Mandatory custom Midsummer was the massive swimming: from this day from rivers all the evil spirits came, so until the day Ilyin you can swim without fear. In addition, water Midsummer authorizing invigorating and magical properties.
In places where there was a ban on swimming in the river (because the same evil), bathed in the Holy sources.
In this holiday, according to popular belief, water can "make friends" with fire, and their Union is a force of nature. The symbol of such compounds are bonfires on the banks of rivers, which burned on this day. Around them danced through them jumped: who is more successful and higher jumps, he will be happier. In Midsummer bonfires burned mother removed from the ailing children shirts that together with this linen burned and disease. Young people and children, naprygavshis through fires, noisy games and run a race.
The characteristic sign of Ivan Kupala - many customs and traditions associated with the plant world. Herbs and flowers, gathered in John's day, the dew lay under Ivanov, dried, and saving them, believing such a medicinal herb.
The main hero of the vegetable world in John's day was the fern, which commonly linked stories about the treasures. With fern flower that appears for a few moments at midnight on Midsummer's day, you can see all the treasures, as if deep in the earth they are.
Source:
Women's Magazine
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