Function: Da The daughter of the god Usuda is the goddess of misfortune, failure and failure, misery and disease. Also known as Nešťastnica, Nesreča, Nestriča, Nedolia or simply Nešťastie. Like her sister, she is a goddess of fortune-telling, a judge, and thus she is also one of the Rosaries and we can also consider her a goddess of fate.
Image: She is an ugly, scrawny old woman with gray and dirty hair, dressed in torn clothes with a cloak that has only a hole and a patch on it. She is an ugly, scrawny old woman with gray and dirty hair, dressed in tattered clothes with a cloak that has only a hole and a patch on it.
Symbols Magpie, loom, spindle, spinning wheel and ball of thread. The day is Friday and the number is thirteen. Their sacred tree is the hazel.
Sacrifices: Bread, porridge, grain, milk, wool, threads, scarves, ribbons, linen, dishes, wine and honey. Children's cut hair was also offered to the judges.
Holidays: The biggest holiday for Nešťástená, like Usuda, is November 24, but the entire spinning season, which starts in mid-October and ends after Shrove Tuesday, is dedicated to her, as Rosary.
Note: The three goddesses Mokoša, Happiness and Misfortune, also called Rosary, have knowledge of what was, is and will be. They determine a person's destiny at birth, assign characteristics to children and prophesy their future. They spin the thread of every being, they also measure and cut it. Unhappiness is served by beings of diseases and ailments and bad qualities, such as the one-eyed Licho, Iniquity, Misery, Laziness.
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GOODS OF OLD SLAVS
