History of the doll
Long since pregnant woman prepared for her future baby dowry - sewed bonnets, knitted socks, embroidered kryzhmu for baptism. Subsequently, after the baby, on the fortieth day, was baptized, a crucifix was taken from the christening crucifix. The pieces that remained from the cut were also carefully preserved. These consecrated rags have wonderful power. During the illnesses of the child, at other alarming moments they guard the child, cover him with an invisible veil from everything bad and unclean. Of the preserved shreds of kryzhma, out of small, affectionate little mother's hands, dolls made caring hands. These amulets, like everything done by the mother with a heartfelt prayer, consecrated by the Sacrament of Baptism, protect the child from the evil eye, strengthen in temptations, help in good deeds, save in transit.
How to make a doll amulet?
There are several types of dolls of wards, which were made for different stages of life, but with one purpose - to protect. The principle of making dolls of amulets is also one.
The richer the family was, the more dolls there were in it. The mother put the first doll in the cradle. It is with this connected with the custom of showing the child to strangers only after the fortieth day, the doll guarded from the cloth of the baptismal crib protects the baby from unkind eyes. On the way, the mother, along with her mother's blessing, gave a doll, holding a bundle in her hands. In this little bag lay a pinch of native land. Called this doll Plantain.
At the wedding, the young were blessed with the icons of the Savior and the Virgin, bound their hands with a towel and handed a couple of dolls of wards, whose hands were made in a special way from one indivisible piece of cloth.
By tradition, the consecrated fabric could not be touched with a knife or scissors, so the matter was simply torn. This has spread to the use of needles. So, most often, the dolls were folded out of several flaps and threaded.
Usually, instead of the usual features, on the white ragged background of the face of the doll of the amulet from the threads, an Orthodox cross was made.
In various areas, Orthodox mothers, making dolls with their own hands, used except for pieces of kryzhma and other materials. In Ukraine and Moldova, dry corn leaves were often woven, in some regions of Ukraine only threads and pompons were used to make dolls. The dolls were made from straw and bast. The face was covered with a cloth of a kryzhma and dressed in the outfit adopted in this region.
Modern rag dolls
The First Doll
If you decide to give your child a doll made by own hands, she will already be a guardian. The charm will be a mother-sewed button, embroidered with her hands a handkerchief, any thing made by the mother is an amulet. There is nothing more powerful in the world than maternal prayer and blessing.
The first toy, which is put in an infant bed, you can sew, like a doll amulet. It is soft, pleasant to the touch, and even hitting the barrel of the baby, will not cause him trouble.
Travnitsa
On the feast "Trinity" during the church liturgy in the churches consecrated bunches of grass and
The croissant
In autumn the harvested harvest is consecrated during the holidays of the Three Spas. Doll guardian The croissant is basically a bag in which are placed the consecrated seeds, nuts, grain. A pupa is made to ensure that there is always plenty in the house. The croissant is placed in the kitchen under the icon of the Mother of God "Sporite of loaves".
Make a doll a charm, as our great-grandmothers did for our grandmothers, and perhaps in ten years, you will be surprised to note that it is she who accompanies your child on all examinations, dates and other fateful events.