In ancient times, a legend was formed about the amazing fern flower. The mysterious flower was attributed to witchcraft properties, thanks to which he could make his owner happy for life. But finding and picking a flower was incredibly difficult.
The legend of fern flower
Legend has it that fern blooms only once a year - on a magical night on the eve of Ivan Kupala. Allegedly, on this night between the leaves of fern a small corner lights up - a flower bud. However, she does not stand still, but moves, jumps from one place to another and even chirps. When midnight comes, the kidney opens, a fiery flower appears, illuminating everything around with its light. It is sometimes said that at that moment thunder strikes and the earth shakes. Moreover, the flower blooms for only one brief moment, and you need to have time to pick it at this moment.
A brave man who decided to go in search of a fern flower should come to the forest closer to midnight, find a place where the fern grows, draw a circle around him and wait for the flower to appear. But, as soon as the flower appears, the evil spirits will try to scare the daredevil in all their might. However, you need to take a knife and cut your palm, and then put the flower in the resulting wound and run home without looking back.
But the brave man who managed to get a flower will receive a worthy reward. He will learn to understand the language of plants and animals. From the conversations of plants, he learns which grass helps from which disease and can become a great healer. It can bewitch any girl you like, any locks will open in front of it and any chains will break. By the way, that is why fern is sometimes called rupture-grass. But the most important thing is that all treasures hidden in the bowels of the earth will open to the owner of a wonderful flower.
For this reason, fern flower is so eager to get unclean power. But he is not given into the hands of evil spirits, and she has to use man for her own purposes. A terrible story was told about this in his novel "Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala" Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Her main character - poor farm laborer Petro - ignorantly fell into the clutches of evil spirits and was destroyed by her.
