Bright Week 2019: What you can not do in the first week after Easter

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The week after Easter is called Bright Week, or Holy Easter - a time when you need to have fun, enjoy life, go to visit and relax. What you need to do on each day of the holiday week?

All week, Orthodox Christians instead of the usual "Hello" when meeting say: "Christ is Risen - Indeed He is Risen!" and not only this week, and 40 days until the Ascension. Each day of Easter week traditions and rules, but the main thing - it's fun and joie de vivre!

Monday

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On Monday you can go together to visit relatives and friends, bring a treat in the form of cakes, sweets and krashanok. According to tradition, on this day in the guests go men and women with children spend Easter Monday at home. This Monday also called Watering or wet, because traditionally people pour water on each other. Who fall under the stream of water, the whole year will have good health.

Tuesday

The Bright Tuesday for guests walked the women, but these traditions are increasingly moving away and go to visit with the whole family, regardless of the day of the week.

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Wednesday

On Wednesday staged dances and fun. The first three are the most field Easter holiday, these days people relax, have fun, go to the guests, dancing and singing. Earlier in the three days after Easter adults looking ryasta flowers, and when found to be trampled on them, saying: "In order for that year and wait ryastu stomp".

Thursday

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By Thursday, the traditional festivities of Easter and end, but start with the bride that day, when the boys looked after the bride. Girls from the first Thursday after Easter beckoning spring, sing spring songs and touching songs.

Friday

Friday at Easter week is called Forgiveness. This day the newlyweds who take this day visitors. Also, it is believed that if that day to wash with ice-water, it is possible to maintain the beauty and health for a long time.

Saturday

This day is called horovodnitsa as from this day the girls started to dance in the evening to drive right up to the most Holy Trinity, youth suit lush festivities and games. One of the most popular games - egg rolling.

Sunday

On Sunday, escorted Easter. In people, this is the day the newlyweds, who married last year, from this day, my husband was able to leave his wife for a long time, and one to go to work, to shift the care of the house and farm on it.

What you can and can not do on a light week

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  • All of Bright Week, and to rejoice in any case not to indulge dejection.
  • It is forbidden to mourn for the dead, to cry, to be offended and to be in a bad mood.
  • All Easter week not conduct the memorial service, as you can not get married, but the sacrament of baptism is allowed.
  • According to the signs, if the child was born in Easter week, it will be endowed with a special good luck and health.
  • On a light week I decided to go to the bride and choose his future wife.

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