Inspired by: tylluanpenry
and Gardening with nature spirits Part 2
Cheers, Tyllian 
My grandma was a character! Quite a contradictory one, too: on one hand, a doctor of medicine, very skeptical, all "proofs and data and figures", "this is incurable", "that is the case of..." (and nothing else). But on the other hand she was a pagan like no other!
We used to go to the woods to pick up mushrooms and berries (there are lots of woods in Siberia and she used to greet the forest aloud: "Hello, dear forest, here we are again, how have you been? going to look for mushrooms, please be nice and give us some! We promise not to do you any damage, and if we still unwantedly do it then we are sorry!" Then she would go ahead and sometimes was actually telling the forest off: "Now, now, you are not very generous today, are you? Come on, be a good forest, it is not too much that we are asking for!"
(When we go to look for mushrooms here in Catalunya I always invite her in my thoughts and I am sure she is with us! But I think she likes Ed almost more than me cos it's almost always him who has more trophies in the end )
Not only that, she used to talk to her things, like, the sofa, pots, pans... they were all very old but they did serve her and didn't break - because she was like: "Thank you, thank you, you've stayed with me for so long, you've served me so well - please carry on a bit more?". She had some geraniums on the window sill, and it was the same story: "My dear children, I love you, you are so beautiful..." and she had a jungle of them! They grew like a meter tall, or more! Her neighbours had potplants, mainly, geraniums, too, but I never saw them of THAT size!
Now, how did these two tendencies combine in her? "I don't believe it because there is no known law of physics explaining this hence it doesn't exist" - and "be nice to the world around you, and you'll get the same in return"- what law of physics explains THAT?
"I don't know... it's a mystery..." (Shakespeare in Love)