In the celebration of the Holy Trinity mixed pagan and Orthodox traditions. Believers in Sunday morning go to Church with bouquets of fragrant herbs, delicate birch and Apple branches. Sprinkles them with Holy water, the priest, dressed in green clothes. Paul in the temple and in the houses the bed of cut grass and flowers.
On the table this day is also a lot of greenery, a variety of salads, pies and gingerbread - symbols of the sun. In the ancient Slavic people celebrated sendoff spring and the summer meeting: it was then developed the tradition of going to the cemetery and neaten the graves of birch twigs, to propitiate and appease the spirits of deceased ancestors. It was believed that on this day the branches of this tree have special healing power. Only this day was allowed to break the brooms for a bath and swim in open water. Herbs, consecrated in the Church, and to this day it is customary to dry and carefully stored until next year. They are used only in extreme cases, for example, in the treatment of severe diseases.
Celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity in nature. Spread out on a grass green tablecloth, specially prepared for the holiday loaves are decorated with flowers. If they do not eat, then prepare them crackers and stored until the wedding of the young, and then, fortunately, is added during kneading in a wedding cake. Girls start games and divination: throwing spoons in birch to find out who will get married first; light bonfires and jump through the fire, boating, lavishly decorated with greenery. For divination, the Trinity decided to weave wreaths and throw them into the water, watching as they behave themselves – sink – to trouble and the death of loved ones, moves to place to discord and discord in the family, will float and be lucky to the emergency wedding. Some girls gave us their beloved wreaths as a sign of consent to a quick wedding.
Many traditions disappear, but now people in the day of the Holy Trinity go out of town, arrange holidays, and especially the initiative to organize costume festivals.
