Formulas to burn the winter crops and defend
E 'tradition to feed the fires of St. Joseph . A tradition that has never died down, like most ancient cultures. The cult of St. Joseph is very old, even if the West spread only in the 9th century, and later became the liturgical year 1400. The old tradition is still much earlier: the origin is traced back to the festivities honoring compitali, with the fires, the grandmother of the Lares, the goddess and the goddess Mania Larunda, the image which was displayed on the facades of houses . Other research confirms that the ignition of fires in March was also a tradition of ancient Rome: the shepherds try these beacons also propitiate the favor of Palilia goddess, protector of crops and harvests. Some even believe that the fires have even Celtic traditions. In modern times, the peasants burned as pruning, so that was burned and exorcise the winter (and the evil one). Often, the puppet of a witch was placed on the pile of legna.Infine, always related to March and in the light, there is another curious custom which has been active in the Romagna region until the end of 1800 to show the backside of the god But Sun was not a sign of contempt: it was a way to protect against sunburn of the skin (easy in periods of work in the fields) but also to defend their crops. At daybreak, we discover the backside of Romagna and showed the rising sun (who had climbed on the roof of the house to do so). The formula was to be recited, "Merz, and no quest cùsom m'cusr ét" (March, abbronzami this and do not cook much).
Filippo Cappelli (corriere.romagna.it 18 / 03 / 2003)
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