funeral - a sad but inescapable reality.Death has always been a strange, frightening its inevitability, it is impossible to predict what was, for her threshold?Perhaps that is why the rite of burial, perhaps more than anything else, is surrounded by a halo of signs, rules, superstitions.People tried to distance the dead, save the lives of other family members.This childishly simple-minded faith, the desire to eliminate the frightening unknown remained to this day.Signs, superstitions have become almost mandatory rules of the ritual.
first requirement - must close the mirror where there is a dead man.It is believed that the soul can go to the mirror, to stay and live there.It will frighten the relatives will not be able to leave this world.
According to another version if the dead man reflected in the mirror, he is "twinned", will take some of your friends or relatives.
Funeral signs offer have to close your eyes dead.Previously it was done with the help of copper dimes today are large coins.Open the eyes of the deceased, we believed our ancestors looked out among those present on who the next to die.
Seeing the deceased, it should be sure to put a few coins, a handkerchief, a comb.This set, as previously thought, will help to overcome a long way to paradise, to pay for the road, to stand before the Almighty in decorous form.
But live pictures can not be put in a coffin.Otherwise, they will also be buried.
deceased person necessarily washed to purify the body.Soul is cleaned itself, for it on the window sill need to put a glass of water.He is a font for the soul.
Signs at the funeral of the deceased's body wash prohibit pregnant women or close relatives.Carrying the coffin should also not blood relatives.Otherwise, the deceased decides that his death excited.Better if it will be just friends or acquaintances.Their hand as a token of gratitude from the deceased, a towel tied to new, sometimes - with a handkerchief.
Where farewell to the deceased is not recommended to wash or sweep the floor.It was believed that as living to die, "vymetutsya" for the dead.It must be done immediately after when the coffin out of the house will suffer.The table, which was Domowina, flip, and the bed of the deceased, to throw.
Signs at the funeral advise how to deal with things, the deceased's estate.Up to forty days they do not touch, and after the shower go, all the things you need to quickly distribute to the needy, attributed to the Cathedral, the church.
Almost all the signs at the funeral aim to ward others from damage that can cause evil people, using props funeral.
Before you put the corpse in a coffin, he linked arms and legs.It is understandable from a modern point of view, the ritual was considered a way which does not allow a dead body to stand, walk the earth, frighten the living.Before you close the lid of the coffin, and then lower it into the grave, the feet and hands untied.
These cords can induce damage to death, so the witch or the black sorceress always trying to steal the rope.To avoid this, give it a special observer.This is usually an older woman, familiar with the rituals.
Signs and superstition at the funeral prescribe how to behave during the ceremony.You can not step on the towels, which set the coffin from the cemetery to bring any items, flowers.When you return home, be sure to rinse your hands is recommended.
can not cross the road before the dead: you will die very soon.
need to commemorate the dead on the day of the funeral, in the ninth and fortieth day, the anniversary.
Signs at the funeral formed over the centuries.They contained a visceral experience robust grain.People not knowing or not being able to find an explanation for the laws of nature, felt instinctively how to behave in a difficult situation, develop a line of conduct set forth in the superstitions and rituals.
