In Russia it was called "Yarets" in honor of slavic god Suns of Yarila, as well as "grass-pollen", "holy day", "bird's whistle". Among the Greeks, May owes its name to the goddess of the mountains Maya, who at this time covers the mountains with greenery. For the Romans, Maya is the goddess of fertility and spring renewal of the earth.
SIGNS OF MAY
May crowns spring, meets summer.
May decorates the woods, awaits the summer for a visit.
As it rains in May, so it will be rye.
Ay, ay, the month of May: warm, but hungry!
April is warm, May is cold - a grain-growing year.
May grass also feeds the hungry.
There are many May beetles - for a dry summer.
How many rains in May, so many years of harvest.
When the birch leaves the leaf in front of the alder, the summer will be dry, and if the alder in front of the birch it will be wet.
Wet May - there will be porridge and loaf.
A good beginning of May can turn into cold at the end of the month, so they said:
To plow in a shirt, sow in a fur coat.
Usually the cold returns when the bird cherry blossoms (bird cherry cold) and when the oak unfolds.
The 1 of May
Day of Kozma, named after Saint Cosmas. On this day, a straw effigy was put on a hill on a pole, they feasted around it, and then they burned it with songs and dances. When the fire burned, they shouted: "We meet the summer, we see off the winter", by analogy with the Maslenitsa rites. In some localities, a decorated tree (like the Trinity birch tree) was called May.
This carrot and beet to Kozma.
They said about carrots: "She loves the dog-chan land, on which she will be born smoother and tastier, and will not grow so much into the tops, but on the black earth she lets grass more than her root." A person born on this day was prophesied to be a gardener.
May 2
Day of John the Old Cave, or Ivan the Warrior.
Ivan is new to spring.
The peasants brought freshly woven canvases and shirts ("novina") to the meadows, rinsed them in the river, spread them out in the field to bleach them under the sun. Spring was presented with a canvas of a new harvest: a pie was placed on a canvas laid out in a meadow and, turning to the east, they said: "Here you are, mother spring, a new novelty!"
On the Old Cave, update the new one.
We went home with the hope that Spring would dress in nova and for bread and salt it would disfigure flax, hemp and rye in abundance.
May 3
Fedor's Day, commemoration of the dead. The day is named in honor of the Monk Theodore. According to legends, the souls of the dead, excited by the spring revival, fly out into the light of God and seek peace, and therefore it is necessary to visit the graves of relatives, clean up cemeteries, lament or call out to the deceased parents. In many localities on the graveyards, one could hear "crying" at the graves.
Fedor - the call of the ancestors.
On Fyodor, the dead yearn for the land.
May 4th
Day of Proclus... The old people cursed evil spirits... Signs of this day:
If the ant is well-fed and clean, the wheat will be fertile well.
The bird cherry blossomed early - by the warm summer.
5 May
Saint Luke's Day... It is customary to plant onions in the beds.
Onion for seven ailments.
Onion cures seven ailments, and garlic cures seven ailments.
Whoever eats onions will be delivered from eternal torment. Onions and baths rule everything. Holo, bare, but there is an onion in the cabbage soup. About petty sorrows or insignificant griefs that do not deserve tears, they said:
Woe is onion.
Onion husks were laid out around the house - it drives out evil spirits and cleanses the home of filth.
the 6th of May
Day of Remembrance of the Great Martyr George the Poor-Bearer, in folk calendar- Egoriev day(Yuri Veshniy, Yegoriy Veshniy, Yegoriy Veshniy, Yegoriy Khra-bry). In the popular perception, his image exists in three forms: a warrior, a protector of cattle and a wolf's sheep. They said this:
There should be no Spring in Holy Russia without Yegor.
All living creatures are close at hand to Yegoriy.
It was believed that he patronized not only domestic animals, but also wild animals, and if a wolf or a bear carried away a sheep, then this case was attributed to the will of St. George:
What the wolf has in its teeth, George gave.
According to legend, on the eve of his spring day, Saint Yegory travels around all the forests on a white horse and gives orders to the wild beast: where to feed, how to hunt-
Without Egoriev's order and grey Wolf will not be full.
On what the wolf is gray, and he lives according to the law: what Yegoriy says, on that everything will be decided.
Yegor the brave keeps the wolf from hand to mouth, otherwise - even though you don't drive cattle.
The day of "Egoriy Veshniy" (there is also "Egoriy autumn") was considered a holiday of shepherds: the cattle were driven out to the first grazing. This important event was accompanied by a whole series of ritual actions. The owners baked ceremonial cookies in the form of "cows", "horses" and "goats", made "juicy milk" - pounded hemp and flaxseed in a mortar, diluted with water and gave to the cattle to find out if she was healthy. An animal that refused to drink this "milk" was considered sick. Then, “for better health,” the cattle was poured with melt water in the yard. Early in the morning in the meadow, the owner "called out the wolf":
Wolf, wolf, what kind of beast did you get from Yegori ?!
After that, the head and legs from the slaughtered sheep were thrown into the field. The owner walked around all the cattle with the image of St. George, and when the cows were gathered into a common herd, a prayer service for water was served in the chapel, after which the animals were drank with holy water and, finally, they were driven outside the outskirts.
Christ is with you! Yegory the brave, take my beast for the whole summer and save her!
Guys-helpers whipped the cattle with willow and shouted:
Willow from across the sea
Give, willow, health!
Willow, whip -
Beat to tears!
Take a twig -
Drive the cattle out!
Early in the morning
Sweep the ram!
A green branch was tied to the tail of the first cow in the herd, which, sweeping away the night dew from the grass, provided abundant milkings for the entire herd. The old shepherds assured that the remedy was the right one. On this day, the shepherd was honored: they presented them with loaves, fed them in the field with worldly eggs and, as is customary, doused them with water “so that he would not doze off,” although they still hoped more for the saint:
Even though you can see through all your eyes, but without Yegori you cannot see the flock.
To prevent Yegoriy from taking the cattle "a wolf to the tooth", candles were placed in front of his icon on the eve of this day. In the ritual songs accompanying the herding of cattle, the peasants turned to the saint with a request:
Yegory you are our brave
Macarius the Monk,
You graze our cattle
In the field and beyond the field,
In the forest and beyond the forest,
Under the bright month
Under the red sun
From the predatory wolf,
From a fierce bear
From the evil beast.
On this day, they decorated a cute guy with greenery and flowers, put a round pie on his head, danced in a field, where they walked around the crops three times, and then lit a fire, ate a pie and sang spring songs. The season of round dances opened, and the gatherings ended.
The children went around the courtyards to praise Yegor:
On Egoria to you,
On the spring to you!
Little calves, calve
Filly, foal,
Lamb, kid
Pigs, piggy,
Chickens, rush
Cockerels, stomp!
Hostess, please
Master, don't be stingy!
Take it out to the porch
Guys in the egg -
For our labors
For the Yegoryevskys!
Sayings and omens are associated with this day: There are two Yegoryas in Russia: one hungry, the other cold (May 6 and December 9).
Spring will light up, and a chilly man a fur coat from his shoulders to-lo.
Yegory came - and the spring will not leave.
On Yegorya dew - there will be good millet.
Egoriy begins the spring, and Ilya ends the summer.
It's frosty on Yegorya - there will be millet and oats.
It's frost on Egoria - buckwheat is good.
On Egor'ya, rain is an easy year for cattle, buckwheat is not native.
As it freezes on Yegoryev's night, so forty morning performances will fall on bread, forty morning frosts from Yegoryev's day for the whole summer, while the bread is in the field.
Morning dew on George was considered healing. She was collected on linen towels and wrung out before sunrise. Children were driven out on the dewy grass to walk barefoot:
Be healthy as St. George's dew.
May 7
Day of Savva and Yevsey, named after the pre-like Alexis and the martyr Savva Stratilates.
Savva and Yevsey - take away oats.
Oats are not a prince - they love dirt.
This oats, when the bare foot does not chill in the arable land.
Oats were sown either before or after the full moon, and never during an eclipse.
All stocks were coming to an end:
About our Savva, they spread the glory: he doesn't drink, he doesn't eat, but he feeds the mice with grain!
May 8
Day of Mark the key-keeper, named after the apostle Saint Mark. Mark is the keeper of the keys from the rain, they prayed to him against the drought:
Children called rain:
Rain, rain, more
I'll give you some thick!
I'll go out on the porch
I'll give you a cucumber
I will give you a loaf of bread,
Just water more!
In the first rain in May, they moistened their heads so that their hair would grow like May grass. If the rain that began on this day falls before May 11, then the next three years will be very fruitful.
A green rainbow - for good, productive rains, a high rainbow - for good weather for a month, a low rainbow - for bad weather.
On Mark, the sky is bright, the women in the hut are hot.
9th May
Deeds done on this day before sunrise will be successful.
The sun rises crimson - for a thunderstorm and fire summer.
If a cuckoo is cuckoo, pets will fly; the cuckoo cuckoo earlier than the nightingale - a bad summer.
May 10
Day of the seed-early-grower.
Do not be lazy with a plow - you will be with a pie.
To plow the land is not to play with money.
And we will eat, and we will dance - we will only plow the arable land.
There are flaws on the arable land - holes in the pocket.
Standing on the first plowed border, the plowmen called out:
You, Mother-Damp Earth, tame the midnight winds, keep the frost-cold fierce. You ascend, the sun is red, the people are happy, for good shoots! Soar, lark, into the blue sky. Look around, lark, the black arable land. This peasant land was all sweaty, sweaty, washed with tears.
Sign:
Bright play of stars before the first spring sowing - to the rich yarovina.
You can't sing on this day - there will be a big loss, a bad harvest, and all things will go badly this year.
May 11
Day of Martyr Maxim and Apostle Jason, healers for fever. The medicine men were placated with gifts.
On Jason, the wind is a big man.
A warm and starry night is for harvest, and a clear sunrise is for bucket summer.
The sun is clear at sunrise - a clear summer. Starlight Night - good harvest.
The patients were treated with warm southern wind and birch sap, which was “collected” that day, in an amulet, especially healing on Maxim.
12 May
Day of the Nine Martyrs... They were prayed for from nine misfortunes: so that they would not break, not torment, not burn, shake, knit, twist, not blind, they would not fall off their feet and would not bring the earth into the mother-cheese.
may 13
Day of Jacob the Star.
Warm evening and starry night on Jacob - dry, clear summer.
From that day on, they stopped all matchmaking, because in May to marry means toil all your life (according to the old style, May has just begun on this day). On the first evening in May, they put a young green tree decorated with ribbons in the meadow, danced around it, burned fires and had fun. Sowing began in many places.
Dew on this day is healing. Without being splashed with this dew, you cannot go on the road - otherwise all the cases related to it will be unsuccessful.
May 14
Day of Eremey the harness-harness, the yaromnik, named after the prophet Jeremiah, and the day of the icon "Unexpected joy". On this day, it is not customary to lend grain and bread - according to legends, this leads to a bad harvest.
On Eremei, after the early dew, go for sowing. Eremey, Eremey, about the crops of the mind! A lazy plow also drives out to Eremey in the field. This week after Yegor and another after Yeremey. If it is fine on Eremey, then the harvesting of bread will be nice.
The spruce has opened its buds - we must hurry with sowing.
May 15
Day of noble princes Boris and Gleb, sowers. Nightingale holiday. The nightingales begin to sing.
Little nightingale
Sizenky, petite!
The feathers are speckled,
Light on the wings!
Sing in the garden, chirp
Day and night:
So - tieh-tieh, fyut-fyuti!
So - tieh-tieh, fyut-fyuti!
Signs:
If you hear the nightingale before the cuckoo, you will have a happy summer.
The nightingale began to sing - the spring began to decline, and the summer to increase.
The nightingale sings all night - it will be a sunny day. If a nightingale sang on bare trees, then crop failure on gardens and well.
Having heard the first nightingale, you need to have time to take off your shirt - then the skin will be smooth and beautiful.
If you managed to sell something profitably for Boris, “you will have a profit all year round” (this day is also called “profit-day”).
16th of May
Day of the Moor the thrush... Milk is added to cows.
And the hostess is easy, if there is milk on the table. The bird cherry blossoms, a cold snap sets in.
Cheryomushka green
Slim, tall,
Wide leaf!
Under the clear rays
Under the stars are frequent
Blossom until winter -
From butt to top!
For the amusement of the old,
Wonderful for small children!
The first greenery appears:
Mavra - green cabbage soup.
Look for nettles in green cabbage soup.
May 17
The garden was fenced off. Delivered on this very day, it will save crops from evil eyes and damage. In the church, prayers were ordered for rains, plants and animals, so that the whole economy would be profitable.
May 18
Day of Irina the nursery, commemoration of the martyr Irina... It's time to transplant cabbage seedlings to the beds, saying:
Do not be ankle, be belly; don't be empty, be tight; don't be red, be tasty; don't be old, be young; don't be small, be great!
The first head of cabbage should be covered with the largest pot and a white tablecloth. Since ancient times, this work was considered exclusively a woman's business: planted by a man, vegetables will bloom, but they will not bear fruit.
May 19
Day of Job-pea, borage, dewberry. It should be carried out as quietly as possible, calmly: reflect on life, ask for forgiveness from those before whom they are guilty. The day is named in honor of the righteous Job the Long-suffering. It's time to sow peas:
Old women for fun, young guys for fun.
And turnips and peas are not near the roads.
Job dismissed the dew.
Experienced gardeners knew: you need to sow peas at the back of the sun (so that the sparrows do not see), with a defective moon, on damp earth. Peas sown with a northerly wind will be tough, with a westerly or southwestern wind - soft, worms soon appear on it, and it will be heavily overgrown with weeds.
This, this pea,
Scatter the peas!
Be ugly, peas,
The garden is not bad!
Both large and white -
For the amusement of everyone
And thirty himself -
For the little guys!
Signs of this day:
Large dew - for the harvest of cucumbers.
A clear day - to an abundance of cucumbers this year.
May 20
You cannot walk barefoot: this attracts snakes and other poisonous creatures to the house, as well as mosquitoes and flies.
May 21st
Day of Ivan Wheat.
Ivan the Wheaten, drive the mare and plow the land for wheat!
Not this wheat before the oak leaf.
Rain - there will be a lot of mushrooms.
The beginning of sowing was accompanied by many ritual actions designed to ensure a good harvest. So that fatigue did not take over in the summer, the peasants on the eve of sowing performed various agricultural work - mowing, harvesting, threshing. So that the bread is better born; the owner shook the plow until sunrise, and the hostesses baked pies in the form of a plow and harrow.
At sunset, the praisers walked around the courtyards with the wishes of a rich harvest. Such songs were called "volochebny", and the hails themselves were called "volochebniks" (from the Old Russian word "drag" - to move slowly). In such songs, future joys were presented as already accomplished:
No noise is noisy, no thunder is thundering -
Volochebniki are walking, walking,
Volochechniks, midnights.
- You are our father, master!
Are you sleeping or are you lying like that?
Give us, volochebniks,
Volochechnichkov, indolent people.
Our gifts are small, not great -
A couple of eggs and pies.
If you don't want to give us, let's go wander
Pound dirt, make people laugh.
The owner is our father!
Light a fire, go to the yard.
There are three joys in your yard:
The first joy - the cow calved,
Another joy - the lamb has become obsessed,
The third joy is that the filly is foal.
The cow calfed - the heifer,
A lamb lamb - a little lamb,
All the little ones in pairs
Gifts for your children.
The filly foal is a conic,
Konica is all a crow.
With the same, mistress,
Live great
Live richly!
Before starting sowing, the sower sat on the harrow and spoke like this:
As I am heavy and heavy, so be my bread on the strip in the spring - heavy; so that no one can take off or blow off the color on my strip, and so that the rain does not wash over and the violent wind does not take off, except for me - the owner. So come up, red sun, into the field, give my bread strength! And you, Mother of Cheese land, feed the bread!
The seeds were mixed with bread crumbs and egg shells. This was to restore strength to the earth and give it fertility.
It was customary to groom and cherish pets on this day. There was another concern: conspiracies were read to increase the mind, and in the church they ordered prayers with the same petitions.
22nd of May
St. Nicholas Day of Spring, Herbal, Warmth, or Nikolshchina(the day of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas), an important church and agrarian date. On this day, a prayer service was served to Saint Nicholas the Pleasant, in which they asked him to save cattle from mortality. The sowing of grain was timed to it, in some localities they began to plant potatoes. After Nikola warm nights came, thick grass grew.
Nicholas Veshniy is a holiday of grooms. It was customary not to work and for the first time in the year to drive the horses into the field - for the night pasture. The guys in the night burned bonfires, played round dances, sang songs and danced until dawn.
Great mercy of God, if it rains on Nikolin's day.
Nikola would come, but it would be warm!
Garden the potatoes from Nikola Veshniy.
Ask Nicholas, and he will show the Savior.
Before Nikola, be strong, at least pull apart, but do not grieve with Nikola.
Until Saint Nicholas, not this buckwheat, not shearing the sheep.
There is no champion for a peasant better than Nikola the pleaser.
May, 23rd
Simon Zealot Day... Time to harvest the healing roots: the herbs are filled with special juices.
On Simon Zealot, the land of the birthday girl is a sin to plow.
On this day, products were washed, wiped and laid out in the sun with precious stones- to keep their appearance for a long time.
May 24
Day of Mokiy the Wet, named after the Martyr Mokiy.
Wet on Mokeya - wait for the summer to be even wetter.
If the sky leaks, it will rain all summer.
Fog on Mokey - to wet summer.
A crimson sunrise - to a formidable and firefighting summer.
May 25th
Epiphanes Day.
On Epifan's morning in a red caftan - for the summer of fire.
If the acacia smells strong and attracts a lot of bees, the weather will be good for a long time.
If white water lilies have blossomed on lakes and ponds, there will be no more frosts.
26 of May
Day of Lukerya-Komarnitsa. The beginning of a big year.
A lot of mosquitoes - cook boxes for berries, a lot of midges - cook baskets for mushrooms.
May 27
Day of the holy martyr Isidor, or Si-dora-borage. It's time to sow early cucumbers and flax. They noted: if the whole day is clear, then there will be a good harvest of cucumbers, and if the morning is cold and cloudy and clears up in the evening, the cucumbers sown on that day will not be good.
The cuckoo is kukuet - it's time to sow flax, the swifts have arrived - to the warmth.
Sidor-vidor, I see a little white lenochek (from a good-water song).
On Sidor siverko - summer will be cold.
The Sidors have passed, and the Siver have passed.
Frosts hit Sidorov.
Swallows fly high - for good weather.
The first sowing of flax was also timed to coincide with Sidor
May 28
Day of Pakhom-bokogreya, commemoration of Venerable Pachomius the Great. Summer weather finally sets in with Pachomia. In full swing, the time of the appearance of foliage and flowering, popularly called green noise.
Pakhom came - the smell of warmth.
It is warm on Pakhom - warm all summer.
On Pakhoma the herbalist and the wasteland are green.
If the juniper has bloomed, it's time to sow barley (until the viburnum blooms).
May 29
Day of Fedot the Zhitnik, commemoration of the Monk Theodotus.
If Fedot is on the top of the oak with the edge, you will measure the oats with a tub.
Fedot will come - he will unfold the last oak leaf.
It's time to sow wheat (barley). They sowed, saying:
Give birth, God, it's lively, but without peas we will live on troch.
In a dry spring, the peasants "went to the booming": they went to the spring and began to dig the ground nearby. If you managed to get to the water, it was considered great luck- the rain was already close, all that remained was to call him:
Goy thou art, the rain is broken! Fall on my rye so that it grows like a forest as tall as a thick oak!
Seki, seki, rain!
On our rye,
For buckwheat and wheat,
Oats and lentils
And for barley -
Water all day!
This day was considered dangerous: sorcerers let damage to the wind. The owners went around their possessions and scattered seeds, attracting happiness to the house. They did not lend money: this would lead to failures and lack of money.
May 30
Day of the Monk Euphrosyne, in the world of Evdokia.
As Evdokia is, so is summer.
Wheat sowing is coming to an end. If the earrings on the poplar matured one and a half to two weeks before the aspen ones - a lot of morels and stitches were born, you can start collecting them.
May 31
We continued to sow flax and plant cucumbers. The oak is getting dressed, the cattle is eating.
An oak in front of an ash tree will let a leaf - by a dry summer. Hearing a cuckoo, they thought:
Ku-ku, cuckoo!
Ku-ku, hazel grouse!
How old should I live
Walk on the ground?
Noted:
The cuckoo has baked - it's time to sow flax.
For white-fibrous flax to be born, this is his for a young month; and to collect more flaxseed - wait for the full moon.
Be ugly, white lenok,
Slim, long and tall
Head upward,
Down gnarled,
With a blue flower
With a golden root.
May is quite changeable. Light warmth can hardly pamper us, but the next day the weather "dictates" its dress code to us: raincoats, windbreakers, jackets, short coats are taken out of the wardrobes. But do not be upset: as folk omens say, cold in May is a common thing, if May turned out to be cold, then the year will be grain-growing. And finally, the May frost will not squeeze out tears. Today we invite you to make an amusing trip into the world of folk signs for May.
Folk omens for May
May 4th. Take a closer look at whether the bird cherry has bloomed? Bird cherry blossomed early in spring - summer will be warm.
the 6th of May. On this day, the feast of the shepherds is celebrated. On the day of Yegor Veshny, a herd is driven into the field. The arrival of swallows is also expected on this day.
May 7. Day of Yevsey. Starting from this day, 12 more calendar frosts await us. Start counting!
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May 11. Maxim's Day. This day is considered sacred - the sick are given birch sap to drink, believing that it is he who will help heal them from serious ailments.
may 13. Take a closer look at the sunrise: if it is clear, then the summer will be windy. If on this day the evening is warm, and the night is starry, it promises a good harvest.
The weather in May is quite changeable. But, as folk signs say, if May turned out to be cold, then the year will be grain-growing.
May 14. If there is bad weather on this day, then the next winter is expected to be severe and very frosty. Day of Eremey the Harness.
May 15. In mid-May, the nightingales begin to sing - as they say, Gleb and Boris are sowing bread. If the nightingale sang on May 15, then the summer has gone to profit, but the spring has subsided.
16th of May. Look for nettles for green cabbage soup. Folk omens read: on this day it is necessary to cook green cabbage soup for the whole large family.
22nd of May. Nikola Veshny's Day or simply Herbal Day. If on the day of Evdokia the chicken drinks some water, then all the cows will eat grass on Nikola.
May 24. Day of Mokey Wet. If it rains outside, the summer will be wet. If, on the contrary, there is no rain in summer.
May 25. Summer will be dry if the morning is sunny on that day (Epiphanes day).26 of May. On this day, mosquitoes wake up - the holiday of Lukerya Komarnitsa. In addition, it is during this day that the collection of medicinal herbs begins.
May 27. On the day of Sidor, all the cold weather goes away. If the weather is windy on this day, the wind will not subside throughout the summer.
May 28. Pakhom's Day. If it is warm on May 28, then the summer will be warm too. On this day, sowing of wheat and oats falls, but oats start growing.
May 31. Day of Fedot Ovsyanik. If the top of the oak stands out with the edge, then we will hang the oats in a tub. The last day of May opens the doors to a warm summer.
Listen and take a closer look at the May signs to meet the summer, as they say, fully armed.- May- (lat. Majus), named after the Roman goddess Maya, the mother of Mercury, who personified the blossoming nature and fertility. There is also a version that the name is based not on the Roman name, but on the Greek Maya - the goddess of the mountains, which at this time are covered with greenery. The Anglo-Saxons called May "trimilk" - from May, cows began to milk three times a day. Danes - "bloomandom". Slavic and Ukrainian the name is grass. The Slavs also called it flyby. Other names: herbalist, herbal, sunflower, roseflower, roseflower, pollen, light day, bird's whistle, nightingale month, kveten, roseflower, roznyak, great grass, shevoy or Schwiban, May. There was one more name - yarets (in honor of the Slavic sun god Yarila).
May is popularly considered unhappy. This is a bad month for weddings. "Marrying in May is a century to suffer." "I would be glad to get married, but May does not order." Most often, the cold falls on the blooming period of the bird cherry (from May 4). They say: "When the bird cherry blossoms, the cold always lives." Colds in May are called "cherry".
- May. In old Russian life, May was considered the third month of passage. When the year began to be counted from September, it became the ninth.
Since 1700, it falls on the fifth month (ordinal).
This is the last month of spring. A month of flowers and love. The greenest month of the year. The period of true flourishing of all living things.
In May, there are sub-seasons:
from 1 to 6 May - Spring revival
from 7 to 22 May - High Spring
from 23 to 31 May - Preletye
The average air temperature in May goes over + 10 C. In some years it can reach + 25 C. But the return of cold weather is also possible, usually for a short time. Most often, the cold falls on the blooming period of the bird cherry (from May 4). They say: "When the bird cherry blossoms, the cold always lives." Colds in May are called "cherry".
There is also a very cold May, even with snow. We noticed that May with persistent cold weather happens once in seven years. But "May is cold - a grain-growing year."
People say about the weather in May: "May heat is unreliable." "May - give the horse some hay." "The frost in May will not squeeze out tears." "May has come - paradise under the bush."
Dampness, rains in May - with cold or warm, which is almost indifferent, brings blessing to the fields, is the best omen, promises a good harvest, but can be harmful to fruits, especially grapes. "The rain in May raises bread."
In May, the light portion of the day expands significantly. According to the observations of psychologists, it has been established that a person's sleep in May-June is the shortest.
In May, tree crowns turn green and bloom everywhere. Snowdrops, crocuses, buttercups, dandelions and others grow spring flowers... Daffodils, tulips, daisies and others bloom in the gardens. Peonies, lilies, and irises rise.
In 30-32 days after the blooming of the mother-and-stepmother (April), rose hips, linden, gooseberries, currants bloom, apple trees turn green.
The birch has bloomed - in a week the bird cherry and lilac lilac will bloom.
In May, foxes and wolves have broods. The squirrel has a litter. At the end of May, the offspring of horses - foals, a goat - goats, and a pig - piglets appear.
At this time, the sheep are sheared.
In May, milk is the most healing. The best honey is May. Medicinal bee pollen is collected in May. Birch sap is being collected. Vitamin cabbage soup is made from sorrel and young nettle. Asparagus is ready to eat.
The fifth month of the year used to be called "grass" and "bloom" and was considered one of the most difficult months of the year. Evidence of this and sayings: "May - give the horse hay, but climb on the stove" (and cold, and the feed is running out).
"The rich are well fed in May, but the poor - endure until Spas day",
"May has long teeth - a peasant can sit without bread",
"May is not cold, so hungry."
But nevertheless, in May it was possible to somehow live, to interrupt: "May grass will feed the hungry."
But May gave hope for a good future: "March is dry, but wet May - there will be porridge and a loaf",
"If it rains in May, there will be rye,"
"May is cold - a grain-growing year."
Long-term peasant observations showed that rainy May always provided bountiful harvest loaves.
However, in the old days, May promised trouble not only in peasant economy... Human destiny was also associated with him: "If you marry in May, you will calm down, you will miss the whole century." Or: "I would be glad to marry, but May does not order."
In May, for the first time, horses were driven out to graze at night. They confidently asserted: "May dew is better than oats."
It was no coincidence that it was believed that weddings should not be arranged in May, otherwise you will have to toil not one month a year, but all your life: "If you get married in May, you will calm down, you will be lost all your life." This month was also difficult for those who worked in the field and in the garden: they had to tirelessly planting. Therefore, for each day in May, there were special signs and customs.
On the last day of April, they celebrated: if the sky is clear, the day is sunny, then the last spring month and even the whole summer will be good. But even if the first green leaves appeared on the trees in April, cold weather and frost are sure to be expected in May.
Unreliable May heat.
Rain in May - wait for the harvest.
Dry May is not good.
If May is warm at the beginning, expect cold weather from the second half.
The triumph of the awakening of nature.
In the astrological calendar according to the signs of the Zodiac: born in May 1-20 May - Taurus, 21-31 May - Gemini; May sign - Taurus.
According to the "sacred" trees, the calendar shows that those born from May 1 to May 14 have a jasmine mascot, from May 15 to May 24 - a chestnut, from May 25 to May 31 - an ash tree.
The mascot of May is hyacinth, an emerald stone.
“May grass also feeds the hungry.
Spring rain superfluous does not happen.
Cold May is a grain-growing year.
How many rains in May, so many years of harvest.
The first spring rain moistens the head so that the hair grows as quickly as the May grass.
A good beginning of May can turn into cold at the end of the month: "Plow in shirts, sow in fur coats." It is especially cold when the oak unfolds. The nightingale sings when it can drink water from a birch leaf. When the birch leaves the leaf before the alder, the summer will be dry; if the alder is in front, it is wet. "
Spring signs
Many May beetles - to the millet harvest.
When the surface of the snow is rough in spring - for harvest, smooth - for crop failure.
Birds build their nests on sunny side- to the cold summer.
Birch leaves appeared before alder - summer will be sunny, and if alder earlier - cold and rainy.
Early arrival of rooks and larks - by warm spring.
In the spring they watch how the circles around the tree melt: just as the edges of the circle are steep, so the spring will be steep (fast), and as the circles are flat, it will also be long.
Rooks, arriving in spring, fly straight to the nests - by a friendly spring.
Mother-and-stepmother blossomed - to warmth.
Rooks are playing - the weather will be good.
If hares do not shed for a long time in the spring, it will be cold for a long time.
Wagtail - the icebreaker will arrive, so in 12 days the river will go.
Larks flying high and singing loudly foreshadow excellent weather.
If long and thick icicles hang in the spring - to the spring harvest.
When a swallow flew in the spring - soon the thunder will thunder.
Dew appears on the grass in the evening - for good weather.
If the dew dries up soon in the morning, it will rain, if it doesn’t dry up before noon, too.
If in the spring flocks of cranes pull to the north - it will be warm weather, if they pull back to the south - it will be cold again with frequent winds.
The cranes fly low, quickly, quietly - to imminent bad weather.
Wide lily leaves have appeared on the reservoirs - there will be no more frosts.
Birds sit on the treetops - it gets warmer.
Snow in spring melts at midnight (on the north side) from the ant piles - the summer will be warm and long, and if at noon (on the south side) it will be cold and short.
The crow (rooks) have five or seven eggs in the nest - to good year, three or four - bad.
Early arrival of larks and rooks - by warm spring.
Early departure of bees - by the red spring.
If a lot of sap flows from the birch, then the summer will be rainy.
In the spring, a lot of snake (cobweb) flies - for a good summer.
There are many beetles (beetles with lamellar whiskers) in the spring - to drought.
Blue (rain) clouds - for warmth and rain.
Clouds float fast and high - in good (clear) weather.
Dream Interpretations give very good interpretations of what we dream of new year holidays... It is not surprising if this is a dream in winter - the sleeping person is overwhelmed with the feeling of an approaching holiday. But what does the same plot promise at a different time of the year? Successful completion of all cases, pleasant changes and new sensations. In order to understand exactly what exactly the dream promises for you, remember as many details of the dream as possible.
Common interpretations
I dreamed that you were meeting New Year? This is very good sign... It promises joy and a comfortable existence, and if young people dreamed of something like that, cloudless happiness. Was the holiday in a cheerful company? Life will change in better side, dreams will come true, and plans will come true. But if you happened to see off Old year alone, think about what's in real life you are not very sociable person. Maybe it's time to change the situation?
Why dream of watching the celebration from the sidelines? On the advice of the dream book, reconsider how you treat dear people. Perhaps you underestimated some of them, or overly trust someone who does not deserve it. Be careful - in the latter case, there is a high probability of a stab in the back.
Have a dream about celebrating the New Year in summer, spring or autumn? Everything is fine in your life now - work is getting on, harmony reigns in relations with family and friends. Such a dream promises the fulfillment of desires.
How did you feel raising your glasses by the decorated Christmas tree? If the mood was not the best, in reality you do not get along with dear people, says the dream book. Such a dream can also promise a quarrel with a loved one. Did you feel unbearable fatigue under the chime? In reality, things are not going as well as you would like.
How did you meet?
Did you find yourself in a dream at the New Year's celebration? If at the same time they gave you gifts, in reality surprises will not keep you waiting either. But whether they will be pleasant or not depends on the details of the dream.
Was the gift given by your spouse? Harmony will reign in the family throughout the year. The donor was the second half with whom you are not yet married? The likelihood of a breakup is high. Received a gift from a family member? Give something to this person in reality - he will be very pleased, the dream book advises.
What is the dream of preparing for the New Year?
If in a dream you saw yourself laying the festive table, in reality something will happen that will please you very much. A few minutes before the onset of the year, lit candles or a garland on the tree? The difficult period will be left behind, and it will be replaced by a fun and carefree time. Met this winter holiday at the ball? In reality, you will receive a tempting offer. Do not hesitate for a long time, and answer with consent, the dream book advises.
In night dreams they saw a luxurious New Year's table and lots of gifts? Comfortable times await you ahead. But if the table was poorly set, be careful about your own spending - otherwise you may be stranded. Try not to lend or buy useless items.
A few more details
- Why dream with hungry eyes to look at the festive table? In reality, you will be disappointed in a person who was very dear.
- As new year gift have you been presented with an outright abomination, such as cockroaches or beetles? There is a good chance of getting seriously ill.
- Did you get burned by fireworks during the holiday? You are the main obstacle to achieving your own goals.
- Celebrating New Year in a quiet family circle? As the dream book says, in reality you will acquire a valuable thing that will turn out to be a wonderful gift for each of your family. It could be new flat, a car, or even a pet you've dreamed of for a long time.
- Did you celebrate the New Year in the company of friends? In real life, someone influential will take you under their wing, as a result of which life will improve significantly.
- We met the holiday at fresh air? Outside the city, on own dacha or in the woods? Many will open before you creative opportunities... Envious people cannot be avoided, but they will be left with nothing.
- What can you dream of meeting the New Year among strangers? According to the dream book, changes await you - very unexpected, but very pleasant.
- Have you arranged a holiday for yourself in another country? You will have to spend a lot of effort to achieve this goal, the dream book warns.
