Many people know that Easter is a great and sacred holiday. That is why the last week before its onset is devoted to cleansing oneself 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 everyone and they always try to adhere to them.
However, there are also conspiracies that will bring good luck and health to the house if performed before Easter. These include:
- to make a profit;
- for good luck;
- for beauty and health;
- for love;
- from the evil eye and damage, etc.
Casting spells 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, you can perform the following ritual, and then the illness will go away. To do this, you need to go to the store on Monday and buy a bar of soap there (under no circumstances should you take the change and do not say “thank you”). Before the first use, it is advisable to give the soap into the hands of an “innocent” person - a child. If there is no one at home, then a guy or girl who has not been married can replace him. After they hold the piece, you need to go and wash their hands, saying the following words:
“As the Water of God washes away soap from my hands, so let all illness disappear from my body. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
There are also conspiracies for diseases associated with joints. On the second day of Holy Week, stand on the threshold of your home and repeat the following words three times:
“Lord God, help! Holy Mother of God, bless! I speak out my pain from all joints, I drive away my illness with holy prayer. Get the disease out of my hands and my feet. Cross my pain, my threshold. May you, my words, be strong and molding, tenacious to my body. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
Previous conspiracies were for specific diseases, but there are also those that are suitable for treating any disease.
For one of them you will need a blessed egg and a willow branch. Make sure that during the consecration not a single bud falls from the willow, otherwise it will not only not help, but will also aggravate the situation. Next, you need to touch the sore spots with a twig and say:
“Saint Paul waved the willow, drove away the pain from me (name). And how true it is that people Palm Sunday They honor, just as sacred is the word that my pains will go away. Amen. Amen. Amen".
To maintain health and renew your body, you need to go outside on the Wednesday before Easter and draw water from any body of water. To do this, you need to use a mug that you have never drunk from before. At home, you should put the water in a secluded place, cross yourself three times and cover it with a clean towel. Then, when it’s 2 a.m., douse yourself with this water (don’t forget to cross yourself 3 times again), but not all of it. There is no need to dry yourself after this procedure; immediately put on your clothes and pour the remaining water under a tree or into flowers. This ritual will help keep your body in shape and rejuvenate your skin.
If you feel weak and sore, but the doctors say that everything is fine with you, then on the third day Easter week drink some holy water, before saying it:
“God created the sky. God created the earth. Grant, O Lord, health to the servant of God (name). Just as Jesus Christ was resurrected to eternal life on the third day, so that the servant of God (name) would also be resurrected to health. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
If you have back pain, you can take a rag on Friday, the day before Easter, and sweep it into all corners of the house or use it as a towel for your feet to keep them young and healthy.
Let's talk about beauty and love
In order to improve your appearance You can use various spells. One of them is pronounced as follows:
“Lord, Almighty God, who created everything out of nothing! Bless and cleanse my body, may your work be holy and strong. Just as the heavenly body doesn’t hurt, doesn’t ache, doesn’t tingle or burn with fire, so my bones wouldn’t hurt, ache, bruise or burn. The water of God descends from heaven, my body is cleansed of illness. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen".
Before saying this, you need to go outside or lean out of 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 ritual. You need to take some grains of wheat and go to the Easter service. Keep the seeds close to your chest the entire time you are on it. Upon returning home, scatter them at the doorstep with the words:
“As many candle lights in the church there were, there were as many suitors for me. There are as many suitors for me as there are in a handful of grains. Key. Lock. Language. Amen".
And this ritual will help with acne problems. On Good Friday, light a candle and when less than half remains, extinguish it. Subsequently, perhaps even after Easter, you need to measure the diameter of the candle with a coarse thread, cut it to its size, and then speak as follows:
“As a harsh thread burns, it will free my face from pimples. Key, lock, tongue. Amen. Amen. Amen".
When the words are spoken, both the thread and the candle must be burned.
Conspiracy for money
The eternal problem of people is the lack of money. Therefore, they try to attract them in a variety of ways, including conspiracies. Like other rituals, it has special power to attract wealth if performed before Easter.
In order to always have money at home, you need to go to church on Wednesday of Holy Week and light a candle there, saying:
“As people go to this cross, let big money come to me. Now, forever and endlessly."
In order for the conspiracy to work, you must be the very first among the parishioners in the church.
Another money conspiracy is carried out on Saturday on the eve of the 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 wait for Easter, as they go to the temple of God, so would money flow to me, God’s servant (name), like a river, all the saints, all with me. Amen".
After which you need to put the coin in your wallet and carry it 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 will never leave my house. Christ is Risen, and to my words Amen.”
The next day you can eat the egg. But the coins should not be spent until another week has passed after Easter.
Ceremonies on Maundy Thursday
It is known that Thursday on the eve of the holiday is itself a sacred day. When it occurs, people clean and wash the house, and also wash themselves. They say that anyone who is too lazy to clean up on this day will then live in the dirt all year, constantly quarreling.
Rituals held on Maundy Thursday are especially powerful. This is probably why they differ in such diversity.
For prosperity in the house
Basically, it is during Easter week (Thursday) that conspiracies are read to attract money.
On this day, before dawn, sit down and count all the money in the house 3 times. Each time you finish counting, say:
“A thousand, half a thousand, six hundred, my master hand will take everything everywhere. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen".
Early in the morning, while everyone is still sleeping, put some change in a sieve and go outside with it. Make sure no one sees you. Before reading the plot itself, say:
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Now, while “sifting” the money, say the magic words: “In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Mother earth, sister earth, accept the seeds. Give me and my family good times, good shoots. Amen".
Conspiracy for Easter week to bring prosperity
Like many other things, conspiracies differ in their complexity. Therefore, in order to read the next one, you will need to prepare for it. On Easter week, save up some 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 a basin and pour the collected money into it. Now, with your little fingers clasped together, read the words:
“You are water, water, everyone drinks you, everyone loves you. Everyone sanctifies you in Epiphany, I ask you, water, forgiveness: Mother pure water, forgive me, Mother water, help. Just as there is a lot of you in a lake, river, stream, ocean, in every human glass, so I would have a lot of money: on Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday and Sunday. There's so much water, so for me too, God's servant(name), a lot of goodness, 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 to clean the house - the floors should be washed last and start from the threshold, moving deeper into the house.
Other prayers for Thursday
There are also conspiracies to get rid of the evil eye or damage. To do this, you should say in the morning while washing your face:
“I wash away what they let on me, what toils my Soul and body, everything is washed away on Maundy Thursday.” And to consolidate the result, you 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 insults from 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 Maundy Thursday is bright and red, so I, slave (name), will be beautiful to everyone. Amen".
Another conspiracy should be pronounced after waking up. To do this, pour water into a container and place any silver object there and say the words:
“I will wash myself with silver water, I will cover myself with a golden robe. Just as people love money, so let the whole world love and love me,”
after which you should dry yourself with a clean towel (it’s better if it’s a new one).
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, he should have his hair cut on this day, especially favorable 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 which 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 suffering of the Savior for the atonement of human sins is remembered. Every day is called Great (Passionate), since the events that occurred thousands of years ago are of great importance for all humanity. Believers pray fervently, abstain from bad thoughts, and perform decent deeds.
The betrayal, condemnation, elevation to Golgotha, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ took place during the Holy (Red, Great, Red, Holy) week.
Every day has its own meaning and history. We will talk about the Great Holy Week. We will discover what to do during Holy Week, what you should not do and signs, and we will tell you what you can eat by day.
Holy Week before Easter: history
Believers listen to the parable of a withered fig tree that bears no fruit, as a symbol of people perishing because of their unwillingness to repent. Jesus saw no fruit on the tree and dried it up. Likewise, sinful souls are not able to bear fruit in the Kingdom of God.
Orthodox Christians remember the instructive stories read by Christ in the Jerusalem Temple about the resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment. The meaning of sermons is the need of believers to be ready every minute for a meeting with God, to be fearless to do good, and not to give in to despondency.
On this day, it is appropriate to remember the virgin who anointed Jesus’ feet with myrrh and 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 Savior's last supper with his followers, after which Jesus prayed with the twelve Disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane.
It was from there that the guards took him away after the betrayal of Judas Iscariot.
The saddest day when the Savior was condemned, crucified, and handed 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 to the underworld.
The priests serve the liturgy in dark robes, then change into light robes. One can feel the approach of a great holiday. The Holy Matins begins with the procession at 12 o'clock at night, when all believers joyfully greet each other: “Christ is Risen!”
What to do during Holy Week. What not to do and signs
Holy Week is a time of strict fasting, 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 and mercy.
On Monday, Orthodox Christians began cleaning their homes, repairing furniture, throwing out unnecessary trash and broken dishes. During Holy Week, noisy human conversations fell silent. In the villages there were special people who monitored order and silence.
Signs
- Our ancestors believed that before Easter evil forces went on a rampage, rejoicing in 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 in secret from the male half of the family. This remedy was given to domestic animals to protect them from diseases.
On Wednesday they committed special rite to rid households of present and future ailments. Using this method, the body seemed to be reborn. They took well (river) water. They were baptized three times, then a new towel was laid on top of the cup of water. At night they crossed themselves three times again and doused themselves with the prepared water so that three sips remained. Then, without wiping off, they got dressed, and the magical water remaining in the cup was poured into the grass.
On Thursday (they called it Clean) they carried out widespread cleaning of their homes and washed themselves. Sweeping was no longer recommended until Easter.
Signs
- At midnight the youth went to the river to swim. Those who bathed in the dwelling carried water into the house until dawn. Then they placed a gold (silver) coin in the river water to gain beauty, wealth, and health.
- The baby, who was one year old, had his hair cut for the first time. Girls straightened the ends of their hair for well-being and health. Young and old washed in the baths.
- We counted all the banknotes and coins in the house three times to increase the amount.
On the fourth day of Holy Week they made Thursday salt. To do this, it was poured onto cast iron frying pan, heated it, then crushed it, sifted it, and blessed it in church with Easter. It was kept for a whole year as a healing agent.
On Thursday they started coloring eggs, baking Easter cakes, and roasting hams.
On Friday - the hardest day of the week, when Christ was crucified - they give alms to the needy and distribute food to the poor. Because of the torment that the Savior suffered on this day, the fifth day of the week was called Passion. It is forbidden to do laundry on Friday.
Signs
- You need to clean all the corners in the house with a rag, which can then be used to treat radiculitis. After the bath, they wipe their feet with such a cloth to get rid of ailments.
- They take ash to help with alcoholism and spoilage.
- Whoever you see first on Friday will be the same for the next three months: the man indicates wealth and the health of the family all three months after Easter. The cat symbolizes good luck, financial well-being, birds - good news.
On Saturday, Easter cakes, eggs, salt, and Easter are blessed. Orthodox Christians attend the evening service to celebrate Easter in the church .A day of rest, when you need to realize the horror of what was done thousands of years ago.
What you can and cannot eat during Holy Week
During Holy Week, it is necessary to adhere to the refusal 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 o’clock in the evening.
Holy Week is the week before Easter. This is a period of strict fasting and intense prayer. These days, people have come up with many superstitions and beliefs. Most of them are associated with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. If you listen to these signs, you can attract wealth into your life, improve your health and protect yourself from troubles.
- Easter cake baked on Holy Week can heal from any illness and protect from bad weather and fire.
- Before kneading the dough, you need to pray, cleanse your soul and space, otherwise Easter cakes will not turn out.
- Easter turned out neat, not burnt - to well-being and health; failed - to a serious illness.
Signs and beliefs on Maundy Thursday
- Bathing on this day gives a person health and extraordinary strength.
- From Thursday until Easter you cannot give away salt, bread, money from home, otherwise you can give away peace and health.
- To see a man or a dog first through the window on Maundy Thursday morning is a sign of happiness and prosperity; an old woman is a sign of bad luck.
- If you put a silver coin, spoon or jewelry in water on Maundy Thursday, and wash your face with this water on Easter, it will attract beauty and wealth.
Signs and beliefs for Good Friday
- If it is starry on Good Friday, the wheat will be grainy.
- A ring consecrated on this day becomes a strong talisman.
- A person who has fun on Good Friday will cry all year long.
- Clothes washed by the housewife 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 cause harm for a whole year.
- Chopping wood on Good Friday is bad luck.
- On the Friday before Easter, you cannot pierce the ground with iron; whoever does this will be in trouble.
- A child conceived on Good Friday may be born sick or crippled.
Signs and beliefs for Holy Saturday
- Clear and sunny weather is a sign of a hot summer.
- You cannot fish or hunt on the Saturday before Easter - unfortunately.
- A person who spends Holy Saturday in fun and laughter will cry all year long.
- Whoever survives the night without sleep before Easter will be healthy all year. For girls, staying awake will bring a successful marriage, and for boys - good luck in hunting.
Traditionally, signs for Holy Week help us prepare for the bright holiday of Easter. Folk rituals, customs and beliefs relate to Holy Week in general and each day separately. Let's take a closer look at what is customary to do during Holy Week in order to best prepare the soul and body for the holiday of Christ's Resurrection.
First three days
Throughout Holy Week you must adhere to a particularly strict fast, and on Monday you must consume only bread, vegetable dishes and fruits. According to tradition, on Monday you need to start putting your house in order - fixing broken things, throwing away excess trash.
Tuesday is the time to wash and prepare clothes for the holiday. Also, on Tuesday, housewives stock up on food for Easter, plan a festive table, and make healing infusions from herbs.
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 perform a ritual for health and purification: 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 of it), and then get dressed without wiping yourself. The remaining 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 One and is completely dedicated to the purification of soul and body. The most famous and popular tradition is to swim in an ice hole early in the morning of this day. Everyone who performs this ritual will be healthy, vigorous and pure in spirit throughout the year. Even if you do not have the opportunity to swim in an ice hole, on this day it is very useful to take a morning contrast shower.
On Thursday, it is recommended that young children cut their hair for the first time, and girls and women who want to improve hair growth are advised to cut the very ends. According to folk superstitions, starting from this day and until Easter, you cannot give anything away from home.
All housework should be completed on Thursday - cleaning will not be possible until after the holidays.
A candle brought from the morning church service on this day will become a talisman of your family’s health - it must be carefully stored all year, lighting it in cases of someone’s illness.
Thursday salt
On this day, housewives prepare Thursday salt, known for its healing and cleansing properties - it should be stored in a bag all year, used for ailments and to cleanse energy. Regular salt must be calcined in a frying pan while reading prayers, and then go to church with it and stand for the service. This version of the ritual is also known: instead of calcination, a handful of salt is poured into a bag by each family member. Then this salt can be blessed in church along with Easter cakes.
Friday
On Friday it is customary to cook Easter cakes - on this day the baking turns out to be especially successful, surprisingly tasty, healing for the soul and body. Before you start preparing Easter cakes, you must pray and cross the food. Although extensive cleaning is prohibited these days, you can perform a symbolic ritual of dusting. You need to wipe off the dust everywhere with a new cloth, then do not throw away or wash the cloth, but hide it in a secluded place. For pain in the lower back, joints or legs, it is recommended to apply this cloth to the sore spot for healing.
On Friday, even the ash that remains in the oven after preparing Easter cakes has wonderful properties. According to the sign, the cooled ash should be carefully collected in a bag - for a year it will serve as a powerful amulet against the evil eye and damage, a cure for depression, melancholy and negative addictions (for example, addiction to alcohol). People believe that children who are weaned on this Friday grow up strong, healthy and cheerful. As a sign of respect for the great mission and torment of Christ, on this day it is not customary to rejoice loudly, hold entertainment and noisy events, and before lunch you 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 holiday dishes for tomorrow morning. On Saturday it is customary to visit church to bless cooked Easter cakes, colored eggs, and Thursday salt.
According to folk superstition: who did not fall asleep on the night before Easter, but prayed, was present at church service or was engaged in preparations for the holiday - he will live the whole year without illness or sorrow.
On Saturday, it is recommended to keep the blessed egg in clean water, and then wash with this water. It is believed that this ritual 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 holy saints for wealth 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 on Monday and Saturday of 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 on Holy Week without rain or other precipitation - it is believed that the newlyweds will live in peace and love, without tears.
- According to legend, plants planted in the ground on Maundy Thursday are well received, grow intensively and produce a lot of fruit. You need to plant them after praying and completing all Thursday preparations. After Thursday and until the end of the holiday, you cannot work in the garden.
- If it rains on Easter, this promises a rainy spring, and if frosts occur, you can expect a fertile summer.
Easter is coming soon and the last week before Easter is called Holy Week or Holy Week.
Our ancestors firmly believed that the events that take place on Easter are full of special divine meaning. Among the people there were many signs and beliefs for Easter, the veracity of which was not even questioned.
Holy Week - signs for every day
Monday
On this day, a lot of tidying begins. The house is cleared of old, bulky things.
Tuesday
Groceries are being purchased 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 wiping. On Wednesday, it is advisable to thoroughly wash, scrub the floors, and beat out the carpets.
On Wednesday of Holy Week, a special ritual against any bodily illness was remembered. It was necessary to scoop up water with a mug from a well or from a barrel on the street, or draw water from a river.
After crossing ourselves three times, we covered the mug with a clean or new towel, and at 2 a.m., after crossing ourselves three times again, we doused ourselves with this water, leaving a little in the mug. Afterwards, clothes were put on the wet body without drying, and the water that remained in the mug was poured onto a bush or flowers for up to 3 hours. They say that a body washed in this way is reborn.
Thursday
— Maundy Thursday I was advised to cut my hair for the first time one year old child(before one year of age, cutting your hair was considered a sin), and girls were given the ends of their braids so that they would grow longer and thicker. All livestock were also advised to have their hair clipped for health and well-being.
- On this day, Thursday salt is prepared: it is heated in a frying pan, and the salt becomes medicinal properties. It is advisable to consecrate this salt in the Temple.
— Maundy Thursday is traditionally called “clean,” and not only because on this day every Orthodox person strives 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 homes and stables. It is believed that healing juniper smoke protects humans and animals from evil spirits and diseases.
“There was also a belief that eggs laid on Holy Thursday and eaten on Easter protect against illness, and the shells of eggs buried in the ground in a pasture reliably protect livestock from the evil eye.
— Starting from Maundy Thursday, we prepared for festive table, painted and painted eggs. According to ancient tradition, colored eggs were placed on freshly sprouted oats and wheat.
— On Thursday morning they started baking Easter cakes, babas, small products made from wheat flour with images of crosses, lambs, doves, larks, as well as honey gingerbread. In the evening they prepared Easter.
— 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. Maundy Thursday. You can use this salt to make amulets for your family, livestock, garden, home, etc.
- If you wash your face before dawn on Maundy (Clean) Thursday, you need to say: “I wash away what they put on me, what toils my soul and body, everything is removed on Maundy Thursday.”
— On the morning of Easter, they wash themselves with water left over from Maundy Thursday. It’s good to put a silver thing or a spoon in it, or maybe a coin. Wash for beauty and wealth. If a girl cannot get married, she needs to give the towel with which she dried herself on Maundy Thursday to people on Easter, to those who ask for alms, along with dyes and Easter cake. After this, they soon get married.
— There was also a custom of burning crosses on doors and ceilings with a candle to protect the house from invasion evil spirits. Passion candles were given to seriously ill people or those suffering from difficult childbirth; they have healing powers. From Maundy Thursday it was forbidden to sweep the floor in the house until Easter.
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 rules, one must abstain from eating until the Shroud is taken out, 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 cannot do any household chores, especially sewing, washing or cutting anything. Violation of this prohibition is considered a great sin.
- On Friday they will sweep the corners with a rag; this rag will help get rid of lower back pain if you tie it around yourself. The same rag is used to wipe your feet in the bathhouse after washing so that your feet don’t hurt. Ash taken on the Friday before Easter will help cure alcoholism, black shaking, the evil eye and mortal melancholy.
- In addition, on Good Friday they determined whether there were any spoken things in the house: on this day, they took from the church an unburnt candle that 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 item.
Saturday
The last (quiet) tidy. You can also paint eggs. On this day, common holiday dishes are prepared. On Saturday they brought colored eggs, Easter cakes, Easter cakes and other items to church to be blessed. And before going to the service on Easter night, they left a treat on the table so that later they could break their fast. True, they ate little by little - only symbolically, after which they went to bed. But late on Sunday morning the real feast began, which lasted all week.
Of course, everything preparatory work: cooking and painting of eggs must be completed before Easter.
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