NON-HANDMADE IMAGES ON RELIGIOUS THEMES APPEARED ON WINDOW PANES: DISTRIBUTION AND RECORDING OF THE STORIES IN BELARUS

Reports of miracles in the CIS countries are extremely diverse. The narrators of such stories often name a specific scene, but it can vary in different regions and even localities. In this case, almost always behind the rumor of a miracle is a real event (sometimes several), which became its prototype. There is a separate group of stories about miracles related to the phenomena on the window of religious or near-religious images. Unfortunately, in the scientific literature, they are practically not considered and described, the mechanism of their formation in the popular environment is still unknown, and the regions where they were most widely distributed are not identified. The purpose of the work: to consider and analyze stories about the appearance of religious or near-religious images on window in Belarus. Such stories begin to appear in the late 1920s, reappear in the 1980s and 1990s. The сentral place is given to the case in the Central regional hospital of Smorgon, which occurred in 1995...