According to the folk calendar - Job the Goroshnik

Job the Peacock is celebrated according to the folk calendar on May 19 (May 6, old style) The name of the holiday is given in honor of Saint Job the Long-Suffering, whose memory is revered on this date in the church calendar The saint lived approximately 20-15 centuries before the birth of Christ, he revered and loved the Lord, for which he rewarded him with various benefits He had housing, wealth, a wife and ten children One day Satan told God that Job honored him for the gifts of God and offered to test the man The Lord agreed, then Satan took away all of Job’s possessions and children, and sent leprosy to the believer himself The poor man continued to believe in the Lord, but he doubted what he had done wrong, why he was being punished like this Then the Almighty appeared to the sufferer, seeing repentance, he returned to Job everything that he had The man again had ten children, and he himself recovered and lived to be 240 years old People called Job the Pea Man for his tradition of planting peas Peas for peasants were the basis of the diet; even poor families had them Porridge, dumplings, pies were prepared from it, and it was also added to soups But the planting of peas was unusual They began to sow it at sunset, when the birds had already flown away to sleep and were not pecking at the planted peas When planting, a conspiracy was read over the beds for a generous harvest, to ward off the evil eye and to drive away evil spirits In addition to peas, beans, beans, corn, and pumpkins were planted on Job's day It was mainly women who planted vegetable gardens because the peasants believed that this would provide more harvests Also on this day, cucumbers were planted, and in order for them to produce a rich harvest, they were watered with water from a well or spring The yield of cucumbers was determined by the dew on a given day - the more abundant the dew, the greater the harvest In some regions, Job was called Rosennik, because they believed that the dew on his day had strong healing properties Doctors collected it to make medicine, and residents simply went out to stand barefoot in the morning dew The children were allowed to roll around in the grass to absorb more health from the dew Signs on Job the Peacock indicated to residents about the future If there was no dew in the morning, they prepared for a change in weather conditions The fog that descended in the morning foreshadowed clear days Seeing a wasp's nest in an open place meant that the summer season would be rainy