Description Slavic folklore sometimes viewed bats as flying evil spirits, vampires, or the soul of a sleeping witch. In Russia, people called them Kikimora, believing their presence in a home was a bad omen. Superstitions claimed that encountering a bat foretold illness or the death of a loved one. Many stories portrayed bats as blood-sucking creatures that drained vital life energies from humans. If bats were around when I was a child, I remember my Baba yelling at me to run away and cover my hair. This was a leftover superstition from her Ukrainian ancestry, a persistent old wives’ tale from Europe. People believed that bats would get tangled in women’s hair and require removal with scissors. Due to blindness bats served as a talismans against evil eye. Bulgarians and Macedonians would sew a wing, head or skin of a bat into their clothes. Poles hung bats in the stable to guard their horses. They sometimes even nailed them to doors as protection from witches, illness, and misfortune. People wear Baltic Amber to avert misfortune, for protection, and to guard against black magic. It casts out devils, wards off the evil eye, brings luck in love, and makes the wearer stronger and cleverer. They believed Baltic Amber pulled diseases from the body and attracted good luck, much like it attracts dust when rubbed. The ancient Greeks observed this ability to generate static electricity and named Amber “elektron”. You will receive 1 beautiful Baltic Amber Rose Blood Bat Amulet Pendant set in .925 Silver
