Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)
Description:
On Palm Sunday, each peasant went to the church (church) with a large fart of willow and juniper, where they were consecrated. Since these consecrated branches were given healing properties, they were also necessary in a peasant house, as well as huge candles.
There was a belief that if in the church, immediately after the consecration, eat a willow kidney or juniper berry, you can protect yourself from diseases. Returning home, the owner struck with a bundle of willows of each family member, saying: “I do not fight, verba b’e, sniff for good.” One of the family members did the same with the owner. Then the owner and the hostess walked around the barn, the rest of the outbuildings, the garden, the field, tapping twigs and sticking them into the buildings and into the ground.
Someone from home necessarily went to the cemetery and there left a branch with wishes of eternal rest to the deceased relative.
The verba remained in the house after the holiday, was kept behind the images and used on the occasion of important events in the house.
At the meeting on this day, people exchanged not a handshake, but whips of willow branches and wishes of good health for the whole year. The girl, having met an unfamiliar guy, touched him with a twig and asked his name - this will be the same for the betrothed.
We also watched the weather that day. Frost on Palm Sunday meant that there would be no more frosts, and they would not damage crops.
Sacred branches of the willow on Sunday a week before Easter has survived to this day.
