How to guess correctly on Christmastide
Winter holidays will come very soon - it's time to have fun and while away the free time from fun, guessing what the coming year is preparing for us. It seems that there is no woman in Russia who has never done this on Christmastide at least once in her life. And those who did not guess, probably read about how this happens in Zhukovsky or Pushkin.
Magical New Year's Eve is the time for fortune telling.
Christmas divination is carried out from January 7 to January 19. These are two magical weeks that start on Christmas Eve - January 6th and end on Epiphany - January 19th.
The most favorable times for the Eastern Slavs were considered Rozhdestvensky, Vasilievsky (January 14) and Epiphany evenings - turning, borderline moments in which the evil spirits are most powerful.
Christmas divination is very different. In total, there are more than twenty species of them, including the now less relevant fortune-telling with roosters, cats and dogs. Of course, the most popular and varied divination for love. There are far more than half of them.
If Pushkin and Zhukovsky wrote poems about Christmas fortune-telling, Venetsianov and Bryullov wrote pictures about them.
For example, for sure, many know about fortune-telling to call the betrothed. The room in which you are going to guess should be dark. You need to light candles and take two mirrors. Better yet, sit with a mirror opposite another, hanging on the wall or standing on the table. And arrange the mirrors so that in their reflections a corridor lit by candles appears. Previously, visitors and pets should be removed from the room, being left alone with their own reflections. It is believed that guessing is best at midnight. At the end of this corridor, a constricted one should appear in the wall mirror. Sometimes this fortune-telling takes a lot of time, the betrothed must be able to wait. And also, they say that you can see in the corridor not only your prince, but also some evil spirits. Well, yes, the times are dark, critical. Those who have tried it claim that the game is worth the candle.
This is a rather long ritual. From the fact that it is faster and more fun to read the shadows from burnt paper - when, after burning a crumpled sheet, you need to peer into its shadow on the wall; on the egg - when you need to throw raw protein into a glass of water and carefully study the resulting shape; on matches - to understand whether the envisioned guy and the girl will be on the heads of two burnt matches on different sides of the box; fortune telling with a ring - when they throw it into a glass of water and look at its center to see the betrothed. I am sure that professional fortune-tellers will be able to name a dozen more ways.
How to guess correctly on Christmastide? You can guess for yourself - choose the method that you like and try your luck and new sensations. But if you want to find out more fully and accurately about your future, it is better to turn to a professional fortune-teller. But how to find a real fortuneteller, honest, and even with a guarantee? However, I think this is a topic for a separate article.
