Many people know that Easter is a great and sacred holiday. That is why the last week before its onset is dedicated to cleaning yourself and the house from any filth as best as possible. The last week of Lent is the strictest, and Thursday is dedicated to cleaning the house. These rituals are known to all and they are always tried to be followed.
However, there are also conspiracies that will bring good luck and health to the house if they are completed before Easter. These include such as:
- for profit;
- good luck;
- for beauty and health;
- for love;
- from the evil eye and damage, etc.
Pronouncing conspiracies on different days of the week
Rituals can be performed on any day during Holy Week.
We treat diseases
For example, if you suffer from aching bones, then you can perform the next ceremony, and then the ailment will pass. To do this, you need to go to the store on Monday and buy a bar of soap there (in no case do you pick up the change and do not say “thank you”). Before the first use, it is advisable to give soap to the hands of an “innocent” person - a child. If there is no such house, then a guy or girl who has not been married can replace him. After they hold a piece, you need to go and wash their hands, saying these words:
“As the water of God washes away soap from my hands, so let all the sickness subside from my body. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
From diseases associated with the joints there are also conspiracies. On the second day of Holy Week, stand on the threshold of your house and repeat these words three times:
“God, help me! Holy Mother of God, bless! I pronounce my pain from all joints, I drive away my ailment with holy prayer. Get the sickness out of my arms and my legs. Cross my pain, my threshold. Be you, my words, strong and sculpting, to my tenacious body. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
Previous conspiracies were for certain diseases, but there are those that are suitable for the treatment of any disease.
For one of them you will need a consecrated egg and a willow branch. See that not a single bud falls from the willow during the consecration, otherwise, not only will it not help, it will also aggravate the situation. Next, you need to touch the twig to the sore spots and say:
“St. Paul waved a willow, from me (name) drove away the pain. And how true it is that people Palm Sunday honor, just as holy is the word that my pains will go away. Amen. Amen. Amen".
To maintain health and renew the body, one must go outside on the Wednesday before Easter and draw water in any reservoir. To do this, you need to use a mug from which you have never drunk before. At home, you should put water in a secluded place, cross yourself three times and cover it with a clean towel. Then, when the time is 2 a.m., pour this water over (do not forget to cross yourself again 3 times), but not all of it. It is not necessary to wipe yourself after this procedure, immediately put on things and pour the rest of the water under a tree or into flowers. This ritual will help keep the body in shape and rejuvenate the skin.
If you feel weakness and soreness, but the doctors say that everything is in order with you, then on the third day Easter week drink some holy water, before saying it:
“God created the sky. God created the earth. Create, Lord, and health, servants of God (name). As Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third day to eternal life, So that the servant of God (name) was resurrected to health. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
For back pain, on Friday, the eve of Easter, you can take a rag and cover all the corners of the house with it or use it as a towel for your legs to keep them young and healthy.
We talk about beauty and love
In order to improve your appearance You can use various conspiracies. One of them is pronounced like this:
“Lord, Almighty God, who created everything from nothing! Bless and cleanse my body, may your work be holy and strong. Just as nothing hurts in the heavenly body, it doesn’t ache, it doesn’t ache, and it doesn’t burn with fire, so my bones wouldn’t hurt, ached, didn’t ache, and didn’t burn. The water of God descends from heaven, my body is cleansed of ailments. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
Before you say this, you need to go outside or lean out the window so that you can see the sky without any interference while saying the words.
If a girl is unlucky in love, you can perform the following ceremony. You need to take some grains of wheat and go to the Easter service. All the time while you are on it, keep the seeds to your chest. Upon returning home, scatter them at the doorstep with the words:
“How many in the church there were lights from candles, so many suitors for me. How many grains are in a handful, so many suitors for me. Key. Lock. Language. Amen".
And from problems with acne, such a rite will help. On Good Friday, light a candle, and when less than half is left, extinguish it. In the following time, even after Easter, you need to measure the diameter of the candle with a coarse thread, which you cut to its size, and then speak as follows:
“As a harsh thread burns, so my face will be freed from a pimple. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
When the words are spoken, it is necessary to burn both the thread and the candle.
Conspiracy for money
The eternal problem of people is the lack of money. Therefore, they are trying to attract them in a variety of ways, including conspiracies. Like other rituals, it has a special power to attract wealth if it is performed before Easter.
In order to always have money at home, you need to go to the temple on Wednesday during Holy Week and light a candle there, saying:
“As people go to this cross, so let big money come to me. Now, forever and ever."
In order for the conspiracy to work, it is necessary to be the very first among the parishioners in the church.
Another conspiracy for money is held on Saturday on the eve of a bright holiday. You need to take a five-ruble coin and say:
“In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, money to money, penny to penny. As people are waiting for Easter, as they go to the temple of God, so money would flow to me as a servant of God (name), all the saints, all with me. Amen".
After that, the coin must be put in a wallet and carried with you for the next year without using it.
Also on Saturday, you can put an Easter egg and a coin in each corner of the apartment and say:
“Like an Easter egg with a ruble will not come out of this corner, so that money never leaves my house. Christ is Risen, and to my words Amen.
The next day, the egg can be eaten. But coins should not be spent until another week has passed after Easter.
Rituals on Maundy Thursday
It is known that Thursday on the eve of the holiday is in itself a sacred day. When it occurs, people clean and wash the house, and also wash themselves. They say that those who are too lazy to do the cleaning on this day, then the whole year will live in the mud, constantly quarreling.
The rites held on Pure Thursday have a special power. Perhaps that is why they differ in such diversity.
Prosperity in the house
Basically, it is on Easter week (Thursday) that conspiracies are read to attract money.
On this day, before dawn, sit down and count all the money that is in the house 3 times. Each time you finish counting, say:
“A thousand, half a thousand, six hundred, my sovereign hand will take everything everywhere. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever. Amen".
Early in the morning, while everyone is still sleeping, put some change in the sieve and go outside with it. See that no one sees you. Before reading the plot itself, say:
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." Now, "sifting" the money, say the magic words: "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Mother earth, sister earth, take the seed. Give me and my family good times, good seedlings. Amen".
Conspiracy and Easter week for prosperity
Like many other things, conspiracies are distinguished by their complexity. Therefore, in order to read the next one, it will be necessary to prepare for it. On Easter week, save up a little change, and on Thursday itself, make sure that no one is at home. While reading the plot, no one should distract you. After everything is ready, pour water into the basin and pour the collected money into it. Now, clasping your little fingers together, read the words:
“You are water, water, everyone drinks you, everyone loves you. Everyone blesses you in Baptism, I ask you, water, for forgiveness: mother water is clean, forgive me, mother water, help. As there are many of you in the lake, river, stream, ocean, in every human glass, so I would have a lot of money: on Monday, and on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, and on Thursday, and on Friday, and on Saturday, and Sunday. How much water, so that I, God's servant(name), a lot of good, gold and silver. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
The most difficult thing is that you need to repeat this thirty-three times, but then everything will pay off with interest. After reading, do not immediately pour out the water, first use it for cleaning the house - the floors should be washed last and start from the threshold, moving deeper into the house.
Other Prayers for Thursday
There are conspiracies and in order to get rid of the evil eye or damage. To do this, in the morning while washing, say:
“I wash away what they let loose on me, what the Soul and body toils with, everything is washed off on Maundy Thursday.” And to consolidate the result, one should also say in the evening, while bathing: “As confession cleanses, as water washes away dirt, so you, THURSDAY, be clean. Cleanse me from all evil, from resentment by people, from disobedience, from intemperance, devilish blasphemy, from bad rumors, evil conversations, demonic disputes. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
Bathing can also be used to read beauty spells. One of them is this:
“As clean Thursday is bright and red, so I will be a beautiful slave (name) for everyone. Amen".
Another conspiracy should be pronounced after waking up. To do this, pour water into a container and put any silver object there and say the words:
“I will wash myself with silver water, I will cover myself with a golden robe. As people love money, so let the whole world love me and love me, ”
after which you should wipe yourself with a clean towel (it is better if it is new).
However, conspiracies are not the only thing that can be done on Maundy Thursday. So that a small child does not get sick and grows well, on this day he should be cut, especially favorably if this is his first haircut in his life. Also on Thursday of Easter week they make “Thursday salt” - each family member takes a handful of salt, after which they pour it into one bag. After that, this salt can be used for severe illnesses or failures and quarrels, adding to food.
Holy Week before Easter is 6 days from Monday to Saturday before the Resurrection of Christ. At this time, the sufferings of the Savior for the sake of atonement for human sins are remembered. Every day is called Great (Passionate), as the events that took place millennia ago are of great importance for all mankind. Believers pray earnestly, refrain from bad thoughts, and do good deeds.
Betrayal, condemnation, elevation to Golgotha, crucifixion, resurrection of Christ took place during the Passion (Red, Great, Red, Holy) week.
Every day has its own meaning and history. We will talk about the Great Holy Week. We will open what to do in Holy Week, what not to do and signs, we will talk about what you can eat every day.
Holy week before Easter: history
Believers listen to the parable of the withered fig tree that does not bear fruit, as a symbol of people dying because of their unwillingness to repent. Jesus saw no fruit on the tree and dried it up. Similarly, sinful souls are unable to bear fruit in the Kingdom of God.
Orthodox remember the instructive stories read by Christ in the Jerusalem temple about the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment. The meaning of the sermons is in the need of believers to be ready every minute for a meeting with God, to be fearless to do good, not to give in to despondency.
On this day, it is appropriate to remember the virgin who anointed Jesus' feet with myrrh, wiped them with her hair, thereby preparing the Savior for the inevitable suffering on the cross. They compare the one who, being a great sinner, repented and came to Jesus, and the traitor Judas, who chose thirty pieces of silver - the death of his soul.
On Thursday, the Last Supper took place - the last supper of the Savior with his followers, after which Jesus prayed with the twelve Disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane.
From there, the guards took him after the betrayal of Judas Iscariot.
The saddest day, when the Savior was condemned, crucified, handed over the cross that he carried to Golgotha.
Jesus was crucified on the same cross. On the same cross, he accepted incredible suffering for the entire human race.
Jesus lay in the tomb, and his soul descended into hell.
Priests serve the liturgy in dark robes, then change into light-colored robes. It feels like a big holiday is coming. From the procession at 12 o'clock at night, the Bright Matins begins, when all believers joyfully greet each other: "Christ is Risen!"
What to do in Passion Week. What not to do and signs
Holy Week is the time of the strictest fast, which involves serious restrictions not only in food, but also in the ways of spending leisure time. So you can’t watch TV, celebrate any social events, waste time on entertainment, laziness. It is necessary to devote oneself to charity, mercy.
On Monday, the Orthodox began to clean their homes, repair furniture, throw away unnecessary trash, broken dishes. During the days of Holy Week, noisy human conversations fell silent. In the villages there were special people who followed the deanery and silence.
Signs
- Our ancestors believed that before Easter, evil forces were outraged, rejoicing at the torment of the Savior.
- It was believed that on the eve of the Feast of Feasts, the souls of the dead visit the earth to celebrate the miraculous resurrection of the Son of God.
On Tuesday, juiced milk is prepared from hemp and flax seeds crushed in a mortar, which are diluted with water. It had to be done at dawn secretly from the male half of the family. Pets were given this remedy to protect them from diseases.
On Wednesday they did special rite to save households from present and future ailments. With this method, the body seemed to be reborn. They took well (river) water. They were baptized three times, then a new towel was placed on top of a cup of water. At night, they were baptized again three times, doused with prepared water so that three sips remained. Then, without drying themselves, they dressed, and poured the magical water remaining in the cup into the grass.
On Thursday (he was called Clean), they carried out widespread cleaning in the dwellings, washed themselves. Sweeping was no longer recommended until Easter.
Signs
- At midnight the youth went to swim in the river. Those who bathed in the dwelling carried water to the house until dawn. Then a gold (silver) coin was placed in the river water to gain beauty, wealth, and health.
- The baby, who was one year old, had her hair cut for the first time. Girls equalized the ends of their hair for well-being and health. Bathed in baths from small to large.
- We counted three times all the banknotes, coins in the house in order to increase the amount.
On the fourth day of Passion Week, Thursday salt was made. To do this, she was poured into cast iron pan, glowed, then crushed, sifted, consecrated in the church with Easter. Kept for a whole year as a healing agent.
On Thursday, they began to color eggs, bake Easter cakes, bake hams.
On Friday, the hardest day of the week, when Christ was crucified, alms are served to the needy, food is distributed to the poor. Because of the torment that the Savior endured on this day, the fifth day of the week was called Passion. Washing is not allowed on Friday.
Signs
- You need to sweep all the corners in the house with a rag, which can then be used to treat sciatica. After the bath, they wipe their feet with such a cloth to get rid of ailments.
- They take ashes to help with alcoholism, spoilage.
- Whoever you see first on Friday will be the next three months: a man indicates wealth, family health all three months after Easter. The cat symbolizes good luck, financial well-being, birds - good news.
On Saturday, Easter cakes, eggs, salt, Easter are consecrated. Orthodox are present at the evening service to celebrate Easter in the temple .A day of rest, when you need to realize the horror of what you did a millennium ago.
What you can and cannot eat during Holy Week
On Holy Week, it is necessary to adhere to the rejection of fast food and dry eating. That is, food cannot be processed thermally: boil, fry, bake. If the strength is not enough for such strict abstinence, then you can reduce the usual amount of food, eat once a day after seven in the evening.
Holy Week is the week before Easter. This is a period of strict fasting and intense prayers. These days, people have come up with many signs and beliefs. Most of them are associated with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Good Saturday. If you listen to these signs, you can attract wealth into your life, improve your health and protect yourself from trouble.
- Easter cake baked on Holy Week can heal from any illness, protect from bad weather and fire.
- Before kneading the dough, you need to pray, cleanse your soul and space, otherwise Easter cakes will not work.
- Easter turned out to be neat, not burnt - to well-being and health; failed - to a serious illness.
Signs and beliefs on Pure Thursday
- Bathing on this day gives a person health and extraordinary strength.
- From Thursday to Easter, you can’t give salt, bread, money from home, otherwise you can give peace and health.
- To see a man or a dog through the window first on Maundy Thursday morning - fortunately and well-being; an old woman is a sign of failure.
- If you put a silver coin, spoon or jewelry into the water on Maundy Thursday, and wash yourself with this water on Easter, then this will attract beauty and wealth.
Signs and beliefs on Good Friday
- If it is starry on Good Friday, then the wheat will be grainy.
- The ring, consecrated on this day, becomes a strong amulet.
- A man who has fun on Good Friday will cry all year.
- Clothes washed by the hostess and hung out to dry on this day will never become clean: stains will appear on them.
- If you sow wheat or plant anything on the Friday before Easter, there will be no harvest.
- If you endure thirst on this day, then no drink will harm you for a whole year.
- Chopping wood on Good Friday is a bad omen.
- On the Friday before Easter, one cannot pierce the earth with iron; whoever does this will be in trouble.
- A child conceived on Good Friday may be born sick or crippled.
Signs and beliefs on Holy Saturday
- Clear and sunny weather is a sign of a hot summer.
- It is impossible to fish and hunt on the Saturday before Easter - unfortunately.
- A person who spends Holy Saturday in fun and laughter will cry all year.
- Whoever survives the night without sleep before Easter will be healthy all year long. For girls, wakefulness will bring a successful marriage, and for boys - good luck in hunting.
By tradition, signs for Holy Week help us prepare for the bright holiday of Easter. Folk rituals, customs and beliefs relate to the Holy Week as a whole and each day separately. Let's take a closer look at what is customary to do on the days of Holy Week in order to best prepare the soul and body for the feast of Christ's Resurrection.
First three days
Throughout Holy Week, you must adhere to a particularly strict fast, and on Monday - consume only bread, vegetable dishes and fruits. According to tradition, from Monday you need to start putting the house in order - fixing broken things, throwing away excess trash.
Tuesday is the time for washing and preparing clothes for the holiday. Also, on Tuesday, housewives stock up on food for Easter, plan a festive table, and make healing herbal infusions.
On Wednesday, according to custom, the house is wet cleaned: floors and windows are washed, dust is wiped, carpets are cleaned. On Wednesday evening, they begin to do a ritual for health and cleansing: they bring a large cup of water from the street (from a well or a clean reservoir), cover it with a festive towel and leave it overnight. At night, you need to wake up at two o'clock, cross the water in a cup and pour it over yourself (almost all), and then get dressed without drying yourself. The rest of the water is poured under any plant in the yard.
Thursday
Considering beliefs and signs by day, it should be noted special role Thursday in Holy Week. It is called the Pure and is fully dedicated to the purification of the soul and body. The most famous and popular tradition is to swim in the hole in the early morning of this day. All who perform this rite will be healthy, cheerful and pure in spirit throughout the year. Even if you do not have the opportunity to swim in the hole, it is very useful to take a morning contrast shower on this day.
On Thursday, it is advised to cut little children for the first time, and girls and women who want to improve hair growth are advised to cut the very ends. According to popular superstitions, starting from this day, and until Easter itself, nothing can be given away from home.
On Thursday, all housework should be completed - it will not be possible to do cleaning until the end of the holidays.
A candle brought on this day from the morning church service will become a talisman of your family's health - it must be carefully stored all year, lighting in cases of someone's illness.
Thursday salt
On this day, housewives prepare Thursday salt, known for its healing and cleansing properties - it must be stored in a bag all year round, used for ailments and to cleanse the energy. Ordinary salt must be calcined in a frying pan, reading prayers, and then go to church with it and defend the service. Such a variant of the ceremony is also known: instead of calcining, salt is poured in a handful into a bag by each of the family members. Then this salt can be consecrated in the church along with Easter cakes.
Friday
On Friday, it is customary to cook Easter cakes - on this day, pastries are especially successful, surprisingly tasty, healing for the soul and body. Before you start cooking Easter cakes, you must definitely pray and cross the products. Although large cleaning is prohibited these days, you can do a symbolic ritual with dusting. With a new rag, you need to wipe the dust everywhere, then - do not throw it away or wash the rag, but hide it in a secluded place. For pain in the lower back, joints or legs, this cloth is advised to be applied to a sore spot for healing.
On Friday, even the ashes that remain in the oven after cooking Easter cakes have wonderful properties. According to the sign, the cooled ash must be carefully collected in a bag - during the year it will serve as a powerful amulet against the evil eye and spoilage, a cure for depression, longing and negative addictions (for example, addiction to alcohol). People believe that children who are weaned this Friday grow up strong, healthy and cheerful. As a sign of respect for the great mission and torment of Christ, it is not customary to rejoice loudly on this day, to hold entertainment and noisy events, and before dinner one should not eat anything.
Saturday
Saturday is the last day of preparations before the bright holiday of Easter. On this day, it is customary to paint and paint eggs, cook festive dishes for tomorrow morning. On Saturday, it is customary to visit the church for the consecration of cooked Easter cakes, colored eggs, Thursday salt.
According to popular belief: who did not fall asleep on the night before Easter, but prayed, attended church service or engaged in preparations for the holiday - he will live all year without illness and sorrow.
On Saturday, the consecrated egg is advised to hold in clean water and then wash yourself with this water. It is believed that this rite brings beauty, health and vital energy. On this day, rituals with money are especially effective. According to the sign, you need to take a coin and, after praying, ask the saints for prosperity and prosperity, and then put the coin with the rest of the money or sew it into your clothes.
Weather and garden signs
- It is believed that the upcoming summer weather and autumn harvests can be judged by the weather standing on Monday and Saturday for Holy Week. If the sun shines all day on Monday and Saturday, you can expect a warm summer and a fruitful autumn.
- A good sign for lovers who want to get married this year is a sunny and clear Monday for Holy Week without rain or other precipitation - it is believed that the newlyweds will live in peace and love, without tears.
- According to a sign, plants planted in the ground on Maundy Thursday are well received, grow intensively and produce many fruits. You need to plant them after praying and finishing all Thursday preparations. After Thursday and until the end of the holiday, you can not work in the garden.
- If it rains on Easter, it promises a rainy spring, and if frost occurs, a fertile summer can be expected.
Easter is coming soon and the last week preceding Easter is called Holy Week or Holy Week.
Our ancestors firmly believed that the events taking place on Easter are full of special divine meaning. There were many signs and beliefs among the people for Easter, the veracity of which was not even questioned.
Holy Week - signs for every day
Monday
On this day begins a big tidy. The house is cleared of old, bulky things.
Tuesday
Buying food for Easter. Women prepare medicinal infusions. Men should not even touch herbs, tinctures, powders.
Wednesday
This is the day of washing and all sorts of rubbing. On Wednesday, it is advisable to thoroughly wash, scrape the floors, knock out the carpets.
On Wednesday during Holy Week, they remembered a special rite against any bodily infirmity. It was necessary to scoop up a mug of water from a well or from a barrel on the street or draw water from a river.
Crossing themselves three times, they covered the mug with a clean or new towel, and at 2 o'clock in the morning, crossing themselves again three times, they poured this water on, leaving a little in the mug. After that, they put on clothes on a wet body, without wiping themselves, and the water that remained in the mug was poured up to 3 hours on a bush or flowers. It is said that a body washed in this way is reborn.
Thursday
— Maundy Thursday advised to cut hair for the first time one year old baby(up to a year, cutting was considered a sin), and for girls - the tips of the braids so that they grow longer and thicker. All livestock were also advised to cut a tuft of wool for health and well-being.
- On this day, Thursday salt is prepared: it is calcined in a pan, and the salt acquires medicinal properties. It is desirable to consecrate this salt in the Temple.
— Maundy Thursday is traditionally called “clean”, and not only because on this day every Orthodox person seeks to cleanse himself spiritually, take communion, and accept the sacrament established by Christ. On Maundy Thursday, the folk custom of cleansing with water was widespread - swimming in an ice hole, river, lake or dousing in a bathhouse before sunrise.
There are many traditions associated with this day. On Maundy Thursday, they cleaned the houses, washed and cleaned everything. It was customary to collect and burn juniper branches to fumigate dwellings and stables. It is believed that the healing juniper smoke protects the person and the "animal" from evil spirits and diseases.
- There was also such a belief that eggs laid on Good Thursday, eaten at Easter, protect against illness, and egg shells buried in the ground in a pasture reliably protect livestock from the evil eye.
- Starting from Maundy Thursday, we were preparing for festive table, painted and painted eggs. According to ancient tradition, colored eggs were laid on fresh sprouted greens of oats and wheat.
- On Thursday morning, they started baking Easter cakes, women, small products made from wheat flour with the image of crosses, lambs, doves, larks, as well as honey gingerbread. Easter was being prepared in the evening.
- Everyone in the family should take a handful of salt and pour it into one bag. This salt is removed and stored, and it is called "Thursday salt", i.e. Great Thursday. You can use it. This salt is used to make amulets for the family, livestock, garden, home, etc.
- If before dawn you wash your face on Maundy (Clean) Thursday, you need to say at the same time: “I wash off what they let loose on me, then what the soul and body toils with, everything is removed on Maundy Thursday.”
- On Easter morning, they wash themselves with water left from Maundy Thursday. It is good to put a silver little thing or a spoon in it, you can use a coin. Wash for beauty and wealth. If a girl cannot get married, you need to give the towel with which she wiped herself on Maundy Thursday to people for Easter, those who beg for alms, along with krashenka and Easter cake. After that, they soon get married.
- There was also a custom to burn crosses on doors and ceilings with a candle in order to protect the house from invasion evil spirits. Passionate candles were given into the hands of seriously ill or suffering from difficult childbirth, they have healing power. From Maundy Thursday it was forbidden to sweep the floor in the house until Easter itself.
Friday
Good Friday, the most mournful day of the year, which is dedicated to the commemoration of the suffering and death of Christ. Friday is the day on which Jesus Christ was crucified.
Good Friday is a special day on which, according to the charter, one must refrain from eating until the removal of the Shroud, and after that one can only eat bread and drink only water. All preparations for the Easter holiday must be completed on Maundy Thursday, so that on Good Friday nothing distracts from prayers and services. On this day, you can not do any household chores, especially sewing, washing and cutting something. Violation of this prohibition is considered a great sin.
- On Friday they sweep the corners with a rag, this rag will help get rid of pain in the lower back if you tie it around yourself. The same rag is used to wipe the feet in the bath after washing, so that the feet do not hurt. Ash, taken on Friday before Easter, will help to recover from alcoholism, black shaking, from the evil eye and from mortal anguish.
- In addition, on Good Friday, they determined whether there were any spoken things in the house: on this day, they took an unburned candle from the church, which was in their hands during the service, brought it home, lit it and walked through the rooms. It is believed that where it crackles, there is a damaged thing.
Saturday
Last (quiet) tidy. You can also dye eggs. On this day, common festive dishes are prepared. On Saturday, they brought painted eggs, Easter cakes, Easter cakes and other products to the church to consecrate. And before going to the service on Easter night, they left refreshments on the table so that later they could break the fast. True, they ate a little - only symbolically, after which they went to bed. But late Sunday morning, a real feast began, which lasted all week.
Of course, everything preparatory work: cooking, painting eggs must be completed before Bright Sunday.
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