Folk calendar for September: signs for every day. Folk calendar for the month of September
Name days: Andrey, Augustus, Agap, Timothy, Kallistratus, Pitirim, Thekla, Theophanes.
Orthodox calendar: Day of Martyrs Andrew Stratilates, Agapius, Timothy, Thekla; Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Great Perm.
Folk signs: It was noted that this day is hotter than July. The wind blowing from the south on this day means the oat harvest. If the moon has its horns up, then the weather will be good for several days, and maybe the whole month, but if its horns are down, it will be cloudy and stormy for a long time.
Folk beliefs and customs: They looked back over the past year to Stratelates and in their thoughts tried to correct mistakes and ask for forgiveness. After that, we planned for the coming year. All this was done with prayer, in a calm mood, so as not to arouse evil forces that could “confuse” all the plans.
On this day oats were harvested: “The day is ripe for the stratilates - the oats are ripe.” They pulled beets and carrots: “The beetroot girl is a slave for the girls. It’s no wonder to carry vegetables by the tops. But you need to bow to your garden. And if the sun shines, the girl is happy.”
September 2. Samoilin day
Name days: Agathon, Adeline, Achilles, Victor, Guy, Dementius, Eustathius, Izot, Lukiy, Maxim, Nikon, Orion, Panteleimon, Sevier, Savin, Samuel, Silvanus, Timofey.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Prophet Samuel; martyrs Sevier and Memnon.
Folk signs: From this day on, winter mushrooms appear. Migratory birds begin to gather in flocks.
Folk beliefs and customs: It was believed that on Samoilin’s day God especially takes care of the peasant: “Samoila asks God for a man.”
September 3. Vasilisa
Name days: Abraham, Agap, Alexander, Anikius, Vassa, Dorotheus, Ephraim, Cornelius, Pistus, Sabina, Thadeus.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Apostle from the seventy of Thaddeus; Martyr Vassa; Venerable Abraham of Smolensk.
Folk signs: On this day, the weather was judged by the wind: if the wind is north, then cold is near; south wind - warmth; Western - to phlegm, rain; eastern - to the bucket, wait for clear weather.
Folk beliefs and customs: From this day the flax harvesting began: “Baba Vasilisa cares about flax.” The peasants went to the fields and judged: “Isn’t it time to pull the flax? Select flax from the greenery so you don’t lose the fiber, and the seed will ripen in the sheaves.”
September 4. Agathon-gumennik
Name days: Athanasius, Agathon, Anfisa, Ariadne, Gorazd, Eulalia, Zeno, Izot, Irinius, Neophyte, Rose, Rosalia, Severian, Felix, Theodora.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs Agathonicus, Zotikos, Akindinus, Severianus; Hieromartyr Gorazd of Bohemia, Venerable Anthusa.
Folk signs: If it’s warm and the cobwebs are flying, it means a good autumn and some snow. If the web flies low, then the winter will be warm, and if it flies high, the winter will be cold.
Folk beliefs and customs: For a long time it was believed that Agathon the goon “ drives the devil out". According to popular belief, if you see a goblin, then you can’t eat anything that day (after all, treating the goblin made the unfortunate person forget about home). On this day, the peasant dressed in a sheepskin coat inside out, armed himself with a poker and guarded his property all night.
Leshy.
Leshy, woodsman, boletus, in Slavic mythology- forest spirit, master of the thicket and animals. From a distance he looked a little like a man covered in thick fur, with long hair, green beard, goat horns and legs, dressed in animal skin. The goblin could scare people with his laughter, lead travelers into impenetrable thickets, and could steal a child. The owner of the forest could become as small as a mouse or grow taller than himself. tall tree. “The goblin plays the fool in the field at night, fells sheaves, and tries to turn everything upside down on the threshing floor. The goblin can cry like a child, neigh like a horse, and laugh so hard that the trees shake. A goblin can turn into moss on a tree, into creaking roots, into a shaggy animal. Or he’ll choose a hollow for himself: lay dry grass in the hollow, and curtain the hole with moss.” In October, the goblin hibernated, and in the spring it returned even more wild and noisy.
However, it was believed that the goblin not only plays pranks, leads people through the forest, he often helps a person, especially if he respected him in some way.
September 5. Lupp-lingonberry
Name days: Eutychius, Elizabeth, Irinius, Luppus, Callinicus, Florentius.
Orthodox calendar: Martyr Lupp's Day; Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons; Saint Kalnikos, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Folk signs: The first frosts are “Luppovskie”. Luppen frosts set on oats and are sweetened with lingonberries. If the cranes fly south to Luppa, then winter will come early.
Folk beliefs and customs: On Lupp they collected lingonberries and said: “Luppa walks around, the red-haired guy hits on the back. Bend over - the lingonberries are ripe, move - the oats have reached the field.” Housewives soaked lingonberries for the winter.
Soaked lingonberries.
Sort and rinse lingonberries cold water, pour into glass or enamel containers, into wooden barrels and pour in cooled boiled water so that the water completely covers the berries. Place a circle on top, cover with a clean linen cloth and place some heavy object.
The filling liquid can be prepared as a light brine with syrup. To do this, take 100 g of sugar, 1 teaspoon of salt per 1 liter of water, boil the water and cool. To improve the taste, you can add apples cut into several pieces, pepper or cinnamon to the lingonberries. Should be stored in a cool place. Soaked lingonberries are good both as a side dish and as a dessert - with honey or sugar, and as a filling in pies and pancakes.
Lingonberry water.
Lingonberry water is one of the most favorite drinks of our ancestors. For Luppa-lingonberry, they picked the berries, put them in a barrel, filled them with spring water and put them in the cellar. The lingonberry water was ready for winter.
In modern conditions, when soaking lingonberries, you need to pour them into three liter jar only two-thirds of the berries, and fill the top with water (preferably spring water) to the brim. Each jar will yield 1.5 liters of lingonberry water. When draining, you can refill it with spring water. It will be delicious the second time.
September 6. Eutyches. Quiet dawn
Name days: Arseny, Georgy (Egor, Yuri), Peter, Eutychius, Martyrius, Sira, Tation.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Holy Martyr Eutyches; Saint Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow; Venerable Arseny of Komel.
Folk signs: If it rains on Eutyches, then autumn will be dry.
Folk beliefs and customs: According to popular belief, on this day “The dawn calls out and warns everyone who is going into the forest alone.” On Eutychius they did not go into the forest, for fear of getting lost or meeting a goblin.
September 7. Bautromei-zhitosey. Tit mushroom
Name days: Gregory, Bartholomew, Epiphanes, Ivan, Mina, Regina, Renat, Titus.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Apostles Bartholomew and Titus; Saint Mina, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Folk signs: A large harvest of mushrooms means a long winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: In the old days this day ended mushroom season: “Saint Titus is growing the last mushroom,” “Titus is dragging the last mushroom in a basket. The most vigorous, without a wormhole.” And there is a belief that a person born on this day will experience happiness only in adulthood. On this day, the peasants threshed grain and said: “Mushrooms are mushrooms, but the threshing is behind you,” “Titus went to thresh.”
September 8. Natalya-ovsyannitsa and Odriyan
Name days: Adrian, Atticus, Natalya.
Orthodox calendar: Day of Martyrs Adrian and Natalia. Celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Folk signs: If thunder rumbles, then autumn will be warm. If the clouds are rare, it will be clear and cold.
Folk beliefs and customs: By this day, the peasants tried to harvest the oats: “You can’t mow oats with Natalya - you’ll be exhausted to the point of tears.”
They spoke against Natalya and Audrian from misfortune: “Natalya doesn’t put an oat pancake in the barn, and Odriyan doesn’t put oatmeal in a pot. So that the stuffiness and rot, the sudden fire, will recoil from the walls of the barn, so that the threshers and other workers kind words work has begun."
September 9. Anfisa-rowannitsa
Name days: Anfisa, Liveriy, Kuksha, Hosiya, Pimen, Savva.
Orthodox calendar: Day of Saints Pimen the Great, Kuksha and Pimen of Pechersk; Saint Liverius, Pope of Rome; Martyr Anfisa (Anfusa).
Folk signs: If there are a lot of berries on the rowan tree, then the winter will be harsh.
Folk beliefs and customs: On this day they “glorified” the mountain ash. We tried to collect as many rowan tassels as possible and hang them on poles under the roof - this should bring happiness to the house. It was noticed that birds are the first to feast on rowan berries.
September 10. Moses Murin and Anna-skirdnitsa
Name days: Anna, Agathon, Anatoly, Arseny, Afanasy, Gregory, Denis, Efim, Zakhar, Job, Hilarion, Inessa, Joseph, Karl, Kasyan, Lavrenty, Leonty, Lukyan, Makar, Moses, Nestor, Pavel, Pankrat, Pimen, Savva, Silvanus, Sophron, Titus, Feodor, Theodosius.
Orthodox calendar: Day of St. Moses Murin; Saints Job of Pochaevsky, Savva of Krypetsky; righteous Anna prophetesses.
Folk signs: If birch trees turn yellow from the top in autumn, then next spring will be early, and if from below, then late.
Folk beliefs and customs: They hurried to put the untended sheaves into stacks at Anna-stack, fearing the onset of September bad weather: “The field is red with sheaves, and the threshing floor with stacks.” They transported sheaves from the fields, stored them in warehouses, and “celebrated” the harvest. From this day on, cheerful inviting fairs began.
September 10 is also a day of healing from drunkenness, insight and purification. They pray to Moses Murin for deliverance from drunkenness and fornication.
Kontakion to the Monk Moses Murin, tone 2.
“For the love of the Lord, reverend, you hated the desire for peace, having enlightened your spirit with fasting: for you have conquered the beasts with great strength: but with your prayers you have destroyed the vacillation of those who are contrary.”
September 11th. Ivan Postny, cab
Name days: Anastasy, Ivan.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Beheading of John the Baptist. Strict post.
Folk signs: The day ends summer: Ivan Lent came, the red summer took away. Since Lenten Ivan no man goes out into the field without a caftan. Ivan Poletovshchik brings the red summer. Ivan Lenten is the godfather of autumn. Ivan the Baptist chases a bird across the sea. Midsummer drives the bird overseas. If the cranes moved south from Ivan Lent, then autumn will be short and winter will be early. On September 11, the “Indian summer” begins, which will last until September 22.
Folk beliefs and customs: On this day, all Orthodox soldiers killed on the battlefield are commemorated. This commemoration was established in the Russian Orthodox Church under Empress Catherine II (by decree of 1769), during the war with the Turks.
The day of September 11 is marked by strict fasting. Hence the name of the day “Ivan Lenten”. WITH biblical legend, which underlies this holiday, is associated with prohibitions on eating everything round, on singing and dancing. You cannot eat not only meat, but also apples, potatoes, cabbage, turnips, watermelons, onions - anything that resembles a head; It was considered a sin to pick up a knife and cut anything. They even broke bread with their hands that day. It is not customary to eat borscht and cabbage soup made from fresh meat on this day. white cabbage. You cannot sing or dance on this day because Herod’s stepdaughter begged for the head of John the Baptist through dances and songs.
Until the 19th century, the following solemn ritual was observed on this day: young people from all over the village gathered to the outskirts; a clay doll, dressed in a linen shroud, was brought there, a headless doll; This doll was lifted by two young girls and carefully carried to the river, where they laid their burden on the ground on the steepest bank. The crowd accompanying the girls began to lament over the doll, as if over a real dead person. Then the mourned clay deceased was picked up by two young guys and thrown into the water with a flourish.
This day was celebrated widely, with food for relatives, friends and, of course, the poor, beggars, and wanderers: “On Ivan Lent - even though it’s fasting, it’s a pickle.” Even a host who strictly adheres to the precepts of antiquity has something to treat his guests. The hostess was baking “kulaga” (steamed malted dough with viburnum).
Ritual dish "Kulaga"
Kulaga – sister malts. Dahl gives such a detailed recipe for kulagi: “... mix equal amounts of rye flour and malt in a korchag with boiling water until the thickness of kvass grounds, evaporate in a free spirit and put in the cold.”
Kulaga was prepared from rye malt. In appearance, the kulaga resembled porridge; it was so thick that it could be cut with a knife. The color of kulaga is from golden-pinkish to dark brown, the taste is sweet and sour, the aroma is honey.
There are many options for preparing kulagi. Most often, kulaga was prepared from rye malt, buckwheat or rye flour. Kulaga was boiled or simply brewed with boiling water, fermented or eaten unleavened. If kulaga was prepared from malt, then it itself had a sweetish taste. And kulaga, made from flour, is slightly sweetened with honey. Berries in the kulag are simply necessary. The most suitable one is viburnum. Its taste and aroma go well with rye malt.
Russian kulaga.
Russian kulaga is prepared from rye malt and rye flour, viburnum, without the addition of sweet foods (sugar, honey).
Dilute the malt with boiling water, let it brew for 1 hour, then double it in more rye flour, knead the dough and let it cool to the temperature of fresh milk, then ferment it with rye crust and after the dough has soured, put it in a heated oven - usually from evening to morning, for 8-10 hours. At the same time, close the dishes tightly and cover them with dough to completely seal. And a day later, add the same amount of steamed viburnum mashed and rubbed through a sieve.
Kulaga is created through a process of restrained fermentation without access to air and low heat. As a result, special enzymes are formed, rich in B vitamins, which, together with other components, provide the product with a pleasant taste and benefits. Among the people, kulaga was used to treat colds, nervous, heart, kidney, and gallstone diseases. This healing effect and taste were the result of exceptionally special cooking conditions.
Belarusian kulaga.
1 kg of berries, 1 liter of boiling water, 80 g of rye flour, 200 g of sugar, 60 g of honey.
Fill the kulaga (clay pot) container half with viburnum berries, half with water and cook. When the berries are boiled, add rye flour and stir it until it reaches the consistency of jelly. But before the kulaga is ready, in the middle of cooking, after adding flour, season it with honey. In this case, the proportion of flour increases by 1–3 tablespoons, depending on the consistency of the kulaga, which should resemble a slurry porridge.
Name days: Alexander, Arseny, Athanasius, Gabriel, Gregory, Daniel, Denis, Ephraim, Ivan, Ignatius, Cornelius, Leonid, Makar, Nicodemus, Pavel, Savva, Spiridon, Fedor, Ferapont, Christopher, Jacob.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Blessed Princes Yes, neither the silt of Moscow, Alexander Nevsky; Venerable Alexander of Svirsky.
Folk signs: If there are a lot of rowan trees in the forest, then autumn will be rainy.
Folk beliefs and customs: In Rus', “Svytnik” was celebrated on this day. Until this day, peasants had left barley stalks standing in the field since the August harvest: “The last blanket for the flax has arrived”. And on this day they “curled” barley stalks along with flax and oat stalks, charming the cornfield for the future harvest.
They prayed to Saint Alexander of Svir for the birth of a male child.
September 13. Cyprian. Crane meeting
Name days: Gennady, Basilisk, Cyprian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage; Saint Gennady, Patriarch of Constantinople.
Folk signs: If the cranes fly high, slowly and “talk,” it will be a good autumn.
Folk beliefs and customs: The crane's flight begins on Cyprian. It was noted that “On Kupriyanov’s day, the cranes in the swamp are going to “keep an agreement”, which way to go on warm waters fly".
After this day we walked around the cranberries: “To take cranberries before the deadline is to please the darkness.” We started digging for root crops: “Every root is in its own hole.”
Name days: Ammonius, Angel, Hermogenes, Jesus, Callista, Meletius, Martha, Semyon.
Orthodox calendar: Day of St. Simeon the Stylite. The beginning of the indict - the church new year.
Folk signs: On Semenov day they monitored the weather, since on this day the state of nature was determined for the entire subsequent autumn: if on Semenov day warm weather, then the whole winter will be warm. If it’s dry on Semenden, then the whole autumn will be dry. If there is a lot of grass in Semenov autumn, then the autumn will be long and clear. If on Semyon Day the wind comes from under the sun, then in winter the winds will come from the north.
The weather was also determined by the behavior of animals and birds on that day: if wild ducks land and starlings do not fly away, then the autumn will be long and dry. If geese fly away on Semyon-day, then wait early winter. If Indian summer is stormy, then autumn will be dry. A lot of cobwebs on Semenov's day - for a clear autumn and a cold winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: From the 14th century to 1700, until the famous Decree of Peter I, which moved the celebration of the New Year to January 1, St. Simeon's Day was the first day of the new year and the “day of judgment.” People came to Moscow to “be put on trial” in the presence of the sovereign and the boyars. The judicial expression: “to accumulate complaining people” on the court day in Moscow has been known since the time of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich. The same " doomsdays“For monastic people and peasants, as can be seen from the letters of Tsars Mikhail Fedorovich and Aleksey Mikhailovich, there was the Nativity of Christ and Trinity Day.
As the end of one year and the beginning of another, the day of Simeon the Stylite, according to established custom, was considered an “urgent day” and was the deadline for paying quitrents, taxes and duties. By this time, all economic contracts and transactions concluded by peasants among themselves and with merchants had ended. Thus, in the scribe books about the rental of land, fish catcher and other lands, it was said: “Pay rent annually for the term of Seeds of the Summer Conductor.”
Semenov Day occupied a special place among the peasants.
Ritual of "Autumn". First meeting of autumn.
This day was associated with the end of summer and the beginning of autumn: “Semyon says goodbye to summer.” The ritual of “Osenina”, the first meeting of autumn, was performed. The real, or “old” Indian summer began: “Indian summer brings Semyon.” The “old” Indian summer lasted until September 21, the day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. This week was called “Semenskaya” in Rus'. They said about this time: “No matter how much you boast, woman, of the Indian summer, the autumn still looks - mother: it’s September outside - in September there is only one berry, and that bitter rowan!”
From day one Indian summer autumn round dances and games began. At the same time, rich people placed vessels with mash and beer at the gate and announced that “the pies were baked and the honey was brewed.” During the festivities, the round dancers came to the gate, where their owners treated them. Young women came out of the gate and offered mash, first to the old and then to the young. Then they played a game called “brew beer,” which began with the song:
“Oh, we brewed beer on the mountain,
Lado, Lado, they brewed beer!
We'll all gather around this beer;
My Lado, Lado, let’s all gather around!”
By the day of Simeon the Stylite, the harvest of spring crops was completed: “Seed day – down with the seeds”, i.e. the seeds themselves fall out of the ears; completed the sowing of rye: “On Semyon’s Day, sow from the shoulders,” “On Semyon’s Day, plow before lunch, and after lunch, drive the plowman with a roller.” From Semenov's day you cannot sow seeds.
According to popular belief, on Semenov’s day you cannot go to the river bank until the morning dew subsides, since at dawn an eel fish comes out of the water onto the bank and walks through the meadows for three miles in the dew. They believed that in this way she washes away all diseases from herself, passing them on to humans. Eel was generally considered a forbidden fish in Rus', which was allowed to be eaten only as a last resort, when “you go around seven cities in advance and you won’t find any food,” and even in these cases it was forbidden to touch the head and tail. The people saw the eel in the form of a cunning and evil water serpent, deprived of the ability to sting people and animals for their sins. Healers and sorcerers used the eel during fortune telling: they placed it on hot coals and, based on the direction of the jumps, determined where the stolen item was located. At the same time, they conjured the eel in the name of Saint Martha, the mother of Simeon the Stylite, whose memory was celebrated by the church on the same day as her son.
In addition, it was believed that on Semenov’s day the devil measures the sparrows with a yardstick: how many to take for themselves and how many to release. For this, all the sparrows gathered towards him and could not be seen. From Semenov's day, plowing of the fields began to protect them from evil spirits.
Semenov's day was considered a holiday for kennel hunters, their first trip to the departing field took place, and hares were hunted. There was a belief that “from the Semeninsky ride the horses become bolder, the dogs become healthier and don’t get sick, the first bait brings big prey in the winter”.
Ritual of "Zasidki"
From Semyonov’s day the “stays” began - work in huts under fire. At the same time, it was customary on the eve of Semenov’s day to extinguish all the fire, except for the lamp, and light it at dawn new fire. Previously, there was a custom to make a new fire from dry wood. It was done like this: older people rubbed dry tree about a tree, and the young guy or girl lit a new fire with a knitting needle, which was used to heat the stoves in the huts and baths, and in the hiding places they lit a torch and candles.
Indian summer was considered both an Indian holiday and the time when autumn women's work began: they crushed and ruffled hemp, soaked hemp, washed it in water and spread flax across the meadows. On Semenov day they began to spin and plug the yarn, prepare the warp on the weaving mills to weave canvas.
On the same day, they usually moved to new houses and celebrated housewarming: “Transitions on Semyon-Day for housewarming - happiness and fun.”
Ritual "Funeral of Flies".
On Semyonov’s day the girls ran to “bury flies”: “On Semenday they bury fleas, cockroaches and other domestic insects in the ground so that they do not live in the house,” “If you kill a fly before Semenday, seven flies will be born; If you kill after Semyon-day, seven flies will die.”. The girls put on their best outfits and made small coffins from dry leaves, turnips, rutabaga, carrots, beets or cabbage stalks (cockroaches were sometimes buried in wood chip coffins). Then they put the caught insects there, covered them and with “joking solemnity”, sometimes with crying and lamentations, took them out of the hut and buried them in the ground. While the coffins were being carried out, someone would drive the flies out of the house with a towel or pants (which in some cases was considered a more effective method) and say: “A fly after a fly, fly to bury the flies,” “You are flies, mosquito friends, it’s time to die. A fly eat a fly, but the last one eats itself.” The ceremony was accompanied by songs:
“The cockroach was chopping wood,
The mosquito carried water
My feet got stuck in the mud.
The louse was steaming
Yes I hit it
Inadvertently -
Right side:
The rib was dislocated.
The bugs were raising
My stomach was torn."
The meaning of the ritual was not only the destruction and expulsion of insects from peasant huts, but also that during the “fly funeral” the girls arranged a show for themselves, trying to show their merits in front of the spectators who had gathered to watch the ceremony, especially the guys who were looking for brides. After all, the time for weddings was approaching; it was not for nothing that it was believed that “from Semyon-day to Guria(November 28) – wedding weeks."
The rituals of “Tunement” and “Mounting a horse.”
The rituals of “Tunement” and “Mounting on a horse” were timed to coincide with Simeon’s day: “Give Semyon a child’s hair, put him on a horse, and go out into the field to fish.” It was performed on boys, most often the first-born, “during the transition from infancy,” usually when they were three years old. The ritual was performed not only on peasants, but also on the children of the grand duke. In the latter case, the ritual took place in a church and was performed by a bishop. Boyars and ordinary people They performed the ritual at home, in the presence of relatives.
He was tonsured godfather. The hair cut from the baby was given to the mother, who sewed it into an amulet; It was customary to keep them until death. The godfather and godfather took the godson out into the yard, where the father was waiting for them with a broken horse. The father put his son on the horse and held it with his hand, and the godfather led the horse by the bridle. At the porch, the father took the child off the porch and handed it over to the godfather, who handed the godson to the godfather - “from floor to floor” with bows. Kuma took him to his mother. Father and mother gave gifts to godfather and godfather, and they, in turn, presented gifts to the godson. At dinner, godfather and godfather broke a pie on the godson's head with wishes of wealth and happiness.
September 15. Shepherd mammoth. Fedot and Rufina
Name days: Alfred, Anton, Demid, Ivan, Leonid, Mamant, Rufina, Fedor, Fedot, Philip, Julian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs Mamantus, Theodotus and Rufina; Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Tsar Grad; Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk.
Folk signs: If the day is clear, then autumn will be warm.
Folk beliefs and customs: Saint Mamant was considered the patron saint of sheep and goats. On this day, they cleaned the yard and the barn where the sheep and goats stood: they covered it with moss and smoked it with heather. And the goats and sheep were driven out to pasture during the day. They said about this day: “Do not drive out the cattle in the morning against Fedot and Rufina; if you drive them out, you will cause trouble,” “Veles blows the shepherd’s horn, commands the autumn moisture to fill the hoof prints with life-giving power.”
After all the field work was completed, the guys whose lot it fell to become recruits were given complete freedom. Until recruitment itself (usually in November), they were freed from work. The guys walked around in smart, festive clothes and visited each other.
September 16. Good blast furnace
Name days: Anikius, Anfim, Ariston, Vasilisa, Vitalian, Domna, Dorotheus, Zeno, Efim, Ivan, Ioannikiy, Constantine, Peter, Theoktist, Theophilus, Chariton.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia; martyrs Theophilus, Dorofey; martyrs Domna the Virgin, Vasilisa of Nicomedia; St. Ioannikios II, Patriarch of Serbia; Blessed John Vlasaty, Rostov Wonderworker.
Folk signs: If thunder rumbles, then there will be a long and warm autumn.
Folk beliefs and customs: Domna Day - “tidying up the junk in the house.” It is believed that in order to gain prosperity for the fall, you need to tidy up your house, barn, or shed. Housewives on this day burned all sorts of junk and worn-out things: “And what was no longer useful - the blast furnace burned on the ridge along with the potato tops.”
September 17. Lukov day. Vavila Viloprazn
Name days: Athanasius, Babyla, Donatus, Josaf, Kion, Mois this, Feodor, Julian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Hieromartyr Babyla, Bishop of Great Antioch; the prophet Moses, the seer of God, Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod; First Martyr Athanasius of Brest. Celebration of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Burning Bush”.
Folk signs: If there are a lot of nuts and few mushrooms, then the winter will be snowy and harsh. There may be early snowfall (average - October 12, later - November 7).
Folk beliefs and customs: The icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Burning Bush” is considered a guardian against fires and lightning. On the day of its celebration, prayers were ordered to save houses from fire, and people from all sorts of diseases (Antonov fire, fire).
September 18. Zachary and Elizabeth
Name days: Avdey, Gleb, David, Denis, Elizaveta, Zakhar, Iraida, Maxim, Raisa, Sarvil, Fedor, Fiveya.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Prophet Zechariah and the Righteous Elizabeth, parents of Saint John the Baptist; Martyr Raisa (Iraida); Martyr Obadiah; Blessed Prince Gleb.
Folk signs: On this day, they judged winter: if the leaves on the mountain ash turned yellow early, then there would be early autumn and an early cold winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: Saint Elizabeth predicted the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary, therefore this day is considered successful for predictions, fortune telling and other cherished, secret matters. They prayed to the Prophet Zechariah and the righteous Elizabeth for the conception and birth of a child.
Prayer for conception and birth of a child.
“O holy saints of God, prophet Zechariah and righteous Elizabeth! Having fought a good fight on earth, we have naturally received in heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. In the same way, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your life and honor your holy memory. You, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, to forgive us every sin and help us against the wiles of the devil, so that, having been delivered from sorrows, illnesses, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present We will be worthy, through your intercession, even though we are unworthy, to see good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints, the glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen".
September 19. Michaelmas
Name days: Arkhip, Aviv, Amalia, Andrey, Cyril, Cyriacus, David, Zeno, Eudoxius, Makar, Mikhail, Romil, Thekla, Theoktist.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs Eudoxius, Macarius, Zenon, St. Archippus, Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyn. Memories of the miracle of Archangel Michael.
Folk signs: Until the leaves fall from the cherries, no matter how much snow falls, the thaw will drive it away. From this day forward, the Mikhailovsky matinees covered the earth with frost: Mikhail grabbed the earth with frost.
Folk beliefs and customs: On Michaelmas Day the first “brotherhood” celebrated. Bratchina, fraternity, fraternity - worldly gatherings at which family and private matters were decided. After the reconciliation gathering, mutual treats were offered, leading into the celebration itself. In winter, two main brotherhoods were celebrated: Mikhailovsky (September 19) and Nikolsky (December 19). According to popular belief, Mikhail was not allowed to work - God would punish him.
September 20. Luke
Name days: Ivan, Luke, Makar, Savva, Serapion, Sozont.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs of Sozont, Macarius of Kanevsky; Venerable Serapion of Psovsky; St. John, Archbishop of Novgorod, St. Luke.
Folk signs: On Luka, they used the bulb to tell fortunes about winter: an abundance of husks on the bulbs meant a cold winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: On Luka they removed bees and collected onions. On this day “the girls wove onions into their braids,” and the witch said: “The braids will be silky and tight - from onion scum and onion skins.” Healers treated skin diseases and abscesses with steamed onions: “The onion cures this disease!”
September 21. Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Spozhinki
Orthodox calendar: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - the twelfth holiday in honor of the birth Holy Virgin Maria. Nativity of the Mother of God (Mother of God Day, Second Most Pure Day, Little Most Pure Mother of God, Second Lady, Rich Lady, Spozha, Spozhka, Big Spozhka, Asposov /Aspasov/ day, Sposov day, Pasikov day, Autumn, Second Autumn, Lukov day, Podnesenev day) – popular name Great Twelfth Feast of the Theotokos Orthodox Church- Nativity of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. Installed in memory of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Lord God Jesus Christ.
Folk signs: If the weather is good on this day, then autumn will be good.
Folk beliefs and customs: Day of the Virgin Mary of Rus'. The Day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary is celebrated with a solemn prayer service; singing of magnification at Matins: “We magnify You, Most Holy Virgin, and honor Your holy parents and glorify Your birth with all glory.” Church hymns: stichera, troparia and canons in honor of the Mother of God are called “Theotokos”; they are part of all daily services. In the liturgical books, the Mother of God holidays in honor of the Mother of God are especially highlighted. Each Mother of God holiday has its own Theotokos.
Among the people, the Mother of God was especially revered. The image of the Mother of God was clearer, more accessible and closer to the people’s consciousness than the image of Jesus Christ. On the one hand, “ascended into the divine world,” on the other, she remained associated with ordinary people, motherly, worried and interceding for them. The popular cult of the Mother of God was expressed in numerous epithets: “Most Holy”, “Most Pure”, “Mistress”, “Queen of Heaven and Earth”, “Deliverer from Sorrows”, “ Ambulance", "Heavenly Intercessor", "Healer from diseases and passions", "Defender from troubles, evil spirits, misfortunes and suffering." Since in popular ideas the Mother of God was seen as comforting, merciful, responsive to any misfortune and relieving pain, people often turned to her with spells and prayers
and spells in different cases life: “Most Pure Mother of God, deliver me from the toil, take away the annoyances from my soul, illuminate my life!”
The Mother of God was considered the intercessor of children in this and the next world. According to Russian beliefs, a mother who “slept” her child (pressed him down during sleep) had to pray alone in church for several nights in a row in a outlined circle. Then, on the first night, the Mother of God showed the mother her child covered in blood, on the second night the blood became less, and so on until complete cleansing.
Mother the Most Holy Theotokos was often invoked in incantations and prayers for healing from illnesses.
Conspiracy against diseases.
“I will get up slave (name) early in the morning, I will wash myself with spring water, dry myself with the Lord’s shroud and I will pray to the image of the Savior, the Mother of the Most Holy Lady, the Most Pure Theotokos. On the sea-ocean, on the Jordan River, on the Alatyr stone stands the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos, next to her are 77 angels, 77 archangels. 1st angel Michael the archangel, 2nd angel Gabriel the archangel, third angel Kuzma and Damyan. Do not shoot the slave (name), but fly away, eyes, from the slave (name) from door to door, from gate to gate, through the moss, through the swamps, to the hayfields. Amen, amen, amen."
Holiday "Spozhinka".
This day is also known as “Spozhinki” - the end and celebration of the end of the harvest, the harvest festival. Spozhinki have been dealt with for a long time and sometimes lasted a whole week. The more fruitful the summer was, the longer the holiday lasted, celebrated by visiting people and widespread hospitality. They were sure to invite the newlyweds to their father-in-law and mother-in-law, along with their father-in-law and mother-in-law. Often grandchildren stayed with their grandparents for several days after the holiday.
Ritual of "Autumn". Second meeting of autumn.
According to the Russian folk calendar, September 21 is the second meeting of autumn (the first on Semyon Day - September 14, the third on Exaltation - September 27). On this day they celebrated “Oseniny”.
Early in the morning, women went out to the banks of rivers, lakes and ponds to meet Mother Osenina with oatmeal bread. The older woman stood with the bread, and the young women around her sang songs, after which they broke the bread into pieces according to the number of those present and fed it to the livestock.
With Osenin, gatherings began: girls with yarn gathered in one hut, guys came to them with a harmonica and treats, and game songs were sung:
“Get drunk, you drunk,
Change yourselves
To our side.
Like on our side
Great freedom!
And there’s a lot of freedom,
The guys are rich!
That men are rich
Stone chambers!
Golden doors
What domes are cast!”
Just like the day spring equinox, on this day they renewed the fire in the huts - they extinguished the old one and lit a new one. To avoid damage from the evil eye and disease, old clothes and shoes were burned, and children were doused with water on the doorstep.
September 22. Day of Akim and Anna. Present day
Name days: Anna, Athanasius, Joseph (Osip), Joachim, Marin, Nikita, Sevres, Severian, Stratonik, Strator, Theo before this, Feofan, Chariton.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Righteous Joachim and Anna, parents of the Mother of God; Martyr Severian; St. Joseph, abbot of Volotsk, wonderworker; Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov.
Folk signs: Day of the autumn equinox. The night is equal to the day and will increase: the day is becoming shorter and shorter, everything longer than the evening. A lot of shade - for a clear autumn and cold winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: Day of Akim and Anna - God's ancestors. These righteous people are considered helpers of women in labor and the childless. On this day we honored the sun and prayed to it “to accumulate strength and drive away the darkness approaching the gate.” In the old days, there was a custom for newlyweds to treat their relatives, so this day was also called “Presentation Day.”
"Presentation Day"
All relatives and friends came to the newlyweds “to visit the young, look at their lives and teach them wisdom.” After a hearty dinner, the young housewife showed off her entire household in the house. The owner took the guests to the yard, showed them livestock in the barns, summer and winter harnesses in the sheds, and treated them to beer from a keg in the garden. Guests, according to custom, were supposed to praise and teach wisdom. All this was accompanied by the presentation of beer with a joke: “Presence day. Lay, lay, little egg! Water it, little egg! Drink, guests, drink - don’t begrudge your host’s goodness!”
September 23. Name day Rowan
Name days: Andrew, Appellius, Callinicus, Kasyan, Clement, Lucius, Minodora, Mitrodora, Nymphodora, Paul, Peter, Pulcheria.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs Minodora, Mitrodora, Nymphodora; Blessed Pulcheria, Queen of Greece; St. Paul the Obedient, Peter; Venerable Prince Andrew (Joasaph) of Spasokubensky.
Folk signs: If there are few rowan trees, then the autumn will be dry; if there are many, then there will be a harsh winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: This day is the name day of the rowan tree. The peasants said: “The rowan tree has chilled, withered, and has picked up sugar,” “Peter and Pavel the mountain ash growers are calling to sour, to stock up on rowan berries for future use. Remove from the povet, a place for evil spirits to take.”
According to popular belief, rowan could protect against evil spirits: “If evil spirits torment you, do not give you sleep, come up to your chest, suffocate you, then take a rowan branch, draw it around yourself - and the evil spirits will disappear.” Therefore, windows were decorated with rowan berry clusters for the winter, and rowan berries brought in from the frost were used to relieve headaches.
September 24. Fedora
Name days: Herman, Demid, Didim, Dimitrian, Diodorus, Dmitry, Evanthia, Euphrosynus, Zeno, Isidore, Iya, Leo, Roman, Sergei, Silouan, Fedora.
Orthodox calendar: Day of St. Theodora of Alexandria; Saints Sergius, Herman, Valaam wonderworkers; Venerable Silouan of Athos; martyrs Demetrius, his wife Evanthia.
Folk signs: Strong shoots of winter crops mean a good harvest next year.
Folk beliefs and customs: From this day on, the autumn warmth ended: “Indian summer will not reach Fedora”, “Fedora conceives the autumn mud.” Saint Theodora was considered the patroness of winter grains, so on this day they went to the field to look at winter grains.
September 25. Artamon. Autonomous. Snake day
Name days: Autonomus, Albert, Athanasius, Vassian, Daniel, Macedon, Nicodemus, Semyon, Fedor, Julian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Hieromartyr Autonomus, Bishop of Italy; Venerable Vassian of Tiksna; righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye; Martyr Julian.
Folk signs: If the leaves from the birch and oak do not fall cleanly, then expect a harsh winter.
Folk beliefs and customs: People noted: “On Autonoma, day and night are equal, and snakes go into hibernation.” On this day, snakes crawl in a line through the forest. "Artamon last time the snake is released. And then he invites them into holes and locks them in the depths of the earth.”
Rowan berries were collected on Avtonoma. There was a belief: cutting down a rowan tree means starvation, that is, depriving yourself of natural medicine for the winter and leaving the birds without food. Housewives stored rowan for future use, made rowan kvass, which helped against inflammation, and prepared rowan treats with honey.
Red-fruited rowan with honey.
For 400 g of berries - 200 g of honey.
After the first frost, remove the rowan from its branches and sort it out. Prick each berry, put it in boiling water, cover the pan with a lid and keep it there until the rowan softens. Then place the berries on a sieve, boil honey, add rowan berries and cook until thick, skimming off the foam.
September 26. Kornilov day
Name days: Valerian, Gordian, Erofey, Izot, Ilya, Cornelius, Kornid, Leonty, Lukian, Peter, Julian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Martyrs Cornelius the Centurion, Cronidas, Serapion and Leontius, Ilin, Zotik, Lucian, Valerian.
Folk signs: If the moon turns red, then wait for the wind to blow. The rain falls to the ground - it begins to heal the earth.
Folk beliefs and customs: They said about this day: “From this day on, the root does not grow in the ground, but freezes.” Therefore, the peasants tried to remove all root crops before Kornilov Day: “Holy Cornelius – remove the rhizome from the ground.”
September 27. Exaltation
Name day: Ivan.
Orthodox calendar: The Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord is one of the most important Orthodox and Christian holidays, dating back to the twelfth. Established in the 4th century in memory of the discovery in Jerusalem of the greatest shrines of the Christian world - the Holy Cross and the instrument of the Passion of the Lord.
Folk signs: Exaltation will move the heat away, and the cold will push in. On Vozdvizhenie the bird takes flight. If geese fly high into Vozdvizhenie, it means a high flood, if low, it means a low flood. If on Exaltation north wind, then the summer will be warm. Exaltation - the last haystack moved from the field. The Exaltation came - the caftan and fur coat moved, and the hat pulled down.
Folk beliefs and customs: According to popular legend, on the Exaltation there is a battle between “honor” and “dishonor”; two forces rise (“erect”) one against the other: truth and falsehood, “holy” and “unholy.” Truth wins with the help of the Holy Cross of the Lord rising from the depths of the earth. Since the cross is a symbol of suffering, the day of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord was considered fast by the people:
“Even if there is a movement on Sunday, everything will be on it - Friday-Wednesday, fast food”; “Whoever does not fast the Exaltation – the Cross of Christ – seven sins will be raised upon him”; “Whoever has a carnage on the table about the Exaltation kills all his prayers.”
This day was also called “Stavrov’s Day” (from Greek “cross”). For a long time, on Exaltation, religious processions were held around villages to protect them from harm for a year. Molebens were served, icons were raised, and fields were walked around with prayer for the future harvest. They also prayed for the sick: “Pray with faith on the Day of Exaltation, so the Life-Giving Cross will rise from your deathbed.” It was customary to raise crosses on churches under construction; install roadside crosses; build votive chapels (ordinaries) and small churches - according to the promise, in honor of the holiday. And in the bins, and in the sap, and in the cow’s manger, the peasants placed crosses carved from wood, or even just rowan branches criss-crossed. In the old days, crosses were burned on door lintels and barn gates to protect their home, livestock, and harvest from harm.
There was also a belief that on the day of the Exaltation one should not begin any important and significant work, since everything started on this day would either end in complete failure or would be unsuccessful and useless.
According to popular remarks, on the Feast of the Exaltation “reptiles and other reptiles go to some unknown warm countries.” Swallows also fly there. Therefore, the men carefully locked the gates, doors and gates all day long, for fear that the reptiles crawling into the hole would not crawl into the yard by mistake. For the same reason, we tried not to go to the forest for the Exaltation: “You can’t go into the forest for the Exaltation, because then the bastards go into the woods.”
Exaltation was considered a dangerous day for going into the forest, not only because of snakes, but also because of goblin, werewolves and other evil spirits. According to popular belief, goblins gathered the animals under their control in one place and gave them a review before the coming winter. At the same time, they could cause harm to the person they encountered.
In addition to the goblin, this day was also important for the barn-keeper - the spirit that lives in the barn and takes the form of the owner of the house. The WHO movement celebrated “name days.” Ovin was “resting” - he was not allowed to drown. The threshers did not work either. If the barn was already “planted”, all the sheaves were laid in it, then the owner pretended to “seat” the barn, taking out the two top sheaves. On this day, the hostess spread an embroidered towel on the “sadila” - the barn window - and left a treat for the barn and the “barn owner” for the night.
"Skit". Third meeting of autumn.
From this day began a series of cheerful autumn parties - “cabbage parties”, “cabbage parties”, which lasted two weeks, and were celebrated not only by peasants, but also by city dwellers. On this day, girls, dressed up in colorful festive dresses, went from house to house to chop cabbage. The grooms were looking for brides - “cabbage girls”.
In the evening, when the cabbage was already chopped, there was fun everywhere, often leading to weddings taking place on Pokrov. There was a belief that if, when going to the Vozdvizhensk skit party, a girl read a special kind of spell seven times, then the young man who liked her would also like her beauty : “My word is strong as iron! Raise, Father Exaltation Day, in the heart of a good young man (name), love for me, the red maiden (name), so that this love does not end forever, so that it does not burn in fire, does not drown in water, so that the cold winter does not chill it ! My word is strong as iron!”
Neighbors were invited to Kasputen parties: “And the bad woman about Vozdvizhenie is a cabbage girl.” The cabbage girls, entering the house, congratulated the owners on the cabbage harvest, as if on a holiday. Beer was brewed for the guests and a meal was prepared with the main dish - “bread pie”. The evening ended with dancing and games.
September 28. Nikita-guseprolet
Name days: Akakiy, Valerian, Vissarion, Gerasim, Ivan, Clementine, Leonid, Makar, Maxim, Maria, Nikita, Porfiry, Stepan, Fedot.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Great Martyr Nikita; First Martyr Stephen, Martyr Porphyry; Saint Akakios, Bishop of Melitino.
Folk signs: If geese fly high - to high flood, low - to low flood. If migrating geese often land on the ground, if starlings are not yet in a hurry to fly away, then expect a dry and warm autumn.
Folk beliefs and customs: They said about this day: “Geese are dragging the winter on their tail,” “The hussar bows to the water priest, so that in his kingdom he will not be angry with the bird race.”
Saint Nikita was considered by the people to be the protector of children from diseases. On this day, healers treated children's illnesses with their spells. The children were washed with Epiphany water and given it to drink.
Conspiracy for the health of the child.
“Man was born, the cross was erected, and Satan became stronger, and God was glorified, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen! Holy Father Nikita, place him, Lord, servant of God (name) on holy place, to think about God and to do God: the Holy Spirit will come upon him and all heaven will shine upon him, and all that is on high will pass him by, the hand of Savior, the seal of Christ, Mother of God Cross, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen! Amen! Amen!
Just as the Lord God, Jesus Christ, established springs, rivers and streams, so comfort the sickness and illness in the servant of God (name) with the prayers of the Most Pure Mother of God and the Ever-Virgin Mary and all the Holy and Heavenly Powers. Forever and ever. Amen! Amen! Amen!"
“The mother herself carried, she brought, she babbled, she cared for her child herself. She spoke to all 12 veins: nasal, ear, eye, buttock, scale, heel, abdominal, dorsal, hand, vertebral, inguinal, nail.”
September 29. Efimiya. Bird bone
Name days: Victor, Dorofey, Efimiya, Cyprian, Lyudmila, Melitina, Procopius, Renat, Sebastian.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised; Martyr Lyudmila, Princess of Bohemia; Martyr Victor; Saint Cyprian of Moscow.
Folk signs: If thunder rumbles on Efimiya, then the winter will be short, soft and snowless.
Folk beliefs and customs: On Efimiya they looked at the bird bone and found out from it: what kind of winter will it be? Will the seeds and roots of herbs and winter crops freeze in harsh times? Bird bone- duck or chicken - with its hardness and fatty coating, it seemed to give the answer: if the bone is thick and there is a lot of fat on it, then the winter will be cold. This is one of the examples of long-term signs of our ancestors.
September 30. Faith, Hope, Love, Sophia. All-world women's empresses (name day)
Name days: Faith, Hope, Love, Sophia, Zeno, Ilya, Lucia, Nile, Tom, Theodotia.
Orthodox calendar: Day of the martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia.
Folk signs: If the cranes fly on this day, then there will be frost on Pokrov; if not, then the cold will come later.
Folk beliefs and customs: On the day of the “All-World Women’s Empresses,” all women were allowed not to work and men congratulated them on the holiday. It was customary to honor and treat women and girls with pies, whose names were Sophia, Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Name days were usually celebrated for three days in honor of maternal Wisdom and female Virtues.
Folk wisdom is expressed in signs and observations. There are a lot of signs about September - the first month of autumn, which is always folk culture signified the transformation of nature and inner world people.
In September 2016 there will be many Christian holidays, which are famous for many folk and church signs that have come to us through dozens of generations. One of the most important holidays there will be an Exaltation. We have already written about the signs for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross - September 27. In addition to such signs, there are also general universal folk observations for September that may be useful to you.
Energy September
September is a transition period, or rather, its beginning. This month is the link between summer and autumn. Its beauty and mystery are amazing, because it contains a piece of the passing summer and light chords of winter, which is already about to make itself known.
At this time, the general tone of the body in most people drops, so it is important to maintain energy at the same level, otherwise you risk running into a streak of failures and bad mood. That is why autumn is called the time of depression and melancholy. People just forget that physical processes, occurring in the body, are incredibly important for developing a good mood.
The decline in energy affects everything that surrounds us, so many signs of September are associated with this phenomenon.
Folk signs of September
In 2016, September promises to be cool, but not brutally cold. Autumn should be soft and pleasant - according to at least, so they say summer signs and meteorologists.
- The most common sign of September is associated with the autumn equinox. On September 22, 2016, day and night will become equal, after which the day will begin to wane, and the night will rapidly gain momentum. If on this day there will be clear weather, then expect the rapid arrival of summer next year.
- If at the beginning of September there is a lot yellow leaves, then winter will begin very early this year, and summer will go away very quickly.
- If September 2016 is very warm, then the winter of 2016-2017 will be cold and long.
- Fast-growing weeds indicate that there will be a lot of snow in winter, and the weather will be very pleasant.
- At the erection on September 27, the last birds fly south, the bears go into hibernation.
- When you discover a mole hole, pay attention to the entrance to the home of this animal. If it is in the northern part, then the winter will be warm. If it is in the south, then the winter will be fierce and merciless. If in the west, there will be a lot of snow. A hole in the east means a dry winter with little snow.
- If there are a lot of acorns on the oak trees, then the winter of 2016-2017 will be very warm. IN new year holidays and on Christmas Day in this case there should be a lot of snow.
- If there are few rowan trees, then autumn will be dry and pleasant. When there are a lot of rowan trees, expect rain.
- If snow fell on September 29, then heavy winter frosts should not come soon.
- Thunder in September foreshadows many problems next spring.
- September 21, 2016 will be the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Usually, at this time, bees are removed for the winter, all work in the gardens is completed and frost-resistant crops and flowers are prepared for winter.
- On September 21, they also usually visit guests, treating each other to what they managed to collect in the garden.
- It is not recommended to start any important business on September 27th. Also on this day, according to tradition, they begin to harvest cabbage. People visit each other and spend their evenings talking.
- At the end of September, livestock is usually slaughtered and a festival to welcome autumn is held.
- On September 23, it is customary to pick rowan berries and prepare them for making juice. According to tradition, some of the berries are left for the birds.
September traditions
In addition to signs, there are many traditions associated with September:
Rite for September 2016
This ritual can be performed in any autumn, including this year. You will need yellowed leaves from trees. Pick more leaves and take them home. Do not pick up already fallen leaves, as they are lifeless.
When you bring the leaves home, place them on the windowsill on the sunny side so that the Sun energizes them. The energy of the Sun is still strong enough to charge the leaves with positive energy. In the warmth they will accept all the gifts of our luminary. Three days later, before going to bed, wash the leaves and keep them in cold water for an hour or two. Then wash your face with this water before going to bed, saying the following spell: “Autumn-autumn, give me strength. I want to be like you, as beautiful. Let all those who need me see joy. Let my eyes be open before you. Mother Nature, give me strength to survive this colorful cold.”
Then the leaves will need to be carefully wiped and dried. Throughout the fall and winter, they can be kept at home to attract good luck in everything.
WE wish you success this fall 2016. For some, the summer was successful, for others not so much, but it was so fleeting that before we knew it, the leaves were already turning yellow in the yard and a frosty north wind was blowing. At such a time, it is necessary to maintain a high level of energy. Self-massage for beauty and health will help you with this. Good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and
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One of the main church holidays, called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, has rich history and many traditions...
September - first autumn month. Small, but still a transition point. Some will go to school for the first time, others to college. And autumn itself is a time of change: we said goodbye to summer, rested and gained strength, and now we can move on with new ideas and a fresh head.
People call September “gloomy” or “leaf fall”. And indeed, the sun is no longer so warm, the days are much shorter, the nights are fresher, cooler early morning no longer so affectionate. In a word, autumn.
Folk calendar for September
Of course, people noticed autumn signs, continued harvesting, preparing for the winter and much more. In this article we will look at the folk calendar for September. How and why is each day of this month remarkable? Everything is here, signs, sayings, and interesting facts.
1st Thekla Beetroot
On this day, beet harvesting began, which has been very popular in Rus' since ancient times. Many dishes were prepared from it, fermented for the winter, and much more. So this vegetable was the “queen of the ball.”
But besides this, the peasants revered warm wind from the south. They called him "warm". This is reflected in other names of the holiday: Andrei-Teplyak or simply Teplyak. There was a sign - if the south wind blows on September 1, there will be big harvest oats.
2nd Samoilov day
On September 2, the prophet Samuel was revered; he was considered the patron saint of men. Therefore, Samoilov’s day can be considered men's holiday. People believed that the better the mood of the head of the family on this day, the greater the well-being in the family. Therefore, the men were pampered: the wife set a rich, hearty table, the daughter presented a new embroidered shirt in the morning.
3rd Thaddeus the Preacher
On September 3, they usually began to harvest flax, and it was of great importance in the life of peasants in Rus' - almost all clothes were made from linen. And this is not all the uses of flax.
Therefore, it is not at all surprising that many rituals were associated with him. For example, to make flax soft and flexible, it was dried by laying it out in the fields. All this had to be done with a certain conspiracy.
This day of the folk calendar has other names:
- Thaddeus day
- Flax
- Vasilisa
4th Agathon Ogumennik
An extremely remarkable day, as it is dedicated to the goblin; the second name of the day is “The Fun of the Leshego,” which already says a lot. In the folk calendar there are several days allotted to this spirit, and on each of these days it was very undesirable to go into the forest and show yourself forest owner on the eyes.
In Rus' they believed that:
On Agathon, the goblin comes out of the forest into the field, runs through villages and hamlets, scatters sheaves across the threshing floors
Therefore, the peasants went out to guard the umenniks at night, so that the goblin would not break or scatter anything there. They came out for a reason, there was a special ritual:
- firstly, it was necessary to enlist the support of Saint Agathon;
- then put on the sheepskin coat inside out;
- wrap your head in a towel;
- take a poker with you.
With this poker they drew a circle around the threshing floor and sat somewhere inside it. Only such actions could guarantee the safety of supplies and their owner.
5th Loop Lingonberry
From that day on, everyone who was not busy with serious work went into the forest for lingonberries. And housewives began to bake lingonberry pies and prepare berries for the winter.
Flax harvesting continued.
6th Eutychius Quiet
A very scary day on the folk calendar in September. There was a belief that those who go into the forest alone may not return from there. The unknown voice of the September dawn could lure you into the very thicket. Danger also threatened those who walked in the fields and meadows. On September 6th, in general, it was not advisable to go far from home.
Not only the voice lured travelers into distant distances, but also the witch’s fire (or a red flower). In general, our ancestors believed that such will-o'-the-wisps are the souls of those who died a death other than their own (murdered, died in an accident, or committed suicide). They needed to be protected, and therefore the peasants read special amulets.
7th Titus Deciduous
This day is also called “Mushroom Roost” or “Tit Mushroom Picker”. The names speak for themselves - on this day they went to pick mushrooms, and also put mushroom treats on the table. Of course, they were prepared for future use.
However, grain harvesting did not stop.
8th Natalya Ovsyanitsa and Adriyan Osenniy
In Rus', by this day they tried very hard to complete the harvest of oats and celebrate this event with the so-called “oatmeal lunch”. Everyone (both owner and workers) sat down at the table, and the hostess treated them to dishes with oats:
- pancakes,
- porridge,
- jelly.
It was important to drink a lot of oatmeal; our ancestors believed that its smell could prevent fires and protect barns from rot.
On this day, they did not forget about the horses; they also had to be treated to oats.
9th Two Pimen
On this day of the September folk calendar, special attention was paid to rowan. In Rus' they believed that it could scare away all evil. Well, it’s also a fruit true love. In addition, there was a belief that the mountain ash was capable of taking revenge on itself. So you need to be careful with her.
On September 9th they began preparing it. Housewives made rowan kvass, made wine and baked pies.
10th Anna and Savva Skirdniks
On this national holiday, bread began to be placed in stacks and pantries. After harvesting and stowing the crop, one could already boast about it. It was absolutely forbidden to do this before September 10, otherwise it would disappear.
Also on this day it was necessary to go to church for matins and ask Saint Moses for help. He could help in getting rid of fornication and drunkenness.
They judged spring by signs. For example, if the birch leaves are yellow at the top, spring will be long and late.
11th Ivan Postny
This folk holiday has other names:
- Flyer,
- Golovosek,
- Turnip holiday.
The Turnip Festival is truly a holiday. Only modest, without large celebrations. Its main goal is to feed the poor and vagabonds.
Turnip harvesting began in the villages. In general, before September 11 it was forbidden to eat this vegetable. Those caught in a turnip field could be stripped naked.
Work in the field gradually ended. And autumn was already clearly felt in the air.
12th Alexander Sytnik
On Sytnik in Rus' it was customary to feast and gather guests. The main decoration of the table that day was barley porridge with milk, “svytnaya porridge.” Sometimes honey and other sweets were added to it.
There was one ritual associated with barley for the harvest. The stalks of barley left standing in the field from the last harvest were intertwined together with the stalks of oats, reading a special spell for the future harvest.
- dry pillows;
- touch cards;
- make a new fence;
- greet the first guest;
- If you take kittens, such an animal will bring nothing but misfortune.
13th Kupriyan day, Crane meeting
At Zhuravlinka or Crane Assembly, cranes gather in the swamp and decide how and when to fly to warmer climes. And along with the cranes, all sorts of swamp spirits gather there, but with their own goals. Therefore, there was nothing to do near the swamps on this national holiday. It’s dangerous and scary there: a bluish haze, the screams and moans of drowned people.
From this date you can already start collecting cranberries. You can’t touch it up to Zhuravlinka - the consequences of violating the ban are terrible. From obsession to loss of mind.
In general, only those born on the 13th were sent to Kupriyan for cranberries. He knows the way to the treasured berry spot, and the spirits are not so scary to him.
The harvesting of root crops continued in the gardens: potatoes, turnips, and so on.
14th Semin day
New Year, Summer Guide or First Autumn. This is a very significant date in the folk calendar of our ancestors. On this day, many autumn rituals were performed.
Plus this is the beginning:
- Indian summer and “women’s worries” (women crushed and washed flax, spun and much more);
- evening round dances and fun;
- wedding weeks.
And also, on this day all the sparrows flew to hell. That's why they were nowhere to be seen.
15th Mammoth Day
Mammoth Day was popularly called “Goat Family” and “Shepherd Mammoth”. The old men strictly forbade removing sheep and cows from the barn before lunch:
If you kick me out, you'll get into trouble
On this holiday, it was customary to put things in order in the barns: clean them, repair them, and so on. And in the evening you could take a walk, have fun, dance and sing.
16th Domna Dobrorodnaya
The flax harvest was still ongoing.
Also, it was very important to take out all the junk (especially old bast shoes) from the house that day. Usually they were hung on the fence. Such a ritual could protect livestock, crops, the yard and the house itself from the evil eye and damage.
By evening, all this rubbish was burned or thrown away (except for bast shoes).
17th Burning Bush
On this day, the icon of the “Burning Bush” is revered - an image that is popularly considered a strong talisman from fires. Fires - terrible tragedy, both now and before, and therefore people are trying in every possible way to protect themselves from them. It is believed that if you pray for protection from fire on September 17, your request will definitely be heard.
Also on this day, onion harvesting began, and therefore this holiday was also called Lukov.
18th Zachary and Elizabeth
This day was also popularly called “Autumn Kumokha” or “Exile of Kumokha.” Kumokha is one of the Fever sisters, and therefore she was driven away.
This day is good for predictions; the peasants watched the weather and judged what kind of winter it would be.
19th Michaelmas
September 19th is the day on which the Archangel Michael was honored. You can’t work on Michaelmas Day - God will punish you.
Among the people, this is another good day to drive out the Fever or Kumakha, because all evil spirits are afraid of Michael. You could also turn to the archangel with a request for healing.
In the villages on September 19, general gatherings were often held - worldly fraternities, at which decisions were made important issues. After this event, feasts were held.
20th Lukov day
Day of mass sale of onions. In general, Lukov Day is a sad holiday. He was finishing Indian summer. Well, also, “the girls cried over the onions” when they prepared them for various pickles. But it was useful, there was a saying among the people:
If you cry over the bow, it’s easier to part with your maiden share and get married.
On this day, many treats were prepared from onions - they were stuffed, baked, added to pancakes, and so on.
They used onions to tell fortunes and judge the future harvest and weather. And with the Lukov holiday, the wedding season began.
21st Small Most Pure, Ospozhinki, Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Autumn - traditional women's holiday, which was customary to meet near the water. Women went to the banks of rivers and lakes with jelly and bread, read a prayer to the Mother of God, broke loaves according to the number of people who came, and then each of them took her piece home and gave it to the cattle.
A new fire was lit in the stoves, always using the old-fashioned method - striking a spark or using sticks by rubbing.
This is quite a big holiday among the people. The harvest festival was widely and cheerfully celebrated for a whole week. They sang, danced, danced and praised the harvest, because it was the day of the autumn equinox.
22nd Akim and Anna
On this day, it was customary to gather guests, neighbors and acquaintances at home. Which, in fact, was what the various rituals were associated with.
This day was also popularly called Mothers' Day, and therefore midwives and young mothers were congratulated on the holiday.
They prepared a special ritual porridge - worldly. It was very well suited for various magical rituals.
23rd Peter and Pavel Ryabinnik
Rowan name day. After autumn night frosts, rowan became especially sweet, and various treats were prepared from it.
And also this berry excellent remedy in the fight against various evil spirits, so they decorated windows with clusters and hung them under the roof of the house.
24th Fedorina's evening
Time to take stock of the summer season and prepare for winter. The skits began with Fedora. This word is still alive today, in almost the same sense. But only earlier, such “parties” were really associated with cabbage. The women gathered together to prepare this vegetable. They told each other various stories, sang songs, and in the evening sat down at the table.
On this day it was customary to help in the church.
25th Artamon Serpentine
On Snake Day, everyone prepared for winter, including forest dwellers. By folk beliefs, snakes crawled into their holes for winter hibernation on this holiday.
The peasants continued to collect rowan and make various preparations from it for the winter.
26th Corniglier
Last day autumn warmth, so the people said. They continued harvesting root crops in the gardens, with the help of Saint Cornelius. Housewives prepared dishes from vegetables (potatoes, beets, carrots).
27th Exaltation
“Vyriy” or “Third Autumns”. On this day of the folk calendar, it was very important to complete all field work. The girls' get-togethers continued.
An important ritual designed to protect the house from evil spirits was the drawing of crosses in the house, barn and other important places. Crosses were drawn with soot, chalk, garlic or coal. They were also made from rowan branches.
28th Nikita Gusyatnik
On this day, geese began to be slaughtered, and therefore the main treat on this day was goose. It was even presented as a gift to the waterman, so that the owner of rivers and lakes would be more favorable.
Turnip harvesting and sheep shearing continued.
29th Efimiya, Bird's bone
A very successful day for fortune telling by bird bones and weather observations.
The villages continued to harvest cabbage for the winter.
It is noteworthy that there was a popular belief that girls born on Efimiya have a wonderful voice. Like a bird.
30th Ecumenical Indian Name Day, Faith-Hope-Love
On this day, the name days of Faith, Hope and Love were celebrated; these names were among the most common names. Women often cried on September 30th; this is one of the rituals designed to protect against tears in the future. And young people gathered for evening gatherings.
Here are the signs for each day of September very briefly listed. And only the most basic things about each national holiday.
September- means seventh. Among the ancient Romans, it was the seventh until the calendar reform of Julius Caesar, which occurred in 46 BC, after which it became the ninth, but did not change its name. And in Rus' this month was called “howler” (deer and elk roar during the rut), “veresen” (heather blooms), “gloomy”, “deciduous”, “golden summer”, “summer guide”. Time for boletus and milk mushrooms, saffron milk caps and white mushrooms. In September the forest is thinner and the birds' voices are quieter.
September- the blush of autumn.
The warmer September is, the later winter is.
In September there is one berry, and that one is a bitter rowan.
In September there is fire both in the field and in the hut.
Father September does not like to pamper.
In September, the fur coat trails behind the caftan.
September is cold, but full.
In September it is nicer during the day, but bad in the morning.
Signs of September:
Wet summer and warm autumn mean a long winter.
If a row of ripe oats suddenly turns green, autumn will be stormy.
A lot of acorns on an oak tree - for a fierce winter.
Friendly leaf fall - for a harsh winter.
If the cones on the spruce grow low, there will be early frosts, but if they are at the top, real cold will come at the end of winter.
There are a lot of rowan trees in the forest - autumn will be rainy.
A bountiful harvest of rowan promises a rainy and windy year ahead.
Rainy autumn, clear fall of oak and birch leaves, leaves from the trees turn upside down - for next year's harvest.
The appearance of mosquitoes in the fall means a mild winter.
If the hedgehog has made a hole at the edge of the forest, the winter will be warm; if in the depths of the thicket, expect severe frosts.
It will be a harsh spring if the birds fly away together.
September 1
Andrey Stratilat and Thekla. Noticeable warming.
The warm wind is dressed in a cobweb, bowing after the departed summer.
Stratilat's day has come - the oats have arrived.
Dig beets for Thekla.
The wind is warm, southerly good harvest oats.
September 2
Day of the Prophet Samuel, beetroot.
Samuel the prophet himself prays to God for a man.
It's time to pull out the beets and carrots.
The beetroot girl is a slave for the girls.
September 3
Thaddeus Day. If this day is clear, you should expect the same weather for another four weeks.
Whoever Thaddeus is, own your happiness!
September 4
Day of Agathon the Ogumennik. The peasants were afraid of the devil and guarded the threshing floor at night so that he would not scatter the sheaves.
September 5
Lupa Lingonberry Day. First frost.
On St. Lupus the oats are frosty.
Signs of this day:
If the lingonberries are ripe, you need to hurry up with the oat harvest.
If the cranes fly low and silently, it means bad weather.
September 6
Day of Eutyches.
It’s good if Eutyches is quiet, otherwise you won’t be able to restrain him flax-seed on the vine: everything will hatch completely.
September 7
Day of Titus and Bartholomew.
Titus, let's go threshing!
Listopadiik-Tit grows the last mushroom.
Titus is dragging the last mushroom in the basket - the most vigorous one, without a wormhole.
September 8
Natalia Fescue Day. It's time to mow the oats and cook oatmeal jelly, bake pancakes.
If oats don't grow, you'll swallow tears.
Cold matinee on Natalia - for an early and cold winter.
You can’t mow oats with Natalya - you’ll be exhausted to the point of tears.
September 9
Anfisa's Day, fieldfare.
Birds are the first to feast on rowan berries.
Winter will be merciful to the peasant if there are a lot of berries left on the rowan tree.
September 10
Anna the Prophetess and Savva of Pskov, skirmishers. On this day, they hurried to put the uncultivated sheaves into stacks and glorified the harvest.
A good owner's haystack is as good as a haystack, but a lazy owner's haystack is as big as a haystack.
The cheerful inviting fairs began. On this day, Moses Murin was also revered, to whom they prayed for deliverance from drunkenness and craving for smoking.
South wind - to good health, northern, eastern and western - to diseases.
Strictly fast day:
Who fasts before the Beheading of John the Baptist - from poverty, poverty and poor health will be preserved.
September 11
Day of Ivan Lenten (Day of the beheading of John the Baptist), Ivan Proletny. Everything round is prohibited - anything that might resemble a severed head (apples, potatoes, cabbage, etc.); knives are not taken into hand. Strict post.
They don’t eat round Ivan, they don’t cook cabbage soup.
A suitable day for harvesting medicinal roots. Autumn is getting closer:
Lenten Ivan came and took away the red summer.
WITH Lenten Ivan No man goes out without a caftan.
Ivan the Lenten is the pockmarked godfather of autumn.
Ivan the Baptist chases a bird across the sea.
If the cranes go to Kyiv, it means early winter.
Summer is red with work, and Ivan Proletok is red with goods.
On Lenten Day, collect tall roots.
September 12
Warm and starry - for a good future harvest.
September 13
Kupriyan Day.
It's time to harvest carrots and dig potatoes.
Potatoes are a sucker for bread.
Every root has its time.
September 14
Day of Simeon the Stylite, in the folk calendar - Semyon the Summer Conductor. In pre-Petrine Rus' (from the mid-14th century to 1700) it fell on September 1 and was considered the beginning of the New Year. This day was the deadline for paying state taxes and for appearing in court. Deadline for sowing rye and harvesting spring crops:
Seed-day - away with the seeds.
On Semyon Day, plow before lunch, and after lunch, wave at the plowman.
Housewives are preparing for winter: pickling cucumbers, collecting onions, cooking winter clothes for the whole family. The beginning of the “old Indian summer”:
Semyon spends the summer, will bring Indian summer.
Since Indian summer - women's holiday and women's worries.
If the first day of Indian summer is clear, then Indian summer will be warm. Indian summer is dry - autumn is wet.
It's warm on Semyon - warm all autumn.
It was believed that on this day it was time for three-year-old children to emerge from infancy, and for adults to start hunting:
For Semyon, tonsure the child, put him on a horse and go out into the field to catch.
After completing field work, the recruit boys walked in festive clothes until November: from Semyonov Day to Guria (November 28) - wedding weeks. This day is also good for housewarming.
Snakes are very dangerous on this day; their bites are fatal. If an eel is swept out of the water into the grass, it means that it shakes into the grass dashingly. You cannot approach it, and picking it up means incurring great grief. You cannot walk on the grass near rivers.
September 15
Mammoth Shepherd Day. To avoid misfortunes, it was customary to drive cattle out of the yard only after noon that day. Snakes are very dangerous - you should not walk barefoot, especially near water. The future can be determined by the water, by the way it flows.
September 16
Vasilisa's Day. Housewives prepared flax and hemp for spinning.
Baba Vasilisa, in a hurry with flax, get ready for chatter and confusion.
Old, worn bast shoes, hung from the roof that day, protected the house “from the evil eye.”
September 17
Lukov day. It's time to dig up the onions. On this day they prayed for the protection of houses and livestock from fires.
September 18
Day of Elizabeth the Fortuneteller.
It is considered successful for predictions, since it was on this day that Saint Elizabeth predicted the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary.
It is very dangerous to disturb the water in rivers and lakes: on this day the water spirit Ichetik falls asleep. Whoever bothers him can next year drown.
September 19
Michaelmas. Cold snap - “Mi-khailovskie frosts”.
Mikhail grabbed the ground with frost.
On this day, the peasants did not work in the fields - it was a sin. At the same time, it was he who was considered the most suitable for solving all family problems.
Daylight hours are reduced:
The day has already shortened by five hours for Mikhail.
The third flight of swallows.
September 20
Day of the Martyr Sozont. Onion day, the day of taking herbal medicinal kvass, infusions, decoctions. The deadline for digging onions from the beds, the beginning of the onion trade.
Girls weave onions into their braids.
Onions are good both in battle and in cabbage soup.
Whoever eats onions, God will deliver him from eternal torment.
To prevent the entire onion crop from drying out, it was strictly forbidden to try onions until they were completely removed from the beds. Bundles of bulbs were hung throughout the house and around the necks of animals to protect them from pestilence. It was believed that it not only saves from all kinds of misfortune, but also purifies the air.
September 21
Aspas Day, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To spend the day in wisdom and prayer is to find happiness.
Autumn, pockmarks, the second meeting of autumn.
Autumn has passed - say goodbye to warmth.
The end of every summer, a big holiday. The women met him at the water. Children walked around the yards and gave their owners small “autumn” sheaves. In their songs, they wished the owners well-being and called for a generous autumn.
Don't scold autumn
Don’t scold autumn -
Glorious autumn
Deciduous.
Donuts, flatbreads,
Pork feet
They were sitting in the oven,
They looked at us
They flew into the wallet -
Oseninschiki,
Slavilschiki!
On this day, it was customary to go to visit the newlyweds to look at their life and teach them wisdom. Relatives spent a whole week visiting each other's families. General feasts were arranged, after which the grandchildren stayed with their grandparents for a long time. Not easy family relationships sometimes they were sweetened with honey - on this day the beekeepers removed the bees from the apiaries and heartily treated all their loved ones with honey.
From that time on, the gatherings began.
September 22
Nikola autumn. Travel at night is stopped:
Nikola will fatten the spring horse, and drive the autumn horse into the yard.
Snakes are very dangerous. You cannot lift snakes and grass snakes above your eyes - you can get fainting, the evil eye, or damage. You cannot kill snakes - the snake kings will take revenge all year long.
Whoever confuses and tears branches invites snakes into the house.
September 23
Day of Peter and Paul - Fieldfare.
They collected rowan berries and decorated their homes with them. Day became equal to night.
Rowan is Grozny - winter is frosty.
If there are few rowan trees in the forest, then autumn will be dry,
September 24
Fedora - wet your tails. Last farewell to summer. Autumn equinox, the beginning of rain and slush.
Under Fedora, summer ends and autumn begins.
Not every summer will make it to Fedora.
Autumn Fedoras tuck the hem, and winter ones (January 12) cover the snout with a scarf.
The grain growers nicknamed Fedora obdera, since it was by this time that they tried to kill the last remaining standing bread. All field work is coming to an end:
The Monk Fedora came, and amen to all deeds.
On this day it was supposed to watch winter shoots.
September 25
Artamon Day. According to legend, on this day snakes go into the forest and hide. You can’t make noise - the snake will become uneasy and stay near the house. The noise also attracts witches - they bring evil to the house.
September 26
Day of Cornelius. All root vegetables, except turnips, must be dug up by this day:
Saint Cornelius - out of the ground with rhizomes!
It’s a Cornish day outside—every root is in its hole.
From Corniglia the root does not grow in the ground, but freezes.
September 27
Exaltation, third meeting of autumn, first frosts. The elements are ready to obey those people who spend this day in church. Last date for harvesting bread. The birds flocked to the south, the bear lay down in its den. On this day, the peasants were afraid of the devil and did not go into the forest. It's time to chop the cabbage.
The caftan and fur coat will move, the last cart will leave the field, the birds will fly away, and the cold will approach.
The erection of the caftan will slide off the shoulders, the sheepskin coat will be pulled on - winter is just around the corner.
The bird began to fly away to Vozdvizhenye.
On Vozdvizhene good fellow cabbage on the porch.
On this day, a humorous ritual of “funeral of a cockroach” was performed. They placed the “dead man” in a coffin cut from a turnip tuber and buried him in the garden, pretending to read:
Oh, little cockroach,
Yes, our father,
Yes, our little falcon
Yes, how we bury you,
Yes, it’s like we’re burying it in the ground.
Oh, our cockroach is dead
A mound was placed on the “grave”, a cross was placed and it was decorated with a wreath. The cockroaches remaining in the house were lured outside:
Cockroach to cockroach, go bury the cockroach.
It was believed that such a ritual action would help get rid of cockroaches at least until next spring. Other insects were also buried if they became too annoying: flies, spiders, lice. This custom is common among all Slavic peoples.
September 28
Nikita the goose fly, reporez, Nikita the goose fly.
The geese are flying - they are dragging winter clothes on their tails, carrying snow on their noses.
The merman is furious, getting ready to sleep - he needs to be appeased with a goose. You cannot eat the bird yourself, otherwise the water bird will be harmful throughout the next year.
It's time to gather turnips and start shearing the sheep.
Turnips are meat, cut and eat!
September 29
Last date for swallows to fly away.
September 30
Day of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, all-world women's name days. Read conspiracies for memory and understanding.
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