Ascension- This is one of the biggest Christian holidays, which is celebrated on the fortieth day after Easter. It goes without saying that this holiday does not have a specific day of celebration, since it is tied up with Easter. But, nevertheless, a lot of signs and superstitions are connected with the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Many of these signs are associated with agricultural work, but there are also those that relate to people.

Season

On Ascension, spring gives way to summer. There is a popular sign that after Ascension passes, you can no longer be afraid of changeable spring weather. There won't be any cold weather. Live and enjoy the summer weather. You can safely swim in the reservoirs without worrying about getting sick.

If you braid birch branches

You will curl a birch on Ascension - you will find out how life will turn out. Birch is a very delicate tree. Previously, on Ascension, several branches of birch were braided into a braid and watched how the tree would behave. This was done in order to find out whether a seriously ill person would survive or not, and the girls, thus, wondered if they would get married this year or if they would still have to be like girls. If ten days before the Trinity, the birch branches woven together do not wither, then the person who is very seriously ill will definitely recover. Well, if the birch scythe wilts, then you need to prepare for the worst.

bread ladders

Bread ladders to Ascension - a direct path to the bosses. Previously, everyone knew that on the holy feast of the Ascension, it was necessary to knead the dough and bake ladders of seven steps. Such ladders were kept at home behind the icon, so that no one in the family would get sick. In addition, some people guessed with the help of bread ladders. They were consecrated in the church, and then thrown off the roof. If the ladder remained intact, then the person is simply a saint. And the more it is damaged, the more sins a person has. And there is one associated with such a ladder. This ritual will help a person to rise through the ranks as far as the ambition of a person is enough. To do this, they take the baked ladder in their hands, bring it very close to their lips and read a special plot. After that, the ladder must be eaten before the sun sets. If you know special words, then the ladder will definitely help, and very soon a new appointment awaits you.

Prayer

What you ask for in prayer on Ascension, it will come true. This sign is connected with the fact that on this day Jesus Christ directly communicated with people before ascending to heaven. On that day people had unique opportunity touch the Lord, turn to him and ask about what worried them. Since then, every person has such an opportunity every year on this day. The only thing that people cannot afford is to touch Jesus, but the fact that he hears everyone and will definitely help is true. Just do not ask for big money and wealth for yourself - your request will be ignored. The only exceptions are those cases when money is needed for treatment, or a person is generally poor. But you get exactly as much as you need, and not a penny more.

If the hen laid an egg

An egg laid on Ascension will take away all troubles from the house. City dwellers are not interested in this sign. Of course, who keeps chickens in the apartment on the balcony? But the villagers know about this sign very well. Old people say that on this day nothing can be done around the house - there will be no luck for a whole year. Not every chicken lays eggs on this holiday. Therefore, if someone has a chicken laid that day, such an egg is not eaten. Above it, you need to read out any conspiracy from enemies, of which there are a lot, and put it in the attic of your house. It is believed that no one can harm you and your entire family. Even if your ill-wishers turn to a strong, knowledgeable witch for help, all her efforts will be in vain. As long as the Ascension Egg is in your attic, you are safe.

If it rains

If on Ascension is coming rain, then wait for a crop failure and a pestilence of livestock. Such a sign really exists. Moreover, among the people it is believed that if immediately the next day after the Ascension comes good weather, and such weather will last for a week, then the sign is one hundred percent true. But if it also rains in the next three days, then perhaps your crop will not suffer so much. In order to smooth out the influence of this sign, in the old days, young girls gathered together in one hut and fried eggs. The most important condition is that none of the representatives of the opposite sex should have been present at this action. So the girls got together, fried eggs. While the cooking was going on, they sang songs, read prayers, and then walked through the fields and gardens with a frying pan. They went around all the fields and gardens, and everywhere after the round they threw part of the fried eggs into the ground. It was believed that by such actions the girls weakened the influence of this sign, so that the harvest was, and the cattle were healthy.

The Ascension of the Lord in 2015 is celebrated on May 21. This holiday commemorates the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. However, in the popular understanding, the meaning of the Ascension holiday was perceived as a day of rise, growth and ascent. Since it was in these days that nature finally rose after cold winter and time turned to summer.

Many folk signs and superstitions are associated with the Ascension of the Lord. Most of them are about the weather, the harvest. But there are those whose observance helped to gain prosperity and good luck for the whole year.

Folk omens for Ascension

It was believed that on this day everything that you ask God for will surely come true. This sign is connected with the fact that on the day when Jesus went to heaven, he was available to people, that is, everyone could turn to him with a request. So on this holiday it is still customary to pray hard and attend church.

  • If it rains on Ascension, the year will be lean.
  • If it doesn't rain on Ascension, it will be dry for six weeks. If it will rain on this day, it will go all 6 weeks.
  • On Ascension, spring gives way to summer. "Spring has come before Ascension - here it ends." It is believed that after this holiday good weather is already established and you can no longer be afraid of the variability and inconstancy of spring.

  • It was forbidden to work in Ascension housework - there will be no luck all year.
  • It is believed that on this day the cuckoos stop calling.
  • Egg laid in Ascension housewives took and left in the attic. Such an egg was considered a strong amulet. The Ascension Egg was said to have great magic power and is able to take away any trouble from home.
  • Dew collected on the day of the Ascension of the Lord, was considered curative. They collected it early in the morning and kept it in the house. Water was used as a remedy for all ailments.
  • Night before Ascension called nightingale. If on this night you hear the singing of this bird, then the whole year a person will be accompanied by happiness and love.

Rituals and Divination for the Ascension

There was a special divination on Ascension. You need to take a ribbon and tie it on a birch branch. If a birch branch does not dry up before the Trinity, then this is a good sign - a person is destined to be happy. If the branch withered or the leaves turned yellow and fell off, then life will be difficult.

The same ritual can be performed at will. Make a wish and tie a ribbon on the most beautiful birch branch. If it is the same green on Trinity, then the wish will come true. It dries up - the desire is not destined to come true.

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It is believed that it is on the feast of the Ascension that the Lord hears all requests and therefore it is worth praying especially zealously, asking for what is vital. However, it is better not to ask for money and wealth on this day. The exception is when money is needed for medicine or for survival.

The date of Ascension in 2018 is May 17. It was on the 40th day after his Resurrection that Jesus ascended in the flesh into heaven, so the day of celebration was not chosen by chance.

A wide variety of folk signs and beliefs are associated with this holiday. Wise people It has long been noticed that it is on this day that summer really comes. Spring will not return, you should no longer be afraid of frost. In addition, now you can safely swim in open water without fear for your health.

Signs on the Ascension of the Lord weather, rain, for marriage: Signs advise on this day to collect morning dew and wash it to preserve youth

Among the people, many traditions and rituals are associated with the celebration of the Ascension, closely echoing the ancient Slavic customs. For our ancestors, this holiday was inextricably linked with the change of seasons and the first harvest. It is not surprising that almost all signs on the Ascension of the Lord, one way or another, relate to the weather forecast and the success of the future harvest. In addition, Christians are sure that on Ascension, you can ask the Lord for the most important thing - on this day, Jesus hears the prayers of every believer.

If we talk about what believers cannot do on Ascension, then the list of prohibitions will be about the same as on any major church holidays. First, heavy physical labor, especially related to agricultural work, is prohibited. Secondly, on Ascension you can not swear, quarrel, swear, abuse alcohol and gluttony. Thirdly, it is forbidden to swim in open water, inclusive, until the Trinity.

In that great holiday unmarried girls guessed at the betrothed. To do this, they chose a birch and braided several of its branches, imitating a girl's braid. Exactly 8 days later, the girls returned to the birch and looked at their braided branches. If the birch braid has blossomed and covered with leaves, the girl will soon get married. If nothing happened, she will remain girls this year. Well, if the birch twig withered, the girl will face illness or even death.

The sacred tree was also asked if the wish would come true. For this, a birch branch was bent into a ring and left in this form until Trinity itself. If the leaves on the wreath fade, do not expect your wish to come true this year. Well, if the wreath has blossomed - rejoice, everything that is planned will be fulfilled.

Signs on the Ascension of the Lord weather, rain, for marriage: On this day, it was also customary to commemorate deceased relatives

On Ascension, they bake ladders, pies with green onions and commemorate dead relatives. Such ladders were always made with seven crossbars, like steps, according to the number of the seven heavens of the apocalypse. Previously, these pies and ladders were consecrated in the church, taken to the bell tower and thrown down to the ground.

On this day, it was also customary to commemorate the deceased relatives. For this, pancakes were fried or eggs were cooked. After preparing small gifts, you can also go to the cemetery.

Also on this holiday, it was customary to distribute alms: money, food or just clothes - it doesn’t matter what you give to the poor, but you must do it by all means. This is guaranteed to help keep the peace in your home.

An interesting rite exists with washing with fresh dew on the Ascension - it was believed that the dew on the Ascension had miraculous powers. It helps girls to preserve beauty and youth, and gives strength to old people.

It was also believed that an egg laid on that day had magical powers- it removed all sorts of troubles from the house. In the old days, it was considered a great sin to work or do anything on this bright holiday, so even chickens on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord rarely laid eggs.

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On this day, the figure of a lamb appears in the clouds in the east.
(Old Devonshire belief).

Artem Chebokha.

If an egg laid on Ascension Day is hung under the roof, it will protect your house from all harm. (At the beginning of the XYI century, it was distributed throughout Britain).


John Chapman.

Heavy rain on Ascension portends crop failure and disease, especially in livestock. If this sign is destined to come true, then after the Ascension, good weather will be established and will last until the day of St. Michael.


Johann Baptist Sellenati

IN folk calendar the day of the Ascension of the Lord was the day of memory of deceased parents and ancestors. In order to propitiate them, as well as the field spirits, believers baked pancakes, boiled eggs, fried eggs and ate all this at home and in the field, in between work, since the Feast of the Ascension coincides with the height of field work.


Albert Ritzberger. Lunch in the field.

In memory of the Ascension of the Lord, they baked pies with green onions, and most importantly - bread "ladders" (in the Yaroslavl province) - large oblong pies, the upper crust of which was laid out across the crossbeams (no more than seven, since it was believed that there were seven heavens). These pies were brought to the church, and prayers were performed over them, after which one part of them was given to the parable, and the other to the poor. These pies were also called ladders, ladders.


Anders Zorn.

Previously, these pies and ladders were taken to the bell tower and thrown down to the ground. At the same time, of course, they wondered which of the seven heavens the fortuneteller was destined to fall into. When all seven steps remained intact, this indicated to the fortuneteller a direct path to heaven, and vice versa: if the ladder was broken into small pieces, it thereby revealed terrible sinner, which was not suitable for any of the heavens. Later, fortune-telling was simplified to the point that the ladders were thrown directly on the floor, near the oven in which they were baked.


Ilya Alexandrovich Kaverznev.

But usually after dinner the men, women and girls went to the fields. There, at his field, praying on all four sides, he threw a ladder up, saying: "So that my rye grows as high." After that, the ladders were eaten. In the Vologda province, along with the "ladders", they also baked special cookies - juicy with oatmeal, called Christ's wrappers (as peasant shoes were called).


Isaac Ilyich Levitan.

In the Yaroslavl villages, “the youth endured and placed decorated birch trees on the borders of the fields, where they stood until the end of the harvest. They had fun around them, threw boiled eggs, rolled around and said: “Ugly, rye, clean and high!” Girls and teenage girls of the Kaluga province in a crowd went to the field with food supplies and there they cooked scrambled eggs in rye, when they ate it, they threw spoons up, saying: “How high the spoon flies, so high the rye would be.”


Yartsev G.F.

In the Yaroslavl province, girls with ready-made scrambled eggs, tied in a scarf, went around all the village fields (guys were by no means allowed). When they ate the votive food, the girls began to roll on the grass and say: “Grow, grass, to the forest, and rye to the barn.” Near Moscow, young people with eggs and pancakes went to the fields; each one found his strip, tossed the egg three times, then broke it, bit off a piece from the egg and from the pancake, and buried the rest in the strip, while saying: “Christ, you will fly to heaven, pull our horn by the spikelets.”


Some signs and rituals associated with the cuckoo were timed to coincide with the Ascension. As a rule, on the eve of the Ascension, the corn begins to ear and the cuckoo falls silent, which is why the people said: “The cuckoo choked on a corn ear”; “And I would be glad to have spring in Rus' for centuries to come, and Ascension Day will come, it will cuckoo, it will fill with a nightingale, it will be removed in the bosom by summer.”


Arkady Rylov.

On Ascension, the rite of "baptism and burial of the cuckoo" was performed, which lasted from one to three days. It was a purely girlish rite, none of the outsiders was supposed to know the place of "baptism" and burial of the cuckoo. They made a cuckoo from a bunch of grass "cuckoo's tears", giving it a humanoid appearance, sometimes they just took a branch, a bouquet, a wreath for this purpose, sometimes they sewed a rag doll. A cuckoo-doll made of rags or grass dressed up in a girl's outfit (dress, shirt, scarf), decorated with ribbons, colored patches, beads.


Makovsky Konstantin Egorovich.

The "baptism" of the cuckoo took place under a birch, the doll was planted on a branch or placed under a tree, covered with a scarf and crossed three times. The girls kissed, exchanged crosses, drills, scarves, then ate the eggs, and the shells were hung on the branches of trees and bushes. The so-called kumleniya was accompanied by special "kumite songs".


Oleg Gurenkov. Cuckoo's funeral.

They buried the cuckoo either on the same day after kumleniya, or the next day, or even a day later. If a cuckoo from grass was buried in the ground, then one or two girls did it in a secret place; if the cuckoo was left on a tree, then here all the participants in the ceremony arranged a common feast, sang cheerful songs, after which they went home.


Orlovsky Vladimir Donatovich.

The Ascension of the Lord is considered the last spring holiday. “The spring of the Ascension to heaven ascends - the bright one asks to rest in paradise!”


Artem Chebokha.

The Christian holiday of the Ascension of the Lord was celebrated in 2017 on May 25. It falls on the 40th day after the Resurrection of Christ (Easter) and with it a whole cycle of spring holidays ends. church holidays. There is no specific date for the Ascension - forty days after Easter fall on different days May or June. Forty days in this case is not a random time period. After this period after the birth, the parents had to carry the child to the temple - such is the law and commandment of Moses.

Despite the fact that the holiday is absolutely Christian, in it, like in some others, pagan traditions and beliefs of our Slavic ancestors, which came from the time of worship of the Yarila-Sun, intertwined.

The End of Christ's Ministry on Earth

As Scripture says, the resurrected Christ gathered his disciples on the 40th day after Easter and led them to the Mount of Olives, where he ascended. But he warned the disciples in advance that in ten days the Spirit of God would descend on them and they would become incredibly strong to preach and bring the truth into the world. At the same time, he rose into the sky, where he was picked up by a cloud. So the disciples told, realizing that this is the end of Christ's ministry on Earth. But, according to believers, there is no sadness in this holiday - the Son of God remains with them. He in human form gave them the hope of resurrection after death. But for this the church calls for repentance.

The holiday, which was supposed to be sad, is perceived as the joy of feeling the presence higher power in everything - in every dawn and the chirping of birds, in blossoming flowers and the laughter of a child. For Russia, this holiday is significant for another event - back in 1799, it was on this day that Pushkin was born. It was Thursday then, and the bells were ringing all over the country, and the Orthodox rejoiced.

How is the feast of the Ascension of the Lord

In the evening before the holiday, an all-night service is held in the temples. The next day - a solemn liturgy, which ends with the removal of the Shroud from the temple. On the feast of the Ascension, it is customary to commemorate deceased relatives. To do this, the housewives baked rectangular pies stuffed with onions. They were decorated with crossbars made of dough - such a ladder was considered the road to Christ. They commemorated the dead with eggs or cooked scrambled eggs.

It was believed that requests addressed to God on this day would be heard. It was impossible to ask for material values. The exception was pleas for money for the treatment of a seriously ill person.

The youth led round dances - boys and girls stood in two circles, face to face. They took each other's hands - this is how a living bridge turned out, along which a girl with a wreath of wildflowers on her head passed. Then another girl replaced her and also walked along the “living bridge”. So this round dance moved from the outskirts to the field.

What is forbidden to do on the Ascension of the Lord

On this day, by Orthodox traditions, it is not recommended to clean the house, do other "black" work. Greet each other with the words "Christ is Risen!" From this day forward, it is also impossible. It is important to try not to think about the bad and set yourself up in a positive way.

By this holiday, sowing work in the fields was usually completed and preparations for the Trinity began. It is better to spend this holiday in the circle of family and loved ones, to remember the dead. It was believed that on this day the doors of hell and paradise were opened - the righteous, together with sinners, would be able to rejoice at the Ascension of the Lord.

Signs and divination on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord

From that day on, it was allowed to fearlessly swim in the reservoirs. If it rained on Ascension, it was believed that the year would be lean. If it rains for three days after the holiday, then the losses from crop failure will not be so large.

Divination on a birch was popular - young unmarried girls braided birch branches into braids and watched how they behave in this state. If you were sluggish before the Trinity - it's too early to get married. Such divination with birch branches was carried out to find out if a seriously ill person would survive.

The hostesses baked ladders from flour - they had 7 crossbars. Such ladders were consecrated in the temple and kept dried in the house for a whole year, so that all household members were alive and well. And they also guessed with the help of such a ladder - they threw it off the roof and looked: if it broke, crumbled, it means you won’t see good luck, if it remained intact - such a person was considered almost a saint. Children took such shortbread-ladders to the churchyard for remembrance or to the field so that the harvest would be better.

Another sign of the Ascension holiday is that if on this day the chicken laid an egg, then they did not eat it. Any conspiracy from ill-wishers was read over him. Then this egg was hidden in the attic so that it would protect the house and its inhabitants from slander and an evil eye, various troubles.

It was considered lucky to hear the chirping of a magpie or the cawing of a crow that day. It was necessary to have time to speak a conspiracy and wait for luck.

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