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Ancient Slavic Spells

Posted on August 31, 2014

by marinako08

So I will dedicate the official first post to my friend whom I spoke of in the introduction post, and
post a translation to six Spells/Chants I found on a site that seem to specialize in it (I will link the site
bellow just to be fair and give due credit). The site claims those are ancient Slavic chants and spells.
Now, while I have no way of testing that, the Chants and prayers do address Slavic pagan deities.

Now before the spells there is a list of rules which I also translated:

Rules for performing Slavic rituals

A few days before the ritual a strict diet needs to be observed: No meat, alcohol or tobacco.

The chants should be said quietly in a whisper, that is so no one would hear, since someone hearing
could have a negative effect on the ritual’s effectiveness.

The ancient rituals should be performed only by an absolutely healthy person: if a person with a cold
would perform the ritual, his condition might worsen. Also the ritual would have no effect.

There is a special attention given to the health of the caster’s teeth, specifically if the caster missing
two of their frontal teeth they cannot perform strong spells.

If the ritual is done by the caster for someone else, it is forbidden to take payment. In form of
gratitude it was a custom to bring the caster food which was given purely as gratitude, and after the
success of the spell.

Positive chants need to be read on the following days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Those days
are considered easy.

Negative chants need to be read on the following days: Monday and Friday. Those are considered
hard days.

And as in many other forms of magic, here also, complete belief is mandatory for the success of the
ritual.

A Chant for Health

This chant must be chanted in a whisper

Far away, on an island beyond the sea there lies a white rock.

By the flaming rock stands a man, father to three sons, a king to all.

He takes out his sharp knife, and cuts all of their sicknesses and illnesses, a piece by piece.

So let him also cut (the person’s name)’s sicknesses and illnesses, put them under the rock and put
under lock and key.

Let him throw the key into the sea, forever and ever closing off all the illnesses.

My words are strong, them can surpass only he who can with his teeth devour the rock.
So be it!

Slavic health chants must be read for seven days in a row, and not a single day can be skipped!

A Prayer for Ending Bad Luck and Bringing Good Luck

This is most effective to chant at sunrise

Oh you, oh you, mother Lada, cleanest mother!

Do not leave, do not abandon us without happiness and love!

Send us your grace, for we honor and praise you!

So it is to be, so it will be, so it is, as long as Yarilo‘s sun shines upon us.

The chant needs to be repeated seven times in a row. If there is no effect, the ritual can be repeated
after fourteen days have passed.

A Chant for a Healthy Baby

This chant is read over the pregnant woman right before birth.

Mother Rojenice, sister, dear sister, hear our words, our prayers.

Accept our pale gifts and gift a healthy descendant to (the name of the woman giving birth).

So that never would our family line be cut.

We sing you praises, and invite you to our house.

From circle to circle, now and forever!

Let it be so!

The prayer is to be repeated three times. This prayer would help the woman to have an easy birth
and to bare a healthy baby.

A Prayer Against Insomnia

Insomnia was considered to be a serious disease and thus was required to be healed by magic. The
chant needs to be read over the person suffering from insomnia at midnight, whilst placing a hand
on his head.

Knock knock, sleep will come, while the illnesses will be gone.

Sleep tight – See dreams.

Thoughts away, don’t come near!

Sweetly sleep – be healthy!

Sleep (name of person)


The chant is to be repeated three times after which the person can fall asleep

For House Protection

Chants to the Domovoi were considered the most effective ones. It was believed that if he is pleased
then the house is in safe hands. The chant is to be read in the evening.

Grandpa, Domovoi, don’t sleep, look after the house,

So that evil people would pass it by, and thieves would run far away!

Safe guard, and protect everything!

Read the chant three times, after which leave an offering to the Domovoi to please him.

Love Ritual

This one was used by maidens who wished to find their other half. Needs to be chanted at dawn
whilst holding on to a birch tree

Oh birch, beautiful birch!

Help me!

Send me love and happiness!

Like the pair of birds who build a nest,

So do I want to meet my darling dear!

Repeat the chant seven times, after which thank the birch tree and go home. Within a few months
the spell should come true.

Of Wolves and Dragons: Slavic Traditional Witchcraft


| Modern Rodnovery
Posted by ammiano marcellino on 29,Ago,2015 in cultura, Esteri, Europa, storia | 0 comments
Sorgente: Of Wolves and Dragons: Slavic Traditional Witchcraft | Modern Rodnovery

“Witchcraft” is a loaded word. Even in the United States, neo-pagans and


monotheists alike tend to falsely associate it with either the religion of Wicca, or the “black magic” of
Satanism. This is to be expected however. Over the last 50 years, the neo-pagan revival was dominated by
the publicity seeking antics of some of the more notorious founders of those two currents. Since most
Slavic nations were under atheist indoctrination policies of communist regimes back then, there were no
such revivals. Those that did arrive came well after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite communist
suppression and even the christian effort before it, witchcraft and sorcery lived on in Slavic lands, quietly
hidden by peasants in rural communities. When we look at the witchcraft traditions that survive today, we
are talking about the oldest techniques of divination, magic, soul travel and healing bequeathed to us by
our ancestors from their original faith; our native faith Rodnovery. The families that kept these traditions
alive constitute the “witchblood”, and there is evidence to suggest that this lineage stems from the ancient
Rodnover priesthood that went underground following christianization. People of the witchblood are
believed to have been gifted (or cursed depending on who you ask) by the gods and spirits with special
abilities, and there are many legends surrounding how those things came to pass.
Russia was one of the last countries in Europe to have its
pagan faith extinguished by christendom. The volkhvy were a class of priests and priestesses that led
numerous rural uprisings against the imposition of the Byzantine faith. Their name stems from Russian
volk, meaning “wolf”, as well as Russian Volos, or Veles, god of magic, music and the watery
underworld. In fact, wolves themselves were believed to be the reincarnated souls of dead Rodnover
priests. In 1068, the volkhvy led an armed rebellion in Kievan-Rus to free Vseslav Briachislavich, the
Prince of Polotsk and secret pagan. For the next two decades the volkhvy rallied the peasant class in an
anti-feudal revolt against oppressive landowners before being crushed by Prince Iziaslav Iaroslavich with
the help of polish mercenaries. After that, the volkhvy went underground where they remained popular in
the countryside. The volkhvy were so popular in fact, Orthodox clergymen wary of their waning influence
launched witch trails throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Despite this, when it came to alleviating
the practical hardships of everyday rural life, the volkhvy were preferred counsel to priests and
government officials. Over time, the name volkhov evolved into a derogatory term for male sorcerer.
Vedma, or “witch”, was a similar pejorative applied to women. It literally means “seer” or “knower”.

Today the volkhvy constitute last the keepers of the


witchblood. They are considered masters of a much larger tradition in Russia called koldovstvo,
Ukrainian; chaklynstvo. It should be noted that one does not have to possess the the lineage of the volkhvy
to practice koldovstvo. Such men and women are called koldun or koldunya, meaning “cold ones”, and are
considered folk magicians. A similar systems prevails in the Balkans where conversion happened much
earlier in the six century, but as a consequence the church was much more permissive of the old ways and
allowed them to merge with the new religion. The craft there is known as vračanje, from the verb vraćati
meaning ”to return”. Yet whereas Russian volkhvy are thought to descend from shamans who had the
ability to shape-shift into wolves and bears, witches of the Balkans, especially in Serbia, Macedonia and
Bulgaria, are believed to have descended from dragons. This lore is preserved in an apocryphal text
called the Book of Enoch II written in Serbian. Here the fallen angles are called dragons, but more
practically are understood to be meteors that fell from the heavens eons ago. Once on earth, these dragon
spirits roamed the land copulating with women spawning a race of vještice (witches) and zduhaći (dragon
men). Chief among these dragons is Dabog, the Serbian “man in black”. He is described as a tall, silver
bearded wanderer who wears a black mantle and wide brim hat followed by, incidentally enough, two
wolves. He emerges from mine shafts and other subterranean places where he rules as divine metallurgist
and king of the dwarfs. He is said to be the first ancestor who went to the underworld and established rule
and is sometimes thought of as the dark twin (or aspect) of Svarog, or as Veles himself.

Indeed Veles too is honored by vještice in much of the


Balkans, but under different folk guises. In Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina he is known as a lesnik, from
Russian leshovik, a tall, hairy, wooland “green-man” with glowing yellow eyes who protects the wildlife of
the forest. He is mischievous and known for turning around sign posts, imitating the cries of loved ones, or
shape-shifting into various forms to confuse travelers. In Croatia they are called vedi, like Russian vedma,
meaning “knowledge keeper”. Thus If one befriends a lesnik or ved, he or she may be initiated into the
mysteries of magic. The vedi were thought to bury their dead inside the hollowed trunks of dead trees and
peasants would make packs with them in return for protection of crops or magical knowledge. Similar to
ved is vodjan, meaning “water man”, a green man covered in moss or water vegetation. He has long hair
and flaming eyes, with paws or branches instead of arms. He plays his flute to lure people into his realm.
Because vedi and vodjani  were known to be covered in fur (Veles may stem from Proto Indo-European
wel meaning “wool”) remnants of the Veles cult are preserved in the mumming rites of the vucari
(wolfmen), zvoncari (bell ringers) and kukeri (quivering ones) and the legends of the vučica (she-wolf).
Surnames with variants of the word vuk (wolf) are so prevalent in the former Yugoslavia there is little
doubt that the volkhvy, or at the very least a priesthood like it, once existed in the Balkans.
Koldovstvo and vračanje constitute just a snapshot of the surviving body
of Slavic native faith, handed down one generation to the next. As such, there are only three circumstances
in which one inherits this tradition. For most, it reveals itself at birth. Children with the witchblood are
born with certain markers like being born inside a blue placenta, with a red caul, having a long tailbone,
birth mark, or lach of hair on the body. They may have eyes that change color, possess a long nose or
crooked pinky fingers. Often they are born on certain days, like May eve or on the dark or last quarter
moon. The other way one becomes a Slavic witch is through spirit led initiation. This most often takes
place during a series of lucid dreams, where one is visited by ancestors who pass on secret rituals or astral
power objects. This may take place during a near-death experience, or when one develops unexplained
behavior that leads them into the wilderness for an extended period of time. Here they are taught magic by
the old ones like Forest Mother, Baba, Veles, Dabog, vedi, vodjani, vile (sylphs), rusalki (nymphs), palcice
(dwarfs), and the like. The only other way to claim the witchblood is by seeking out the gods and spirits
yourself and asking them to imbue you with it, but this requires immense preparation with very little
chance of success. It should be noted here that, unlike modern Wicca and other western magical traditions,
no one man or woman, priest or priestess, has the authority to initiate another. This can only be done
through direct communion with the gods, spirits and ancestors.
To be a Slavic witch, one possess the ability to astral travel and fall easily in and out of trance states.
Furthermore, Slavic witches observe three major taboos during ritual; nudity, silence, and not looking back
after the working’s conclusion. These correspond to the three Slavic principles (Prav, Jav and Nav) and the
three forces (Um, Život and Rod). First the witch must approach her/his gods and helping spirits in truth
(Prav). Therefore (s)he sheds all her clothing exposing all that (s)he is, with only her Um, or soul to guide
her. The second taboo, silence, is observed because the witch must quiet the noise of Jav in order to “push”
her Život, or astral body, into the otherworld. Finally, the witch worked her magic by altering or shifting
the threads of fate, and since most of her helping spirits lived in the underworld of Nav, her journeys there
were not without inherent dangers. A ritual, if performed poorly, could cross or unweave the witch’s Rod,
or ancestral karma, putting her life or livelihood in danger. So (s)he takes precautions and never looks back
following ritual so as to clearly sever the line of communication between the worlds.
Some of the techniques of Slavic witchcraft include:
 Divination using coffee grounds, live coals, molten lead, casting beans, observing birds
 Direct fortune telling using the personal effects of others, handling magical fetishes, ext
 Weather magic using astral travel to raise, fend off or direct storms
 Drawing illness out of the body using a bowl of water, herbs, beeswax and moon energy
 Drawing illness out of the body by transferring it to a stone, tree or animal
 Communing with gods, spirits and ancestors using entheogenic salves and sacraments
 Drawing energy or spiritual power into the body through ritual breath work
 Summoning water spirits to expose criminals, lost or stolen property
 Climbing the World Tree to the upper and lower worlds using ritual trance
 Crafting herbal medicines, bags, and other amulets for love and protection
 Crafting amulets using plants, animal fetishes, eggs, crystals, metals, and woven garments
 Crafting potions for love, healing, and harm.
 Summoning subterranean nature spirits using silver coins to increase money
 Uncrossing spells using homeopathic magical power objects, rituals
 Defending against baneful magic using boiling water, or a corn husk, pumpkin and water
 Developing relationships with domovoje  (house spirits) or poloviki (yard spirits)
 Purifying your energy body by moving zivot, or living energy
 Performing soul retrievals by accessing rod, or family karma
 Exercising vampyri using hemp/sage fumigation, magical knife or besom
 Protecting livestock, workspace with ritual fire
 Constructing pysanky talismans by painting ancient sigils called znaki on to eggs
 Creating living water and fire using water from three streams and bark from three trees
 Accessing magical power by learning to locate a svyato mesto (power spot)
 Raise magical power dancing kolo (ritual circle dance)

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