A Slavic amulet for the fulfillment of a wish - the wishful doll attracts with its ease of manufacture and the enormous energy embedded in it. Every girl can make an amulet; it will require a little material, free time and at least one innermost desire.
Tie a small mirror onto the belt of the ritual doll.
Making your own wishlist
Exact following of the proposed master class in production is not required. The coveted amulet doll reflects your vision of the world like no other. In addition to the standard creation of a motanka, you can add your own elements that embody the essence of your desire: a coin with a face value of 5 is suitable for wealth, cereals and ears of wheat are also suitable for prosperity. If you want to ask the doll for a baby, hand her a swaddle or make a cradle with the baby. If you want to learn or find useful knowledge, add symbols associated with learning, such as a book.
Slavic dolls are faceless and the face is made of white cloth! It is possible to depict a cross on the face, but depicting eyes and lips is not permissible.
Basics of making a wish holder
To teach a talisman, you should adhere to the basic rules for creating a magical assistant. If you ignore the basics, you will end up with an interior decoration, a souvenir or a children's toy.
- There should be no men in the room where the wish-fulfilling amulet is born; the best option is if the craftswoman is alone and nothing distracts her. This is important, it helps you focus on the process, dream, and establish a connection with the doll on an energetic level.
- The best time to create a wishlist is considered to be autumn: August-September. The time when all the field work has already been completed, the harvest is in the bins and the time has come to dream, gain knowledge, and create.
- To store a magical toy, create your own house; it can be a wicker basket, a sewn or knitted bag, or a wooden box.
- A wish-granting doll is a personal talisman. It should be stored away from prying eyes and hands. No one should touch the amulet except the creator.
- Be sure to give your beregin a small mirror, it’s good if it is decorated with rhinestones, beads or ribbons.
The wish should be made on the waxing moon, preferably on the first lunar day. If everything is done correctly, your wish will come true before the full moon.
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After making the desired doll, immediately offer a small gift, it can be anything, a button, a bead, a ribbon, a coin, a flower.
Materials
During pagan times, girls themselves spun yarn, wove fabric, and from these materials they created a talisman endowed with special powers.
The age of high technology has led to the fact that it will be very difficult to find craftswomen capable of creating everything on their own at every stage, so we craft from what is available. To create a wishful doll, prepare the following materials:
- a wooden stick about 15 cm, preferably birch (if you don’t have one, you can make a twist out of fabric);
- fabric base 30 by 15 cm;
- a white flap for the face, preferably thick fabric 20 by 20 cm;
- colored patch for the doll's skirt 40 by 25 cm;
- for a scarf, a triangular piece of fabric from a 25 by 25 cm square, optional, you don’t have to tie a scarf;
- 3 multi-colored patches for aprons:
– 10/7
– 8/6
-7/5
- about 30 threads of 30 cm each to form a braid, preference is for pure wool, I like hair made from flax, in the sample I will make it from flax;
- for the warrior you will need a ribbon or braid of about 25 cm;
- a little filler;
- to decorate the doll’s arms, 6 ribbons (take narrower ones) 20 cm each;
- red cotton threads, spool threads are suitable;
- scissors.
If you plan to trim the edge of the skirt with braid or sew any details to the apron, do this at the stage of preparing materials
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In fact, the composition and quality of the material do not play such a big role, the main thing is with what mood “message” the craftswoman creates the reel. When creating your own assistant, remember this.
Desire doll master class
Detailed instructions for creating a magical toy will allow any girl to make a ritual doll, even if a folk motanka has never been made before. Making a coveted doll with your own hands is possible for girls from the age of 12; boys and men should not participate in the process.
Before you start, prepare everything you need
Stick - the base needs to be wrapped in fabric
Use thread to secure the fabric to the base. First, 3 turns are made around the twist and 3 knots are tied. then make 7 windings at an angle, maybe another number, the main thing is not even, and come back. Tie the thread into 3 knots and cut.
We wrap padding polyester (or other filler) for the head onto the finished base
We take a piece of fabric 20 by 20, find the middle, lay the twist, and form the face of the future doll.
Secure with red thread. We tie the knots at the back.
A little history
A wisher is a folk rag doll, a so-called amulet for fulfilling your deepest desires. That is why it was always hidden from prying eyes, having given it a secluded place in a chest or bag.
They treated the doll very carefully, giving her gifts in the form of new beads or a dress. Old clothes were not removed or thrown away; a new outfit was put on top.
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While performing these actions, you had to clearly and vividly imagine your desire, what you want to ask the doll for. And she will definitely help everything planned to come true. Previously, it was considered a special, magical amulet that should be present in every home.
Origin story
Like all motanki, the amulet doll Zhelannitsa is a Slavic household talisman. They were made by women to protect their home, strengthen bonds with their husband or child, and increase their well-being. Such a talisman helped a young family quickly achieve recognition or begin to live independently, separately from their relatives.
The making of amulets among the Slavs was an important tradition. The dolls were made on the day of the autumn equinox, and each woman in the family, including small children, made several amulets at once.
You can make a wish only for yourself or for a very close person - a child, husband, parents. Such a talisman is not given to casual acquaintances.
Unlike other reels, the Desire doll cannot be made for another person. The fact is that the motanka takes on the energy given by the person making the amulet. An important part of making such a doll is the process of making a wish. This can be done exclusively in the process of winding threads around the doll.
The meaning of the amulet
The meaning of this amulet is that it is a kind of assistant and a brownie in a skirt who helped a woman in her household. She was pampered and given gifts as if she were alive, they trusted her with their secrets and desires, and for this she fulfilled many of a woman’s dreams.
It was done once and for the rest of her life - she accompanied the girl through life until marriage and throughout her family life. And if problems or illnesses or suspicions arose for the time being, she was the one who could deal with them, like a powerful talisman.
Main! It should be kept in a secluded place - a box or bag, so that no one can jinx it with an evil eye.
How to make wishes correctly?
What you want must be described clearly and clearly, composing sentences correctly, avoiding the particle “not”. Try to make wishes for the waxing moon.
You can give your “friend” miniatures of things that you yourself would like to receive in real life, jewelry, clothes, for those who want to get married - a ring, for profit - a basket of coins, for those who want to become a mother - wind up a naked baby with your own hands and attach it to the doll.
Color symbolism of the desired woman's outfit
Each color has a specific meaning.
- Red, the color of blood, represents vitality, courage, and sincere love. If you want to get rid of loneliness and meet your love, it is better to give preference to the red color;
- Yellow (gold) symbolizes the sun, warmth, strength on the physical level;
- Green is the color of life, health, in addition, this color serves as a magnet for material wealth;
- Blue enhances creativity, spiritual self-improvement, choosing it makes sense for girls in creative professions or those seeking to gain new knowledge;
- White symbolizes purity, good intentions and nobility.
- Purple is the color of wisdom, harmony, tranquility.
When creating a talisman taking into account the meaning of color, instead of red, you can take a thread that matches the color of the future outfit or white.
The brighter and more elegant the Slavic amulet of the wisher, the greater its magical power, which means the wish will be fulfilled sooner and more accurately.
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Doll-amulet Zhelannitsa
Our ancestors also wanted to have a magic wand that would help make their wishes come true. And for women, the amulet doll Zhelannitsa served as such a wand.
IMPORTANT: It was believed that the Zhelannitsa should be made in a single copy for life. And it had to be done alone.
As a rule, such needlework was entrusted to very young girls - 12-14 years old. At this age they began to realize their place in society, their responsibility for the role of women.
When the girl later made a wish, she had to appease the doll with a gift in the form of a ribbon, beads, button or something similar. Then the amulet received praise from its owner. And only after that the girl voiced her wishes to the doll.
Since this amulet accompanied the woman all her life, the doll’s clothes were allowed to be changed from time to time. But the gifts should not have been removed.
When the craftswoman worked on another doll, she put her soul into her creation, concentrated on her desires, and determined goals for the future. Agree, this is very similar to what is called “art therapy” in the modern world. So why not try your hand at it?
Manufacturing rules
Rag dolls are an individual and powerful amulet, so it is better to make a Desire doll with your own hands. The Slavs always treated the creation of such an amulet responsibly, as a real magical ritual.
Making a Desire doll is a step that should be taken very seriously. Like all other magical rituals, making a personal talisman that grants wishes has requirements for time, location, materials and the creation process itself.
Step-by-step instruction
And how to make a coveted doll - the instructions provide for the preparation of the material. For it you will need:
- White fabric, preferably cotton, and multi-colored shreds, as well as strong, natural woolen threads would be nice.
- Take hair twine and bright ribbons to make hands.
- Various threads and beads, brooches for decoration and rags or cotton wool to add volume to the head.
Main! When making a doll, it is forbidden to use a knife or scissors, so take fabrics that tear easily.
Regarding the color of fabric and threads, ribbons, it is also worth paying attention to the colors that carry their sacred meaning.
- Red is love and courage, but yellow is energy and sunlight.
- Green promises health and prosperity, and blue promises spiritual strength and development.
- Purple colors represent the wisdom of ancestors and so on.
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