{"id":13822,"date":"2020-05-10T02:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/collecting-potions-and-other-kupala-rituals-and-traditions-in-transcarpathia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T02:36:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:36:39","slug":"collecting-potions-and-other-kupala-rituals-and-traditions-in-transcarpathia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/collecting-potions-and-other-kupala-rituals-and-traditions-in-transcarpathia\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting potions and other Kupala rituals and traditions in Transcarpathia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nplants were harvested mainly in the Russian week, most often in the Russian week
\nFriday, although it was a common opinion to consider medicinal plants collected in other
\nholidays (Ivan Kupala, spas) or non-holidays.<\/p>\n\n On Lemko<\/a> the collected Kupala potion was tied with hazel branches (sometimes with branches of fruit trees) in a sheaf and carried to be consecrated near the Church. They kept it until the next celebration of Ivan Kupala. They used it for medicinal “plots” of people or animals.<\/p>\n The people believed that the care and
\nthe cultivation of medicinal herbs do mermaid Mavka and other mythical characters.<\/p>\n\n The superstitious imagination of the highlanders of Boykovschina, in turn, vimalovuvala universal fantastic face to all diseases and misfortunes in the form of a magic drug that grows in the deep mountains<\/a>, or grass from the borders of the nine fields, plucked unnoticed by an outsider at dawn by Ivan Kupala with the words:”I will Tear at the expense when it is necessary.”<\/p>\n\n In addition to the treatment of diseases, kupalskoe
\nthe potion was used by girls for divination and was used to prevent
\nnatural disasters. So, during the hurricane Kupala potion was burned in the oven.<\/p>\n\n In addition, Kupala potion
\nconsidered a means of increasing the yield. There was a custom to stick consecrated woodlands
\ntwigs were inserted into the ground where vegetable crops were grown.<\/p>\n\n In Boikivshchyna, Hutsulshchyna and
\nLemko, it was the custom to “lure” (decorate) the house Midsummer potion.<\/p>\n\n So, in the Hutsul region on the day before
\nIvan Kupala obkladyvali, obtikuvali house potion, and not only the house \u2013 in the gardens
\nthey poke hazel; it was believed that it protects the crop from worms.<\/p>\n\n In Transcarpathia on Ivan Kupala people collected rotten cream, pears and it is on John the Baptist laid them in barrels, cooked vodka<\/a>. We believed that it would be better this way.<\/p>\n\n The belief is extremely interesting
\nabout fern blooming on the night before Ivan Kupala.<\/p>\n