“Sleepless” was the name of our ancestors one of the twelve feverish sisters who can cause many diseases. “The sisters, evil, thin, ugly and simple-haired, walk at night in bast shoes with sticks, knock on the window with a stick, whoever responds to their knock, they will stick to that. Each has its own taste, each of them endures forever this or that suffering. One shivers from the cold, the other tosses about in the heat, the third writhes with aching bones. Attacking a person, they make him suffer with them. One beats off food, the other drives sleep, the third sucks blood, the fourth pulls the veins ... Their names are: Lomikha, Ogniha, Tryasovikha, Zheltyanitsa, Gorchikha, Bessonikha. "
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