Hills, marshes, and stones \u2013 such were the habitats of laum\u0117s, Baltic spellcasters and fairies. Laum\u0117s used bodies of water for laundering, stones for beetling, and hills for airing linen dry. They sang lullabies, looked after, and sometimes kidnapped, the new-born children of women who spent their days busy working in the fields.<\/p>\n
A legend from Bir\u017euv\u0117nai tells that once as laum\u0117 walked across the wood a glade appeared where her foot fell. There was a spring in the glade, its water cold and clear. There was a pine tree by the spring, into which was carved a shrine. The shrine had a little statue of the Holy Virgin Mary. Those who suffered from eye ailments had to circle the pine tree on their knees, and drink the spring water, and were healed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hills, marshes, and stones \u2013 such were the habitats of laum\u0117s, Baltic spellcasters and fairies. Laum\u0117s used bodies of water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends-of-lithuania"],"yoast_head":"\n