The ceremony of the Orthodox burial includes a number of specific rites. Depending on the floor, age, status and causes of the death of the dead man, the burial procession may be accompanied by those or other rituals. When the family comes in the family and the land leaves the soul of unmarried or innocent girl, the funeral should be held in the form of a ritual having some kind of similarity with the wedding ceremony.
There are several reasons why the funeral process of unmarried girls is carried out in a certain way. The main things are considered:
- the girl's soul, and who did not know the happiness of family life, will be doomed to endless wandering in the afterlime world;
- fucking the crap into a beautiful and festive robe, about which all young people dream, close in this way embody the dream of the deceased;
- white color is associated with impossible, it gives the event a mood of light sorrow. Bury girls in a white dress because they did not know of real loveSo, are the brides of Christ.
In the case when a young couple dies, and not conquered the relationship of marriage, dead mans are also dressed in wedding outfits. This is done with the goal so that the souls of the dead were inseparable. As a rule, a memorial complex is installed on a steam grave.
What to do the unmarried deceit?
Ideally bury the crash in the wedding dress. But if there is no one, you can choose an outfit that resembles a solemn dress. The vestment should be bright tones, have a festive look. According to orthodox traditions, Suts of the outfit can not be sewed, you just need to fit the dress. It is important to make a number manually. Fixing thread, the needle hold forward from yourself. Such a rite is due to the police not returned for someone from family members.
Light shoes or boots should also be imitation: as a rule, shoes for the bride of Christ sews from the fabric, and not from the skin. On the ring finger of the right hand put on a wedding ring. It is customary to leave the hair away, the deceased fata or wreath on the head.
Features of the funeral ceremony
Our ancestors in the burial of unmarried girls adhered to one important tradition. Among the young people who came to the funeral, a guy was chosen as a groom's satisfied. The young man had to go behind the coffin during the ceremony. To date, the role of the groom's deceased girl can be naked on a fruit tree or stone. In this case, a male hat or a wedding wreath is put on a stone / tree (the same as the bride). After the burial of the body, the wreath throw in the grave or hang on the cross.
Then the present are sent to the house of the Poinonea, where the commemoration pass. To the mourning ceremony reminded the wedding, often sing solemn songs and even lead rounds. Specially on the occasion of the funeral is a wedding loaf, which are treated by those present. The loss really hard and incommensurable, but always remember that it should not be so much so much. Thus, you can attach a new trouble and cause suffering to the soul of the deceased.
The death of young unmarried girls coincided in the earthly life with the marriage age, with a turning stage in the earthly life - marriage. This served as the basis for comparing and combining the funeral with wedding.
Not only among the Russians, many nations have had a custom to wear a girl who deceased in the heyday of youth, to the dotted outfit, prepare her to the burial as the bride at the wedding. At the funeral of the deceased girl, they even imitated the wedding rite, sang wedding and wedding songs. Both a girl and a guy on the ring finger of the right hand put on a wedding ring, meanwhile married man And the rings did not wear a married woman.
Now there is also a custom to bury young girls in, and on their glands to drink champagne, imitating a failed wedding. The clothes were not a real, but only its replacement, not stitched, but only was notated. She was sewed in their hands, and not on the typewriter, the thread was fixed, kept a needle from themselves; Otherwise, the dead man will come again for someone in his family. The imitation of the dead man was the imitation: in leather shoes, as a rule, was not buried, but replaced her materic. In cases where boots were put on, iron nails were pulled out.
Currently, in the custom, to bury in the new, not worried clothes traced the echoes of belief that the novelty of the died of the dead - synonym for cleanliness, sinlessness, which should be clean.
The procedure for conducting the Orthodox funeral over the centuries overgrown with a large number of traditions that are highly recommended to follow. For some of them, questions arise. For example, why bury a young girl in a wedding dress? Where did the tradition go to dress unmarried in white outfits?
Beautiful white dress Bright associations causes, because it is in such an outfit that the bride is presented. However, the time immemorial origin arose a tradition to dress up in wound dresses not only girls who have to become wives, but also those who can never enter into marriage.
In the older times it was believed that if the girl leaves the earthly world, without knowing the marriage relationship, then her soul is doomed to wander forever, taking off between the world of living and the kingdom of heaven.
People believed in the ability to apply serious harm with such souls to relatives left to live. They equated to the souls of unreleased and suicide. And to avoid it, the funeral of the young girl was looked like a wedding.
"Dead Wedding"
- In order to bring the most likely to bring the funeral to the wedding as much as possible, the guy was chosen to play the role of the groom. He was supposed to be dressed in a solemn outfit and in the funeral procession to take a seat next to the coffin of a young girl.
- If it was not possible to find a guy, consonant to play a similar role, we used an ordinary stone or a stump of fruit tree, for which a male hat dressed.
- The girl climbed into a white dress and complemented out the outfit with light boots. Her peers or girlfriends were specially spilled wreaths. One of them was dressed on the head of the mustache (in modern interpretation, a veil or veil is used), and the second dressed in the groom. After the coffin fell into the grave, it was either threw over the coffin, or hung on the cross.
- Sometimes such funerals were accompanied by cheerful music. People were prescribed to drive dance. The relatives jammed a loaf, whose pieces treated everyone who came to the funeral.
Other explanations
In addition to believing the abundant soul, as a reason for the voltage of the unmarried girl in a wedding dress when it was sent to the last path, there were several more reasons:
- If there were so much of life circumstances that young people failed to make plans for marriage due to their unexpected death, then the bodies of the cracked dressed in the wedding outfits, so that their souls were able to connect, having met in heaven.
- White color is always associated with cleanliness and impossibility. And when a girl passed into the world, a girl who did not have time to know real love, and therefore did not marry, she was considered the bride of Christ.
- Almost every girl dreams about marriage, and when the implementation of this dream became impossible because of a sudden death, then the parents of the dead though though tried to translate the dream of the dead.
We only told about the most common explanations of the observance of this tradition. Of course, modern funerals are not accompanied by merry music and dancing, but young girls and today often bury in wedding dresses.
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Death is always a terrible and very unpleasant event. Especially when a young girl is lying in the coffin in a wedding dress. As then feel relatives and friends who dreamed of the wedding and birth of children, but attended the funeral. Maybe the vestment of dead girls in the wedding dress is nothing more than the embodiment of a unfulfilled dream?
Why bury in a wedding dress
For many centuries, Orthodox rituals, including funeral, suffered some changes. For example, the funeral of unmarried young girls looks like a rite, which something repeats the wedding ceremony.
According to legends, if young guys and girls died before marriage or find a couple, then their souls are doomed to eternal wanderings between the world of dead and alive. Many believed that such souls carry a danger to living. That is why Slavs conducted special rites, which were very reminded.
Why do girls bury in wedding dresses? There are several explanations for such an act:
- If young is dying before marriage, they should also be buried in wedding costumes. It is customary to do so that they are constantly together and inseparable on that light.
- White color is considered in the color of innocence. Girls, who have never known real love, is accepted to bury in white outfits. They are considered to be brides of Christ.
- An explanation is that dressing girl in a white dress, relatives perform her dream - to become a bride.
Who bury in a wedding dress
There is such a belief that if the girl dies down until married, then her soul will not know peace of mind on the world and will wander. Therefore, relatives of the deceased girl acquire not only the dress, but also other wedding attributes (shoes and veils).
The cities still hold the choice and the outfit for the deceased girl. But in the countryside, a practically full-fledged rite of "wedding" is carried out. Not only is it a wedding dress, veil and shoes, it is also special "wedding" carava. They are baked specifically and divided between all those present.
Groom for the dead bride
Also earlier chose the "groom" for the deceased girl. He was elegantly dressed and he followed the coffin. If the appropriate was not, then they could be a stone or a fruit tree for which a hat was put on. Girls on the head instead of Fata dressed a wreath, and the second is a guy's head. After the coffin was lowered to the ground, then the second wreath was thrown into the grave. Merry music played such actions and dance dance.
This tradition has also changed over time. But still remains the fact that unmarriedly bury in the wedding dresses. To stick to this or not - this is personally the decision of the relatives of the dead. Also concerns age, to whom it is worthwhile to wear a wedding dress on the girl. Some believe that this should concern only virgins and young unmarried girls, and if the girl is already older, but also unmarried, then you can wear a white outfit.
It is worth solving such a question only to relatives of the deceased or follow the latter will.
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Girls who died, not having time to marry, put in the coffin in the wedding dresses. This is a custom who came to us from the ancient Slavs. Otherwise, according to believing, their souls are doomed to eternal wrapping. It was believed that then they are dangerous for living. Therefore, they spent the girls in the wedding dress.
There was another explanation: the deceased girl becomes Christ Bride. Therefore, it should look appropriate.
An ancient wedding rite and his connection with the memorial is described in the "Slavic Encyclopedia" V.V. Artemova. So, it was believed that in front of the wedding, the girl seems to be dying and reborn into a married lady. Historians do not exclude that the roots of the rite of funeral unmarried girls in a wedding dress can be related to this.
In addition to the dress, they also chose shoes, and sometimes decorations. The hair in the hairstyle was not collected. Often, a wreath was put on his head (now instead of it is often a veil). But the rite was not limited to the ritual.
The groom came
At the funeral was the "fiance." As a rule, it was someone from young people who came to farewell with the dead. "Bridegroom" put on wedding outfits and followed the coffin. There was a wreath on his head, which was then thrown into the grave.
In some villages, a stone or a fruit tree performed as a "narrowed".
If the girl was buried and such a rite was held, instead of the funeral songs played cheerful music. Present also drove dance and ate "wedding" loose, which was specially preparing for this. Sometimes it was put on the cover of the coffin and eaten on the cemetery.
Girlfriends
In some villages in Russia, there was a tradition to completely imitate wedding ritual. So, there was a Swaha. In her hands, she had a candle and sword.
Girlfriends died on the heads were obsessed with black ribbons. The very same wasp was put on a ring of gilded wax.
According to the historian A.A. Nose, such a rite, first of all, was associated with the understanding of the essence of death in Russia. So, death at a young age was perceived as a transition to another essence, where the course of life will also continue. And she will marry on that light.