Do you know that the witch sign on the hand is the main sign by which you can recognize the witch? With the words “witch” or “witch”, we often recall the famous witch trials that took place in medieval Europe. In our imagination, an old hack with a stick immediately arises, the main purpose of which is to make small and large dirty tricks to your neighbors. It was believed that from ordinary women a witch is distinguished by a special witch sign, located on the body or on the palms. Few people now know that initially witches were called wise women, healers, healers and sorcerers, and this name was formed from the ancient word “Veda” - knowledge.
The witch was considered an intermediary between our world and the world of spirits. Its main purpose was to heal people and give wise advice. In ancient times, such women always had their own patron goddess. In Russia, after the Russian people accepted the Greek faith, they began to be wary of witches, but they still did not refuse the help of wise witches. Things were completely different in Europe in the 16th-17th centuries. To this day, court reports from the time of the witch hunt have survived, striking the imagination with their cruelty and bloodthirstiness. As a result of the persecution of innocent women, a book appeared, a kind of instruction in which the inquisitor fathers described how to distinguish a witch from a god-fearing woman.
According to this book, the witch sign on the arm is far from the only distinguishing feature of the witch. Any unusual mark on the body was considered such a sign. Professional witch hunters believed that this is how the devil stigmatizes his accomplices. A major mark was considered a large wart. The Holy Fathers believed that this is the nipple through which the witch feeds the devil. In the same book, the procedure for the trial was described , and the torture to which the defendant should be subjected.
The woman accused of witchcraft was stripped, tied up, her hair was carefully removed from her body and examined. It was believed that the sign of the witch could not be in sight, so he was sought on the most intimate parts of the body. Each mole of a suspicious form was pricked with special needles - if a woman did not feel pain, then she was a witch. As a rule, the skin in such areas loses its sensitivity, so almost every unfortunate person who fell into the clutches of the holy Inquisition turned out to be a witch . If on the body of the defendant there were no signs at all, the torture did not end there. They continued until the inquisitor's needle found a patch of skin with low sensitivity. Even a perfect body could not save the unfortunate, because the devil could reward her with this perfection. When a woman’s guilt was considered proven, she was burned at the stake. These bloody auto-da-fes passed throughout Europe for two centuries. The best women of the era burned at the stake.
Some superstitions from the darkness of the Middle Ages have survived to this day, but the attitude towards women endowed with the gift of healing has changed for the better. The witch sign on his hand has long scared no one. Palmists claim that this sign consists of small lines that form an eye pattern. They call him that - “Eye of the Witch”. You can find this sign at the base of the palm, in the area of the Hills of the Moon. It is believed that the mark “Eye of the Witch” marks a person endowed with a special talent. Among those who are marked with this sign, healers, oracles and fortune-tellers, that is, people who have a connection with the other world , are most often found . Such people, endowed with very strong energy and the gift of foreboding, are born either at the beginning or at the end of the millennium. As a rule, both the witch’s sign on the hand and the accompanying talents are inherited, often along the female line and through the generation. It is by this sign that one can distinguish a real sorcerer or witch from a charlatan and a deceiver.