According to the folk calendar - Pavel Ledostav

While the Orthodox Church on November 19 honors the memory of St Paul the Confessor and St Varlaam of Khutyn, in the folk Christian calendar this day is called Pavel the Freeze-up and is marked by the tightening of rivers with a strong ice crust Saint Paul, who lived in Constantinople in the 4th century, became a victim of the Arian dispute, lost the rank of archbishop and was exiled by Emperor Constantius to Armenia Paul did not give up his sermons, but one day after the liturgy he was attacked and strangled with an element of the bishop’s vestment - the omophorion The Monk Varlaam, a native of Novgorod, was born into a family of wealthy parents, but from a young age he decided to devote himself to serving God After the death of his father and mother, he gave away almost all of his inheritance and went to seek solitude, first in the desert, and then on the banks of the Volkhov River There, on the Khutyn Hill around his cell, the parishioners founded a monastery, for which Varlaam created a charter, donated the rest of the inheritance and became its abbot Over the years of devotion to the Christian faith, the monk was given the gift of working miracles, and even after his death, Varlaam healed those praying The main concern of ordinary peasants on Pavel Ledostav was preparation for winter ice fishing It was believed that from this day “winter was on its feet” and the rivers were bound with strong ice, and it was possible to get fishing gear Housewives paid attention to the behavior of livestock; it was believed that how the livestock felt that day was how it would feel throughout the winter For example, if a horse ate well, then in winter it would not be afraid of illness, and a good yield of cow's milk meant an abundance of it in the coming cold months On this day you cannot borrow or lend money According to signs and sayings, peasants predicted the weather:• birds do not fly, but sit on trees, frost and cold winds are coming;• a scarlet dawn foreshadows precipitation in the form of rain or snow;• if the day on Pavel Freeze-Off turned out to be windless, expect frost soon;• geese swim in reservoirs, a thaw is coming; • if it snows on this day, then the winter will be long and snowy