Do you tie a red thread to the children and get baptized in the carriage? Find out what dangerous SINS Serbs commit because of superstition

Superstition is defined as a quasi-religious belief that future events are related to certain actions, without a logical relationship between the performance of those actions and future events. Many of them entered Serbian culture as vestiges of pagan beliefs and also mixed with Christian customs.

A religious analyst clarified which customs are in line with the Orthodox faith and which belong to superstitions. Draško Đenović.

“Superstitions have nothing to do with Christianity and Orthodoxy, they are remnants of the old Slavic religion. They entered our faith because we had a ‘hole’ in Orthodoxy after WWII, and after returning to our roots. They entered even though they have nothing to do with the church, ”Đenović tells Objektiv.rs.

The analyst points out that Christianity always condemns superstition and that the Serbian Orthodox Church considers it a sin.

“A good part of these customs come from polytheism. It is also quite widespread among the Wallachians, with them you have more magical than Christian things. The church is always in favor of pure Christian faith and teaching. “Everything that is not Christian teaching brings confusion, ruins, distances a person from Christianity,” he says.

Djenovic points out that the red thread that parents tie around their children’s arms has nothing to do with Christianity, that it is a custom associated with paganism, and that the church has a negative attitude about it. When asked if we can wash our hair and do housework on Sundays, the analyst responds:

It is a day dedicated to God and to the church, when one should go to church. That day the family should sit and eat together, there used to be a Sunday lunch, and now that is lost. Also, the seventh day according to the church calendar is not Sunday, but Saturday, but Sunday is a red letter. I will not go into the question of days, we have to work six and rest one. In principle, housework is not prohibited, here the context must be considered. In the past, a harrow was used to wash clothes, go to the river. This today, where you press two buttons, is not a job. Hair can be washed.

A religious analyst solved another dilemma for us: is it a bad sign for the wedding ring to fall to the ground during the wedding ceremony?

“Burma does not have a foothold in Christianity, but it is a custom that shows unity. I am not a doctor, but I think there is a vein that goes from the heart to the little finger to carry it on that same finger. There is no wedding ring in the Bible, but it is not a superstition to wear a wedding ring. However, it is superstitious to think that it is a bad sign that the ring falls off during the wedding, “he says.

Since many believers in the liturgy bow to the ground when they are crucified, we asked our interlocutor to explain to us where this custom comes from.

“It’s called methane, it comes from the Russian tradition, someone says it’s a novelty. You have churches where you are on your knees, you sit on the Catholics, you stand on some. This is not characteristic of the Serbian Orthodox Church, but it is not superstition, this is how respect is expressed ”, says the analyst.

Djenovic adds that it is not bad for believers to leave the church for the inside.

“They don’t want to turn their backs on Christ, the altar. The problem is that it has lost its meaning, many people do not know why they are doing it. While, for example, it is superstitious to be baptized on a bus or in a car when you pass a church. “Nobody said that you should be baptized next to every church,” he said.

Djenovic notes that the church is clearly against the practice of yoga and meditation.

“The church clearly believes that yoga and meditation are part of the eastern religions and is against it. This is completely contrary to the Christian church, but today we have a mass of Orthodox who are Orthodox in their own way. They think the church can say one thing and they can know the other better than the priest and the patriarch. The church considers it a sin, “concludes Đenović.