Cauldians told how to hold chills

Today, October 21, Orthodox Kalugans celebrate the day of memory of Saints Tryphon of Vyatka and Pelagia of Antioch. According to the national calendar, chills are celebrated, it was believed that from this day the weather becomes colder.

On this day you can check winter things, repair them, clean, everything according to the proverb “Triphon repairs a fur coat, Pelageya sews mittens”. Also, the hostess checked the stocks, replenishing them with home blanks.

Do not give in to despondency, talk with strangers, gossip and quarrel on this day, otherwise failures will follow all winter. The same was true of cutting down trees in the forest – this class on chills was banned. Some people believed that bad dreams would come true if they were remembered and told that day.

Folk signs said that if the birch did not have time to fall all the leaves before October 21, the snow will fall late.

Earlier, “MK in Kaluga” wrote that Kalugan is asked not to cook dishes from the dough.