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Some traditional Eastern Slavic #witchcraft: in case of a pestilence, girls and young women would dress real well, gather at night, and plow a single groove around the village, to protect it.

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Why would they climb these pillars? It seems that the first saint to live on a column, St. Symeon the Stylite, was deliberately looking for a way to be both solitary and involved. Over the years he increased the height of the column, yet always remained surrounded by pilgrims.