Maslenitsa. History of the celebration

Нistory of Maslenitsa

Days of the week of Maslenitsa
Monday-meeting
Tuesday-games played
Wednesday-A Treat
Thursday-Rampant, wide Thursday
Friday-Mother-in-law's Evenings
Saturday-Zolovkina gatherings
Sunday-Forgiven Sunday

Features of the ritual of burning the effigy of winter on Shrovetide
As an effigy, which is sacrificed, a large funny and at the same time terrible doll was made, personifying Maslenitsa. They made a doll out of rags and straw. After that, she was dressed up in women's clothing and left on the main street of the village during Shrovetide Week. And on Sunday, they were solemnly carried outside the village. There the effigy was burned, drowned in an ice-hole, or torn to pieces, and the straw left over from it was scattered over the field. The ritual burning of the doll had a deep meaning: to destroy the symbol of winter is necessary for the resurrection of its power in the spring.

Proverbs and sayings on Maslenitsa
Not everything is Shrovetide for a cat, and there is also Great Lent.
Not life and life, but Shrovetide
We will pay homage to the cheese on Sunday.
Feast and walk, Baba, on Shrovetide, and remember about the fast without butter
Thirty brothers sister, forty grandmothers granddaughter, three mothers daughter Butter
At least with yourself all pawn, and spend Shrovetide
So that you are worn out to the elbows, and eat up to the throat
Sugar lips, sweet speech, red.