User:Eraalinsque/Баланы ұшықтау

Ushyktau is a type of kazakh traditional treatment. According to the elder people's words, there are many types of treatments for children who suffer from evil eyes, colds and poisoning. There are probably two types of devil eye. If a man has jinxed the baby, then child's body temperature drops, he'll become anxious for no reason, pisses and cries a lot. If a woman has jinxed a baby, on the contrary, the temperature rises, baby loses appetite and refuses from breastfeed. In such situations the Grandmothers try to treat a baby with the help of Ushyktau.

They fill a tea cup with water, drops seven pieces of pepper into it, and walking around the mother holding a baby, spit a water with pepper. During Ushyktau they say "Let the devil's eye fall off, let his tongue be cut off", but adress these words to the person who has jinxed a baby. They repeat these words untill they run out of water in cup, then ask the baby "have you sold your illness?", mother replies for baby "we have sold" two times and immediately enters a house. Then they slightly hits a baby with a special dress "Zhensiz", a shirt without sleeves, and turn the cup on the ground. Then they put the baby on the bed and cover him or her with seven layers of clothes. After a while baby swears and cures of disease.

If the baby is poisoned by food and loses appetite, then grandmother and child walk on the morning grass and say "Oh, luck of Wednesday, be with us". After a while baby rolls on the ground and grandmother will repeat the words "Oh, our mother Earth, heal him". After Ushyktau they cover the baby with the seven layers of clothes and puts on bed. After a while baby will say that he or she is hungry and wants to eat.

If the child is afraid of something, they treat him in the same way. But not all elders can do Ushyktau. Only person who has a healer ancestor can do Ushyktau. According to the elder people, if the healers are not sure of themselves, they'll have a problems with their legs and arms, eyes, and will live with convulsions. In this case they immediately bake a special flat cake called "Shelpek", and read the Quran to soothe the souls of ancestors.

If the new-born baby is afraid of something, they use a salt, knife and little piece of land to do Ushyktau and turns the baby on top, spits and takes a baby to the main road and raising baby on rhe right side say "Heal this baby's illness and make his life longer."

If the child is afraid after falling accident, they touch the ground with the hands of baby and say "Our Lord, ushyk, ushyk, protect us from the bad luck both which we can see and which is invisible" and then touch the place where it hurts. They repeat it three times.