Insects among the Slavs are mentioned in beliefs, legends, fairy tales, songs, spells, fables, proverbs, etc.; used for the preparation of medicines and sorcerers' decoctions; are participants in ceremonies, rituals, games, supposed, supposed, etc.
The calendar rituals of removing insects among the Eastern Slavs (especially Russian ones) are associated with the spring-summer (from Easter to Kupala) and autumn (September 7 / 14 / to Pokrov) periods of the calendar.
In autumn, especially in September, when birds and years go to warmer climes, rituals of expulsion and burial of flies are performed. The flies are driven out on the day when the last sheaf is brought into the house. A sheaf or cut birch branches drive out flies, saying: "Flies from the house, state gift to the house!" or "Black flies out of the house, and white flies into the house!", thus calling for winter. Flies were considered guests in the house while the owner was in the field (“Shoo, flies, away! You spared the summer, let us winter the winter!”).
In the northern regions of Russia, the rite of burial of flies is known. This is an imitation, a parody: children or girls and boys prepare special tombs from radish, beetroot, potatoes, cucumbers, or from wood or bark, from walnut. The house with the fly is placed on a stretcher, covered with a veil, one of the participants dresses up as a priest, takes a censer and leads the procession with a noise-shout to the cemetery. There they throw out the coffin, and they themselves go back with cheerful songs. In the same way, cockroaches, fleas, and bedbugs are buried on Simeon.
Insects were treated as phenomena of nature itself. For example, it was believed that flies and fleas contribute to the change of seasons. Therefore, they were not physically destroyed, but moved - taken out, taken out, ordered, invited, etc. The calendar rituals of breeding insects assumed the embodiment of the cosmic metamora of the phase: dark flies become snow-white. And non-calendar acts were focused on ensuring that insects did not appear too much.