CrimeaPRESS reports:
The people believed: June 21 is the very day when you need to determine where to dig a well. There were even “technologies” by which this was done: the night before, pans were placed in several places on the ground, and in the morning they were checked. If one of the pans was covered with abundant moisture, then the place under it was ideal for digging a well shaft. They also searched for a place with the help of chicken eggs: they were laid out on the site, and then they observed which of them was the wettest.
In addition, Fedorov’s day was called the Dungeon — there was a tradition to fertilize unsown fields with manure. This was done to supply the soil with useful trace elements. Usually they used manure that had rotted over the year, it was taken to the fields and scattered thickly, and the next year the land was plowed and sown.
The Church today honors the memory of St. Theodore Stratilates, a Christian martyr. He lived in the 3rd-4th centuries on the territory of modern Turkey, he was originally from Euchait. Once he managed to kill a large snake devouring the inhabitants, after which Theodore was appointed commander. Having settled in Heraclea, he converted almost all the townspeople to Christianity. When the ruler brought statues of pagan gods made of precious metals to the city, Theodore crushed them and distributed them to the poor. For this, he was beaten and tortured, and then hacked to death with a sword.
As for the weather. It is worth noting that usually from June 21, a long period of summer thunderstorms began. And also:
- Morning thunder is a bad omen. Hay did not have time to remove, and it got wet, spoiled.
- Thunderstorm day — bad haymaking.
- Dew June 21 — there will be a good harvest of hemp and flax.
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