FAIRY TALES 10
TREASURES OF BROTHER JOHN: WITCHES, HERBS
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The monks Euzebius and Ernest bought back the table and chars to he shed. They have now moved to shed with Elon , Reni and animals Trolly and Fyfy. Monks began to talk about Brother John :
He was a great traveler and explorer. He observed the customs and lifeof savage peoples around the world., especially their faith. These peoples did not have churches or priests at the time. Masters of faith were dealt with by sorcerers there otherwise known as shamans. Were going to show you some of Brother John’s treasures from this reseaech.
They opened the chest and took out Brother John’s notebooks first. They said: Look, here John wrote down what he saw and heard from the wild peoples , also their fairy tales that they told their children.
Elon and Reni looked at the notebooks, written in smail handwritten handwritting. In notebooka dried flowers were folded as bookmarks, and plant leaves from the area where John stayed. The notebooks smelled strange.
Eusebius said: Brother John also took a lot of pictures and a dozen films, you will see that another time. Now we will show you the different things used by these savage peoples.
They showed the children the masks and costumes that the witches used.The masks were made of wood, witch featchers, beads, animal teeth, shells, strings. They put these masks on their faces.They sorcerers clothers were often made of animals skins and there were also many colorful feathers on them, necklaces made of animal teeth and bones. Everything was very colorful an dhad a foreign smell, unknown the children.
Trolly and Fyfy were afraid of these things and hid under the table.
Monk Ernest carefully packed all these things back intopaper sacks and bags, put them in crate. And Eusebius took out of the chest and now showed the children the various sticks that the shamans used to swing them when they danced or said incantations. There sticks were made of wood, they had different shapesand feathers, bonesand shells were also attached tothem. The canes werelong and heavy.
Eusebius said: Sorcerers also dealt with curing people from variours diseases. They used selected plants for treatment. They cooked these plants and gave them drink. They made compresses of leaves on these diseased areas, ordered the sick to chew leaves or smell the smoke after burning these plants. Brother John noted the names of these plants and the ways in which they were used by sorcersers.. He photographed these plants, dried them and put them between pages of special notebooks , which are called herbariums. See them.
The children turned pages with delight, beteen which were dried flowers and leaves, and there were also signatures in John’s small handwritting. Reni said: I will also dry flowers and leaves from meadows, gardensand forests in this way. Mrs. Susy and my mother will tell me what their names are. And I’ll write these names there.
And Elon added: We also use plants for healing. We drink mint or chamomile tea when we have a stomachache.
And Fyfy squealed: My mother told us to eat nettles and wild stawberry leaves in the forest. She did not allow to eat some plants because they are poisonous.
The monk Eusebius explained: Yes, there are also poinsonous plants or those that are eaten specially processed and in small quantities. And the monk Ernest added: A lot of medicines are made from plants. There is a saying that
God gave people a plant for every disease, but we don’t always know about it. Wild animals ,when they are in pain, often eat selected plants, they know this from their parents.
The monks slowly packed all of Brother John’s treasures and suvenirs back into the chest and then padlocked it.
Eusebius told the children to put on their backpacks and they all went to the car. It was almost evening. The monks drove Renia to her parents, Fyfy to Mrs.Susy and finallydrove Elon and Trolly home.
The parents listened with great interest to children stories about the treasures of Brother Jonh and what the children had learned from Abbot Joseph, monks Eusebius and Ernest. Parents were proud of their children.
Fyfy the pig told everything to Mrs. Susy and she was nery curious and moved by this story. Even Mrs.Susu’s goats listened to this story too.
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I have lived in Poland since I was born. I am a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Psychology.
I worked as a psychologist with children and adolescents. Now she works with terminally ill people. For years he has been painting pictures, composing music and above all writing. I write poems, short stories, essays and fairy tales for children