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Those who know their folklore can easily prove that back in the supposedly good old christian days of Europe priests (and their wives) were probably the most hated people in society, right next to the jews and merchants (usually the same thing). United both in greed and faith the two were always depicted in a negative light.
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Kirik woke up terrified thinking a demon came for his stolen treasure. Poor man agreed to give it all up and handed the pot to the horned beast.
The priest returned to his wife with the pot laughing at the silly peasant but then he realized that he couldn’t put down the pot as his hands seemed melted to it! The bull’s hide was also now merged with his own along with the hooves, horns and tail.
That’s how a priest became a devil and was chased away from the village while Kirik got his treasure back.
The end.
She ran to the sewer’s and returned with an awl in hands. She got an old bull’s hide from the attic and stitched it to her husband’s robe.
Go and scare Kirik!—she said—make him leave all the treasure in the church and never touch it again!
Kirik was at a loss of words and stared at the treasure for a short while. He turned his head looking for the old man in rags, but he was nowhere to be found. He got out of the hole and returned to the pot with a horse as it was too heavy for one man to lift. He rode to the city. There he bough some flour, millet and salo for his family. Riding back home he saw a crowd of priests gathered around his house. They have no doubt heard of Kirik’s miraculous find and were all very eager to conduct a burial for his child. The latter was performed at the local church with pomp and ceremony.
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Kirik
There was a poor peasant by the name Kirik. His child died and he came to the priest asking for a proper burial. The priest asked for money the man didn’t have. So poor Kirik took a shovel, went to the cemetery field and started digging. After some time an old man dressed in rags approached the hole. He asked Kirik why he was alone out in the field digging. After hearing the reason the old man told him to dig at another site down the road saying that it would be a much better place for the grave.
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Recently heard this Easter=Ishtar bs from a wiccan. Though the whole thing died a while ago, but apparently it didn’t.
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The belief in luck and good fortune is widely spread among Romanians…the beliefs in fairies coming at birth and deciding one's fate is still widely practiced. Romanians also believe that luck and fortune can be obtain by wearing different fetishes such us crucifixes, and four-leaf clovers.
Romanians also believe that good/bad luck or fortune/misfortune has to do with one's own determination and hard work in life.
Those who held this self deterministic view are urban and more educated persons who were told under communism that an equal and prosperous society is built only through hard work…
Florin Paul Botica
Romanian people claim to be Christian, attending church, praying to God, and observing other Christian rites and holy days. However, to deal with daily needs and issues, they also believe in and practice folk beliefs and customs, many of which are unbiblical…casting spells, witchcraft, divination, mediums and spiritists, magic, communing with the dead, and sorcery.
Many Catholics in Romania are nominal Christians who do not attend church regularly.
Florin Paul Botica
Silver pendant from Klahammar
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Cheiron the Centaur and Jason by William Russell Flint
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Centaur Leading a Procession
Norman Lindsay
Art of Bohdan Golovatsky
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They washed their hands and took up the barley-meal to sprinkle over the victims, while Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf. “Hear me,” he cried, “O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might. Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans.”
Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley-meal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them. They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands. When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing-bowl with wine and water and handed it round, after giving every man his drink-offering.
Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices.
Homer Illiad
We are nearing completion of the Yggdrasil Deep-dive!
For a part of Germanic Faith with very little written about it, there was a ton of info under the surface.
We will let you know when it's published on the YouTube channel!
This was an interesting little story, wasn’t it? Simple, but effective, with a good lesson too. Goes on to show the attitude a common man had to the priesthood and by proxy the church. There’s plenty of such tales in folklore and I could probably compile and retell a whole book of them. May even sell well. But, you know me, making money was never my goal to begin with and that’s not changing anytime soon. The stories being shared is a reward on it’s own.
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The moon was shining bright as the priests sneaked to the window of Kirik’s house.
You took my treasure!—he spoke in a booming voice—Curse you and curse each and every coin unless you give it back! You want to give it to the priest, don’t you! I’ll shutter your house! I’ll take you and your family to hell!
The priest who had previously refused Kirik was very eager to learn where the man got the coins, but his wife advised him not to ask then and there, but rather wait till Kirik’s next confession. The priest followed the advice and managed to convince the man that the treasure must have belonged to evil spirits and thus should be cleansed by him in a church. Kirik agreed to baptize the leftover coins (of which there was plenty), and pay the priest for the work. Upon learning all that the priest’s wife got an idea.
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Kirik agreed and followed the man to a secluded site down the road from the cemetery. It was a nice spot indeed and the ground was soft. Kirik began digging the grave, but soon noticed some glimmer in the hole. It was a large pot full of silver coins!
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My older follower probably remember this translation of an anti-clerical story about a greedy priest who tried to swindle a poor peasant by dressing up as a bull. /channel/Aryanpaganism/5306
Recently I found a very similar story which differs in detail, but the events are more or less the same. I will try retelling it with some nice illustrations.
Found some rare book illustrations. Need to get the images ready. Will post tomorrow.
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Viking trade routes by Severino Baraldi
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Romanians believe in the power of blessing to originate well-being and success in life as well as in the negative impact of curses, interestingly enough, even some Orthodox priests practice the use of cursing in helping some people get revenge on others or originating misfortune and even death in the latter' lives. Witches and fortune-tellers can also curse or bind curses. Then, oaths or conditional swearing is also greatly practiced.
Florin Paul Botica
In the Life of Homer traditions, the poet is conventionally pictured as blind, and his blindness is caused by some misfortune that happens to him in the course of his life. Different narratives feature different misfortunes. In some versions, he is blinded by some illness; in other versions, his blinding is a divine punishment for some mistake, such as his defaming of Helen or his conjuring a direct vision of Achilles entering battle in his second set of armor, the gleam of which is blinding to those who dare look at it.
G.Nagy
Invariably, and inevitably, if any people gives up the religion of its own creation to take up the religion of an alien people, it surrenders its independence and to a considerable extent its identity. For our people to have adopted Christianity was to yield up their life to the direction of Jews.
W.G.Simpson
Jason and his Teacher by Maxfield Parrish
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Young viking king
by Jack Coggins
Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo
Johan Tobias Sergel
This drawing by Sweden’s most important Neoclassical sculptor and draftsman depicts a scene from Homer’s Iliad.
In the drawing, Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, prays for help after Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, has refused to return his kidnapped daughter. In response, Apollo inflicts a plague upon the Greeks.
Chryses invoking the Vengeance of Apollo against the Greeks by Benjamin West
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The Nine Muses
Clio records past ages in her prose.
Euterpe's hollow reed makes double sound.
Voice-famed Thalia revelling loves the sock.
Melpomene's notes in tragic iambs seethe.
Terpsichore's golden lyre thrills all the sky.
Strings touched by Erato sweet love-songs make.
Polymnia's odes suit swift and varying moods.
Urania scans the stars of heaven in verse.
Calliope crowns epic bards with bays.
Florus