 Stories in chios about Nymphs, gelludes and other Exotica...

third story of the 4th primary school of chios

Ageragi usually appear in large numbers together, playing music, dancing and singing. Sometimes they carry water, sometimes they also roast coffee, they hide treasures and guard them like their eyes and woe betide him who tries to take them from them! You are most likely to meet the ageragis at noon and midnight, and if you are unlucky enough to run into an evil spirit, it can take away your speech or blind you, even drive you crazy. If you see a sudden whirlwind rise, run away because it is probably an old lady that you either did something to her and made her angry, or she is an evil spirit in her own right.

So if you pass by Kardamyla, Spilia, Mesta, Thymiana, Chalkeos, keep your mind. Especially in the Caves, because that is where they are born, and there are always too many of them. It is not difficult to spot them, because they are usually very beautiful and dressed in white. They are called angels, because they really look like angels.

According to ancient myth, Gello was a young woman who died a virgin, and returned as a ghost (Greek: phantasma) to do harm to the children of others. The myth is given as an explanation to a proverb by the 2nd-century compiler Zenobius.[8][9] It is noted that Sappho mentioned her, implying that Gello was a feared bane of children at least as far back as the 6th century BC.[10][a]

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Stories in Chios about Nymphs, gelludes and other Exotica...

4th primary school of chios third story of the project etwinning 2022-23 And reseach for the third story from scoala Gimnaziala Rosia- Romania "Mitul ursitoarelor"

The truth behind these stories: Once upon a time, people did not have the knowledge we have today, and so many strange phenomena that they could not explain were attributed to mythological creatures or acts of gods

For example, child mortality. Newborns not having the necessary and meticulous care often did not manage to survive the grieving parents attributed the event to mythological creatures the jesters

If you do something good for them, they won't leave you without giving you something. That's why if you meet them by chance and they ask you to follow them to help one of theirs give birth, go. They will give you onion skins as a thank you - but don't look bad and especially don't show them, thank them and go. When you go home you will see that the husks will have become golden flakes.

Thanks to the actresses and models for the video and fotos:

Ιn collaboration with scoala Gimnaziala Rosia- Romania "Mitul ursitoarelor"

Maria                            Hrysa                         Rodoula 

As we read the amazing stories of the countries we work with, we discovered that we have some in common. This is how we singled out the third story of scoala Gimnasiala Rosia - Romania "Mitul usrsitoarelor"

Sources: John L. Tomkinson: Haunted Greece – Nymphs, Vampires and other Exotica &nbsp;https://www.greeceathensaegeaninfo.com/jlt-greek-nereids-nymphs.htm

fairies · 4ο Δημοτικό Σχολείο Χίου

Ηere is the map of Chios with the places where you can meet some of these  wonderfull creatures

Rhodeia, whose name means "of the roses" or was a Anthousa (flower-nymph).

Clotho was the youngest of the three Fates in Greek mythology. The other two were Lachesis and Atropos. According to Hesiod's Theogony they were daughters of Night[4], however in the same text, perhaps from a later addition, they are referred to as daughters of Themis and Zeus[5]. Clotho represents the present in people's lives and is considered the older and more important of the other two. It was believed that she spun with her rocket the thread of every man's life, his destiny, which accompanied him until his death. They also made important decisions, such as when a person would be born, and thus greatly affected people's lives Konstantinos

. If you still don't believe that all this can really happen, I have an incident to tell you. Once my grandmother, she must have been twenty years old, had gone to the skins to embroider the mastic trees like every day. So at noon when he was coming back, in summer with the sun still very high, he felt tired as he walked and sat down under a tree to rest. Where she was sitting, she seemed sleepy and closed her eyes for a while. .

Gello , in Greek mythology, is a female demon or revenant who threatens the reproductive cycle by causing infertility, miscarriage, and infant mortality. By the Byzantine era, the gelloudes  were considered a class of beings. 

Women believed to be under demonic possession by gelloudes might stand trial or be subjected to exorcism.

The Fates, according to Greek mythology, are the deities who define and sometimes foretell the birth, course and duration of human life. The basic myth, as presented in Hesiod's Theogony, states that these mythical deities were three: Clotho, who was presented as a weaver and was considered to spin the fortunes of life, Lachesis (from the verb lagano), who was presented to pulls the thread and was considered to define the events of life, and Atropos (from the adjective atropos "rigid - irreversible, unchanging"), who was depicted cutting the thread of life and was considered to define death Manolis - Stelios

Their language may sound funny to you, but don't even think of making fun of them like that and listen to them talk! They will catch your eye and who knows what you will get from them next! Of course, there are also the geragids, their men, who are also called meligans because they like honey, and they are sometimes very beautiful and good to people and sometimes cunning and vengeful.

The Fates are the forces responsible for the good and the bad in each mortal's life, from birth to death. They get their power from Zeus, who for this reason is also called "The Divider". Even the gods obey Fate, but they have the power to change it. In practice, however, such a change would disturb the harmony of the universe. In Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus presents Zeus and the other gods as subordinate to the Fates. Maria - Hrysa

The stories in Chios: If you ever pass by Chios, know that it is an island with transparent and crystal clear waters, with green gardens and plains that smell of mastic and tangerine, but also mysterious, steep mountains. Somewhere there, in the fields with the skins, near wells, between the branches of the trees, next to the springs, there are frequented the ageragi, the angel, the wild partridge, the melligan, white or black, and perhaps it is not so difficult after all for you to see them...

"Belief in the nereids was perhaps the most widespread and common of all the beliefs of the Greeks in exotica. Even today, many living people in many parts of the country will, under appropriate circumstances, admit to having heard or seen them.

They are all fairies, and very special ones indeed. To let you understand, it is for example the "Koris gefyri", on the road from Dafnon to Chora, which is haunted. If you happen to meet a girl dressed in white as you pass by, don't stop to talk her. She'll try to talk you into dancing with her, and if you do, she'll talk you out of it and then you'll need an exorcism to recover.

Suddenly he heard a noise, as if something were moving among the grass, and fearing it might be some snake, he jumped up to get away. And then she saw at a distance in front of her a woman, blonde and very tall, in a white dress, heading towards her, but before she could get close to her she disappeared with a puff of wind. My grandmother understood that it was nonsense, and she had to say it many years later, about that meeting she had then in the skins.

Some, however, are dressed in black, and in some places they are not so visible – their fingers and toes, but also their palms and soles are completely turned back and forth. And they are not always young – they can be old too, and they have big shining eyes and golden hair, covered with white veils. You will also understand them because when they talk to each other, they&nbsp;&nbsp; speak in their own language which goes something like this: «Glu glu glu gglu, glu glu gglu.”

Don't be scared now by what I'm going to tell you, but you should know that agerages - and especially these foreign ones - also approach houses and sometimes go inside. Some come with a bad purpose and others with a good one. Make sure you have fruit, sweets and bread in different parts of the house - especially if it's New Year's. The good fairies will come in, and because they like treats, they will enjoy what they find and bless your home. You will know the bad ones because they hang around the yards making noise in various ways, to get your attention and make you go outside.

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