Tomorrow the girls of Kalmykia need to take care of the dowry

The day of Kupriyan and Ustiny was spent without fun and loud feasts. Preference was given to silence, housework and checking the farm before the onset of cold weather.

Girls on this day put in order dowry, worked together with mothers and grandmothers on embroidery. Young men checked the roofs, strengthened fences, harvested firewood – it was believed that everything in the house should be ready for winter.

Also, ancestors believed that if you light a candle in the house and pray in front of the image of the saints, you can protect the house from damage and evil eye for the whole year.