Old New Year

Old New YearIf on Christmas Eve (January 6) the Rich Kutya was prepared, then on Melanka (January 13), the day that precedes Vasily, or the New Year according to the old style - Generous, which was tucked in with a babe. That is why this evening is called generous.

For dinner, like Christmas Eve, the whole family sits down. It is very important that the clothes on this day were thoroughly washed and clean. After dinner, you should definitely go to the neighbors and ask one of them for apologizing for possible guilt to each other in order to meet the New Year in peace and harmony.

The evening before the New Year gives a chance to those guys who failed during the swattany. This evening you can make a second attempt. However, to do this, you need to catch a girl at home, and this is very difficult, since the village is already walking maiden watags generous. The girls could be generous only under the windows of houses and then only towards the end of the Generous Evening, that is, by midnight.

Special attention should be paid to female divination. What did not do representatives of the weaker half, just to find out what prepares them capricious fate. Try at least this: before going to bed, put a scallop under the pillow, while saying: “My betrothed man, brush my head!” Whosoever sleeps in a dream will be yours.

If you go out at midnight, you can feel how the new year drives away the old. On the first day of the New Year, the most common was, and still is, the rite of sowing. It is believed that this rite came to us from pre-Christian times, because our forefathers celebrated the New Year not in winter, but in spring, and therefore the rite of sowing is associated with hopes for a good harvest. Most of the children were sown, and the most generous of all were those who came to the house first. There were, in addition to sowing lone, whole sowing groups. In this case, this interesting rite turned into a real performance, where the main characters were Vasily, Melanka, Gypsies, etc.