The presentation will help tell children about summer holiday Ivan Kupala, which has its own unusual traditions, preserved for centuries by the Slavs and sacredly revered to this day, its own history. This day is celebrated in the summer (July 6-7), but schoolchildren can be told about it when getting acquainted with folk holidays and during class hours or lessons about the world around them (grades 2-3). The manual can be downloaded by workers of children's camps who are preparing to hold a real celebration around the fire with all the traditions: weaving wreaths, leading round dances, searching for a fern flower.

A presentation on the theme “Midsummer’s Day” talks about a folk holiday that has come to us since pagan times. It is celebrated today more and more often, as its traditions attract today's youth. Who doesn’t want to sit by the fire, sing folk songs, dance a round dance, and weave a wreath. Fortune telling is common on this night, but the most famous custom is the search for an unusual fern flower, which, according to legends and traditions, blooms only on this night and has unprecedented power. You can download a work about Midsummer's Day or the Kupala holiday for class hour or thematic lessons in elementary school.

The presentation on the topic “Kupala” talks about an ancient pagan holiday that the peoples of Europe celebrate on the night of July 6-7. In some countries this holiday is called a little differently. If you hear the names Midsummer Day or Ivan Kupala, you should know that we are talking about the same folk festival.

11 pages of the resource tell about Kupala:

• who is Kupala?
• the most short night per year;
• unprecedented flower;
• Kupala fortune telling;
• beliefs;
• Ivan Chistoplotny;
• night festivities.

The presentation introduces all the signs that are associated with the holiday of Ivan Kupala. Previously, this holiday was highly anticipated, people prepared for it in advance and had high hopes for this unusual night. Some wanted to find love, others went to the river bank to the fire to walk with friends, and the bravest ones went in search of the mysterious fern flower. It is he who blooms on this short summer night. It is not easy to find him, as he is guarded by evil spirits. Many more interesting signs Schoolchildren will learn about Kupala wreaths, fire, and flowers after watching the work in full.

1. 1. Prezentacii.com Ivan Kupala Day. July 7 is the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Baptist of Jesus. The Nativity of Christ is the winter solstice, the Nativity of John is the summer solstice. Gradually Christian holiday merged with the popular celebration in honor summer solstice.
2. 2. Who is Kupala? Kupala (Kupala) - Slavic god of summer, field fruits and summer flowers. He was ranked among the most noble gods. After all, the fruits of the earth serve man most of all and constitute his wealth.
3. 3. The shortest night of the year. It is on this night that unimaginable miracles happen, and all the evil spirits go completely wild and try to harm people. To protect their home from the invasion of evil spirits, peasants placed stinging nettles on the windows of their houses.
4. 4. An unprecedented flower. According to popular beliefs, only once a year, at midnight on Midsummer's Day, the fern blooms with fiery color. The one who finds and picks this flower becomes a healer and will be able to find any treasure. Anyone who dares to get the magic flower will have to overcome many trials, because all the forest evil spirits will resist him. Few will survive such a test. But without a magic flower you cannot get the treasures.
5. 5. Kupala fortune-telling. 1. We collected 12 species 2. We made wreaths of herbs and placed them at night under lighted candles, a pillow with the words: let them go into the river. If the betrothed, the mummer, the wreath drowns, the betrothed, come to my garden, will stop loving. Whoever is going for a walk!” to see the longest - in the dream of his future, he will be the happiest of all who have a fiance. The candle that burns the longest is the one who will live the longest life.
6. 6. Kupala fortune-telling. 3. At midnight 4. To dream of going out and, without looking, the groom, tore the grass under his head, and in the morning they laid down the night and counted it: if a plantain with 12 species was collected with the words: “Triputnik plants - married - travel companion,” you live to go this year . on the road, you see young and old, tell me my betrothed"
7. 7. Beliefs. Morning Ivan's dew was considered the best cosmetic product. They took a clean tablecloth, went out into the meadow, ran the tablecloth over the wet grass and squeezed it into a container. Those who wash themselves with this dew will have skin softer than a petal.
8. 8. Beliefs. Kupala herbs possessed healing and miraculous properties: all year round they protected livestock, house and all household members from evil spirits. Ivan - yes - Marya, placed in the corners of the house, protect it from enemies.
9. 9. Beliefs. Kupala bonfires were lit on this day by most of the peoples of Europe. Whoever jumps over the flames of the Kupala bonfire will be healthy all year. Jumping over the Kupala bonfires gets rid of forty evil spirits.
10. 10. Ivan is clean. In the morning, the guys took buckets and went to the river, where they filled them with liquid mud and, returning, doused the girls with this mud. And the girls also ran after the mud and smeared the boys with it. And then a merry fight began, full of screams and laughter. Then the dirty young people flocked to the river to bathe together.
11. 11. Evening of Ivan Kupala Day. And in the evening, all the people, dressed up, with wreaths on their heads, went to the river, where they lit fires, danced in circles, sang, told fortunes and, of course, collected herbs. You can learn even more about the breathtaking wonders of this holiday by reading N.V. Gogol’s story “The Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupala.”

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Celebration of Ivan Kupala

Guys! Your favorite day is approaching - Ivan Kupala. If you are interested in finding out why this day is called that and how it was celebrated in the old days, then we will now find out everything!

Ivan Kupala (Midsummer Night, Midsummer Day) is one of the main holidays of the Slavic calendar, the day of the Nativity of John the Baptist, the day of the summer solstice.

The pre-Christian name of the holiday is unknown. The name Ivan Kupala is of Christian origin and is a folk Slavic version of the name John the Baptist - translated as “bather, immerser.” This name of the holiday was also due to Slavic ideas: it meant ritual ablution, cleansing, which was carried out in open reservoirs. Therefore, on the one hand, this particular verb was used to translate the epithet “baptist”, and on the other hand, the name of the holiday was later reinterpreted by folk etymology and linked to ritual bathing in rivers during this holiday. Story

Rituals of the Midsummer holiday is filled with rituals associated with water, fire and herbs. The main part of Kupala rituals takes place at night.

Water A mandatory custom on Ivan's Day was mass bathing: from this day on, all evil spirits came out of the rivers, so until Ilya's Day one could swim without fear. In addition, the water of Midsummer was endowed with life-giving and magical properties. In places where there was a ban on swimming in rivers (due to the same evil spirits), they bathed in holy springs. In the Russian North, on Midsummer's day, baths were heated, in which they washed and steamed, brewing herbs collected on this day and using Ivanovo brooms. Both water and herbs on Midsummer's Day were endowed with magical powers, so their use was supposed to endow a person with vitality and health. On this holiday, according to popular belief, water can be “friends” with fire, and their union is considered natural strength. The symbol of such a connection is the bonfires along the banks of the rivers that were burned on this day.

fire The main feature of the Kupala night is the cleansing bonfires. People danced around them and jumped over them: whoever jumps more successfully and higher will be happier. In some places, livestock was driven through the Kupala fire to protect it from pestilence. In the Kupala bonfires, mothers burned the shirts taken from their sick children, so that illnesses would be burned along with this linen. Young people and children, jumping over the fires, made noisy funny Games and running a race

herbs Fern (Male shield) A characteristic sign of Ivan Kupala is numerous customs and legends associated with the plant world. Herbs and flowers collected on Midsummer's Day are placed under Midsummer's dew, dried and preserved, considering such herbs to be more healing. They fumigate the sick, fight evil spirits, throw them into a flooded oven during a thunderstorm to protect the house from a lightning strike, and use them to kindle love or to “dry it out.” The main hero of the plant world on Midsummer's Day was the fern, with which legends about treasures were universally associated. With a fern flower appearing for just a few moments at midnight on Midsummer, you can see all the treasures, no matter how deep in the ground they are.

Ivan-da-Marya (Maryannik Oak) In addition, one of the main symbols of Midsummer’s Day was the Ivan-da-Marya flower, which symbolized the magical union of fire and water. Ivan Maryu called to the bathhouse. Where Ivan swam - The shore swayed. Where Marya swam - The grass spread out. Ivan was swimming and fell into the water.

customs 1. On the night before Ivan Kupala, girls lower wreaths with lighted splinters or candles onto the river waves, weave wreaths from Ivan da Marya, burdock, Bogorodskaya grass and bear's ear. If the wreath sinks immediately, it means that the betrothed has fallen out of love and cannot marry him. The one whose wreath floats the longest will be the happiest, and the one whose wreath burns the longest will live a long, long life.

2. On Midsummer night, witches become more dangerous, and therefore you should place nettles on the threshold and on windowsills to protect yourself from their attacks. It is necessary to lock the horses so that the witches do not steal them and ride them to Bald Mountain: the horse will not return from there alive.

3. On Midsummer night, oil is collected in a vessel on ant heaps, which is considered a healing remedy against various ailments. 4. On Kupala night, trees move from place to place and talk to each other through the rustling of leaves; Animals and even herbs talk to each other, which are filled with special, miraculous power that night.

5. If on this night you pick an Ivan da Marya flower and put it in the corners of the hut, the thief will not approach the house: the brother and sister (yellow and purple flowers of the plant) will talk to each other, and the thief will think that the owner and the mistress are talking.

Wish tree

Games and fun

Let's weave wreaths for Ivan Kupala

Wreaths suit boys too

Let's go down the river Let's make a wish

Compiled by teacher Bylinkina Lyudmila Aleksandrovna MKS(K) OU “Kuzedeevskaya boarding school of the VIII type”

Holiday

Ivan Kupala in Rus'

Ivan Kupala Since ancient times, all the peoples of the world celebrated the peak of summer at the end of June. In Rus', such a holiday is Ivan Kupala. On the night of June 23-24, everyone celebrated this mystical, mysterious, but at the same time riotous and fun party, full of ritual actions, rules and prohibitions, songs, sentences, all kinds of signs, fortune telling, legends, beliefs. Ivan Kupala Even during the time of paganism, the ancient Russians had a deity Kupala, personifying summer fertility. In his honor, in the evenings they sang songs and jumped over the fire. This ritual action turned into an annual celebration of the summer solstice, mixing pagan and Christian traditions. The deity Kupala began to be called Ivan after the baptism of Rus', when he was replaced by none other than John the Baptist (more precisely, his), who baptized Christ himself and whose birth was celebrated on June 24. Ivan Kupala On this day, people girded themselves with bandages of flowers and put wreaths of herbs on their heads. They led round dances, sang songs, lit bonfires, in the middle of which they placed a pole with a burning wheel mounted on it - a symbol of the sun., and especially village doctors and healers, did not miss Midsummer's Night under any circumstances and collected medicinal roots and herbs for the whole year.

Ivan Kupala There were rumors that ferns bloom at midnight on Kupala. A wonderful fiery flower can show the lucky person the location of all treasures, no matter how deeply they are buried. Around midnight, a bud appears on the wide leaves of the fern, which rises higher and higher, then staggers, turns over and begins to “jump”. Exactly at midnight, a ripe bud opens with a bang and a fiery red flower emerges from it. A person cannot pick it, but if he sees it, all his wishes will come true.

Ivan Kupala People associated ideas about miracles with the day of Ivan Kupala. On the night of Kupala, one could not sleep, as all the evil spirits came to life and became active: witches, werewolves, ghouls, mermaids... It was believed that on Ivan Kupala, witches also celebrated their holiday, trying to cause as much harm to people as possible.
Ivan Kupala This is how the holiday of Ivan Kupala passed - in riotous rituals, fortune telling and other funny and cute pranks... Ivan Kupala Holiday Ivan Kupala in Rus' The presentation was prepared by Siroshtanova E.A., MBOU Secondary School No. 76, Gigant village, 2014

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Presentation by Andrey Bolshinsky, 4th “B” class student Holiday of Russian antiquity IVAN KUPALA DAY Slide 2

Ivan Kupala Day is the oldest Russian holiday, which our ancestors began to celebrate many centuries ago. Kupala is one of the most ancient Slavic

pagan holidays
. Kupala is usually celebrated on the night from the sixth to the seventh of July.

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"Kupalo"
There are different versions about the origin of the word “Kupalo”: Some believe that it comes from the word bathe, bathing. This is very convincing, since it is from this day that swimming in open waters begins. Some people are also attracted to the word heap (a pile of kindled brushwood). Slide 4 Water and fire.

Water and fire are the beginning of the world. Ablutions were sacred among almost all peoples of the world. The land receives the greatest influx in June

vitality
sun.

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Healing herbs.
On the eve of Kupala, early in the morning, girls and young women went to the meadows and forests for medicinal herbs. When collecting herbs, they sang special spell songs.

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Kupala songs
The main theme of Kupala songs is love, marriage, married life. The girls choose the suitors they like and, holding hands, jump over the fire in pairs. The betrothed run to the fire and, having finally sealed their union by jumping over the flame, rush to the river and wash themselves in the Kupala Living Water.

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Feast of Ivan Kupala On the river bank, girls put out wreaths on pre-prepared rafts with hot coals. Everyone tries to trace as far as possible the path of their raft with the wreath of future life, consecrated by the Living Fire of the Kupalitsa.

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Feast of Ivan Kupala Feast of Ivan Kupala - the day of the summer solstice, the holiday of water and fire. Kupalo, the god of fruits, was considered one of the most important pagan gods. The holiday of Ivan Kupala is a very bright and colorful event.