CrimeaPRESS reports:
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, frying pans were placed in several places on the ground, and they were checked in the morning. If one of the frying pans became covered with abundant moisture, then the place under it was ideal for digging a well shaft. They also looked for a place using chicken eggs: they were laid out around the area, and then they observed which one was the wettest.
In addition, Fedorov’s day was called Dung — there was a tradition of fertilizing unsown fields with manure. This was done to supply the soil with useful microelements. Usually they used manure that had rotted during the year, it was taken out to the fields and spread thickly, and the next year the land was plowed and sown.
The Church today honors the memory of Saint Theodore Stratilates, a Christian martyr. He lived in the 3rd-4th centuries on the territory of modern Turkey, and was from Eukhait. Once he managed to kill a large serpent devouring the inhabitants, after which Theodore was appointed military leader. 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 weather signs. It is worth noting that usually the long period of summer thunderstorms began on June 21st. And also:
- A morning thunderstorm is a bad omen. There was no time to remove the hay, and it became wet and spoiled.
- A stormy day means bad haymaking.
- Dew on June 21 — there will be a good harvest of hemp and flax.
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