Kalujan asked not to pick up valuables on the street

Today Orthodox Kalugans celebrate the great twelfth feast, the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord, one of the 12 main feasts of the year. It is believed that finding the cross on which Christ was crucified was helped in the fourth century in Jerusalem by a sick woman who was healed by touching it.

On this day, the people’s calendar celebrated the Exaltation or the Third Autumn.

On this day, it was accepted to fast. The saying goes, “Whoever fasts on the Exaltation will be forgiven seven sins.” In addition to fasting, they were supposed to pray and refrain from quarrels. It was possible to hold cabbages - parties at which dishes from this vegetable were offered. You couldn’t start important things because they weren’t successful.

There were more strange prohibitions: not to borrow salt, so as not to quarrel with relatives or neighbors, you can not needlework, so as not to become impoverished and not get sick. Potential brides were forbidden to eat potatoes in order to avoid the loss of suitors. And for all was the advice not to pick up on the street, neither money nor valuables, so as not to catch a disease or trouble.

People's signs proposed to postpone the forecast for the winter until the onset of the Intercession. But if on September 27 it is cold and the wind blows, then next summer it will be dry and warm. It was suggested to monitor cranes if they flew slowly, it was believed that autumn would be warm and protracted. If the ashes dropped berries, on the contrary, windy and cold.

If the weather is warm, the weather will be good.

Earlier, “MK in Kaluga” wrote that Orthodox Kaluga residents celebrate “autumn Easter”.