I68A. The Night of the Magic Water. .27.-.29.

Once a year, the water briefly acquires unusual properties.

Macedonians, Czechs, Ukrainians (Podolia), Abkhazians, Abazins, Karachays, Kumyks, Terekemens, Armenians, Kurds.

Balkans. Macedonians : Cenev 2004 [on Vojordan the sky opens; then wine flows from the springs instead of water, and any wish will come true; one man began to shout that he wanted great glory, and the Lord heard that heads, gave him a big head; one woman saw the sky open when she stuck her head in the window, wanted to ask for a barrel (shinik) of money, and said "shinik head", her head became like a barrel, she could not pull it out of the window]: 28-29.

Central Europe. Ukrainians (Lemkos, Hrubieszowski u.) [on the night of the Epiphany, water in all containers turns into wine for a certain time]: Bulashev 1909: 340; Ukrainians (Podolia) [on Generous Evening there is a moment when water turns into wine; one girl went to the well and in one bucket there was water, and in the other, wine]: Levchenko 1928: 9; Czechs [at midnight, when the Savior was born, the heavens dissolve, and all the water on earth turns into wine; this belief is retained only among the most pious people]: Grohmann 2015, No. 279: 68.

Caucasus – Asia Minor. Abkhazians [sometimes the sky opens up; this is seen by lucky ones; one must quickly say, Lari, uari, khazi, jhuari ("Dog, people, whey, film of mamalyga remaining on the bottom and sides of the cauldron"), then any wish will come true; at this time a waterfall can freeze ; one man asked for goats, there were so many of them that he exclaimed, God, kill me ; he died on the spot]: Chursin 1956: 156-157 (retold in Zukhba 1995: 51); Abazins [during the summer solstice at noon or midnight the water in all rivers freezes for a moment ; a wish expressed at this moment will come true, but it must be done instantly and several wishes cannot be expressed]: Kunizheva 2012: 172-173; Karachays : Dzhurtubaev 1991 [on the night of June 22, the "divine gates" open in the sky, the water in the rivers stops , the stones melt and "fall asleep" to all living things; if a person watches this moment and makes a wish, it will come true; var.: the gates open at any time of the year at night in front of a person with a pure soul; (approximately the same in Dzhurtubaev 2007: 453)]: 139; Karaketov 1995: 136 [when the heavenly vaults open, then you need to wish for something, wishes will come true; the sky opens only to noble people], 182-184 [there was a certain day when the heavenly vaults opened and spring water stopped flowing , and in its place a snake appeared; at sunrise he turned into a fiery wheel, killed the enemies of the people; an old dog crept up and ate his skin; they began to fight; a boy appeared and cut off a dog's head; so that the springs would not dry up, this boy appeared every night between March 21 and 22; at the end of June, the heavens open for the second time, and light comes to earth]; Kumyks [on the 9th, 10th, or 18th of Uraza, the world is illuminated with a wonderful light; all waters dry up on this night ; whoever sees this light can ask God to fulfill three wishes; one woman went to the mill with a small child; she saw the light, wished that the child's head would become as big as the mill; then, that it would become as big as millet; she did not have time to utter the third wish, and the child was left with a small head]: Debirov 1884: 26; Terekemen people [the Terekemen people, like all Muslims, believed in gadir geje (happy evening), leylat al-qadr (the night of predestination); a prayer addressed to God on this evening will be granted; such an evening was considered the 27th of Ramadan; at a certain hour of that evening the water in the river stops , then you can ask for anything; one miller saw this, asked God to make him big-headed (in the sense of authoritative); his head became huge; asked to make his head small, it became like a bird's; barely managed to ask to make the same head as he had before]: Gadzhieva 1990: 195; Armenians : Bunatov 1893 [on the night of Ascension and New Year, the water in all rivers stops for one second ; whoever manages to scoop up water during this time, it will turn into gold in the jug]: 180; Ghanalanyan 1979, No. 858 [on the night when the stars Leyli and Majnun meet, all waters freeze ; whoever brings a jug of water from the Tigris at this time and does not turn around, his water will turn into gold]: 275; Kurds [on the last Wednesday ("akhyr chershembe") before Novruz Bayram the water in the rivers and streams stops , all nature falls asleep, the sky opens; whoever sees this phenomenon and manages to express a wish will have it fulfilled]: Chursin 1925b: 16.