High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A gradobranitelj and an oblacar were, in Serbian tradition, men who protected their village from destructive weather. In Serbia, bad weather was believed to be brought by various demonic beings, including devils, creatures called ala and azdaja, eagles, black-feathered birds, and the souls of drowned and hanged persons. The gradobranitelj used magic to dissipate hail clouds, and to repel the devils and the souls of the drowned and hanged persons, who were thought to bring the clouds. He learned this magic from another gradobranitelj. The oblacar ran to and fro beneath a hail cloud, fighting against an azdaja, a serpentine demon which flew in the cloud spewing hail on the fields of the oblacar's village. The gradobranitelj is recorded in north-western Serbia, and the oblacar is recorded in the region of Syrmia. It was also believed in some areas that there were women who could eliminate the danger from destructive weather, using sorcery. In...

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