Bosnian Magic

 When we speak of magical dolls and their usage in spells, the first thing which will associate us with this topic are the planetary popula...

Author: Raif Esmerović According to definition fear is described as intense and unpleasant negative feeling which a man experiences once he ...

 It was once believed that a person will fall ill if an animal jumps in front of him from a bush unexpectedly or if something else surprises...

Fear i.e. fright can be caused by numerous factors such as a dog’s bark, lightning strike, fire, water, bad news and other factors. Often i...

Fear manifests itself in two ways inside the human body – through the bowels and nerves. As doctor Leopold Gluck has noted the first form a...

Fight against fear is not simple and often requires a lot of patience. This is best evidenced by stravarke whose work experience is full of ...

Besides lead melting and „odsjecanje skrate“ stravarke also know other methods of curing fear, such as " uvarivanje strahe“ or knife...

In folk medicine in BiH women often heal issues with the stomach, they're called želudarice, and as with fear, like stravarke, they clai...

Upotreba zapisa i tilsuma u liječenju uticaja straha jedan je od onih možda i najfascinantnijih segmenata u narodnoj medicini BiH. Zapisi s...

Bosnian stravarke (folk doctors) claim that there is no object or thing in this world that cannot be used for magic or spells. Not even th...

Divination from a coffee cup is probably the best known mantic skill in the world. Even though ways of preparing coffee, worlds most favou...

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...