Wed 28 Jul 2021 - 8:20 by Jexxston
Magic water mirror.
A man came up with little from what nature itself did not come up with. He can only learn from his amazing advice and try to imitate her. This is what happened with the invention of mirrors. People got their own nature long before they learned how to melt metals and produce glass.
Next to the man, the mirror was always: it was enough to look at the calm and calm surface of the lake, in a simple vessel with water or even in a well. Reflection to yourself has always attracted, fascinated, forced to look, capturing everyone's imagination. And sometimes a scarecrow, causing inexplicable excitement: suddenly in the depths of the water there was something mystical that could not be quite close. Since ancient times, apparently, the popular roots of most folk tales have come.
For example, it was believed that if you look at the lake for a long time, you will not see anything other than your own hour of death. This was absolutely convinced by the ancient Greeks, the Hindus and, of course, the Slavs. The famous ethnographer of Russia Afanasyev, who was engaged in collecting folk legends, who lived in the XIX century, brought a lot of such information in his works. Let's try to consider some of them.
In 1707, during the reign of the so-called "King of the Sun", namely Louis XIV, documentary evidence of an important event was preserved. On this day in the house of one of the favorites of the Duke of Orleans there was an unusual performance. In the vicinity of noble gentlemen, in the middle of the hall, stood a modest girl of eight years - this was the daughter of a servant. In her hand, the girl held a glass filled with water, which the duke himself gave her, desperately wanting to see the supernatural powers of this child. He wanted to know if it was true that she could predict the future with only one glass of water. The Duke asked the girl to describe in detail the death of the reigning Louis XIV, who would be at his bedside. In the hall after such questions, all those present died down, and there was silence.
The girl, meanwhile, gazed intently into the water in the glass, and then began to speak. First of all, she described the room in detail. All present exchanged glances with each other, because it really was the king's bedroom. Then the girl was able to describe in detail the dying king and those present, how they looked, what they wore, where each of them stood. After that, everyone in the classroom was worried about what they had heard, and asked if there were any of them in the king's room. In the end, all of them were close to him people. But the girl just shook her head. Everyone was puzzled, because in the king's room, which never had a servant's daughter, she described exactly the smallest details. But the Duke of Orleans and other guests before the king at the time of his death doubted. How can it be that all of them, especially those close to the ruler, are not present at the last hour? Grandes immediately wrote down everything they had heard in writing and sealed their signatures with this document. Copies have survived to this day. Eight years after the event described, King Louis XIV died, and the scene of his death to the last detail corresponded to the words of a little prophetess. And none of the guests of the Duke of Orleans, like himself, was present on the deathbed of his king, because each of them died even earlier.
A man came up with little from what nature itself did not come up with. He can only learn from his amazing advice and try to imitate her. This is what happened with the invention of mirrors. People got their own nature long before they learned how to melt metals and produce glass.
Next to the man, the mirror was always: it was enough to look at the calm and calm surface of the lake, in a simple vessel with water or even in a well. Reflection to yourself has always attracted, fascinated, forced to look, capturing everyone's imagination. And sometimes a scarecrow, causing inexplicable excitement: suddenly in the depths of the water there was something mystical that could not be quite close. Since ancient times, apparently, the popular roots of most folk tales have come.
For example, it was believed that if you look at the lake for a long time, you will not see anything other than your own hour of death. This was absolutely convinced by the ancient Greeks, the Hindus and, of course, the Slavs. The famous ethnographer of Russia Afanasyev, who was engaged in collecting folk legends, who lived in the XIX century, brought a lot of such information in his works. Let's try to consider some of them.
In 1707, during the reign of the so-called "King of the Sun", namely Louis XIV, documentary evidence of an important event was preserved. On this day in the house of one of the favorites of the Duke of Orleans there was an unusual performance. In the vicinity of noble gentlemen, in the middle of the hall, stood a modest girl of eight years - this was the daughter of a servant. In her hand, the girl held a glass filled with water, which the duke himself gave her, desperately wanting to see the supernatural powers of this child. He wanted to know if it was true that she could predict the future with only one glass of water. The Duke asked the girl to describe in detail the death of the reigning Louis XIV, who would be at his bedside. In the hall after such questions, all those present died down, and there was silence.
The girl, meanwhile, gazed intently into the water in the glass, and then began to speak. First of all, she described the room in detail. All present exchanged glances with each other, because it really was the king's bedroom. Then the girl was able to describe in detail the dying king and those present, how they looked, what they wore, where each of them stood. After that, everyone in the classroom was worried about what they had heard, and asked if there were any of them in the king's room. In the end, all of them were close to him people. But the girl just shook her head. Everyone was puzzled, because in the king's room, which never had a servant's daughter, she described exactly the smallest details. But the Duke of Orleans and other guests before the king at the time of his death doubted. How can it be that all of them, especially those close to the ruler, are not present at the last hour? Grandes immediately wrote down everything they had heard in writing and sealed their signatures with this document. Copies have survived to this day. Eight years after the event described, King Louis XIV died, and the scene of his death to the last detail corresponded to the words of a little prophetess. And none of the guests of the Duke of Orleans, like himself, was present on the deathbed of his king, because each of them died even earlier.