“Nicholas Icy” or “Wolf matchmaker”: national holidays 17 Feb 2018

2018-02-16 22:38

“Nicholas Icy” or “Wolf matchmaker”: national holidays 17 Feb 2018
February 17 women tried to do all the housework. Rare year, this day was not cold. For this reason left saying: “it’s a bitter cold day — again put on a fur coat”, “icy Nicholas snow bulk mountain.”

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Folk festival “Icy Nicholas” is celebrated on 17 February (old style – 4 February).

In the Church calendar this day in memory of the recently canonized Saint Nicholas, Abbot of the studion. And

other names of the holiday: “Student Nicholas”, “Nicholas frost”, “frost NCols”, “Wolf SWAT”.

The monk Nicholas the Confessor lived in the 9th century. During the brutal persecution of the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Armenian Christians, the monk Nicholas shared the fate of the monk Theodore the Studite: they were repeatedly imprisoned in dungeons and tortured. However, they continued in their zeal to spread Orthodoxy among the Christians. For her as a Confessor and ascetic life Nicholas received from God the gift of healing, which did not stop after his death in 868. In Russia this day also had another name — the Wolf SWAT.

It was believed that at this time in the woods in the midst of the beast wedding. Our ancestors said that “about animal trails in the forest only knows Nicola Icy”. And only he knew where it the den mother-wolf, and how to dance a Fox.

The villagers tried not to leave home unnecessarily. It is in this day, the animals held revels, and therefore, appear on their way was very dangerous.

Studeny Nicola called for a reason. Rare year, this day was not cold. For this reason left saying: “it’s a bitter cold day — again put on your coat”; “icy Nicholas snow bulk mountain.”

Nikola was made to observe the trees. If long spruce branches bend to the ground to blizzards. But if a deciduous forest is black — you can wait for the thaw.

February 17 women tried to do all the housework. They were removed in the barn, cared for animals, read over the cattle guard special prayers to protect them from stray from the forest beasts, that happened quite often. Also on 17 February, the healers spoke the wind, made the cuffs and charms, cured diseases of the pancreas and stomach.

The holidays 17 February 2018 in the world

A holiday in Libya on 17 February 2018 – revolution Day 17 February. Every year on 17 February, the people of Libya celebrate young’s national holiday — revolution Day 17 February. It was established in memory of the beginning of the civil war in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Riots in Libya began during the so-called Arab spring after the overthrow of the ruling regimes in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt. Riots began on 15 February 2011 in the city of Benghazi, however, the official date of the beginning of the civil war is considered to be 17 February 2011.