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Eastern European Practices

From the Byzantine Empire to World War II, the Magick and Medicine in Eastern Europe has held on to many of its ancient practices, even when Christendom had set in. The people of this part of Europe, who stretch from Belarus and Kashubian to Hungary and Ukraine, simply incorporated the practices, utilizing Folk Medicine and Magick daily.

They knew that Christianity was simply a taking of other practices and adding of dogma to them for control of land… and control of the conquered people. It was an easy transference for most Europeans to make. For the znakharki, babka, or babka-sheptukha – the “granny whisperer” or known amongst the Orthodox as “whispering witch”, it was a bit more.

Granted, fear-mongering took place through the times and ancient beliefs were twisted and stories were inserted into those indigenous to the land. ZAGOVORY, or “verbal folk medicine” was a common practice, and continues to be to this day.

This attempt at control only kind of worked on the Folk Magick in this part of Europe. Many practitioners still cast wax and “whisper” away “demons” … or ailments. Even those from the Church still come to them to be healed, from Ukraine to Bulgaria, they are known amongst them by their many names.

EASTERN ROOT
The beauty of Eastern Europe has always been its ability to practice magick through fiercely defending their indigenous practices, despite “what the Church thinks”. Many of the Elders have been able to keep their practices and share them with their family and community, just as they do their gardens and animals. It is the way of the “shaman”… or wise one.

Take a moment and watch this video on “granny whisperers”, or “Whispering Witches”: Whispering Witch Video LINK

Vlad Țepeș (Tep ish)

Not the TV trope vampire, the real man. Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracul(a), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death.

He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. He was the second son of Vlad Dracul, Dracul meaning ‘dragon’, who became the ruler of Wallachia in 1436.

(Turtle Island had not been colonized by the Church yet.)

Many people of the land feel Vlad HAD to act in the ways that he did in order to hold out for his people, even though they were forced to accept the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire in 1417. This is an evidenced time of “harming” Magick, or Subtractive and Protective Magick, amongst the citizens of Wallachia in their attempt to save themselves.

EARLY HISTORY
The title Vlad briefly achieved was voivode. That is a title denoting a "military-leader" or someone viewed as a "warlord" in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe. This is what people wanted to fight the onslaught of those who would later colonize them. In the English language, the title he achieved is often translated as "prince" or "duke” to pretend to be more PC. This was very fitting as the entire continent was in turmoil. It was in deed a “time of war”.

This term, voivode, had been in use since the Early Middle Ages. It began to fall out of regular use around the 1700s the more the people assimilated to those who came.

Before that, many considered Vlad simply a local person who fought to protect the land, rights, and dignity of his people against the foreign invaders of the Ottoman Empire.

CHILDHOOD
To go back a little further, when Vlad was 11 years old, he and his brother Radu were sent to the court of the Ottoman sultan Murad II as hostages. This act both was an attempt to keep his father’s loyalty to the sultan and planted the seed of vengeance which would later grow and fuel his actions against the Empire. As history tells, Vlad’s father and elder brother were assassinated when he was just 16. Vlad spent the rest of his life fighting to reclaim his father's title, fueled by that seed that had been planted so many years previous in the Sultans Court.

It seemed the fighting was endless. Ottoman offensive was held in check and then finally driven from the field on January 10th, 1475. But that final drive would cost Vlad dearly.

THE FINAL PUSH
Vlad later died from an Ottoman ambush in December 1476. The Ottomans returned again, this time assisted by their newly conquered allies from Crimea, the Tartars and their newly colonized Vassal of Wallachia. Wallachia fell to the rule of the Empire. This lasted until the 19th century, albeit with brief periods of Russian occupation between 1768 and 1854.

We here at Three Circles Medicine & Magick will spare you the gory details of war and the things Vlad did to keep an already demented sultan and his forces at bay, but the history is public record.

Two “devils” — or non-beneficial energies had been knocking at the door of humanity for quite some time. One, is what many now call “money”, the other, “religion”.

Despite all Wallachian efforts, fear of the Ottomans later drove the beleaguerd Byzantine (Orthodox) leadership to approach the Catholic Papacy for military help, culminating in the short-lived Council of Florence in 1439, rather than any alliance with the Ottoman Turks.

Just know that many consider Vlad a “folk hero” to the indigenous of the area. As time passed, Wallachia began to change.

EASTERN EUROPEAN MAGICK
Through that time, revivals happened. Magicks and stories were spoken in hushed tones and romanticized by the colonizers from the Church. In reality, the reason Vlad and his families attempts were held well in certain regards was because they were NOT the Church.

All who have been colonized by them and continue to tell their kith and kin about them KNOW their corruption. Oral history is a danger to their attempt at controlling the narrative here on Earth.

They were not trying to take over a foreign land but rule their own. The psychology behind the cruelty that was induced by Vlad was warranted in many eyes. His father and brother had been murdered by pedofiles and this effected Vlad deeply. Witnessing the atrocities that Vlad witnessed that were perpetuated upon other children means an inordinate amount of emotional response was to be seen as a result by some. (It was not “unexpected”)

There was no “vampire” as created by these stories from the Church and later its Hollywood mecca of their psy-op propaganda. Yes, he was cruel, but he did not get to write his own history explaining the logic behind his broken emotion, did he?

In some circles it is said that the sultan broke that young boy, and not in a good way.

The Sultan essentially tried to crush Vlad’s spirit.

Not many can say “what they would do” in a situation as dire — as they have never been in it. Look at the political chaos that is caused when someone known to the world to be an enslaver of children and sex-trafficker is brought up anywhere in the world. Look at the sheer emotion that comes forth. Can you imaging what Vlad felt? The anger? The desperation? His actions say that this destructive force elicited a destructive force.

Let us not repeat the past.

Let us take the anger, hatred, vitriol, misgivings and any other word that can be attached to such a history as we have shared and you have now seen … let us transmute it together.

Let us utilize the energy for beneficial Global Magicks and Healing Medicines for those spirits who survived our collective past.

Let us move that perceived hurt through Time, pull it to us, especially if we are genetically connected to Eastern Europe — and address the Shadow. (For those familiar with the “Black Lagoon” this energy can be placed there to help Transmute it for us to collectively utilize for our Highest Benefit.)

It is a heavy undertaking but it is something we can keep on the shelf of our library of psyche, or in our Psychic Library we are building with the Purple Candle.

See, it all eventually ties together. EVERYTHING we do here at 3CMM, is connected.

Keep the thought of what arises inside from reading this passage as a Key for when there is need. Remember Vlad and what “religion” has done to his memory from his people through Time.

Know that the energy is real, the stories told by some humans is not always so Truthful, and that pain… felt by Vlad the boy, was life changing.

In but a moment of Time,
he was made Timeless.

Thoughts on the Region

What interests you about this region? What jumped into your mind while reading the lesson? Are you genetically tied to any of it? What part? What do you think of how the “whispering witches” incorporated other practices?

1448 WORLD HISTORY
In the year 1448 in history:

JANUARY 6
(ALWAYS a volatile time, in the sense of gematrian value)

Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, dies with no designated heir, leaving all three kingdoms with vacant thrones. Brothers Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna and Nils Jönsson Oxenstierna are selected to serve as co-regents of Sweden.

FEBRUARY 1
After a long episode of drought, floods, locust infestations, and famine in the Ming Dynasty, these natural afflictions finally began to wane. (travesties since 1434)

MARCH 11
Hundred Years' War: England cedes Maine to France.

MARCH 16
Hundred Years' War: peace negotiations break down over the issue of English control over Brittany.

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER 23
Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Sark.

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

It was a volatile year. These blanks were left intentionally. Remaining “clean, clear, and curious”, can you fill any in? (Maybe two or three? What can you find in available history?)

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”Those accused of ‘heresy’, amongst other atrocities, were persecuted across the Alpine valleys of Dauphiné between 1424 and 1448.”

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