CrimeaPRESS reports:
Why is it Lukov day? Because the peasants were finishing harvesting onions from their gardens. Plus, the church today honors the memory of the holy Apostle-Evangelist Luke.
As for onions as such: this vegetable has always occupied a special place in Russian cuisine. Even in the most hungry years, there was always a place for an onion on the peasant table. Onions are a favorite seasoning for soups, cabbage soup, okroshka, main courses, fillings for pies and pies. It was also revered as a medicinal plant. And, indeed, the benefits of this vegetable in the fight against colds and viral infections are invaluable to this day. “Onion cures seven ailments,” our ancestors said.
The bow was widely used in magic. Among village healers, this vegetable was an invariable attribute when inducing and removing certain types of damage, making amulets, protecting against nightmares and treating insomnia.
Signs of the day:
- White clouds in the sky mean bad weather.
- Black clouds mean rain.
- Cranes fly high and slowly — for a stormy, rainy autumn.
- The cones on the fir trees grow low, indicating imminent frost. If they grow high, frost will hit towards the end of winter.
- You cannot eat onions from the new harvest before Onion Day, otherwise they will dry out in the bins.
- A lot of husk on the bulb means a frosty winter.
- If you hang the bulbs in the corners of the house on this day, the air will be clean.
- Eating onions today means getting rid of torment (diseases).
- If you put onion wreaths on your pets on September 20, they won’t get sick all year long.
- On this day, the girls prayed to Saint Luke to send them long braids.
- If a man is the last one to enter the house before going to bed, the whole family will be free from illness for the whole year.
- Taking and lending money and bread means trouble.
- Little girls should not be given dolls on this day — otherwise they will be infertile in marriage.
- Matchmaking on this day promises an unsuccessful outcome.
Name days are celebrated today by: Nikolai, Alexander, Ivan, Lev, Evgeniy, Mikhail, Stepan, Vasily, Makar, Grigory.
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