Red Hill is a holiday, with which many signs and superstitions are connected. Most often people are interested in what can not be done on the Red Hill, as non-compliance will take away happiness and luck.
Why it is impossible to work on the Red Hill?
The holiday of Krasnaya Gorka is best known for the fact that it is on this day that the most amicable and loving families are created. There is a Red Hill on Sunday, a week after Easter, and this holiday bears in itself echoes of the pagan past of the Slavs. Traditionally Red Hill is a day when tribute is paid to the land that feeds all people. That's why you can not work on a holiday, especially with the earth.
In addition to the ban on work, this day can not:
- to sit in the evening at home, especially young girls and boys - loneliness on holiday threatens loneliness for a year;
- spend time separately from a loved one - if the couple on the Red Hill will not be together, within a year it will disintegrate;
- quarrel with someone - reconcile will not work out to the Trinity.
Many people wonder why it is impossible to get a haircut, wash, knit, wash and do other small things on the Red Hill. To happiness accompanied a person throughout the year, on the Red Hill, he should not work, but have fun. It is very good for this holiday not only to play a wedding, but also to pick up a pair for games and folk festivals.
In addition, on Red Hill it was customary to visit their ancestors - to go to the cemeteries, to place on the graves painted eggs, bread and kutya.
Since the holiday is partly pagan, on this day the villagers and villagers have always guessed. For example, on porridge. If a girl cooked a pyshnok, she related a bit of finished porridge to a place where no one usually walks. A few hours later the fortune-teller checked the porridge: if someone ate it - it was considered a good sign, promising a quick marriage, if the porridge remained untouched, then the year the girl will spend alone.
Signs on the Red Hill
If you throw a coin into the well and make a wish on this day, it will come true. Only get out of bed before sunrise, get back to the well, think about what you want, and throw a coin over your shoulder.
On the Red Hill it was customary to wash all the icons in the house. And the water left after washing, was washed by the whole family, from the youngest to the oldest. Such a procedure promised wealth, but only in the event that no stranger knew about it.
Three-fold reading of the prayers on the Red Hill (immediately after awakening, during the day and before going to bed) helped to get rid of diseases, improved relationships among household members, facilitated the fulfillment of desires.
If the girl on the Red Hill did not find a groom, in the evening she needed to sit alone in the room, closing the doors and windows, dissolve her hair, light a candle and, looking at her fire, represent the lover. Higher forces were to help the girl find a sucker.
For luck to accompany a person all year round, it was decided to put on red something on the Red Hill. And in order to attract happiness even more, it was necessary to get up at dawn, put on red clothes, stand on the mountain and say thrice: "Come sun, bring me grace!" And then go home, sit down at the table, drink three sips of holy water and eat the cake.
For luck to accompany all family members, in the morning the oldest one was supposed to treat everyone with Easter cake. After the meal, all the remaining crumbs were taken to the streets of the birds.
To improve health, people's signs are advised to go to the Red Hill to work with a dyed egg in his pocket. And at home this egg needs to be eaten. If a person is seriously ill, an egg for him in the church should include relatives.