Divination by Christmas - find out your destiny.

The period from January 7, 18 January is called "holy or holy days", "saints". In former times, Christmas and Epiphany were celebrated simultaneously.

Later, a small gap was introduced, which is considered to be a single long day full of joy, fun, happiness, as Jesus was born at this time.

The Christian canons of Christmas and Epiphany did not prohibit pagan rituals to be performed at Christmas time. These are carols, masquerades, and, of course, fortune telling.

Fortune telling is the attempt to learn about your future.

The first seven days of Christmas, January 7, January 13, called the "holy week" or "holy, holy evenings," and the second week - January 14 to January 5 - "terrible evenings."

In the first week of the week all the young people caressed. Girls and guys under the windows sang and danced in carols songs, glorified the holy holiday, wished wealth and prosperity to the masters, and of course - health. For their labors they were treated to sweets.

The owners gave different kinds of sweets to the carolers from the windows, for this purpose special cookies - "roe deer" were baked. According to the signs, these sweets contributed to a rich litter of cattle. Many different dishes were prepared from meat, especially from pork, it was a symbol of fertility and wealth in Ancient Rus. In general, these days there were no food bans.

It was customary to get dressed and ride horses on holy days. Men dressed in women's dresses, painted. Women rallied in men, drooling their mustaches and beards. Among the mummers there must have been a bear - a man dressed in an inverted sheepskin coat. People played, fooled around, joked over neighbors, mischievous and mischievous. For example, propped the door, stopped pipes, or dragged sledges from the yard.

And, of course, fortune telling fortunes were the most entertaining moment, everyone guessed! The head of the family wondered whether the year would be productive, whether the weather would be good for sowing, whether enough grain would be produced. The mistress of fortune telling spent it to learn about children, illnesses, and wealth. The girls wanted to know the answer to the main question about marriage this year.

Fortunetelling was spent at midnight or before sunrise. It is impossible to list all the types and methods of sacred divination. We describe the most common, surviving to our days.

The best fortune telling fortunes:

In the thawed water.

1. It is necessary to bring a piece of ice or a lump of snow into the house from the street and wait a little until it has melted. Next, we must look at the mote, which is in the thawed water. If the hair falls, then the bridegroom will be rich; Sticks, chips, sawdust - with own house; Leaflet - will be a scientist; Paper - it means there will be a military one.

2. In a glass with spring water poured hot wax, you can egg white. If they sink to the bottom and, like a pancake spread, then the marriage to the girl this year is not threatened. If the shape will resemble a candle or a ring - soon a wedding.

3. At night, you must go to the river to the hole in which you can either see the face of the groom, or hear a crack and a knock, according to signs indicating that this year the girl will not marry.

4. Pour in a glass of water, throw a ring there and put it overnight on the street. By the number of hillocks on the surface of ice, one can judge the number of sons, and the number of holes - the number of daughters.

On the mirrors.

1. In the dead of night you need to lock yourself up in a room, put a mirror in front of you, two candles in front of him. If you look very closely at the mirror, it is possible to see your future. After the fortune-telling, the mirror must be quickly crossed so that the unclean force does not kill the guessing one.

2. In the same way as in the above-described variant, divination is performed in complete solitude. Two mirrors are placed opposite to reflect a long, narrow corridor. Light two candles, place them so that they are reflected in the mirrors and create the appearance of lighting the corridor. In this corridor you need to watch for a long time and you can see different events from your own future.