Bosnian Magic

From its inception until today, man is advancing in all fields and that advancement is in full swing. An exception is made on the plane of t...

As already written, our hands, tips of fingers and our palms, have an outstanding ability to receive and send energy. That’s why we shouldn’...

Since our birth, and probably before that, we use our hands and fingers in order to coordinate them with our brain, which receives our mess...

According to old Bosnian belief, faeries when angry and vengeful, if someone hurts them on purpose or accidentally, can hit people with t...

Sedefil, sedef or sedefat, also known as rue, Latin name Ruta graveolens, is the most famous plant in magical tradition of Bosnia and Herz...

U našem narodu postoji mnogo vjerovanja o voću a posebno se rado pamti kako su djevojke darivale voljenim momcima jabuku kao potvrdu svoj...

The first step towards destruction of a nation is destruction of its memory. Destroy its books, culture and history and then find someone ...

 Under the influence of changing living conditions, some social norms changed as well, especially ones closely tied to the appearance and be...

   According to Mula Rašida Hadži-Pašić from Žepče for a woman to have all the necessary criteria and get the title of a desirable bachelore...

 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...