People made a place there, a bench and a bell, and on windy evenings they would sit and pass small things between them—coins, ribbons, a faded photograph—and tell the stories that matched. The jar stayed underground, and sometimes, when the tide ran high and the moon was small and brave, a child would dream of a glass jar humming, and go to the willow to dig. They never, ever took the jar away. Instead they would set a pebble on top of the earth and whisper the things they wanted the river to remember.
(Yuri), the patron saint of Moscow and a symbol of military valor. Yuryev-Polsky District | Living Traditions. Vladimir Region Yurievij
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