Trinity - a big celebration, which in 2018 falls on Sunday, May 27th. Behind him, the whole week is considered a holiday and called the Trinity or in the national - mermaid. Since these days are connected amazing traditions and superstitions.
To put the Holy Trinityalways celebrated on Sunday, 50 days after Easter, therefore, it is also called Pentecost. Trinity - this is not a holiday. On the eve celebrate Trinity parental Saturday, and on Monday - Holy Spirit Day.
The entire week after Trinity in the church calendar is marked in red - Trinity Week holiday. The people these days are called Mermaid week.
mermaid week - calendar symbolic boundary between the spring and summer, but other than that - the end of the period in which mythological spirits of the dead could be among the living.
Mermaid week, according to the Ukrainian tradition - the "Zalozhnev", "unclean" dead, usually young girls who did not die a natural death, and appeared from the other world in this short time. Of course, you guessed it, that we are talking about mermaids.
Mermaid week Rusalchin Velikden, Navskaya Trinity - the time period when the mermaids appear among the living, and then return to where you came from. There are wires rites, ejection mermaids - on Agrafena Globe, Febronia Rusalnitsu, for example. In Ukraine, as performed ritual expulsion of mermaids, one of the girls dressed in mermaid, put on her white shirt and wreath on head, taken out of the village, saying: «Go, little mermaid, go, and our rye lomite not. "
Signs mermaid week
Trinity Main Color - green, and all the traditional ritual celebrations are held with field grasses and flowers, home decorate cut grass, green tree branches, in each region is its traditional wood: birch, ash, maple, walnut. INybrasyvat greens impossible, and made to burn, brewing and added to the water for bathing. Grass trinity, consecrated the church endowed special magical properties.
Single girls wove wreaths,adorn their head, and then let the water and monitored as will behave wreath. In what direction will float out there and look for the groom, a bad deal if wreath sink - to tears.
Wondered at her spouse with the help of birch twigs - under the pillow girl put birch twigs to her spouse to dream.
At all Trinity holidays, starting with Saturday's memorial, it was impossible to walk in the woods and ponds, especially the girls, it was thought that the mermaid, who walk on the earth at this time, zaschekochut and dragged off behind him.
However, the girl secretly ran into the woods, wove beautiful garlands of flowers and "gave" mermaids in return asked send them a good husband.A protection scum carried a lovage, wormwood or garlic.
Throughout the week mermaid it was impossible to do hard labor, especially in the garden, sow, undertake any work on the ground, as well as washable.
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