Christmas, New Year, Christmas fortune-telling. Christmas divination on wax

26.09.2019

It's New Year's Eve, Christmas is coming soon.

Today is January 6th CHRISTMAS EVE. This day gives rise to Christmas time, and, consequently, Christmas fortune-telling. Christmas time will last until January 19th. Well, who among us did not call spirits in childhood, did not put a comb under the pillow and did not look into the long mirrored corridor in the hope of seeing the betrothed?

Now is the time to take on fortune-telling for the “narrowed-mummers”, if you have not yet acquired one. But after all, not only “in search of” the groom, the girls were going to guess: fortune-telling gives many questions - you just ask ... know what you need to ask, how and when ...

The bathhouse has long been considered an ideal place for divination, since it is in it that spirits and all evil spirits gather.
And even in our time, when consecrating the house, the priest will not go to sprinkle the bathroom with holy water - this is the ideal place for divination in a city apartment. But, of course, not for large companies. So gather your friends and go ahead ... in search of answers to eternal questions.

Divination has always been very common among the Slavs. He was engaged in both healers, sorcerers and magicians, as well as mere mortals. Also in ancient Russia on long winter evenings, the girls gathered, while away the time, and tried to find out what awaits them in the near future.

You can almost always guess, but you can especially clearly and clearly predict your future in the period from January 6 to 19. But if you did not have time to tell fortunes at this time, do not despair! On Thursdays, you can fulfill your dream and look into the future, because it is on Thursdays that fortune telling is more accurate.

So, you are going to guess, but do not know how? No problem! Here are a few examples of divination that are most popular, as well as some divination rules:

1. Guessing should never be done alone
2. You can’t guess together with men (boys, young men). Invite your friends, but only so many that together you get three, five or seven.
3. The number of fortunetellers should be three, five or seven.
4. Do not forget that you cannot cross your legs during fortune-telling, this “confuses” those objects with which you perform the ceremony.
5. It is necessary to take off everything that surrounds you (rings, bracelets, belts).
6. Do not forget that the room should be quiet, no extraneous sounds and light, only candles.
7. It is necessary to remove from the room in which you are going to guess, all the iconostases, remove the cross and the consecrated ring, if any.
8. Divination is carried out in different time- some in the evening (from the time it gets dark and you need to turn on the light), some at midnight or after midnight, some when preparing for bed. Fortune telling during the day in the Slavic tradition was considered wrong - it is clear why.

Don't play games with dark forces for divination, though entertaining, is blasphemy. Do not get hung up on fortune-telling - there are many more other, brighter and more exciting entertainments in life!

And now, let's remember some simple fortune-telling: about suitors and marriage, happiness and love...

Guessing when to get married?
Take a glass, fill 2/3 with water, tie a thread to the ring (preferably even, without stones). Now, holding the string, immerse it in water as many times as you are old, and then hold it over some water, but in a glass, it will begin to sway and beat against the walls of the glass. Count. This is how old you will get married.

Christmas divination about the wedding.
Going out into the yard, take off your shoes from one foot and throw them away, now look in which direction the sock is looking, if from the house - wait for the wedding, if towards the house - you look a little more like girls.

Fortune telling for a dream
Before going to bed, you need to eat something salty, but do not drink. Going to bed, they make a guess, saying: "Betrothed, mummers, come to me and give me a drink!" Whoever gets drunk - you will marry him.

Burning thread
Several girls cut threads of the same length and set them on fire. Whose thread burns first, that one will marry first, and if the thread goes out immediately and less than half burns out, there are chances to do without marriage at all.

Stocking
They put on a new stocking on one leg and lie down in bed, saying: "Narrowed, mummers, come take off my shoes." The dreaming person who will take off your stocking is your future husband.

Divination on bulbs
On the bulbs they write the names of possible contenders for the hand and heart. They put them in the water. Which bulb will sprout earlier - on behalf of that, wait for the marriage proposal.

Divination: a candle and notes.
Take a bowl and fill it halfway with water. Hang notes on its edges, with inscriptions down and inward. In these notes, you write various events that generally happen: wedding, birth, pregnancy, death, illness, joy, road, luck, happiness, crazy love, etc. Next, take a small floating candle. If there is none, you can take a small stump of a Christmas tree candle, set in half of the shell walnut. The one who guesses lowers the candle in the middle of the basin into the water. It is strictly forbidden to move a candle or a basin, to blow too. What note the candle will set on fire is waiting for you in the future.

Divination by shoes
Put six completely different shoes (the style of the shoes or their owner is not important here). Put six of the following items in them, respectively, one in each:
salt - grief
coin - for money
toy - pregnancy
a piece of bread - a full life
ring - groom, wedding
candy - sweet life.
The girl pulls out three objects at random in a row. They judge their future by them.
Then he swaps them so that the next fortuneteller does not see this.

Divination on the ring.
Pour grain into some deep dish, and put a ring there, and now unmarried girls take turns dipping their hand into the grain with one movement and picking it up in a fist. Now look who got the ring. She will be getting married this year.

Christmas divination what's his name?
Take a basin of water, write on the pieces of paper the names of the men and the year of the proposed marriage, twist them into tubes and throw them into the water at the same time. See which one opens first with the name and year, which means that your spouse will be called that way and you will get married that year.

Divination of the name of the betrothed.
You go out into the street and ask the name of the first man you meet. So they will, perhaps, call your betrothed.

Divination-love spell.
Take a red apple, cut out the core with a triangle, write on a small piece of paper the name of your beloved, his date of birth, or something about him, put it in an apple and cover it with a cut core, now put this apple in a dry place, on a cabinet, on a shelf, but so no one can see. Now wait a few days. If the apple starts to dry, then the narrowed one will begin to dry for you, and his attention is guaranteed to you. But be careful, you can also drive him away from you, if the apple starts to rot, then he will no longer be around (checked).

Eavesdropping
The girls went and listened under the windows of other people's houses and, listening to a cheerful or boring conversation, predicted for themselves the same life in marriage.

take shells walnuts , wax candles are cut into small pieces, inserted into shells, allowed to float in a cup filled with water. Then each of the girls lights the candles of her shell. Here they notice: whoever drowns, she will die unmarried; whose candles are more likely to burn out, she will be the first to marry; and who will burn the longest of all, she will not be married.

Do in the evening from the wax of swans according to the number of girls. The winch is painted with rouge, and the swan remains white. Fortune tellers choose for themselves a swan with a winch, lower it into a cup of water and cover it with a scarf. Before going to bed, do they watch a swan swim with a winch? If he swims together, then married life will be consonant; if they parted, there will be enmity.

Divination on mirrors
“They looked into the mirror, putting it on the stove, two candles on the sides, let their hair down, sat down in one shirt, held a second mirror on their chest and looked into the resulting corridor.”

Divination on mirrors was carried out in dark room. For fortune-telling, one had to gaze intently into the reflections ... the imagined image could be the desired narrowed one or something else .. how lucky. You need to start this fortune-telling after 12 o'clock at night. Take two mirrors different sizes(one is 2-3 times larger than the other) and put them opposite each other. A mirror corridor is formed.

Sit behind the smaller mirror and look over it into the larger one. Place candles on either side of the smaller mirror. Then, with patience, peer into the mirrored corridor. When the betrothed appears at the end of the corridor, throw a clean handkerchief over the smaller mirror.

Ring in the water
You need to take an ordinary glass with a completely flat bottom, without any drawings, pour three-quarters of water into it, carefully lower the round wedding ring, previously cleaned. Then you need to look through the water for a long time into the middle of the lowered ring.
With a rather rich imagination, many claim that they see the face of the future groom.

Divination with a boat
For this divination, they take a basin of water so that it is not completely filled with water. Bent strips with the names of fortunetellers are hung or attached to the sides of this basin or possible events are written on them: wedding, infatuation, abduction, passionate love, failures, illness, etc. they take a walnut shell (its half) and in the middle of it they set a small candle stub (can be a Christmas tree). They let the boat into the middle of the pelvis, and depending on which edge it approaches and which piece of paper it sets on fire, such an event will happen to the one whose name is written on the piece of paper or who is guessing.

With boat

For this divination, they take a basin filled with water not to the very brim. On the side of this basin, bent strips with the names of fortunetellers are hung or attached. Or they write possible events on them: wedding, infatuation, kidnapping, flirting, passionate love, illness, failure, death, winning, unexpected happiness or good luck, etc. Then they take a half of a walnut shell and in the middle of it they set a small stump of a Christmas tree candle . The boat is allowed into the middle of the pelvis, and depending on which edge it approaches and which piece of paper it sets on fire, such an event will happen to the one whose name is written on the piece of paper, or who is guessing.

On a career with a candle

Another version of this divination is specifically for a career. Fill a large metal basin with water (but not to the very edge) and place it on a completely flat surface. Hang the same strips bent in half on the edges of the pelvis, where possible events will be written: career take-off, professional success, a small increase, a reprimand from the boss, an increase in salary, etc. The inscriptions are directed inside the pelvis. Now take a half of a walnut shell, fix a small candle in it, light it and lower the shell into the water exactly in the center of the basin. Depending on which edge the boat sails to and which piece of paper it sets on fire, such an event will occur in the foreseeable future.

Repeated attempts do not count, and you cannot blow on the boat or water.

on bread

It was usually performed on New Year's Eve. They put a bowl of water, put in it as many small pieces of bread as there are people in the family. Pieces should be different sizes. For example, the largest piece is the “husband”, the smaller one is the “wife”, even smaller is the “eldest of the children”, etc., so that you can notice whose piece of bread it is. They swirled the water with their fingers, saying: “Spin bread and water, my whole family is here. If there is trouble, separate the bread and water. In the morning we looked at what happened:

♦ if all the pieces are together, in a heap, then in the house everyone will be together;

♦ if someone's piece moves away from others that person will leave or die.

On the swans

This is one of the most beautiful Christmas divination. It will need a lot of wax, so take a few large candles and melt in a metal bowl over a fire. From the resulting wax (while it is still warm!) Blind a flock of swans (according to the number of those participating in fortune-telling, plus a paired swan, symbolizing the groom). Paint the swan with blush, and leave the swan white. Be sure to label each pair (for example, with your initials) so you don't mix them up later. Take a large basin and fill it three-quarters full with water, gently lower your partner in turn into the water, and then cover the basin with a piece of cloth. Before the girls gather at home (or in the morning, if they spend the night at your place), take a look at how fortune-telling figures behave in the basin:

♦ if a pair of swans swim together, then your family life will turn out well, you will live with your husband in full harmony.

♦ if the swans went in different directions, then marriage will not be lucky - quarrels and strife, constant conflicts.

By thread

For divination, take two short woolen threads, put them together and wind them into a small ball. Then pour water into a deep plate or bowl and start guessing at exactly midnight. Put your threads in water and carefully watch what happens to them:

♦ if they spin in the water, unwind, try to straighten up, it means that New Year it will be successful for you, everything will be fine, your vigorous activity will bear fruit;

♦ and if the threads lie motionless in the same form in which you lowered them into the water, this indicates that the coming year will be boring, uninteresting, life will be gray and dull.

On needles

This divination was widespread in the villages. Rural girls, daring to tell fortunes with needles, asked fortune-tellers or nannies about this. They themselves should not guess: otherwise it will not come true. The witches rubbed two needles with bacon and dipped them into a glass of water.

♦ If the needles sank it was a bad sign.

♦ If they got together this foreshadowed an imminent marriage.

♦ If they diverged and turned out to be one against the other, this meant that there were obstacles to the wedding from ill-wishers.

♦ If they diverged in different directions, it foretold eternal unmarried life.

With wooden spoons

On New Year's Eve or at Christmas time, they used wooden spoons to tell fortunes. For fortune-telling in the morning they collected the purest snow in a small wooden barrel and put in the hallway. It was forbidden to touch this snow until the time for divination came. By midnight, when the snow melted, they began to guess.

In the old days, everyone had wooden spoons. You will also have to acquire wooden spoons for the whole family in advance. Label each spoon to avoid confusion. Throw spoons into the barrel and you can guess.

Divination happens in this way. You ask a question related to someone in your family and shake the barrel of spoons as hard as you can. Whichever spoon he nails to the wall will be the answer to the question. Questions are put so that the answers show you the name of the person. For example, ask: “Which of us will get an apartment? Who among us will go abroad? Which one of us will make a lot of money?” Then shake the barrel and see the answer.

You can guess not with your family, but with friends or girlfriends.

For the alphabet

This is a very common Kupala fortune-telling among the girls of England. In Dorsetshire, girls, when going to bed, write individual letters of the alphabet on pieces of paper and put them in a bowl of water, letters down, so that in the morning they will see the first letter of their future husband's name on an overturned piece of paper. All other pieces of paper should remain in their original position.

On the thief

In India, to detect a thief, they resort to this method: they write the names of all persons suspected of stealing on balls of dough or wax, and then throw these balls into a vessel of water. It is assumed that the ball with the name of the thief will float to the surface, while the rest will sink to the bottom.

In Russia, papers were used instead of balloons. “Where the abduction happened, they gathered suspicious people, called for a literate one, wrote the name of each on special scraps, put a huge cup of water on the table. The witch took the notes and threw them one by one into the water. Whose nominal paper jumps out of the water, he was recognized as guilty.

With wreaths

Wreath divination is a summer divination as it requires a river. Usually such fortune-telling was carried out once a year - on the holiday of Ivan Kupala, on the Kupala night.

1. During the day, girls tore birch twigs and wove wreaths from them. Each tried to weave a more beautiful wreath, different from the others, putting all her soul into it. At midnight, when all the wreaths were braided, the girls went in a crowd to the river bank and threw the wreaths into the water. And then we watched how the wreath behaves in the water.

♦ Worst of all if the wreath sinks, this meant that his mistress this year would either become seriously ill or die.

♦ If the wreath floated on, It's not the fate of a girl to get married.

♦ The lucky lot fell to the girl whose the wreath will land on the shore: she will marry well, and she will be lucky all year round.

There is also an Old Believer version of this divination. Here it’s not so much the girl who guesses, but new family on a girl. When parents choose a bride for their son, she lives in this family in the position of almost a servant for a whole year and does the most menial work in the house and has no right to be indignant. A year later, she (or herself) is woven a wreath of various flowers and thrown into the water, asking aloud if the girl should get married in the coming year. And if the wreath sinks, then she will not get married. And in this case, the girl was either forced to live another year in this family in the position of a servant, or expelled in disgrace from the family. But there was one trick here - if the girl did not want to get married or if her mother-in-law did not like her daughter-in-law, heavy flowers were woven into the wreath, which sank very easily and carried the wreath with them.

2. Another way of divination with wreaths is as follows. For weaving, they took not birch twigs, but wild flowers and weaved not one wreath, but several. A piece of paper with their desire was attached to each wreath. Do you have five wishes? So, weave five wreaths - one wreath per wish. A lot of guessers? Mark your wreaths so that you can, then understand whose went where. Go to the river, throw wreaths into the water and see what happens to them.

♦ If the wreath floated away, do not catch up, then the desire may not come true, it will float away from you.

♦ If drowned - definitely won't work.

♦ If landed on the shore then everything is fine, your cherished desire will come true.

With candles on a raft

This is an old divination that can only be done in the summer. For it you will need a raft. It can be very small, just to accommodate all the candles. The shape of this structure also does not play any role. For divination, one candle per person is taken, but the candles are chosen different in color or shape so that they can be distinguished on a floating raft. Candles are installed like this: they drip more wax on the logs and stick their candle to the wax. They light all the candles at once and push the raft away from the shore. And now they are watching how the candle burns and in what position it stands on the raft. Observation begins when the raft has moved ten meters from the shore.

♦ If the candle has not gone out during this time - this good sign, indicating that the fortuneteller is waiting big success throughout the year, he will have money and the love of other people.

♦ If the candle went out, but did not fall, then the year will be difficult, but it will not bring any particular trouble, most often it only speaks of possible diseases(not fatal) and lack of money.

♦ If the candle went out and fell is a sign of poverty and financial ruin.

♦ If the flame of a candle is steady all the time, then life will be successful, without problems.

♦ If the flame is uneven and wavering, then there will be good days, and difficult, but everything will work out.

♦ If the candle did not go out, but fell (this rarely happens), then the troubles that the year threatens, you will overcome with the help of other people.

♦ And here if the candle went out and fell from the raft into the water, then the prospects are the worst, in the old days they said that this is a sign of the imminent death of a person.

By the stream

Guessing in this way is necessary in early spring when the snow melts and streams begin to run. This fortune-telling also predicts what awaits you next year. To do this, make multi-colored boats so that everyone has a boat of their own color and shape. Boats can be made both paper and wooden, which one you like best. It is not the quality of the boat that is important here, but the process of its navigation. Now launch your boats and watch them float down the stream.

♦ If the boat sails successfully, bypasses stones and whirlpools, keeps well on the water and does not fall on its side, then this year is happy for the fortuneteller, he will bring good luck in everything.

♦ If the boat fell on its side, but floats and even outstrips other watercraft, then you will be able to overcome all difficulties, although there will be many of them.

♦ If the boat goes keel up, that is, it will turn over, then the year is expected to be bad, failures will haunt you.

Groom's choice

So you can guess only if you are faced with a choice of which gentleman to prefer. And if you have only one gentleman and you like him, then guessing is pointless. For this divination, take a large container of water, preferably a tub. Choose four applicants from the crowd of fans, write their names on pieces of paper and attach the pieces of paper to four small pieces of wood (or mark these pieces of wood in some other way - for example, with strings different color). Pour clean water into the tub and throw the pieces of wood into the water. Then mentally ask the water for advice on which of these four you should choose, close your eyes so as not to peep, and pull the first piece of wood that comes across.

Now you know the name of your chosen one.

moon divination

Choose a starry night on a full moon, open the windows so that moonlight can freely enter the room, pour water into a large bowl. Write male names on slips of paper. Speak at the same time: “Voditsa, voditsa! Show me my love!" - and look at the moon. The room must be dark. Now everything is ready. Exactly at midnight, stand facing the window, put water in front of you, take pieces of paper with names in your left hand and throw them into the water. If a piece of paper jumps out of the water, the name that is written on it will be your betrothed.

With birch and aspen branches

This fortune-telling is done in the summer, when everything around is covered with greenery, usually at summer Christmas time. Choose two branches in the forest, birch and aspen. Then pour clean water into a small basin and throw branches into it. Now make a wish, close your eyes and pull any of the branches at random.

♦ If you pulled out a birch , then everything that you have thought of will surely come true.

♦ If you pulled out an aspen branch, then the result will be negative.

Holy week and the night before Christmas - best time to look beyond the twist of fate: to find out whether to wait for marriage in the new year, to see the betrothed, to make a cherished wish and ask the mysterious forces for its fulfillment. Fortune telling on the water is one of the most interesting magical rites, since water is imbued with a person's aura and truthfully predicts the future.

Divination on the water with candles "the answer to the question"

cook three church candles, draw spring water (before divination, it should stand next to the bed for 3-4 days). At 12 am on January 7, place the candles in the form of a triangle on a "clean" table, pour water into the decanter and place it between the candles. Place a small mirror behind the decanter. Concentrate, calm down and mentally ask a question of interest. Carefully look at the water through which the mirror is reflected. After some time, a fragment of the future will appear in the water, which is the answer to the question asked.

Christmas divination "transfusion of water" on a wish

Take two glasses, one empty, the other filled to the brim with water. Make a wish and quickly pour water from a full glass into an empty one. Important: you can do this only once, otherwise divination will lose its power. Look at the table on which the action was carried out. If there are 3 drops of water left on it - the wish will come true, more than 3 - it will not come true.

Divination with water and paper for events

Take a basin of water, strips of paper with written events (luck, unexpected gain, illness, passionate love, death, wedding, failure, illness). In the center of the walnut shell, place a small candle end and put the "boat" into the basin. Which strip the candle flame sets on fire, such an event will happen in the coming year with a fortuneteller.

Divination for Christmas time with water and needles for marriage

Prepare two sewing needles (the same!), rub them thoroughly with bacon, pour into a glass clean water. A prerequisite: a fortuneteller / fortuneteller should not lower the needles into the water, an outsider must do this. Make a wish and look carefully at the needles. We sank to the bottom - you shouldn’t wait for happiness in the new year, came together, as if attracted by a magnet - just around the corner successful marriage. The needles diverge - there is some obstacle that prevents reunion with the betrothed.

Divination by water for love

Take a basin with spring water and small sheets of white paper (10 pieces). Write on them the year and male names (50/50). Roll all the pieces of paper into a tube and throw them into the water at the same time. The first unfolded leaf with a name predicts the name of the future spouse, a leaf with a number - the year of marriage.

Fortune telling on ice "frozen spoon"

Ancient divination on the water for children is considered the most simple and reliable. Prepare a silver tablespoon, pour well water into it and put it on the night of January 6-7 in frost. In the morning, see the result of divination. If there are bubbles in frozen water - this is a prediction of good health, tubercles - marriage and the birth of a son, dimples - the birth of a beautiful daughter.

On the night before Christmas, from January 6 to 7 on Christmas Eve, folk beliefs magical powers are active. Therefore, at Christmas time, Christmas fortune-telling is the most truthful and often reflects the future and fate of a person. I propose to escape from the gloomy everyday life, and plunge into the mysterious and joyful world of the bright holiday of Christmas. Let's find out how on Christmas Eve our great-grandmothers predicted the future, love, betrothed, bride, wish fulfillment ... And this is not the whole list of predictions that Christmas predictions give us. Rituals are carried out with the help of cards, rings, coffee, millet and other items. One can both believe and not believe in the veracity of fortune-telling, since it is possible to confirm or refute the result only after a while.

To conduct rituals, if possible, it is necessary to adhere to certain rules:

In the room, turn off the electricity, light candles and ensure complete silence.
People with bad mood and skeptics ask to vacate the room.
Do not cross your arms and legs, as this is an obstacle to the ceremony.
Let your hair down, remove hairpins, pins, needles.
Untie all the knots on the clothes, remove the belt.

Ancient and proven divination:

Find out the future - fortune telling with cups. Take as many cups as there are fortune tellers. In each put a ring, a coin, bread, salt, sugar, onions, and pour water into one. Each fortune teller with closed eyes chooses a cup. If a ring fell out, then in the near future there will be a wedding, sugar - fun, a coin - wealth, bread - prosperity, salt - misfortune, onions - tears, water - life without change.
To see the image of the future groom is a ritual with mirrors. At midnight, the girl is in a dark room between two mirrors with candles lit. He begins to peer into the reflection, trying to see the betrothed.
Find out the gender of the child - fortune telling with a ring. Ring, hang on your hair and hold it over a container of water. If it makes circular movements, then there will be a girl, pendulum - a boy, will remain in its original position - to childlessness.
Fortune telling on matches. Place two matches on the sides of the matchbox. Think of yourself on one, the other of your beloved guy (girl). Light them up. If the burnt heads lean towards each other, then the lovers will be together.
To find out the age of the groom - to the barking of a dog. After all the fortune-telling, listen to the barking of the dog. If the barking is hoarse, then the betrothed will be in years, sonorous - promises a young groom.
For the future - a ritual on wax. Melt the wax. Saying the following words “Brownie come drink milk and eat wax”, pour it into milk. Put the dishes at the doorstep of the house and watch what is happening. You will see a frozen flower, marriage awaits you in the new year, a cross - illness and trouble, a beast - an enemy will appear, stars - good luck in the service or study, stripes - roads and crossings, a human figure - a new friend.
Card reading. When going to bed, put four kings under the pillow and say: "Betrothed, mummers, come to me in a dream." See in a dream a red king - the groom will be rich and young, a cross - a military or businessman, a peak - old and jealous, a tambourine - whatever you wish.
Who will marry earlier - on the bulbs. Each girl outlines her bulb and plants it in the ground. In the spring, they look at which one will sprout first, that young lady will be the first to marry.
In which "side" will you marry - with a boot. Go outside and throw a boot (boot, shoe) on the road. In which direction the “toe” of the shoe will be directed, in that direction you will get married.
On fate - in the shadows. Take a sheet of paper, squeeze it, put it on a dish, which you put against the wall and set it on fire. When it is completely burned, peer into the displayed shadow of the burnt paper on the wall and try to find out the future.
With an egg. IN fresh egg make a small hole and pour the contents into a container of water. Try to guess the future by the shape of a folded protein. You will see a ring, there will be an engagement, a ship - a business trip, a church - a wedding, a cube - a coffin. The protein will drown - to the fire.
Divination by the book. Take a spiritual book, you can "Bible". Think of a page number with a string. Open and read the hidden place. Try to interpret what you read in a way that interests you the most.
On desire - fortune-telling with a boat. Fill the basin with water. Write wishes on strips of paper, bend the sheet and hang it on the sides of the basin. Attach a lighted candle to a half of a walnut shell and launch a boat in the middle of the pelvis. What desire he swims up to and sets fire to a leaf, then it will come true. In the same way, you can guess at the narrowed name by writing male names on the leaves.
Learn the name of the betrothed. Cut small leaves and write on each male name. Put them under your pillow before bed and stir. When you wake up in the morning, pull out any leaf. The groom will be with the name that will be written on the piece of paper.
For the future - fortune-telling by a golden chain. Rub the gold chain with your hands to feel warm. Fold it in right hand, shake and throw on the floor. According to the figure that the chain forms, interpret the future. Circle - there will be difficulties, a flat stripe - luck and good luck, a bow - a wedding, a tangled knot - losses and illnesses, a triangle - success in love, a snake - meet cunning people, heart - happiness and peace.
For love and marriage - with needles. Take two needles rubbed with bacon and dip them into the water. If the needles drowned - troubles and illnesses are coming, come together - to marriage, dispersed - before marriage is still a very long time.
Fortune telling - on the coffee grounds. Brew ground coffee. Drink it, cover the cup with a saucer, twist it 3 times saying “loyalty, friendship, consent” and knock it over on a saucer. Raise your cup. Part coffee grounds will stick to its walls, and part will remain on a silver platter. Guess by the signs and shadows of the coffee mass. A human shadow is a date, buildings are wealth, land and plants are strife, a break in relationships, failure, animals are danger, bad road, bad news.

The main thing in divination is to believe in the good, and it will certainly come true. And do not believe in a bad prediction, because it's just fortune-telling.

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Traditionally, it is considered that divination at Christmas time or Christmas divination- from Christmas (January 7) to Epiphany (January 19) - the most accurate and truthful. The girls stocked up on shoes, candles and mirrors - for divination for the grooms. Mothers of families poured flour, salt and sugar onto saucers, trying to guess what year awaits them, sweet, well-fed or unlucky. All the polls guessed at the fulfillment of desires. Well, those who expected the addition were very interested in the gender of the unborn baby! After all, ultrasound appeared relatively recently, but even as a result of this study it is impossible to say with absolute certainty whether a boy or a girl will be born. Especially in the early stages!

Christmas divination on the gender of the child

What you need: a ring (preferably a wedding ring), a glass of water, a thread 20–30 centimeters long. Or: a needle, a piece of natural woolen fabric and the same thread as for the ring.
How to guess: sit down at the table, put a glass of water in front of you and prepare a ring suspended on a thread (or a needle and a piece of woolen cloth). If you are guessing on the ring, lower it into a glass of water and chat with it clockwise there - the ring will “cleanse”. With a needle suspended on a thread, you need to pierce the woolen fabric several times. We take out the ring from the water (a needle from the fabric), raise our hand so that the ring on the thread (or the needle on the thread) is above the stomach, and carefully observe the swaying of the object. If the movements are circular, a girl will be born, if pendulum-shaped, a boy.

Christmas divination by book

What you need: thick book and good company.
How to guess: It's better when two or more people guess: it's more fun! Someone takes a book, the rest sit around him. In turn, we make a question (for example: “What will my husband say when I return from the hospital?”, Or “The first words of my child”), a page and a line (for example, page 38, fourth line from the top). The fortuneteller opens the book in the right place and reads the line. You will be surprised how many funny “predictions” and their interpretations will appear!

Christmas divination with saucers

What you need: three identical saucers, a spoonful of flour, sugar and salt, three identical napkins, paper or fabric.
How to guess: Very "adult", very "economic" fortune-telling for the whole next year What will it be like for the family? We put the saucers on the table and pour flour into the first, sugar into the second, salt into the third. We cover the saucers with napkins, turn away from the table, and at this moment someone begins to “shuffle” the saucers. We turn and, without opening the napkins, choose any saucer. Now you can take off the napkin: if there is sugar in the saucer, the year will be sweet and filled with love, if flour, prosperity will come to the family, but if you got a saucer with salt, just salt your family borscht more abruptly.

Christmas divination on wax

What you need: a plump wax candle in a candlestick, a saucer of water, a bunch of imaginative girlfriends.
How to guess: Put a saucer of water in front of you, light a candle and wait until the wax around the wick melts, forming a small lake. Carefully, trying not to spill anything, remove the candle from the candlestick, bring it to the saucer and pour the melted wax into the water in one motion. Now look at the outlines of the resulting wax figure: what it reminds you of is waiting for you. If the house - spend a year in home, road - you will travel, a dog - be on your guard, someone will “bite” you and so on. But most likely, you will have to turn to the “help of the hall”, because the figures made of wax frozen in water most often look like small potatoes and you can’t figure it out alone.

Christmas card divination

What you need: a deck of 36 cards and a cherished wish.
How to guess: Shuffle the deck, draw six cards at random from it, look at them and make a wish on any of the thirty cards remaining in the deck. Set aside six cards - you won't need them. Shuffle the remaining thirty again. Now lay it out in rows: the first is from 2 cards, the second is from 3, the third is from 4, the fourth from 5, the fifth from 6. If the card is in the fifth row - cheers, it will certainly come true! If in the fourth, it will come true with a high degree of probability. In the third - "fifty-fifty". In the second - if you really, really try ... Well, if the hidden card fell out immediately, in the first row, or did not fall out at all, then wave your hand: the cards are lying, everyone knows that!

Christmas divination on a candle, water and paper

What you need: a large bowl of water, long strips of paper (how many wishes fortunetellers have - so many strips), floating candles, a lighter.
How to guess: Write wishes on strips of paper. Fill the basin about halfway with water. Hang the wish strips over the water, folding their edges over the edges of the basin. The strips should just barely reach the water level. Fortune-tellers each take a candle, somehow mark them so as not to confuse where whose, put them in the middle of the basin and set them on fire. Burning candles will soon start floating freely in the basin, reaching the stripes. Whose candle set fire to the "desire" - in that case it will come true this year.

Christmas divination in the shadows

What you need: sheets of clean paper, matches, a candle, a saucer, a smooth wall within reach and generous household members.
How to guess: This divination is romantic, interesting, but accompanied by a strong aroma of burnt paper! Therefore, if homemade is against, it is better to replace it with some other. Well, if you were given carte blanche for tonight, crumple up a sheet of paper, put it on a saucer, light a candle from a match, set fire to the crumpled paper with a candle. Turn off the light. Let the paper burn as far as possible - do not fan the flame and do not extinguish it. Burned out? Carefully lift the saucer with the lump and hold it between the wall and the burning candle so that the shadow of the lump falls on the wall. The outlines of the shadow will predict the events of the near future for you!

Christmas divination "under the pillow"

What you need: strips of cut paper, pen, pillow, blanket, Christmas night.
How to guess: Everything is very simple: write your desires on the strips (no more than three!), fold the strips several times, place under the pillow, lie down, cover yourself with a blanket and fall asleep sweetly. In the morning, as soon as you wake up, put your hand under the pillow. Take out the first strip that comes across, unfold. Hurray, this wish will surely come true!