CrimeaPRESS reports:
Since August 20, they no longer go to the forest for raspberries, and summer makes a decisive turn towards autumn. On this day, winter crops begin to be sown, because the season of summer thunderstorms is ending.
On August 20, special attention is paid to storks. At this time, they are preparing to fly to warmer climes. The Russian people have always loved these wonderful birds, considering them a symbol of motherhood, hearth and family happiness. The saying is still alive among the people that a stork brings small children. And it came from an old legend, according to which the souls of unborn children live in swamps and forest thickets — places where storks hunt. Like, they catch these souls and bring them to newly-made parents in their beak!
And on August 20, there must be pies with raspberry filling on the table — this marked the end of the hot period of the year.
The Church today honors the Monk Pimen and Martyr Marin. Pimen, nicknamed the Many-Sick, was born in the 11th century and from childhood was subject to various ailments, being a very weak child. Once Pimen began to ask his parents to take him to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The father and mother listened to their son and, having come to the monastery, began to fervently pray that Pimen would recover. However, Pimen himself asked God to prolong his suffering and decided to take the monastic vows. The legend says that the tonsure was performed by angels, and when several inhabitants of the monastery came to meet Pimen, they found him in monastic robes. For many years the monk was ill, but one day, in spite of this, he himself was able to heal a man with a serious illness, taking from him a promise to serve him until his death. The monk was lazy enough, and soon he was again struck by a severe illness. Pimen again healed the man, giving him a similar instruction. Pimen himself recovered three days before his death. This helped him complete all his affairs and say goodbye to his relatives.
Notes of the day:
- Marina has come — do not look for raspberries in the forest.
- Storks fly away to warm lands — by early and cold autumn.
- Spiders are not visible in the web — the weather will soon deteriorate.
- Foam on the water in the rivers — to the rain.
- Scarlet dawn — to the rain.
- Few clouds in the sky — for a hot day.
- Clouds line the horizon in one line — to the rain.
- Roosters sing loudly and in unison — the next day promises to be hot.
- Tobacco in a pipe and in cigarettes quickly becomes damp on the street — by the rain.
- In the morning a rainbow came out — to the rain. Rainbow in the evening — to a fine day.
- The moon in a pale ring — to the wind and rain.
- The ring around the moon is scarlet — to windy, but dry weather.
- Before dawn, fog spreads over the water — by a clear day.
- The wind blows from the east or from the west — to the harvest of winter crops.
Name days are celebrated today by: Athanasius, Nikanor, Peter, Ivan, Anton, Alexander, Mitrofan, Dmitry, Mikhail, Vasily.
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