§17. At the end of this new pre-marriage month, usually into the early morning of the wedding day the fresh new bride-to-be went towards shower-house having their ritual shower. Inside Vologda wedding parties, demonstrated of the Balashov, there is the real shower and you will, towards an alternative occasion (often into the second early morning), discover a routine shower, that was perhaps not in reality a shower after all, but instead a speed out-of bath-prichety of the bride in the entrances towards the house or brand new gate to your yard. In the villages where this routine took a larger setting, the fresh new bride do query their brother to slice this new timber for the latest bath, declined many kinds from it (aspen, oak, fir), query their particular relatives to go with their particular etc. (more…)