Folk omens on April 1 say that nature and otherworldly forces are awakening today. In Orthodoxy, this date is called Daria Vesennyaya or Daria Poplavikha.
Customs
- According to custom, on the first April day, healers prepared melt water. The people believed that everything around is filled with life and healing power. Later, this water was used to treat diseases and remove spoilage with it.
- According to legends, on April 1, the house spirit came out of hibernation – the brownie. The owners tried to appease him, to cheer him up. For this, delicious treats were prepared: they cooked porridge, poured milk or wine. In addition, in order to cheer the brownies, people put on their clothes inside out, and at the same time they should have different socks and shoes on their feet.
- On April 1, folk omens were forbidden to quarrel and conflict. Foul language is also unacceptable. And in order not to anger the spirits, they joked, laughed and had fun that day. This tradition has survived to this day.
- On the first day in April, the streets were usually muddy, as it was snowing at that time. But the people said that it was Daria's spring that smeared everything around, including those who lived unrighteously. On April 1, nature punished the unrighteous for their sins – people believed that they risked getting smeared with mud and slush, and therefore it was easy to identify a bad person by dirty clothes.
- There are always dirty ice holes on Daria. The snow melted, the banks broke off, and the water became cloudy, yellow. On April 1, they began to whitewash the canvases. They were laid out in the snow, and in an open area, so that the fabric was illuminated by the sun – it was believed that this way it would become clean and soft and would not get dirty throughout the year.
- Traditions say that on April 1, you need to deceive people in order to confuse evil spirits. Especially on this day unmarried women did their best. And the more people fall for tricks, the higher the likelihood that the suitors will be faithful to them and honest with them.
Signs
If the waters flow noisily on April 1, the signs promise a rich juicy cut of grass. If the current is quiet, bad grass will grow.
- The weather is warm, and the sky is clear – summer will be dry, warm and windy.
- According to the signs, if it rains, there will be no drought in the summer.
- On April 1, there are blocks of stale snow on the ground – the summer will be bad, rotten, which will cause the harvest to suffer.
- People used to say that if a pussy willow blooms on April 1, open the hives, put out bees.
- According to signs, if the spring is early and on the first day of April a bright warm sun is shining on the street – get ready for a big flood.
- At night, the sky was clouded with clouds, because of which the stars are not visible, due to warm weather in the near future.
- If, during a thunderstorm on April 1, abrupt peals of thunder are heard, folk signs and superstitions promise that the weather will soon improve.
- The hazel has given many buds – the signs promise a rich harvest of oats.
- A warm spring is promised by the wagtails, which arrived on the first day of April.
- People said what the weather is on April 1, it will be like this throughout October.
- Snow melts on the roads, and heaps of last year's manure appear from under it – signs promise a fruitful year.
Conspiracies
On April 1, lovers read conspiracies for a soul mate with gray eyes. They pronounced them in cloudy weather, when there were gray clouds in the sky and it was raining. If they spoke to a girl, then the words were read on a branch of a female tree, for example, on a willow, birch, alder. If for a young man, the branch must belong to a male tree: oak, maple, poplar. She was thrown on the threshold of her beloved / loved one and said:
'Light is clear, gray-eyed (a) slave (a) (name),
Get up at dawn, thoughts of me.
Whatever you do,
Everything about me will stir up.
Your heart would beat, beat,
To me, slave (e) (name), called,
In the morning at dawn, in the afternoon in the light,
In the evening with the moon.
Amen'.
Interpretation of dreams on April 1
On this night, dreams are able to tell you what we are spending our lives on – what we do best, and what problems should be paid attention to. Often this moon phase brings revelation. Now you are the most sensitive and receptive, and therefore you can see in a dream what was previously hidden behind multiple locks. And it will help in solving current affairs or problems.
Approach the interpretation of a dream on the night of April 1 from a spiritual point of view. Your subconscious mind will tell you what is valuable. For example, when you see material goods in a dream, it means that you are worried about social life, rather than spiritual life. And now it is worth paying attention to it – engage in spiritual development. If you approach this issue with responsibility, you will understand why you have not moved on until now.
If religious symbols are present in dreams, then this will mean that you have moved away from social life and too vehemently taken up spiritual development. And here it is important to understand that detachment from reality can turn into trouble.
Thus, dreams that appeared on the night of April 1 will help to correctly prioritize. And after spending Dar'in's day according to folk traditions, you will appease the house spirits and bring good luck into the house.
