In Russia, traditionally celebrate Christmas Eve from January 7 to 19. Twelve holidays include Christmas carols, folk festivals, performances and fortune-telling. Initially, Christmas trees were celebrated by peasants. In honor of the transition to the new year, they tried to pray for riches and hymns from the gods a generous harvest. Gradually, the holy days began to be filled with Christian meaning and celebrated in the period between the holy dates for believers - from Christmas to Epiphany. The most favorite New Year's youth fun was street fortune telling. Fortune-telling is the most popular Christmas ritual, which helped unmarried girls to find out where the married woman lives.
Fortunetelling "throwing felt boots"
An unpretentious and truthful rite, with the help of which you can find out where the tutored-mummer comes from. Rules for conducting:- valenok must belong to a fortune-telling girl, borrow shoes from a friend, sister or mother can not. It is possible to replace the felt boots with a shoe or a shoe;
- guess is followed on the eve of Baptism, the Old New Year or the Nativity of Christ: go out into the yard, stand up to the fence that is near the road, with your back. The presence of a road is a must!
- to throw the felt over the fence so that it falls on the road. Exit and see in which direction the toe of shoes looks. That's where the darling comes from. If the toe of the felt boots turns in the direction of the fence, marriage in the coming year does not make sense.
Fortune-telling with fate on fate
Prepare a felt boots, an onion, shreds of the same size cloth, a glass, salt, sugar, a ring, a crust of black bread, grain, a gold thing. Turn the objects into scraps, mix them in a saucepan, pour into the felt boots. Pull out any object wrapped in cloth and find out your future. If several girls are guessing, after each one all the items are removed from the felt and mixed again. Interpretation:- bulb. Life in the new year will be bitter, full of tears and sorrows;
- glass. A spouse drinking spree or a cheerful life;
- ring. Early marriage;
- gold. A rich husband, a prosperous and "well-fed" life;
- salt. Quarrels and disagreements with the dear;
- bread. Ordinary life, poor groom;
- corn. Wealth and prosperity;
- sugar. "Sweet" feelings and a sea of positive emotions.
Funny street fortune-telling at Christmas time:
- fortune telling in the name of the groom . Go to the first man to meet and ask his name. It was believed that this name will belong to the future spouse;
- fortune telling on a dog bark . Describes the nature of the betrothed. Go out of the gate with a knife, start cutting snow, listening to barking dogs. The playful barking of barking prophesizes a kind and easy-going husband, a jerky, evil, prolonged howl is predicted by rapid widowhood. If barking is not audible at all - the wedding celebration will not take place in the coming year;
- guessing on the window . On a Christmas night, go to the window of a neighboring house and look into it. If neighbors are sitting at a festive table, there will be no health problems in the coming year, if they leave the table, cares and problems are ahead;
- fortune telling by name . Throw the boots on the road and wait patiently. Who will raise him first, ask him for a name.