Homemade treat day — Velesici, Kudesa (10/02)

Kudesy — house treat day. Brownie — baker, cobbler, cricket intercessor. The name of the holiday — kudesy (tambourines) — indicates that people communicated with the brownie or simply had fun, delighting their ears with music:

Grandpa-neighbor! Eat porridge and keep our hut!

If grandfather-neighbor is left without gifts for the magicians, then from a good keeper of the hearth, he will turn into a rather fierce spirit. After dinner, they left behind the stove a pot of porridge, lined with hot coals, so that the porridge would not cool until midnight, when the brownie came to dinner.

On this day, Veles and his army are revered. It tells about the origin of the Velesichs, the heavenly warriors of Veles. Usually Velesichs are revered as children of Veles, Svarozhichs, who submitted to Veles — as the head of the heavenly armies.

But among them there are also those who descended from heaven to Earth and settled between people: these are ancient heroes: volotomans, asilks, ancestors, as well as spirits of forests, fields, waters and mountains. Those of them who ended up in the forest — became goblin, some in the water — water, some in the field — field, and some in the house — house.

Brownie — spirit is kind. Usually he is a — zealous owner who helps a friendly family. Sometimes he is harmful and naughty if he doesn’t like anything. It scares those who do not care about the household and livestock. On this day, the brownie was fed porridge, leaving it on the back. Feeded and sentenced:

Master Father, accept our porridge! And eat pies — take care of our house!



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