Flower wreath: Ukrainian folk symbol and a way to attract guys

Today in any city in Russia you can meet a girl whose head is adorned with a wreath. Ukrainian folk symbol fell in love with women of fashion. Only a few people know that this bright decoration is not just a beautiful accessory. The wreath is a whole story about your marital status, mood, feelings.

A few words from the story

Ukraine has always been famous for its flowers. They were everywhere: in the open steppes, on the windows of the huts, in the front gardens and kitchen gardens. The mistress, who did not have a variety of bright colors in the courtyard, was considered lazy and not adapted to family life.

For a long time Ukrainians believed that flowers help to drive away evil spirits, give a person health, sharp mind. Nature could give happiness, and could also cause serious harm. Each flower had not only its name, but also its mystical properties. So, poppy was always a symbol of sensual love, immortelle gave health, cornflower denoted the beauty of a young girl.

Flowers were embroidered on clothes, they painted walls and dishes.

Weaving a Ukrainian wreath with our own hands, the girls and women created the amulet. He could protect them from the evil eye, tell them about their marital status.

And the wreath helped to hide hair. Slavs had an old belief that hair carries human energy. To the "wolf" (the so-called dark forces) did not deprive a man of strength, the hair should be closed.

Here are women and invented a wreath. The Ukrainian symbol was always decorated with ribbons, the length of which was equal to the natural beauty spit.

There was one more property of wreaths, practical. Peppermint, wormwood, chamomile and other herbs, even in dry form, retained the fragrance that insects (for example, lice) were very afraid of.

How to "read the wreath"

Ukrainian folklore is rich in symbolism and folk traditions. One of them is weaving a wreath. It was believed that if the girl lost this head piece, then she lost her virginity. Giving the guy a wreath, the girl admitted to him in love. There is a legend about how the girl met a handsome guy. Fascinated by her beauty, the young man begged to give him a wreath so that he could show it to his parents and get permission to marry. Having fallen in love with a handsome man, the young woman gave him a wreath. Grabbing him, the guy turned into a dash and dragged the girl to hell.

A very beautiful custom is associated with this headdress. On the night of Ivan Kupala, the girl wove a Ukrainian wreath with her own hands, and then, taking it off her head, lowered her into the river. If the wreath pestered the shore, then the beauty was waiting for an early wedding. A wreath flowing down the stream showed that the bridegroom would be from distant lands. A drowned ornament warned of an imminent death.

Wreath weaving was a serious matter, from which, Ukrainians believed, their life depends.

How to properly weave a wreath

The Ukrainian amulet required careful observance of the rules when it was created.

Weaving began with the creation of the foundation. The first was a brown ribbon in it. This symbol of the land-wet nurse was important for both unmarried girls and mothers of the family.

The ribbon was woven in the middle and was considered the basis of the wreath, as the earth is considered the basis of life.

On both sides of the brown tape were placed yellow - a symbol of the sun, happiness, well-being.

Then everything depended on the needlewoman herself, who created the wreath. Ukrainian folklore has given each color its own quality. Therefore, the girls chose the color of the tape, focusing on what they wanted to get, about which they wanted to tell.

• Green ribbons after the yellow told that the wreath-bearer is young and very beautiful.
• Symbolizing the sky and water blue and blue ribbons attracted health and strength.
• Ukrainian wreath necessarily decorated with a ribbon of orange, it was a symbol of bread.
• Violet color meant wisdom. He often met in wreaths of married women, as well as a poppy flower.
• The white ribbon, embroidered with golden sun and moon, spoke of the innocence of the young beauty.

How to choose flowers

The Ukrainian wreath on the head always had a strictly specified number of colors. It necessarily intertwined grass. Each region of Ukraine had its own rules. Today, about this list has reached us. In the wreath must be 12 flowers:

• Chamomile as a symbol of tenderness, kindness, purity.
• Cornflower, denoting beauty.
• Hops (for adult women especially), symbolizing the flexibility of the mind and ingenuity.
• Barvinki, saving the soul from dirt and prolonging the earthly life.
• Forget-me-not, talking about constancy.
• Pionia, mallow and ruzha as equivalent symbols of Faith, Hope, Love.
• Women married woven in a wreath of poppies, which showed love and symbolized sadness.

The rest of the inflorescence of the girl and woman could choose at their discretion. Often, in a Ukrainian wreath, mint, yarrow, and other fragrant herbs wove on their heads. In addition to mystical symbols, they carried a different load: they replaced spirits and aphrodisiacs.

Age Wreaths

The very first wreath of a three-year-old girl was woven by her mother. It necessarily included marigolds, so that the baby did not have a headache, developing the vision of periwinkles and forget-me-nots, calming chamomile. Each year, a new wreath was woven into which more and more herbs and flowers grew. From 13 years before the marriage, the girls wore a "love wreath" of viburnum and chamomile.