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Parapsychology and Magic / Witchcraft And Magic / Wizards / The legend about the Kiev wizard Volga and a tartar khan. / 


The legend about the Kiev wizard Volga and a tartar khan.

Bellicose Volga Vseslavich was a Kiev wizard. Legends say that he could change his image. His mother was a Kiev princess and his father was a serpent. He was courageous like his mother, and from his father he inherited magic and canning. At night he took the image of a wild animal and hunted in the woods. When he went fishing for sturgeon he turned into a pike. However at the daylight he was a warrior and a chief of a tribe.

When the shining marquees of the Golden Horde - tartar descendants of great Chingis Khan - were spread over whole Caucasus, the Tartar chiefs turned their greedy eyes to the North, to Russia.

Here they had to try conclusions with the magician Volga Vseslavovich. Lots of legends surround this name. People said that his mother was a Kiev princess and his father was a serpent. He was courageous like his mother, and from his father he inherited magic and canning. At night he took the image of a wild animal and hunted in the forests. When he went fishing for sturgeon he turned into a pike. However at the daylight he was a warrior and a chief of a tribe. When he was fifteen he had the army of 7 thousand warriors. And at the head of this army Volga Vseslavich threw down a challenge to the Tartars.

Here is how it happened. The Golden Horde, staying on Caucasus, was going to invade Russian land, and these tidings reached Kiev. The wizard gathered his warriors to a council, but none of them had courage enough to go to reconnaissance through the Russian steppes to enemy mountains. They say, that on seeing such a cowardice Volga Vseslavich laughed and disappeared at the very moment. At the place where he stood a ram appeared, which turned and rushed away. People could only see its golden horns flashing at the horizon. Long days and nights through rains and winds the ram was running to the enemy territory. At last he got the mountains and stood on the ridge observing the vast plain open to all winds. There, near Khan's camp Tartar warders were marching. And no enemy had been able get in there until this moment. After an hour a bird with a red tuft sat on the Khan's marquee. The bird sat still and listened to a man and a woman talking in the marquee. The khan was telling his wife about his plans of sharing rich Russian lands among his sons. The woman exclaimed: 'I saw a dream, the two birds were fighting, and the little northern bird killed the southern crow. That little bird was wizard Volga, don't raise your sword against him!' But the khan told her off for such dreams. The bird spread its wings and flew away. At the same night a polecat got into the camp, it was tearing bow-strings and biting arrows. While the warders were trying to understand what was going on, the polecat disappeared, and warders heard death-rattle of the horses. People started off looking for the invisible enemy. Some of them saw a wolf's shadow on the wall, then others heard the falcon's wings flapping, the sound was moving away to the north. Being left without armory and horses, the Tartar army lost heart.


But this was not enough for the wizard. He gathered the army in Kiev and lead it to the south to the Tartar camp. Nobody noticed them moving, nobody heard their steps. A sharp-sighted warder could have seen thousands of ants creeping under the gate, but he didn't. After a moment the Khan and his guards saw warriors appeared at the place where tiny ants had just been. After several moments the Tartars fell under Russian swords.



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