Christmas time is called the period from January 6 (Holy evening) to January 18 (when holy water is baptized). On the other days of the holy days, they guess mainly to find answers to other questions.
Christmas time is called the period from January 6 (Holy evening) to January 18 (when holy water is baptized).
Once every four years, fortunetellers wonder if fortune telling is possible in a leap year. And, I must say, the question has a significant reason, because it has long been believed that fortune-telling in a leap year can turn into a fortuneteller of a certain kind of trouble. For the same reason, in leap years, they tried not to celebrate weddings, not to build houses or move to a new home. It was also considered unacceptable for a year with an additional day - February 29 - to pick mushrooms for subsequent drying, conceive children and take up a new business.
The reason for the fear was ... St. Kasyan (February 29 marks the birthday of John Cassian the Roman, who, based on the history of religion, was a very doubtful person.
So, according to one legend, Kasyan betrayed God, telling the devil about the Lord's plans. True, in the future, based on tradition, Kasyan repented and prayed forgiveness from the Lord.
Another legend says that Kasyan did not want to help the peasant, whose cart was bogged down in the mud. The reason is very down to earth - Kasyan did not want to stain clothes.
However, we digress from the main issue. It is believed that it is better not to guess especially sensitive and nervous people, moreover, not only in a leap year, but in any other year. Indeed, holy divination is a ritual that is performed at the fear and risk of a fortuneteller. However, like any other venture.
There are a great many ways of holy divination!
The most accurate is the divination that the fortuneteller believes in. Or those fortunetelling that are very easy to interpret and interpret. Fortune-telling is ideally suited to the description with shoes that girls throw over their shoulders when they leave their house for a threshold. Traditionally, shoes are thrown over the left shoulder, trying to throw as far as possible. As a result, where the toe of the shoes indicates, therefrom will come narrowed. If the “shoe pointer” is directed towards the girl’s house, she will sit “in girls” for at least another year, based on fortune-telling. True, if we are talking about an apartment building, it makes sense to look at the pretty neighbors.
Fortune-telling has been popular since ancient times, such as on the ring, on the book and on the thread.
On the ring
A glass is filled with water. They put their own hair into the engagement ring (mom's, sister's, girlfriend) and hold this “design” in limbo as motionless as possible above the glass. When the ring begins to swing on the hair and hit the walls of the glass, count the blows. How many times hit - so many years left before your marriage.
On the book
In this ritual, several people can guess at once. Girls mentally (and aloud) ask a question, the answer to which is of great interest to them. Next, any book is taken from the bookshelf, the girl calls the page number and the line above or below. What is written in this line is considered the answer to the question asked.
Fortune-telling on books is not only interesting, but also fun!
On the strings
Girls cut the threads of the same length and set them on fire. The one whose thread burns faster than anyone else will marry. If the thread went out or burned less than half, then marriage is in question.
Known methods of divination by candlelight, mirrors and other paraphernalia. Many girls write on paper the names of all the guys they know, put leaflets with the names under the pillow and the next morning with their left hand they take out the first note that comes across. The name, written on a piece of paper, will, according to fortune-telling, be narrowed.
And what methods of holy divination are known to you? Share successful, curious and sad experiences of your fortune-telling in the comments on this publication!
