Once a pregnant woman never cut hair before delivery. This was considered a bad omen that the child will be born mentally retarded. Moreover, the children born in a leap year were baptized, the holy rite was conducted together with the most native and close people.
Confirm or refute this is not easy, the fact is that we decide to believe in such signs or not. And from such decisions, and formed public opinion, as always divided into three sides. One side piously believes that being born in a leap year means to be unhappy, eternally sick and not live to be old. The other side, on the contrary, is convinced that people born in such years are special, and neither more nor less - endowed with magical properties or carry messages to our world from above. The third party is conservative and treats this issue with complete indifference, without singling out people born in a leap year from the general mass.
Let's try to scoop deeper and farther and better understand each side. Let's try to better understand all and possibly the self. Let's look at the root and figure out the problem, once and for all figured out this.
Side one is depressing
You will be born in a leap year - you will be unhappy, you will receive a child or you will die young. It remains only to be born on February 29, and it can be said that it would be better not to do it at all! Whence to us pritostatkoe the negative attitude or relation to, probably, quite normal year? Who brings such bad knowledge to us? Where do the roots of the question of interest originate from?
Even under Julia Caesar, a leap year fell into a human displeasure, which from time to time was backed up by myths, fables, tovydumki, and even facts. Many people know or just heard the religious message about Saint Kasyan. His name is also associated with a leap year, and not in the most iridescent colors. According to the national idea, Saint Kasyan is cunning, mercenary and stingy. Somehow he betrayed God, telling Satan that he and his fellow demoniac force would soon be expelled from heaven. Then, of course, he repented, asked forgiveness from the Lord, for which he received not very heavy punishment. God assigned an angel to him and he beat him with a hammer on the head three years in a row, and the fourth gave rest.
Although St. Kasyan was forgiven, he was still bound by the garden and did not forget what he had done. The day of his memory was celebrated only once in four years, believing that he bears his malignancy for the whole year, and children born in such times bear a part of his displeasure.
Then, in due course, the glory of greatness was added to the notoriety, from menacingly terrible and to incredibly stupid and ridiculous. Naturally, this entailed all the consequences.
There are a lot of cases when new mummies were being asked to write in the date of birth graph not on February 29, but on February 28 or March 1.
Believe it all or not, the matter is personal, but even the most ardent supporters of the fact that this is an invention, sometimes also reinsured.
The second side is optimistic
Those who joined the second part, too, rely on over-history narratives, legends and tales. And since it is the easiest to sort out any problem and issue, first having figured out the origin of the origin, the volumes will do the same.
In some ancient sources, a leap year and people born this year are considered sacred. Simply put, filled with a mystical and magical meaning. A year is considered elusive, pop-up, some kind of a window to the other world. And people, respectively, born in the year of a hibernation, are also endowed with magic and the highest destiny. It is believed that the appearance of such a person in your environment bears happiness and good news, and a person can even unknowingly present you with signs from the other world, and if you can discern them, you will only win.
In ancient times such people were treated with great respect by honors. They were forced to live as recluses, helping all the sick, healing and "cleansing" of the evil and demonic.
If you were born in a leap year, your life will be full of joy and love, you will be more fortunate and rich. Happy parents of babies who were born in such a year will be provided in old age, as the child will grow prosperous and successful.
The third party is final and conservative.
The main argument of the third party is the assertion that the person himself is creating his own destiny, and if something is happening, at first glance, mystical and inexplicable, it is not necessary to exaggerate, it is only better to consider and understand that we ourselves, somehow, by our actions and words, themselves to this life stage.
A leap year or not, it is not necessary to brand in advance anything innocent baby. Do not raise it to the rank of magicians or prophets, or even worse, shy away from it as a plague.
Treat the "leap" people as well as everyone, after all, some of them do not even suspect that they were born in such a year or just did not think about it. Whatever people have not been prejudiced, and good education, love and attention are done far more than the long planning of the baby's date of birth. In Norway, for example, there is one family, the children in which were born on February 29, all three! And in different years. One can only imagine what kind of unreal efforts the family had to make in order to achieve this. And one scientist has developed a whole system for those who were born on February 29, which consists in the system of celebrating the birthday depending on the hour of birth!
On the one hand, it all looks funny and nice, on the other hand, it would be better if these efforts went to more normal activities.
So, we will sum up. I hope everyone has a little more understanding of this issue. We understood ourselves better, and we came to the unanimous conclusion-we, born in an ordinary year or a leap year, only having put on the zeal of wretchedness, will be happy, healthy and successful. And the mass will accept, prejudices and eternal disputes should not influence us and change our attitude to others.