The Healer And The Sorceress

By Olga Kholodova

The book "The Healer And The Sorceress" from the series "The backwoods" tells the reader about the mysterious events occurring in a small village. Readers have the opportunity not only to witness the mystical events, but also to try to predict the outcome.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Olga Kholodova
• Release date: Oct 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370036714

Olga Kholodova

In the children's books I would like to share with the reader in a good mood. In books for teenagers, you will find the usual and unusual history. An enjoyable read. Thank you.

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Olga Kholodova

The healer and the sorceress

The backwoods

© Olga Kholodova, 2016

The book The healer and the Sorceress from the series The backwoods tells the reader about the mysterious events occurring in a small village. Readers have the opportunity not only to witness the mystical events, but also to try to predict the outcome.

ISBN 978-5-4483-4151-9

Created with intellectual publishing system Ridero

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The healer and the sorceress

Autumn came quickly. Dense foliage of the mighty trees, yielding to the breath of a cool wind, almost turned yellow and then fall to the ground. The sun was rising with each passing day later and later. It is discouraging old grandmother Helga. She didn’t want to part with warm summers and meet the exhausting cold winter. But time not slow down and not stop nature can only live life and enjoy a new day.

Barely dawn when Helga, stepping on the yellow leaves, went to the forest for medicinal herbs. She often helped cure disease villagers, where she lived with her granddaughter Elsa. The girl’s parents died early, so Helga and replaced her mother and father.

Helga snuck into the thicket taiga and stopped at the three tall fir trees. The branches of spruce trees were so strongly intertwined that made it impossible to get through them.

Helga looked around and whispered:

Fir branches lift. Let me in the house in the ground. I need advice from the earth, as a disease to be answered.

Helga bowed firs and froze. Shaggy spruce branches creaked and began to slowly rise. When the trunks of spruce trees were bare, Helga went to one of them. She leaned over and put her hand on the ground near the roots of trees. Helga found the old rusty iron ring and pulled him over. There was a creak, not oiled door hinges, which opened Helga. The old woman began to gently descend into the ground on the stone steps. She went to the hanging on the wall of the old torch and lit it. The narrow dirt tunnel was almost completely illuminated. Helga went on the earthen tunnel and entered a small room. The room on the walls various herbs, roots and bark, as well as dried mushrooms hanging. In the corner stood on the chair of the bank with insects. One of the walls of the room stood a white stone table. On the table were the icons of the saints. On the floor beside the table it was made of marble rectangle that resembles a tomb.

Helga went to the table and pushed a big old icon. For an icon, she took an old book. She flipped through its pages and put into place. Then Helga went to the wall has gathered a bunch of dry grass and went to the door. Before leaving their rooms, she went to marble quadrangle and knelt down. She ran her hand along the cold marble, rose and left the room to the tunnel. Helga in a moment was on the ground near the trunk of spruce. She closed the old wooden door and stepped aside. Again creaked shaggy spruce branches and woven into an impenetrable wall. The sun was already high, and Helga hurried home.

Helga lived with her granddaughter in the village of Polesie. The village is so called because on one side it was surrounded by mountains, and on the other the taiga. Helga and her family were the original inhabitants of the village were not going