Andreev`s Day by Ann Wood
Happy name day to the Andreev's!Be healthy, cheerful, and happy, and may your good name remain !!!
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On November 30, we celebrate St. Andrew's Day. Everyone connected with Saint Andrew the First-Called has a name day. - Andrey, Andreyana, Andreya, Andrian, Andro, Hrabar, Hrabrin, Strong, Deshka, Parvan.
Bulgarian folklore tells of the lonely saint Andrew, who lived in the mountains. You had levels that endowed him with all earthly goods. Once, however, a bear ate the only ox with which he plowed the hard ground. Andrew became angry and harnessed the bear to the plow, and from then on, the saint became master of the bears.
That is why the old Bulgarians celebrated Mechkinden on November 30.
On holiday like most holidays, which transitioned from autumn to winter, women were not allowed to work in the house.
On the eve of St. Andrew's Day, women boiled corn, beans, barley, oats - everything that was sown and called it "As the boiled grains grow, so do the crops grow."
Early in the morning, the oldest woman in the house washed her eyes, took ten grains of boiled corn, threw them up, and said, "You bear boiled corn, don't eat raw!" The whole household then threw a few grains high in the chimney, "so that the crops would grow tall" - they ate, and the woman gave the legumes to the neighbors - so that the year would be fruitful. The young brides also celebrated, expecting fertility and health.
With these spells, the Bulgarian aimed to appease the bear; they believed that it brings health. The bear was especially revered for being an enemy of wolves attacking humans and herds.
It is believed that on St. Andrew's Day, the day begins to grow as big as a millet grain, so in some places, it is also called Edrinden or Edrey.
The table is placed pie and dishes of some grain - corn, bulgur, beans, lentils, millet. Since it's Christmas fasting now, everything on the table is lean.
Short story by Ann Wood
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Written on 2020-11-30 at 20:39
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