blizzards tired the slavs so much that the first was not in the world, the third at the annunciation, the saraksnsidered the second intermediate meeting of spring and celebrated it during the vernal equinox from that moment on. our ancestors believed that birds , returning from warm lands, carried true spring on their wings, and it was warmly believed that there were about 40 kinds of magic number, 40. so, from the very morning, the hostess began to bake 40 larks from lenten dough with these cookies or buns they treated friends of relatives, they hung their neighbors on trees so that the poultry on the farm was healthy. with the help of sweet larks, they even managed to guess at the betrothed. unmarried girls baked a bun at home, then they gathered a first-aid kit, and together with her and their girlfriend, young people believed that after such a meeting, mutual sympathy would appear. in addition to this guy, they threw 40 chips, through the roof of the house the girls broke 40 planks and tore 40 ropes of the whole merry company, they took turns riding 40 times on a swing and loudly calling for