So the famous expression "are shaking old ladies": Professor Latif explains

It's shaking old ladies<x0... This is one of the expressions we hear every snow in the early days of spring.

But what is the significance of such a phrase and where it originated. University professor and philosopher Blerim Latifi has said that the expressions “are shaking old women” appear to be one of the last remnants of Europe's pre-Christian mythology.

Latifi says that myths existed about divine forces that controlled winter phenomena, and those forces were described as old women, who by their movements caused storms and snowfall.

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April 2022. It's snowing. The old ladies are shaking!

This mythic phrase comes to mind whenever during April the cold and snow suddenly returns. We all know the myth story: An old woman, happy by the first rays of the spring sun, took her sheep and went up the mountain. There he rode on a stone and cursed winter. Winter, which had not yet completely departed, was angry, gathered its final powers and avenged the old woman by freezing her with its cold.

But why did this legend sink into the phrase “aging”?

It seems that the meaning and legend have nothing to do with each other. It seems that there is the confusion of two different myth stories, confusion, which is the result of the mix and smelting of myths that have occurred and occurs over and over again in popular imagination.

The “fragment appears to be the last remnant of Europe's pre-Christian mythology.

These mythology contained myths about some divine forces that controlled winter phenomena. They were imagined to be old women, who by their movements caused storms and snowfall. The phrase “is fully compatible with this pagan and Par Christian myth. Thus, in the mythic image, the shaking of winter agings is their last move before other divine forces that control summer phenomena take the lead in the natural cycle of seasons.