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Main - - Culture - The first Spas   The first Spas (Maccabee, Myadovy) is celebrated on August 1/ 14. On this day honey, poppy seeds, garden flowers, water were sanctified in churches. Venerable flowers and herbs were stored as medicine, consecrated poppy was considered a guardian of the home from witches and the dead, as well as an effective means to induce rain.     Site Search: check any of the words check every word © National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011