Good Shubin , or just Shubin, is a character of miner folklore in the Donbass , a miner spirit similar to a gnome , a “ mine owner” and a patron of miners.
Beliefs about Shubin were recorded by folklore collectors Boris Gorbatov and Leonid Zharikov . Beliefs about Shubin are known only in the mines of Donbass (mines of Enakiev , Makeevka , Gorlovka , Torez , Snezhniy , Kadievka , Krasniy Luch , Krasnodon , Lisichansk , Soledar ) .
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Origin of title
The nickname of the spirit, apparently, comes from the word " fur coat ", and alludes to the thick coat with which it is supposedly covered, like a fur coat. The abundance of hair on the body is a characteristic feature of the East Slavic spirits of nature: water , goblin , field . There are other versions of the origin of the name. One of the legends says that this is a worker who, due to the meanness of his comrades, was once killed in a methane explosion. According to another version, this is the name of one mining master who had the talent to predict dangerous situations underground. According to another version that is closest to the truth, Shubin is a special gas burner who burned up methane accumulations in a mine. A gas burner in the 19th century walked in a sheepskin sheepskin coat, turned upside down with fat-free skin, and literally torch set fire to the gas-air mixture in the workings, preventing gas explosions. There is also a belief that Shubin is the soul of a deceased miner, wandering in the face, which does not contradict the version of the soul of a deceased gas-burning worker [1] .
Image Shubin
Shubin appears as an old miner, coughing like an old man, with brightly burning eyes and hairy hooves. Shubin likes to joke: he scares the miners, suddenly burst into laughter in the darkness, or grabs his leg. It lives ostensibly in distant or long abandoned mine workings, where it can wander undetected. It has great power. Shubin - the real owner of the dungeons.
Shubin is simultaneously distinguished by kindness, generosity and, at the same time, extreme irritability, viciousness. He is benevolent to honest workers, poor people, and cruel and vindictive to arrogant people, especially to oppressors of miners. Shubin helps workers who fell under the rubble [1] , but can underground knock people out of the way [2] .
In April 2007, a mountain foreman from the Lugansk region said: “ I heard that it began to crackle. We stopped working with jackhammers, but the buzz was growing. The sound is like someone is stomping on the ceiling with their feet. We are told that it is Shubin (the spirit-keeper of coal mines) who runs and warns of trouble. Realizing that now everything will collapse, we rushed to the exit. And here we were crushed ” [3] . Obviously, this story is fully consistent with the development of the dynamics of such a well-studied phenomenon as a rock blow , but in this case it was the belief that still saved the life of the miners, since they were not familiar with the physics of the processes of rock pressure.
See also
- Kobolds
- Skitter (mythology)
- Mistress of Copper Mountain
- Azovka-girl
- Barbour (holiday)
- Pustotsky
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Spirit of Shubin or struggle for life?
- ↑ S. Rybas. Track
- ↑ The rumble grew (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 24, 2007. Archived July 5, 2007.
Literature
- Gelgardt R. R. Fantastic images of miner's tales and legends (on the typological characteristics of old working folklore) // Russian Folklore. Materials and research . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1961. - T. 6 . - p. 197, 206–208, 218 .
- Forostyuk O. Lugansk region relіgіyna: historical and legal aspects. - Lugansk: Svitlitsya, 2004.
- Shvabauer N. A. Typology of fantastic characters in the folklore of miners in Western Europe and Russia: the Dissertation . - 2002.