Clean Thursday in 2018 falls on April 5. On this day, believing Christians begin to cleanse their own home and body from the negative and dirt, to prepare for the meeting of Easter-2018.

According to custom, on Monday they prepare the house - they tint, wash, on Tuesday they wash clothes, on Wednesday finish the chores, and on Thursday they start the general cleaning.

To bathe and wash Now hardly anyone does this, but in earlier believers people went to the river from the very morning to dip once. Also, before sunrise, everyone was soared in the bath. It was also thought that if you put any silver thing into the vessel with water and wash it in the morning, you can not be afraid of the evil eye - no one can harm you.

Pure Thursday is so rich in rituals as no other day in the run-up to Easter.

Custom with salt On a clean Thursday it was customary to prepare salt, which was called "Thursday salt". She was wrapped in a rag and crooked in an oven, then pushed and sieved. Then she was treated herself and treated cattle.

Rite for the protection of the house For this rite, a candle was taken in the morning in the church and burned on the lintel (the upper crossbar of the doorway) and on the window frames the crosses, fumigated all living quarters with juniper branches, bypassed all the rooms and the house in a circle with the icon and prayer.

After walking around all corners in the house, the hostesses begin the spring cleaning. To wash it is necessary from the most distant corners to a threshold, it is desirable to pour out dirty water out of the house. Until Easter, the house is no longer cleaned.

On a clean Thursday they brought home juniper and heather, twigs fastened at the entrance door to protect the house from misfortunes.

In order to have money in the house According to the rite, a handful of coins were thrown into the water washed by windows and doors, and read the conspiracy: "Money, drive - do not translate, grow, multiply, do not get the enemy! ".

After harvesting, they put the spoiled fines in a clean corner of the house for a week, and the water was poured out under any tree.

There is also this custom - if three times during this day to recount all the money that is in the house, then money during this year will not be transferred. This should be done before sunrise, at noon and at sunset.

According to the custom, oven pies and cakes, you can paint eggs only after cleaning on Pure Thursday.