Leshy: Personal Experience
DaelendilA couple of years ago, me and my friends decided that we should make our own bows from black locust trees, so we woke up early one day, got onto our bikes and started riding towards the woods. Upon reaching the woods, we parked our bikes and started searching for good pieces, straight, long and young. The wood was very green and serene. After some time, we found the pieces we decided were good enough, so we took out our axes and started cutting. The trees finally fell, detached from their roots and soon from their branches. We carried the wood pieces to our bikes and then went home. Due to one friend borrowing the bike of another which he had to return, I had to walk home. It was a long walk with my bike under my left arm and the log on my right shoulder.
After about two hours of walking, I finally reached my house and that is when I noticed two things, that my tire was flat that I was missing my bike lock. Well, things like this happen, right? I figured that my bike lock fell where my bike was parked in the woods and I have decided to go and get it next weekend. Concerning my flat tire, I fixed it the next day, but a strange thing happened, it gotten flat again. I thought that I didn’t do a good job at fixing it, so this time I brought it to a service, where they carefully examined it and fixed it. Flat tires are a common thing here, because we have big black locust trees around that shed thorns, but not in this season. Only explanation was that the tire was beyond repairing, so the next day I went to the service to get a new tire. Two days later, another flat tire. It didn’t make sense because I was using the routes I generally use and I never got a flat tire on them.
Weekend came, so after fixing the tire again, I went to the woods and found my bike lock, it was still functional, just a bit rusty. This flat tire process continued on during the next week as well, but this time I decided to do something more about it, I was aware that this is connected to the way I desecrated the wood, I took something from it without giving something, Leshy was mad. He took my bike lock, but I took it back and didn’t leave anything. I had to fix my wrongs.
The next weekend I went to the woods, with a bag filled with all kinds of seeds and an egg. I dipped my hand in the seed bag, took a handful and started spilling them around, inside the forest and around it in hope that someday, some trees might grow out from them. Next, I went deeper into the woods. I was wandering around half lost with this creeping feeling behind my back. At one point I found a tree stump. It was covered in moss, which took control of this part of the wood, but the stump had a small clearing in the middle of it. The trees around it were tall and dense, so all the coming light danced around in a magical way. I knew that this was the spot I am supposed to offer the egg to Leshy to fix my wrongdoings, so I said a couple of words in his name and then I offered the egg. After a couple of meditative minutes, I headed back. The creeping wasn’t here anymore, I didn’t really know the way out, but my body was filled with positive energy which guided me, it took me a short time to get out of this part of the wood and onto the track. I felt that Leshy’s curse has been lifted and I didn’t get a flat tire for a long time afterwards. Never take something without giving something back, a God or a spirit will notice it and you will be punished accordingly.