A thunderstorm is expected to happen on this day usually, and one does. This day peasants sanctify the new apple harvest, symbolically thanking the Lord for it. There is a ban on eating apples before this day. According to folk beliefs, the God gives out apples to the dead in heaven this day. If someone's parents or a child had eaten an apple prior to Transformation Day, God would not give an apple to the dead parents or to the dead child.
Peasants leave apples on the graves of relatives as gifts.
On this day wells and brooks are sanctified, and country people hold thanksgiving services. The rite is completed with a festive dinner and the entertainment of guests. Summer calendar rites, which are mentioned above, do not exclude collecting information and materials on rites, which are performed in other seasons. The main reason is the particular syncretic indivisibility of verbal, musical, choreographic and dramatic components that is typical of any folk ceremony. An environment takes on special significance for a rite.