Sunday 23 August 2020

The cure

Sorbs from Germany, Poland and Czechia used to bury the person bitten by a snake into the ground up to their neck. The same was done by Serbs in Bosnia. Serbs from Croatia and Montenegro only buried the bitten limb into the ground. Serbs from Serbia covered the wound with earth...

Source: "Simbolika zivotinja u Slovenskoj narodnoj tradiciji" (Symbolism of animals in Slavic folk tradition) by Aleksandar Gura.

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