Rites on Ivan Kupala

The holiday of Ivan Kupala, also called Ivan Travnik, Kolosk and Yarilin's Day, is celebrated on the night of July 6-7. This ancient holiday of the Eastern Slavs is dedicated to the summer solstice and the time when the highest flowering of nature is celebrated. There are numerous rituals on Ivan Kupala, many of which are practiced today.

Rites on the night of Ivan Kupala

Most of them have a connection with water, fire and grass and is activated at night. A compulsory custom is mass bathing. It was on this particular day that water was attributed to life-giving and miraculous properties. The girls collected medicinal plants and flowers, such as derbennik, water lily, balsam, fern, basil , geranium, birch branches, oak and others, and weaved wreaths from them. The latter were adorned with heads, and with songs and dances went to the banks of rivers. They bathed and wreathed on the water, watching them. If they went on a free voyage, it promised a long and happy life in marriage.

According to popular beliefs, the water did not argue on that day, but was friends with fire, and bonfires were a symbol of this unity. And for the ignition certainly used live fire, obtained by friction. Nataskav a huge amount of brushwood, arranged a high pyramid, in the center of which was installed a pole with a planted wheel. His role could be performed by a resin barrel, a horse's skull or cows. Until the morning the youth performed rites for the day of Ivan Kupala - sang, drove round dance and had fun, and also jumped through the bonfires. And the guy and girl who liked each other jumped together, holding hands. If they did not separate their hands before the landing, this was a clear sign of their future marriage.

Rites on Ivan Kupala at home

Of course, not all ancient rituals have reached the present days, but some of them can be accomplished even in the home. To attract youth and beauty at the dawn of July 7, you should collect fresh dew and wash it, saying: "The royal power, the power of the earth! Give beauty to an endless, youthful eternal. Amen . " It must be said that the collected Kupala dew can be used to strengthen health, and also it has sprinkled feather beds and walls of houses so that there are no bedbugs and cockroaches. Adding it a little bit in the water for washing dishes, you can improve the taste of food, make it more nutritious and healthier.

There is such a rite of love for Ivan Kupala: you need to go with a birch broom to the bath, and for want of such, just a bath or shower. The main thing is to pat them on the body below the waist, to say such words: "As a bath-sheet to the body is molded and threaded, so you are a servant of God (name), to my mold, to my body of chains. Write, be strong, for ever and ever. My word is strong, my work is good. Until the birch from my broom will stand, until then the servant of God (name) will lie at my feet. Key. Castle. Language."

This plot is suitable for those to whom the husband or permanent partner has cooled. And to fix it and strengthen it is possible, if after washing at once enter with your lover in an intimate relationship. There is a mass of rituals for Ivan Kupala for money . One of them is performed at midnight. It is necessary to prepare in advance a handful of earth, three handfuls of coins of different denominations and some simple water. Exactly at 00.00 hours, mix all the ingredients in the pelvis until it gets thick mud. During the performance of these actions, utter these words: "I do not sleep at night in the Ivan's night, I do not rest, I take the keys, I release the earth, I release the dew, I add gold . " After that, you need to wash your hands, and put the pelvis on the east window with the obligatory condition that it should be flung open. In a day, that is, the next night to go out with him at the doorstep of the house and leave the land with coins at the crossroads. Performing this ritual all year will not know the need.