klondike for every kind of mysticism, sometimes just terrifying.
The colossal territory of Yakutia is completely covered by the tundra and forest arrays; 99% of it is virgin land, on which practically the foot of a man did not set foot. And this despite the fact that Yakutia has the same an area like India or, say, six France. When during a few days you go from one village to another, and on the sides endless tundra and hills with impassable forests stretch involuntarily you begin to think: what can this untouched nature?..
Paranormalism painted in gloomy tones occupies in Yakut folklore is a special, one might say, a place of honor. Indigenous Yakuts holy believe in spirits, deities, shamanism and other things that are beyond the bounds of visible reality.
Under the heading “Mystical Yakutia” we will tell you the most amazing, incredible, and sometimes chilling stories, which is so rich in local folklore. Many of the events described occurred relatively recently, and we hope that you will interesting to know how people living with ancient forces in the same era with us.
Who are shulukyuns
The first story will focus on the Yakut underwater spirits, called shulukyunami.
To begin with, it is worth saying that the fundamental faith of the Yakuts is a classic paganism. According to local beliefs, each an essential area of human activity and every element of nature closely associated with various spirits that are “responsible” for them.
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However, when Yakutia was annexed to Russia in the seventeenth century, this faith was largely assimilated with the Russian Orthodox Christianity, which has undergone significant changes and acquired elements of theism. However, the spirits of nature from the Sahalar faith (self-name of the Yakuts) did not disappear, and shulukuns are one of such most famous spirits.
They live in lakes, ponds and swamps, without interacting in any way. with a person. They are not considered evil shulukuns, but they are not good you name it. The appearance of the “Yakut water” is not known in detail to anyone. However, it is generally accepted that they are similar to anthropomorphic devils with some signs of amphibians: scales, fins, membranes between fingers, fish eyes …
How to steal water gold
Despite their unwillingness to contact people, these spirits are all they leave their habitat, but this happens only in Christmas time. In each of the twelve holy nights shulukuns come out of the water and rush to abandoned huts, booths and houses that are separate from residential settlements. They are there play your favorite games, and not just like that, but on your own – underwater – money that on land looks like gold coins. Believed that a man with a certain courage can take possession of wealth Shulukyunov.
To do this, it is recommended to go on a holy day to some empty housing on the outskirts and hide there, covered a blanket. Dress as warm as possible, as in January frosts, the temperature on the street can drop to minus fifty, and abandoned huts, of course, no one heats. So, if you are lucky, you will become a witness and participant in the extraordinary action …
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When gambling water spirits get into a rage and make big rates, it is necessary to scream out and turn the table out of all urine, for who is playing the game. “According to the scenario” taken by surprise shulukuns will have to get scared and rush away, leaving their wealth in the hut. Then you can safely take their gold money. That’s just they need to be spent within three days, otherwise then gold water devils turn into ordinary algae, which it was initially …
How to learn from the spirits about your future
Being in a company with perfumes is possible not only for the sake of material enrichment.
The fact is that during their games, the shulukuns willingly discuss events that should happen soon. Often they talk about the fate of the local people, therefore, if you do not spoil damn fun and listen carefully to them, you can get hold of important information that will help you prepare for the future.
For Yakut extreme sports, such a pastime is something with the water of holy divination. However, nowadays everything is fewer daredevils who want to frighten in the dead of night and in severe frost or eavesdrop on the devils. This business is too risky …
The story of two brothers
It happened in the seventies of the last century in Central Yakutia. The two brother brothers decided to listen to water spirits at Christmas time, and if you are lucky, then you will appropriate their gold. Since adults are not approved of such entertainments, guys decided not to devote in their plans of parents and at night left the house secretly from everyone.
For their purpose, they chose a booth, from time immemorial empty on the outskirts of the village. Such ancient abandoned there are still many buildings on this earth, as in the former times, the Yakut people were dispersed by families in particular “glades”, building a home there.
So, our heroes dressed warmly, took with them a bottle of vodka and went to their destination. In the booth, the brothers hid under table, covered with a woolen blanket and began to whisper softly, periodically applying to the bottle. It was impossible to light a fire: if the shulukyuns understand that there is someone inside the booth, they that they will not come. Spirits play either in pitch darkness or in the light looking out the moon windows.
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The guys sat under the table for several hours. When time exceeded midnight, they began to yawn and became laconic. Suddenly a door creaked slightly, dividing farce and crib. The brothers flinched and froze in fear. Not otherwise the shulukuns appeared, they thought. For a while everything was quiet, then the door creaked again – there was no doubt that this time it opened. Neither alive nor dead from fear, guys were afraid even loudly breathe.
And suddenly a strange muffled sound came from the barn, reminiscent of a clucking chicken. The younger brother, unable to stand it, threw a blanket from himself, jumped out from under the table and rushed to the exit. It is clear that the elder did not want to be alone with the unclean by force. However, he was unlucky: while the younger brother safely left the hut and rushed home, the elder tripped over threshold and fell in the snow.
At first he began to call for help, then suddenly he yelled so as if he were skinned alive, then abruptly silent. Younger brother, apparently, thought that his shirt was closer to the body, or maybe he was mortally scared and did not return to the booth. He is only for a second looked back at him already at the edge of the forest, but did not catch in the moonlight in the light of no movement …
These were not shulukuns
Having reached his home, the young man woke his parents and, with difficulty pronouncing the words, he told them what had happened. Shocked father almost pounced on him with his fists. “Are you crazy? approaching this place ?! “- clutching his head, he shouted the man.
Later, the younger brother found out that the booth they chosen, considered damned. Long before the revolution in it there lived a family, all of whose members died one by one without any visible reasons. More precisely, the local shaman established the reason and stated that there was a strong evil spirit that killed all the inhabitants at home. Since then, the clearing with a booth was circumvented by the tenth road and even grass was not mowed on it. However, time passed, generations were replaced, and about the long-standing tragedy was remembered less and less.
Father and son started an SUV and drove at full speed to cursed place. They got there very quickly. Son flatly refused to leave the car, and his father alone had to get to the hut. Once near her, the man burst into bitter tears. Already the body of his firstborn, who had time to stiffen, lay on the snow – judging by everything in the same place where the unfortunate one fell.
The body was loaded into a car and taken home. When the dead man was removed all the clothes on his back, right under the right shoulder blade, showed up a huge bruise, as if someone with all their might hit this place huge fist – through a short fur coat and several sweaters.
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Subsequently, the younger brother admitted that before his flight I saw a strange and terrible creature. When the door is between the crib and creaked a booth for the second time, he furtively raised his blanket and looked that way. To the brothers quietly and slowly, as patient predator, creeping three-meter human figure. She is made the young man scoot headlong and forget about everything on light …
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