May 15 — Day of Boris and Gleb. If you share your small one, you will get more

Krympress reports:

Also on May 15 they called — a nightingale holiday, a whistle, whistles. They said: «Half up on Boris and Gleb to sow bread.» The people believed that nightingales are now starting their songs, and the one who will hear a bird trill in the morning, the whole year will be happy. Also by May 15, ash and pans bloomed, the eyes.

On this day, sowed cucumbers and pumpkin. In order for the vegetables to be disfigured, before sowing, they buried a finger in the ground. They also prayed, and in the process of landing, on the contrary, they were silent.

The church now honors the memory of the building princes Boris and Gleb. They were the youngest sons of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir.

As for the weather, then:

• The nightingale sings loudly all day? It escorts spring, and it’s time to meet summer.
• The clear sunset on the day of Boris and Gleb — the summer will also be clear and without precipitation.
• Warm day — there will be dark bread.
• The nightingale always stops singing before the weather.
• Warm day May 15 — to a poor crop of bread.
• If the bird cherry bloomed and the nightingales sang, then you can expect a two -week cooling.
• The bird sings on bare trees — a sign for the fact that there will be a crop failure in the garden.
• The water was declining, and nightingale trills are heard — it is time to start sowing.

Name days today they note: Boris, Gleb, Roman, Zoya, Mikhail, Athanasius, David, Esper, Kiriak and Theodul.

And on May 15, the holiday was celebrated by merchants and merchants-Barysh-day. Fairs unfolded everywhere, in which excess lives, vegetables, various household items, and sweets were sold. For all merchants, successful trade on this day foreshadowed great benefits during the year. In the evening, after the end of the auction, the merchants arranged large feasts. The poor were necessarily invited to the table, because it was believed that «having shared a small one — you acquire a big one.»

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