Repairs (16/02)

Repair — is one of the holidays of the Slavic calendar, which was celebrated the day after Candlemas.

Following the saying «Prepare your sleigh in the summer and your cart in the winter», the owners, immediately after Candlemas, started repairing agricultural equipment early in the morning, calling this February day «Fixes».

Starting from Pochinka, the peasants remembered: the sooner you take on the — farm, the more you will fall in spring. It is not appropriate for a good owner to delay repairs until real warm days. Opening the sheds, the peasants wondered: what kind of work should we take on?

We worked together, with the whole family, finding a feasible task for both small and old: «In Pochinki, Grandfather gets up a little light — fixes summer harness and hundred-year-old plow». The repaired harness was hung in a visible place not without pride — we are supposedly ready for plowing and sowing. And the housewives did not sit idle at that time: they cooked, washed, sorted things in chests.

There is an erroneous opinion, and mentioned specifically in Pochinki, that Domovoy worries horses at night and can drive them to death. The housekeeper is an assistant to a good owner, and not an enemy, otherwise why would the Housekeeper be transported from the old house in a scoop with coal from an old stove. Brownie — is a talisman for home and not an evil spirit!



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