According to the folk calendar - St. Gregory's Day

St Gregory's Day is celebrated according to the folk calendar on February 7 (January 25 according to the old style) According to the church calendar, this is the date of honoring the memory of St Gregory the Theologian Hence the name of the holiday As a child, his mother took Gregory to church, handing him over to the Lord to serve The boy diligently studied the Holy Scriptures, knew a lot and began to write theological works For this he was called the Theologian Gregory knew how to competently explain information, clearly conveying the truth The saint left hundreds of messages and poems that are included in modern church hymns People believed that on St Gregory's Day, winter crosses halfway and turns to the arrival of warmth But the second part was always colder than the first, so the peasants prepared for cold weather and snowstorms Temporary warming was not perceived as spring; frosts often struck after it On this day, they did more good deeds to those around them in order to enter the coming spring with virtue But boasting about them was not allowed, since the Lord saw everything and judged with justice People who had done good deeds should have been mentioned with kind words The healers on Gregory's day spoke sugar At dawn they put it in the vent of the stove, lit a fire and whispered a conspiracy to increase the number of buyers The sugar talisman was carried in the pocket of traders or hidden in shops and stores People tried not to spit on the floor on St Gregory's Day, because this promised failure on the road Accidentally spilled milk led to joyful events If you saw that a cow fell asleep with her horns towards the exit, it means she was jinxed To remove the evil eye, they sat down on the right side of the cattle and rubbed their heads with their right hand, reading the spell against the evil eye Grigoriev's day predicted the weather for the year ahead Before lunch the weather showed the first half of next winter, and after lunch - the second half Snow foreshadowed late winter next year, and a blizzard foreshadowed early autumn The singing of tits predicted the coming cold