Destricted
written, directed and produced by Marina Abramovic
© 2005 Marina Abramovic
Since ancient times, the male and female organs, like phalluses, vagina, breasts, have been used as tools against the sicknesses and evil forces of nature, etcetera, etcetera.
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If the horse or the bull could not pull the heavy weight, it was believed they would be cured completely from their weakness if the man opened his trousers and rubbed with his right hand his genitals, and then touch the horse or the bull.
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If the woman would like her lover or her husband to love her in Balkan, she will take a small fish and insert it into her vagina and leave it there over night. When the fish dies, in the morning, she will take the fish out, then she will make a powder out of it, and mix it with the coffee, and give to her husband or her lover in the morning. It was believed that if he drank this coffee, he will never leave her.
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In the Balkans, during a difficult child delivery, the husband will kneel next to his wife, and take his phallus out, and with him will make a cross between her breasts. It was believed that this will make it much more easy for her to have easy child delivery.
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The maiden was sitting by the cold grave stone,
Mourning for her darling, crying, all alone.
Then she heard his calling from the tomb's green grass,
Who's there, crying, weeping, calling me?
It is I, my darling, your wife to be,
Here are my two pillows, take them, don't you see?
On the pillows, flowers for you young I bring,
Look, my dear, together we sowed them last spring.
I can't take your pillows, I can't take them dear.
My white arms are rotten, young I'm lying here.
Go home, my dear maiden, put them on your bed,
Kiss the cross and remember me
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To make the crops grow, the man will masturbate into the earth.
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To destroy the enemy on the battlefield during the battle, the Balkan woman will undress herself and start making obscene movements to destroy him.
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To save her child from the evil eye, the Balkan woman, before the child leaves the house, will lift her skirt, put her hand under the skirt, and massage her vagina, and then she will gently rub the face of the child and then let him go.
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In 19th Century Balkan, if a child was ill, it was believed he could be cured if the beekeeper would take him, and put his trousers down, and with his naked ass touch all the beehives.
