An Old Believer cemetery in one of the villages of the North-West. Wooden gates and fencing, roofed golbets crosses with cast metal icons set into their bodies, and an archaic chapel with sacred images inside…
Besides the grave golbets crosses, there is another golbets on this cemetery — a small little house sheltering a miniature stone cross, a visitor from another world. Local tradition tells that once there stood a church in this place — and that it went beneath the earth (an archetypalstory!), and on its former site a stone cross was found. And not an ordinary one, but a healing cross: it was doused with water, the water was then collected and drunk or used to wipe diseased parts of the body, and clothes of sick children were hung upon it in hope of recovery.
A truly magical and atmospheric place, where the ancient spirit still lives.
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