{"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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Church<\/a> and the secular authorities for a long time tried to persecute all those who collected the potion for Ivan Kupala. Violators of the ban were punished with whipping.<\/p>\n\n

Subsequently, the Church tried to Christianize<\/a> this tradition. It was under the influence of Christianity that the custom of consecrating the potion collected for Ivan Kupala in the Church arose.<\/p>\n\n

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in East areas Boiko<\/a> plucked for the holiday of Ivan Kupala, herbs and plants were not only considered medicinal, but also believed that they were able to transmit the power of a potion that was prepared at other times.<\/p>\n\n

On the Western Boykivshchyna medicinal plants \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