February 16, the day after Candlemas, celebrated folk festival fix. What kind of holiday and that it is necessary to do to bring good luck for the whole year?
After the Presentation of Our Lord Orthodox Christians celebrate Memorial Day and honor the Saints Simeon and Anna the Prophetess, the people this holiday is called fix. It is believed that all members of the family with the night have to work hard, then you can count on a speedy arrival of spring and the favor of Fortune. What rituals for repairs can bring into your home good luck and happiness?
What you need to do to fix?
In people, this day is also called the Keeper of babies, as decided to pray the holy Simeon and Anna about the health of newborn babies.
It was believed that on Fixes need to get up before the sun sets, and better and does not go to bed as early as possible to begin work on the farm, then the year will be successful and happy for the whole family.
All the work was distributed in advance, so each family member had his own responsibilities: the elderly and children performed work easier, and adults - more difficult. They worked into the evening, with a short break for lunch, to sunset to complete all the cases.
After a fruitful working day began gatherings and fun, it is impossible in this day of sadness and sorrow, or you can spend the whole year in despondency and doldrums.
To repair our ancestors prepared a special dish - Salamat. This is the traditional liquid flour porridge, pudding-like, it is prepared from rye, barley or wheat flour, which steamed with boiling water, add a little oil or fat.
On this day, it is necessary to appease the brownie, so the mistress left him for the night on the table a plate of porridge, a glass of milk or some sweetness.
How to attract good luck in the day?
Cleaning - one of the easiest and most effective ways to attract into your life good luck and prosperity, so that our ancestors have always used this ritual, especially in these celebrations. According to the rules, you need the debris to the threshold, but in any case not to sweep over him as debris could be used by persons with malicious intent to witchcraft. It is considered a bad omen to clean up the house after sunset, as the maid in the evening promised a series of setbacks and troubles.
Negative energy blocks positive and luck can permanently turn away from the man and his house, so if in a holiday house in a poor man comes, immediately after his house as soon as possible need to wash the floor, and the door thresholds.
Happiness and good luck "funneling" of the house through the battered and cleaved dishes, holes in clothing, and cracks in the walls, windows, or the floor, so our ancestors tried to repair to repair all the broken things. Now you can throw away, and broken things and be replaced by new, so as not to frighten away the luck and prosperity.
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