Why can not celebrate 40 years and other signs of a birthday.

The Russian people are famous throughout the world for their beliefs and prejudices. There are many signs associated with such events as wedding, pregnancy, funeral, marriage, and so on. But it is the birthday of a person wrapped in a mass of prejudices and raises many questions: why it is impossible to celebrate 40 years, how many guests to invite to the name-day, why you need to put candles on the cake and others. Of course, all these signs have their origins in the distant past, people believed that if you follow them, you can avoid any misfortunes.

There are many questions connected with the sacrament of celebrating the birthday, but, probably, it is most often asked: "Why it is impossible to celebrate 40 years?". And they are perplexed about this not only by those who are close to this milestone, but also by other people simply out of curiosity. There is not one opinion, why do not celebrate 40 years. According to some sources, this is due to the fact that the very number forty is fatal and mysterious. It is often found in the Bible, after the Baptism, Jesus Christ spent forty days in the desert, the same usually lasted in the ancient days of weeping for the dead, and the Jewish people suffered 40 years of wandering through the desert. It is also believed that celebrating the 40th anniversary is almost to welcome your death, for the posthumous fate of a person's soul is determined precisely on the fortieth day. Bony can simply greet in response, and may very soon take the birthday boy with him. There is also such an answer to the question "why it is impossible to celebrate 40 years": simply at this time, there is an internal transformation in a person and life remains in the usual channel or changes abruptly. So, in order not to jinx your success and luck, do not mark the fortieth anniversary.

In addition to this, there are many more signs related to the birthday. For example, according to the Slavic beliefs, when a person comes to this world, three evil spirits appear in his cradle, who want to send suffering to him. It is necessary for them to prepare a sweet treat, so that they are distracted from the newborn. And every next year these spirits will come nearer to the festive table, in order to foul. They need to be distracted with red wine, sweet pies, mead. By the way, it's impossible to celebrate a birthday sooner or later than it was due to this belief. It is believed that in this case the spirits will come, but no refreshments, and they will remain hungry.

After the evil spirits come good, so that they do not upset the birthday boy should always be in a good mood, and also meet them with music, clean apartment and neat appearance. In the old days it was even customary to give each guest a small gift, so that the kind spirits were kind to a person. In our time it has long been history.

Traditionally , it is customary for a birthday person to say pleasant and kind words to a birthday person. First of all, this custom used to only apply to newborns in order to attract to the child in the future good luck. But adults want to hear the words of congratulations and sincere wishes.

Who does not know about the superstitions associated with the number of guests who need to be invited to a party? It is believed that they should be an odd number. In principle, such an opinion arose because of what people thought - you need to come for a birthday couple. After all, if a person is alone, then he can envy, maleficiate someone and just wish evil. The birthday party should always try to create a friendly and pleasant atmosphere at the celebration, to make sure that no one is left deprived of attention.

The candles on the birthday cake are symbolized by the stars, which are symbols of the human soul and guardian angels. When people put them in a circle, by this they create the strength and energy necessary to fulfill the desire.

There are a lot involved in celebrating the birthday: from "why you can not celebrate 40 years" before "what gifts you can give." All of them seem to have their own dubbing, but whether to believe in them or not is up to you.