Bosnian Magic

 In ethnographic notes from the beginning of the twentieth century one can find descriptions of rituals which spurred fertility, which are, ...

 The importance of sexuality and fertility in human history, almost to the point of exaggeration, is perhaps best presented by the examples ...

 Circumcision of the penis is known as a part of the tradition among the Arabs and Jews and according to certain data, all three messengers ...

 Fear of vagina or a woman caused mythological traditions of women as a symbol of evil, manifested in the form of various demonic beings, an...

 When a woman has a menstrual cycle, she utters this formula: My husband, your penis wants to enter my vagina. But my red king forbids it, y...

 The power of vagina itself was divided by whether the woman was a virgin, sexually active, married or divorced, widowed i.e. one that didn...

 Nature itself is the greatest altar which exists, which was surely familiar to our ancestors, as well as the fact that respecting natural f...

 From rare descriptions it is possible to presume that our Illyrian forefathers imagined or represented the Grand Mother. She was embodied i...

 Cult of fertility always belonged to the common folk, farmers and herdsmen, and it can therefore be considered as an integral part of folk ...

In stories about mystics from the past of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stories about saints ( evlija ) are especially interesting, the people...

After the battle at Kosovo 1389, when the Ottomans completely defeated the Serbian army, which lead to a catastrophic reduction of the male...

Wahrsagung mit Hilfe von 41 weißen Bohnen wird in Bosnien und Herzegowina bacanje graha, falanje u grah oder ogledanje u grah genannt. Je...

In Bosnia there is an interesting divination among the Bosnian with the help of an eyelash. When someone notices that someone has lost an ey...

Death which represents the end of life, is probably the main "culprit" why the belief in supernatural appeared among the human ci...

Spirit and soul as two abstract terms are actually a basic framework of the entire spiritual thread which spans through the human race since...

The human spirit is very restless. When a man is sleeping the spirit exits the body and walks away. The man dreams where the spirit goes, an...

Soul is the holder of human destiny. In BiH it is believed that Allah in the first 40 days of inception in the mother's womb determines ...

According to traditional belief the soul and body during a human's lifetime create a whole. If the soul leaves the body forever - death ...

When a girl or boy would die one would place a stalk of nacre (ruta graveolens) above their heads. According to the custom one places an her...

Such belief confirms the belief that when the deceased is buried he is visited in the grave by angels, judges, Azrail and Džibrail. They que...

Among the Bosnian people, especially in the south-western part of BiH, there is a custom that every family have their own graves, which are ...

While crossing the Sirat bridge it is determined if the soul will receive punishment or reward. Out of the great weight of sins the unlucky ...

Furthermore traditional beliefs of our ancestors have a very strong impact on the century long spiritual reflections therefore we shouldn...

While mourning a dead family member, women avoided wearing red coloured clothes, white clothes was worn exclusively. Black was never worn si...

It is known from history that the ancient Greeks were a people which valued bisexuality and anal sex, which was later adopted by the Romans...

Karta Bosanskog tla iz 7 vijeka prije pojave Ise – Isusa Hrista, objavljena je u okviru kulturološkog predstavljanja Evrope, izdanje Francus...

Predlažem da se pokrene inicijativa da Srebrenica postane distrikt, posebno sada kada je Amerika donijela rezoluciju o genocidu kao i Europa...