One's life, one way or another, is associated with certain ritual actions. And even if in the modern world they have lost their meaning a little, the actions themselves remain. People celebrate weddings, births of children, calendar holidays. And each action is accompanied by certain rites or superstitions that our ancestors honored and considered magical.
Ritual folklore is family and calendar. Calendar rites are connected with the fact that ancestors tried to achieve good yields and protect themselves from the vagaries of nature through spells and rituals. The calendar rites were in each season of the year and many holidays are associated with them, which have survived to this day. Winter ceremonial games were accompanied by the performance of carols and songs, fortune telling. Most holidays were celebrated according to the church calendar. The crown of the winter holidays was Shrovetide, which drove this winter. The walks lasted a whole week, and on the last day a scarecrow of winter was surely burned, Pancake week songs were performed, which were supposed to "call" spring. But after the Shrovetide, fasting set in, which was impossible to break with some amusements. On Easter week, spring ceremonies were accompanied by spells of spring, cattle conspiracies, round dances, fortune telling. All moments of the rituals were accompanied by the corresponding songs: freckles, Semitsky and Trinity songs. The songs clearly expressed the motives of the cult of agriculture, the identification of wildlife. The time has come for love motives. After Easter, the first spring weddings were traditionally played. A wedding rite is already family-friendly. At the wedding, one could hear the largest selection of family ritual folklore. These are lamentations, and cries, and conspiracies, and riddles, lyrical and great songs. And each stage of the wedding was accompanied by its own legend. For example, the “farewell of the bride to beauty” was accompanied by the laments of the girlfriends, in which they complained about how hard the life awaits the bride. Each stage of the wedding had its own name - matchmaking, hand-hacking, conspiracy, singing, etc., and was accompanied by comic nursery rhymes and dances. The ceremonies associated with the birth and upbringing of children were designed to protect the baby from evil spirits and the evil eye. Now these sayings are also part of our everyday life. Many parents use Russian nursery rhymes and sayings in communicating with the child, not paying attention to its true meaning. The singing language of Russian folklore is well understood by young children, preparing them for their first independent speech. At the funeral, extraditions were performed in which the deceased mourned, and the future life of his family was drawn, which had lost the breadwinner. Special guest women performed the miscalculations.
