The day of Zosim the Bee came according to the national calendar today, January 17. This is reported by the portal calend.ru. On this day, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Monk Martyr Zosima, the hermit of Cilicia. He was considered the patron saint of beekeepers and beekeepers, therefore this day is called the bee-keeper.
There is an example – if there is a lot of snow today, the year will be honeyed. On this day, honey and honey delicacies – gingerbread or toffee, were necessarily put on the table.
Also on January 17, girls, wanting to know the future, went out at night to look at the starry sky. If the Big Dipper was on the right, this meant that the Christmas fortune-telling for the betrothed would certainly come true. If the girl saw the Milky Way in front of her, it foreshadowed that in a year the girl would meet her betrothed.
They wondered about the weather that day. A clear sky with a full moon foreshadowed a strong flood. And if at the same time it is also frosty, it means that the cold will last for a long time.