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Christmas divination for the betrothed, his financial situation and the future that awaits soon were very popular among our ancestors. From this article you will learn how to guess correctly during the winter holidays.

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Christmas divination for the betrothed

Yuletide and many other fortune-telling for the betrothed were in great demand. In the old days it was difficult to find a girl who would not try to find out how soon she would get married and what her future husband would be like. If you are not yet married, you can follow the example of our ancestors.

In the old days, Christmas divination was a very fun pastime. Some of them required complete solitude, but some of the divinations, on the contrary, provided for the presence of a large number of people.

One of the most popular ways to celebrate Svyatki was throwing felt boots on the road. Each of the girls took turns throwing a felt boot behind her back, and then checking where his sock was looking. It was believed that the future spouse would be from that side. Now felt boots have become a rarity, but you can try throwing your usual winter shoes. However, try to choose a place so that they do not fall into an open manhole or other similar place.

This time is also considered the best for or.

Of the terrible Christmas fortune-telling for the betrothed, fortune-telling with a mirror can be called. Mirrors at all times were credited with various mystical properties, including the ability to show the future. In order to see the betrothed, you need to put a mirror on the table and light a candle on both sides of it. After that they say:

My betrothed, mummer, show yourself to me.

This fortune-telling has many variations, for example, with two mirrors that create a mirror corridor.

Many girls during Christmas time tried to spend the night in someone else's house, for example, with a friend. The fact is that if you go to bed in a new place where you have never slept before, you can see the future groom. To do this, before going to bed, you should say:

I sleep in a new place, dream of the bridegroom.

After that, you can’t talk to anyone until the morning, and enter into a dialogue only after you remember your dream. The man you see tonight will be your spouse.

In the past, fortune-telling was very popular among girls, which made it possible to find out who would marry first and who would not marry at all. To do this, cut off each of them by a thread of the same length and set it on fire at the same time. The one whose thread burns out faster will be the first to marry. The sequence of burning threads was associated with the order of marriage of each participant in this divination. And if the thread burned down less than half, it will take a very long time to wait for marriage, and perhaps fate has prepared the fate of an old maid.

In the old days, girls were often deprived of the opportunity to choose a husband on their own. Perhaps that is why they tried, at least with the help of fortune-telling, to find out with whom they would have to live. At midnight they took a knife and went out into the street with it. They cut the snow with these words:

Damn, damn, don't be silent, damn, damn, tell me, what kind of husband will I get, will I have to laugh or cry?

After that, you should listen in anticipation of the sounds that dogs usually make. Vicious barking or growling says that the husband will be an evil, strict and gloomy person. Deaf and hoarse barking - will be much older than you. Voiced- younger than or about your age. shrill barking portends that your spouse will have an unpleasant character. Cheerful and lively barking - he will be a cheerful person with an easy character. If you hear howl, which means that you will outlive your spouse, and you will become a widow quite early.

Christmas divination for the future

People have always wanted to know their future. During Christmas time, this is easiest to do. Such fortune-telling, for the most part, does not imply adherence to strict rules and can be not only a way to find out what awaits next year, but also an interesting pastime for you and your friends. They are engaged in fortune-telling, as a rule, in the dark time of the day after sunset.

In order to find out, you first need to choose a container. Proceed from how many people are guessing and what size objects that will matter in fortune telling. It can be a boot, a cup, a basin covered with a cloth or a bag.

The meaning of divination is to choose an object from a container with your eyes closed. For example, sugar portends a good year, and furnace ash- bad, full of troubles. Ring falls to marriage onion- to tears. Glass or glass hint at an addiction to alcohol or other problems that are associated with alcoholic beverages. Gold or Silver mean that you will live richly. You can add any items to the bag, guessing their value in advance.

There is a similar divination with glasses. Take identical glasses or goblets. There should be as many as the girls are going to guess. In each glass, place an item that will matter. As mentioned above, it can be sugar, onions, jewelry. Now they often use the keys to apartments and cars, money and other attributes of modern life. You can pour water into one of the glasses, it will mean the absence of changes or any significant events.

Eavesdropping is a very interesting way to find out the future. You need to do this one at a time, even if you are going to guess with your girlfriends. You should choose a house, go to the window and listen to what is happening inside. If abuse is heard, your year will be full of quarrels and troubles. If it is quiet, the year will be calm. Pay attention to everything you hear. You can also listen at the crossroads by asking a question and drawing a circle around you.

Other ways of divination at Christmas time

With the help of divination at Christmas time, you can find out what fate awaits relatives. This was often done by those who had sick and old people in their families. To do this, they went to the neighbors' house at the time when they were having dinner, and looked into the window of the corresponding room. If you managed to see the heads of your neighbors, then everyone in the family will be alive, there will be no funeral in the house this year. And if you didn’t manage to see the goals, then someone will die or get sick next year.


Fortune telling from a book can answer any question, the main thing is that you are able to correctly understand the quote. For this, books of spiritual content or classical literature are usually taken. You can guess in this way, asking any question that is generally possible to answer with a quote. You should think it over, then name the page and line number, and then read the answer to your question.

With the help of paper, they get answers to questions, especially about desires. Cut strips of unlined paper, write on them your desires and questions that need to be answered. There can be any number, the more the better. Place the strips in any wide container and fill with water. At first they will spin randomly, but then they will begin to float up. You need to notice the strip that pops up first. What is written on it will come true, and if a question is written on it, then the answer to it is positive.

12 magical days after the Nativity of Christ and until the very Baptism were called Christmas time from ancient times and were considered favorable for performing various kinds of rituals and divination.

Thus, in the old days, a wonderful and stable tradition of Christmas divination was born, which successfully survived until the 21st century.

Of course, modern Christmas fortune-telling for the groom and the future has undergone some changes compared to the fortune-telling practices that were known to our ancestors.

However, in turn, they significantly multiplied and expanded, incorporating a lot of new and extraordinary ways of divination.

The history of Christmas divination has its roots in the pre-Christian Slavic era, when in Russia the end and beginning of the year were considered that mysterious time when otherworldly forces came to life, and people did everything possible to propitiate them, extort secrets from them about their future, and also speak the future a year of prosperity, fertility and wealth.

With the advent of Orthodoxy, these traditions have changed a little. Now this time has become known as "Christmas" - holy days, between Christmas (now celebrated on January 7) and Epiphany (now January 19), but the habit of performing fortune-telling rituals during this period has not disappeared.

In addition, some days of Christmas time are still considered the most favorable in the year for divination and love spells of all types. This is explained by the fact that these days any fortune-telling speaks exclusively the truth, regardless of who and how they carry it out. Such days are considered: Christmas night - the time when Christmas time begins, Vasilyev evening - the night before the old new year and, of course, Epiphany itself - the most favorable fortune-telling day when Christmas time ends.

Christmas divination rules

And before, and now, mostly women and girls, who most of all wanted to know everything about their future love and family life, guessed at Christmas time.
Such rituals were performed at home, usually at midnight, by candlelight and alone (as an option, a group of girls gathered to make it not so scary)

The girls tried to take off all jewelry, belts, and ribbons from braids, so that all this would not interfere with receiving the right energy flows from higher powers.

Then there was preparation for fortune-telling, when everyone who wanted to get an answer to their questions tried to formulate their problem as accurately as possible, since it depended on how specific and truthful the answer of higher powers would be.

After the preparations, divination began directly.

Variants of popular Christmas divination

For a long time of operation of various fortune-telling techniques, many of them have changed, changed, rebuilt, or completely lost their relevance.

But some have gone through the centuries and continue to this day to be in demand by hundreds of girls across the country who are going to tell fortunes for the future and for the groom at Christmas time.

To do this, they use a variety of methods and means.

Traditional divination performed at Christmas time

The most stable throughout the entire period of use were, are and remain several types of Christmas divination.

A simple but effective divination in the name of a loved one is considered good. For him, you need to go outside at midnight and wait for the first man you meet, and then ask his name. As he will be called - so will the husband of the future be called.

Another option for this fortune-telling is to fall under the feet of a passer-by and look at his reaction. How he behaves, so the groom will be: if he helps to get up, he will be caring, if he passes by, he will be heartless.

Divination with a shoe

Divination with a slipper is especially popular with our people. During its implementation, it is proposed to go to the threshold of your home, take off your shoes (boots, slippers, shoes) from your left foot and throw them into the street over your left shoulder.

Where the toe of the shoe points, you will have to get married there. True, if he points to a house, then marriage next year will not have to wait.

Finally, it closes the top three of the most important Christmas fortune-telling - a terrible fortune-telling with a mirror and candles. For some reason, it is believed that if something goes wrong during it, then the girl’s soul may not return from such a “mirror” journey.

To perform this Christmas divination, you need two mirrors and two candles. Mirrors are placed opposite each other in such a way as to create a mirror corridor. The fortuneteller sits between them and lights candles. Now her goal is to call her betrothed. He must appear at least for a moment in a long line of mirrored corridors.

By the way, in the old days it was also believed that the most powerful fortune-telling are those that are made by a girl in complete silence by candlelight.

Various divination with improvised means

In the process of fortune-telling, as the centuries-old practice of our ancestors, and ourselves, shows, any means and objects are good, because in principle it’s not what you guess on, but how you do it and what the result will be.

In fact, for this reason, divination using improvised materials - fabric and paper, pictures, food and water, working tools and utensils - gained particular popularity among our people.

Divination on paper

Divination using elementary paper is considered simple and quite effective (any paper will do - from newspaper to standard A4 sheets). For example, for one of them, you need to write your desire or cherished dream on paper, then put the paper on a saucer and set it on fire with an ordinary match.

By whether the sheet burns completely or not, one can judge whether what is written on it will come true. It is believed that if a piece of paper burns out completely, therefore, the stars favor the accomplishment of what was planned, but if not, then you should think about it: perhaps dreams will come true, but not immediately, but it is possible that they will never come true at all.

Divination with paper and its ignition

take any kind of paper, crumple it well, thinking about what the next year can bring, and then put it on a tray or plate and set it on fire.

When the paper burns out, you need to pay attention to the resulting silhouette and try to guess from it what the coming year will bring. Although, of course, it is worth mentioning that this type of divination depends entirely on the imagination of the fortuneteller.

Divination on bread

Divination with a loaf of bread will also be interesting. According to him, you need to leave a small piece of bread after dinner, cutting it off from the loaf with your own hands. Then, at exactly 12 o'clock at night, take this piece out into the street and leave it somewhere in a secluded place.

All guessing is what will happen to the bread in the morning. If the bread remains where it was left, then the year will be good, successful and full of positive moments. But if the bread disappears, you should wait for an unhappy year.

Divination with needles

Also, modern girls like simple fortune-telling with needles. For him, you need to take 2 ordinary needles, a glass of water and a piece of lard. The needles are smeared with lard, and then lowered into the water. In this case, the fortuneteller must say -

"Oh, my needle-needle,
stop sewing for the father,
stop sewing for mother,
it's time for you, needle,
sew on my pillow!

Then it all depends on how the needles behave. If the needles come together, then love will happen soon, and with it the wedding. But if the needles are kept apart from each other, then there will be no wedding next year.

Christmas divination for the betrothed in a dream

A number of fortune-telling for a loved one that is popular today is connected with another mysterious space where the secret becomes clear and you can easily look into your future.

We are talking about dreams and, accordingly, about such divination methods that are customary to carry out at night, or rather, for the coming dream. The principle of such appeals to higher powers is very simple, you need to put the object under the pillow, while saying that the betrothed should come to help in this or that matter, for example:

  • Combed hair (under the pillow we place a comb for hair)
  • Translated across the bridge (the bridge will personify a wooden bar)
  • Belted (you need to put your best belt on)
  • I washed myself and showed myself at the same time (we put soap and a mirror in the headboard).

At the same time, it is worth saying the classic:

“My betrothed, mummer, come to me…”

Before going to bed, you can also use fortune-telling, in which you do not need to remember everything that you dreamed about during the night. To do this, it is worth putting 4 kings from an ordinary deck of cards under the same long-suffering pillow. True, they will still have to be asked that the one who is betrothed come to show himself in a dream.

In fact, the content of sleep is not important. Since in the morning you need to get out of bed, put your hand under the pillow and get any of the cards. Actually, the answer will just be in the card that will be brought to light. King of clubs - the groom will be a widower, peak - jealous, tambourine - beloved, hearts - young and handsome.

Newfangled divination for the Christmas time of the XXI century

Time does not stand still. Epochs succeed each other, and with them the fashion, traditions, and customs of divination for the betrothed also change. What was once relevant becomes only echoes of antiquity, instead of which new phenomena and processes grow.

This is fully true for the world of divination. Of course, many Christmas rites and rituals continue to be popular among modern residents of our country. After all, they are passed down from generation to generation, and simply have proven themselves properly.

Nevertheless, new types of divination also appear, the scenario of which takes into account the need to use modern means and methods. Most of these newfangled fortune-telling variations suggest using a TV, computer, mobile phone, the Internet and other inventions in order to carry out fortune-telling.

The simplest options for fortune-telling of the 21st century are telephone. For example, a fortuneteller is invited to dial any phone number at random and ask for the name of the person who will pick up the phone. It is believed that this will be the name of the groom or his mother (if a woman picks up the phone).

Divination through the phone

There is fortune-telling with a mobile device and more difficult. It is necessary to write an SMS to the first number that comes across with a question, the answer to which worries you the most. If there is no response message, hopes and dreams will not come true.

If the response is confusion or “Sorry, you have the wrong number,” then there is a chance that the problem will still be resolved safely. And, finally, if a meaningful answer comes to the question asked - so be it!
Do not cease to amaze the so-called computer fortune-telling.

One of the most common ways, painfully reminiscent of the old divination with a mirror, involves the following steps. It is necessary to turn off the monitor, put candles next to it and, peering into the darkness on the screen, call on the dear one to come as soon as possible.

Divination via the Internet

Another option for fortune-telling through the World Wide Web is to open the first search engine that comes across and enter a disturbing question in it. Then open the first link that will appear during the search, and look for the answer to your mental anguish in it.
Of the newly minted fortune-telling of our time, there are those that are made for children. Rather, in order to find out their total number, as well as their names.

To do this, the girl must collect small glass pebbles, which are usually sold for interior decoration. After that, she should write on them with a felt-tip pen different names that she likes. The number of such stones is not limited.

Then the resulting stones-names are lowered into a container filled with water and the result is evaluated. On how many stones the names have not been erased, there will be so many children. And already by the names you can guess both the gender of the child and his possible name.

There can be many options for modern fortune-telling practices, especially since everyone is free to come up with their own rituals and techniques. The main thing is that they give truthful answers and be effective in use.

Christmas divination in Russia

The tradition of Christmas divination has its roots in the distant pagan past. With the adoption of Christianity, divination and magic began to be considered a great sin. Playing with fate, trying to penetrate into the future is a dangerous occupation. It may turn out that the prediction is false, but the person believed in it. So life will not be broken for long for yourself or someone else. However, there are days in the year when all prohibitions are removed, and witchcraft does not bring trouble. This, of course, is Christmas time. In essence, any fortune-telling is a fortune-telling for desires. True predictions - whether they are good or bad - are soon forgotten. Maybe for this reason, once a year, you can inquire about fate - find out the truth and forget.

Christmas time - a time of well-deserved rest and collective entertainment

Fortune telling on cards for desire in Russia was not very practiced. It is much more interesting to know the future in colorful details - which side the groom will be from, what his name is, what he looks like. These are all girlish questions, and older people were interested in the harvest, the fertility of cattle, the weather in the coming year, and so on. These questions could be answered at Christmas time. When does the Christmas divination start? You can start them immediately after the appearance of a star in the sky, announcing the birth of the Savior.

What young lady, entering adulthood, does not dream of knowing her fate? Fortune-telling for the fulfillment of desires among girls is, first of all, questions about marriage. What lies ahead - wealth or poverty, will there be children in the family, health and prosperity? All this is very interesting!

All year long, hardworking people have a lot of worries: in the spring - sowing, in the summer - mowing, preparing supplies for the winter for the family and cattle, in the fall - harvesting and winter sowing. Christmas time falls on the most serene period - from the Nativity of Christ to Baptism and Water Blessing. After spending a year in labor, in fasting and abstinence in Filippovka, having defended a long solemn Christmas service in the church, the people began fun and festivities, which lasted two weeks. In the daytime, hearty and plentiful food was prepared - borscht, jelly, pies, pies. They made a lot of pies, because Christmas time is visiting, treating, caroling. It gets dark early in winter. Traditional gatherings and entertainment come at sunset, when the Christmas fortune-telling begins.

Christmas time as an occasion to make new acquaintances

Each locality had its own experts in the most reliable methods of prediction. They certainly tried to invite them to their party, because even the simplest fortune-telling for the fulfillment of a wish wants to be painted with more accurate details. The fortune-teller was lured with treats, coaxed with gifts and affectionate words. Experienced soothsayers were a kind of actors. The famous spy prophecies were accompanied by the performance of special tunes, round dances. The girls, when they were going to visit for fortune-telling at Christmas time, dressed up in the most beautiful dresses, their hair was removed with ribbons and colored scarves - after all, there will definitely be young men in the company. During such gatherings, young people got acquainted, had fun, got married, and on Maslenitsa, parents sent matchmakers to get married on Krasnaya Gorka.

Fortune-telling

The most colorful and crowded fortune-telling for a wish at Christmas time took place with the participation of a matchmaker and was called spying. A lot of people usually gathered at such parties, there were both boys and girls. The guests participating in the action put their rings, earrings or other small personal items in a large dish with water, and the matchmaker put bread, salt and ashes in the same place with the appropriate sentence. The youth with the song led a round dance around her. At the end of each verse, the matchmaker with the words "What to be - that cannot be avoided!" took out two items. The hosts took away their belongings, and the action continued until the dish was empty. If a couple of items belonging to two girls or two boys were taken out, then the matchmaker, at her discretion, could put them back, or she could give them to the owners.

There were other variants of spy fortune-telling. In this case, each verse of the song contained a brief description of some event - a wedding, a trip, the birth of a child, wealth, poverty, illness, death - everything that accompanies a person's life and stands out as the most significant. For each story noted in the song, an object was taken out of the dish. The prediction was interpreted in accordance with what was heard

Fortune telling on cards

Christmas fortune-telling is a collective entertainment. It is not interesting to guess on the cards in the company. This is an activity for two, because a fortuneteller usually tells one person for a long time and in detail about his future, past and present, and those around him may get bored at this time. And yet, the demand for this kind of interpretation of fate during this period is very high. Fortune tellers-tarologists write down those who wish to queue for a certain hour, because fortune-telling on cards for a wish using the Tarot deck is not available to many. This is a whole philosophy, but there are simpler ways. Christmas divination on the cards of the French soothsayer Madame Lenormand is much shorter and more accessible. Pictures depicting a ring, a road, rats, a coffin, a child, the sun, a book and other objects and phenomena very clearly demonstrate what the coming year has prepared for the questioner.

You can also learn about marriage from an ordinary playing deck, using court figures, taking into account the suit. This Christmas divination on the cards looks like this. Men guess at kings and jacks. At night, these cards and one lady, denoting the fortuneteller herself, are placed under the pillow. Next, you need to say: “I go to bed on the Zion mountains, three angels in my head. One sees, the other will tell, the third will predict my fate. Everything good will come true, but the bad will not come true and will be forgotten. After that, you can’t talk to anyone until the morning. You must go to bed before midnight. And the next day, immediately after waking up, the first card that comes to hand is taken out. If this is a lady, then the girl will not get married in the next year.

Divination for the betrothed

There is another common and no less simple divination for the desire to find out about the groom. A comb is placed under the pillow, this procedure is accompanied by the following words: "Narrowed-mummer, come to me dressed up, comb your little head." In the morning, there should be hair under the pillow on the comb. By its color, the bride of the groom will recognize.

Unmarried girls hung a towel outside the window at night and said: “Betrothed-mummer, come to me to wash.” If the towel turns out to be wet in the morning, it means that this year the fortuneteller will meet her future husband, and if it remains dry, then you will have to wait for the next year.

Unpretentious fortune-telling on three tea or coffee cups told whether the girl would get married, get a groom, or remain free until next year. Under each cup you need to put a ring, a flower and a ribbon. If the choice falls on a flower, then the girl will meet her betrothed, if the ribbon, then she will be a free bird all year, but if the ring, then everything is clear.

What did family people think about?

Married women, wanting to know what gender the child would be, poured water into a large spoon and froze it. They looked at the morning, and if the ice turned out to be convex, it means that a boy will be born, if it is concave, a girl, and if it remains even, then there will be no addition to the family yet.

Economic people did not forget about and made weather forecasts for the whole year by months. To do this, they took 12 onions and immediately after the Christmas church service they laid them out in a row on the windowsill. All vegetables were sequentially labeled every January 19th and were examined. Wet denoted rainy months, and dry denoted dry weather. In this way, work could be planned, such as repairing the roof or planting plants.

Scary divination

Courageous girls went to tell fortunes in the bathhouse. There, according to legends, there lived a bathing spirit, which on holy days could show the girl her future husband. Bath divination for a wish at Christmas time was carried out at night, when everyone had already gone to bed. The girl took with her two mirrors and a white plate filled with water without a pattern. Having removed all her clothes, except for her shirt, untying the knots and removing the pectoral cross from her neck, she, fortune-telling by the light of two candles, established a corridor from the mirrors. After counting twelve reflections, the girl looked at the plate of water and peered into it. As soon as a face appeared there, she had to immediately turn everything over, and, grabbing the cross, run away from the bathhouse. It was a very dangerous occupation, since the bathing spirit could scare the curious to death and even strangle her if she hesitated. And such cases happened.

The most desperate went to church. Divination by candlelight was carried out as follows. The girls lit candles and placed them in front of the altar. According to the sequence in which they burned, the order of marriage was determined. And by the soot and the crackle of candles, they judged what the marriage would be like.

Divination with fire

Candles were also used for another way of predicting fate. So, they lit a long thin candle and held it tightly, without moving it, over a dish of water until a small cinder remained. Dripping, the wax created a variety of patterns. Their interpretation required remarkable imagination. The help of girlfriends should be counted with caution. After all, each has its own destiny, and they can see something related to themselves, and not to the one who held the candle, and willy-nilly distort the prediction.

There is a very entertaining desire to know the main events of the beginning of the year. The prediction takes place in 3D format. You will need a clean white wall and a large sheet must be crushed into a large soft lump, put on a tin tray and set on fire. The lighting must be turned off, as the image is read by the shadows on the wall cast by the burning paper. To make the divination successful, first try it with a small sample of paper. When you make sure that the shadows are visible well, you can proceed to the main action. This divination by desire is accurate, because subconsciously every person knows his fate, but we do not always know how to use our own intuition.

Divination with glasses

The events of the year can be defined in another way. Take four identical glasses, number and place four elements in them - a ring, salt, bread and sugar. The girl or boy, that is, the one who asks the question, closes his eyes. One assistant spins the fortuneteller around the axis, the other swaps the glasses. Then the questioner is brought to the glasses, and he, without looking, chooses one of them. If there is a ring in it, then there will be a wedding or betrothal, if salt - sorrows, bread - a rich life and good work, sugar - a serene and cheerful year. The one who chose the ring can find out when an important event will happen to him - marriage or engagement. To do this, the glasses are emptied, the person is spun again. Glass number 1 means January, February or March, number 2 - April, May or June, 3 - July, August or September, 4 - October, November or December.

funny divination

Domestic animals also took part in divination. In the old days, they loved the so-called bird fortune-telling. Whether the wish came true or not depended on which paw the chicken or rooster crossed the threshold first: if it was the right one, then the wish would come true, and if it was the left one, then it would not. The bird was frightened by a noisy gathering of strangers, ran away, they poured grains on it, persuaded it to come in.

A company of friends and girlfriends can have a lot of fun if they decide on fortune-telling with a large chest filled with a wide variety of utensils, or a wardrobe. To help the fortune tellers need a child of five or seven years old, who is not very well versed in things. The youth are blindfolded, and the kid takes out various objects from the closet and asks: “Whose is this?” The one who answers: “Mine”, untie his eyes and give the selected item. When all participants are interviewed and endowed with things, you can start interpreting the meaning. Since any Christmas divination applies only to the next year, the main events of this period are determined by subjects for each of the characters. Threads, belts, ties, shoes or a suitcase always portend a road and travel, the key is the acquisition of real estate or a car, the trousers that a girl got, even if they are women's, promise a new acquaintance with a man, if a young man got a skirt, then he will have a new girlfriend, glasses and bottles indicate many festive feasts with alcoholic drinks, tableware - to communicate with friends and guests, beautiful jewelry and expensive fur - to wealth, socks, slippers, unpresentable things - to poverty, books - to study, weapons symbolize war, toys portend the birth of a child or pregnancy, etc.

Divination by books

To do this, take six folios of different subjects, for example, the Bible, fairy tales, novels and some reference books. The questions are formulated approximately as follows: “What do I need to do or what should I do to fulfill my desire?”, “What will be the most significant for me this year?”, “How will my professional life turn out?”, “What will happen in my personal life? ? Without looking, the volume is taken and opened. Further, still without opening the eyes, the finger indicates the place where the prophetic text is written. It must be read and understood. The subject matter of the book indicates the major concerns of the coming year, and the chosen text is the answer to a direct question.

Modern divination

With the transition of the calendar to a new style, new ways of divination also appeared, for example, a wish is made in advance, and to the sound of the Moscow chimes it is written on a sheet, set on fire and thrown into a glass of champagne. During the volleys of fireworks, everyone clinks glasses, hugs and drinks champagne along with the ashes. In order for this New Year's fortune-telling to work, the desire must not only be written and swallowed in time, it is very important that the paper burns completely and the ashes do not wake up on the tablecloth. This ritual usually enlivens the feast very much. Not everyone believes in its effectiveness, so they laugh, looking at how their friends fuss, counting on such magic. With this fortune-telling, the inhabitants of the Kaliningrad region were very lucky. Recently, they have heard the chimes of the Moscow Kremlin and the speech of the President twice, because the New Year comes to them later than everyone else in Russia. Accordingly, fortune-telling on paper for desire is done twice. The second time they are usually better prepared - and matches are at hand, and the paper is not very hard and not too light (so that it burns quickly and does not scatter before it gets into the glass). In general, you can guess for each desire only once, otherwise conflicting answers will appear and you can get confused. Although, if you treat this as a joke, a game, an occasion to have fun, then why not ...

Christmas traditions and rituals are a great occasion to diversify the routine of everyday life, renew communication with old friends, and make new acquaintances. Such traditions should be protected and cherished. Many will say that any magic is a dangerous occupation, it is no coincidence that the church condemns divination and divination for a wish at Christmas time, but you should not take this very seriously and be afraid of such a sin. There are worse things. Take Christmas games with a grain of salt. Our ancestors, having played with fate at Christmas time, on the night of January 18 to 19, plunged into thereby washing away the sins of two festive weeks. After that, ordinary life began with its simple concerns and interests, and Christmas time remained in my memory as a bright and cheerful episode.

Holy week is the days between the birth of Christ and his baptism. Not everyone knows what date Christmas time begins and how many days last. And Christmas time begins on Christmas Eve on January 6 in the evening after the first star rises in the sky, the final date is Epiphany on January 19. As a result, the holy season lasts 2 weeks, until the Baptism of the Lord.

In 2018, Christmas time also begins with the Nativity of Christ and continues until Epiphany Eve. In the church calendar, this is an important winter holiday in Russia. There are many beliefs associated with Christmas days. Holy week in 2018, as in other years, will begin on Christmas Eve on January 6th.

From January 6, from the beginning of Christmas time, the souls of the dead return to our world of the living. From this day on, evil spirits are activated. On holy days, witches arrange a sabbath, rage and have fun with the unclean. But, apart from that, on these important Christmas days, in which a miracle is possible.

Magical rituals can begin when Holy Week begins. Fortune-telling and rituals for Christmas time for the betrothed are the most popular these days. Christmas time of Russia lasts 2 weeks: the holy week from the evening of January 6 to January 13 (Old New Year), as well as January 14 to 19 -a terrible week, right up to the very Epiphany. These days are best suited for divination, rituals, divination, rituals. Christmas divination will help to find out the future, and rituals - to form and attract the desired development of events in the coming year.

What is done on Christmas holidays: traditions

January 6 ends the Christmas Fast. On this day, you can already drink a little alcohol. On the first day, they visit relatives and relatives. They come to visit with congratulations and gifts. It is also customary to thank loved ones for their care and love. Do it sincerely, with all your heart.

Christmas time begins to be celebrated on January 7th. You can start the meal the day before, on January 6, when the first star rises. At least 12 dishes are placed on the table.

Another tradition is “Christmas tales”, in the evenings the whole family gathered in a close circle, invited guests and told tales. There are entire collections of folk stories. Among them you can find original works. The tales were distinguished by mystery, the presence of magic, and miraculous events always took place in them.


In the afternoon on holy days, it was customary for the people to ride down the hills in a sleigh. And after Christmas time, brides and grooms were wooed, the period of matchmaking began.

In the last days of Holy Week, they prepared for Baptism. They made a hole in the nearest reservoirs. The shape of the hole was special - a cross.

During the entire Christmas period, you should analyze income, draw up a budget, and engage in planning. And it is also customary to conduct various fortune-telling for Christmas and Christmas time.

What Not to Do on Holy Week

Folk wisdom put forward a number of requirements that forbade certain actions on holy days.

  • You can't count money. It is especially forbidden to count small coins. You will attract tears.
  • You can not sew, embroider, knit in the evening before the holidays, as well as on holy days, otherwise there will be many worries throughout the year, which will be difficult to cope with.
  • It is impossible to buy real estate during holy weeks, start new businesses, open a business. At this time, evil spirits are active, it can ruin all undertakings and bring trouble.
  • You can't do hard work.
  • It is forbidden to baptize children and get married.
  • 7, also on Epiphany on January 19, it is forbidden to guess, so as not to miscalculate happiness.

Christmas time divination, superstition

The most suitable time for divination, various predictions and rituals is Christmas time. These days in January, information about the future is open. Every year, young girls and boys used it for Christmas divination, although this was not approved by the church. Information about upcoming events was available, because in the week from Christmas Eve until Epiphany, spirits descend to earth, and through them it was possible to get answers to people's questions.

Fortune telling is a fascinating and extraordinary way to find out your future. To be precise, divination means prediction. Since ancient times, man has wanted to know what lies ahead for him. To this end, he used various improvised means. What drives people in this case? ...

Fortune-telling in Christianity is considered a sin, but during the Christmas time it was possible to guess at the grooms, learn about the future harvest, predict the weather. And then the sins were washed away at Baptism in an ice hole.

Christmas fortune-telling was especially liked by young girls of marriageable age, they really wanted to know if they would get married, what kind of husband they would have. Adults also wondered, they learned about their future. During Christmastide it was allowed to guess in certain places. For this sacred action, baths, a garden, verandas, and crossroads were used. In the house, it was possible to come into contact with evil spirits only at night, and for protection it was necessary to light candles.

Fortune telling at Christmas time at home

If you are attracted to the topic of divination and prediction, then you should try folk popular techniques. Fortune telling during the holy season is carried out at home, for this you should prepare the attributes in advance, study the methodology, choose a place and make sure that no one bothers you.

Fortune telling for Christmas time, prediction on wax


Do you want to know your future? Prepare for Christmas divination white paraffin candles and the remains of wax candles, metal utensils, a deep cup, fire, water.

Put the candles in a bowl, put the container on the fire and wait until the wax and paraffin melt. Pour the melted wax into another white container filled with water. Wait until the figure freezes. On it they look at the future of the one they are guessing at. There are the following interpretations of the poured wax figures.

Interpretation of wax figures

  • House - replenishment, well-being, for a virgin - an early marriage.
  • Ruins - misfortune in life in the coming year.
  • Cave, pit - predicts a serious illness, death.
  • Rock - obstacles on the way, in the work begun.
  • The heart is love, mutual understanding.
  • Tree - if its branches are raised up, then joyful events are expected in the near future, lowered branches promise melancholy, sad news.
  • Flower - joy, success, brilliant prospects.
  • Ring - wedding in the near future.
  • A candle or a dome of a church is a wedding.
  • Damn, which also fell to the bottom - a protracted girlhood, obstacles to marriage.
  • A dog, an animal with an open mouth - impending troubles.
  • Angel - receiving help from above.
  • A dog, a horse's head is a true friend, support for loved ones.
  • Drop - cash replenishment, payments.
  • The star is an ambulance of the Higher powers, all problems in life will be solved by themselves;
  • Ship - changes, travel, changes in the financial, spiritual, personal spheres;
  • A horseshoe is a harbinger of successful transactions.
  • Turtle - slowdowns in business.
  • Rooster - it's time to act.
  • Snake - duality: coiled up - there is a person who is watching you, if the snake is active - aggression towards the one who is guessing.
  • The bear is a strong helper, protector; teddy bear is a caring period.
  • Mouse - empty turmoil, fussiness, fear.
  • Caterpillar - complete collapse, failure.
  • Spider - cunning deceit.
  • A hare is a danger to a man, and a gift to a woman.
  • Pig - correct actions, deferred profit (true).
  • Hedgehog - the intensity of relations with people, a certain person.
  • Waves - quick decisions, unexpected changes.

Fortune telling for Christmas time by shadow


A simple and familiar divination. They take a newspaper sheet, a regular A4 white is also suitable. Crumple in the hands, giving the shape of a ball. It is not necessary to crush tightly. The sheet is crumpled by the one to whom it is predicted. Then put the paper ball on a plate, it should be very flat, you can just turn the usual one over. The plate is placed next to the wall. They set fire to the paper and wait for it to burn out. Place a candle behind the plate. Look at the shadow, and predict the future from it. The shadow is formed by burnt paper. The meaning of the figures coincides with the interpretation of the figures in divination on wax.

Christmas divination for marriage by egg

To predict the future, on holy days in the evening, take a glass, pour water (3/4) into it and drive in the egg white. Hold it in your hands beforehand, mentally formulate a question. A glass of protein should be placed in the oven. Preheat the oven. Wait for the protein to turn white. Take it out of the glass. Now, consider the resulting figure.

If the squirrel figurine looks like:

  • ring - wait for the wedding;
    church dome - get ready for the wedding;
  • a square, a figure with right angles - expect a fatal disease;
  • ship - get ready to move after the wedding to another city.
  • Damn, a flat circle - you will still walk in girls for a long time.

Fortune telling on the narrowed in the mirror

All marriageable girls dream of one thing - to find out what their fiance will be. Christmas fortune-telling will help predict what the husband will be like. Spend them on any day of Christmas. But our grandmothers believed that the most correct fortune-telling was on the night of 14, that is, 13 at midnight. This night is the best suited for divination for the groom.

Christmas divination for the groom is an accurate, effective ritual of prediction, which is carried out at the mirrors. They choose a large room with a balcony for prediction, take two mirrors - one large, the second smaller. Previously, the ritual was carried out secretly in the bath of a girl who wanted to see her betrothed.

Preparation for divination: remove the pectoral cross, tight clothes, put on a loose shirt, a dress without a belt, loose your hair, take off your shoes.

Put the mirrors in the following way: a small mirror is opposite the large one so that a visual mirror “corridor” is created in the large one. It will be endless. For better visibility, place lighted candles on both sides of the mirror.

As soon as you come to the mirror, say: "My betrothed, mummers, show yourself in the mirror."

Sit quietly and peer into the mirror "corridor". Try to focus your eyes. In ten minutes you will see a picture of your future husband. For some, this takes more time, for example, 15-20 minutes. At the moment when the image appears, sharply put a small mirror on the table down with a mirror surface and shout: "Chur, me!". Then cross yourself.

Yuletide fortune-telling for 4 kings for a betrothed


Ritual divination for kings is a great way to find out what your husband will be like. Spend all the girls who have not found their soul mate. To perform this ritual, you will need a deck of cards (regular, playing, new).
The technique for performing fortune-telling for 4 kings and 4 jacks is as follows: Take a deck of cards, select 4 kings and 4 jacks from it, remove the rest. Before going to bed, mix the kings and jacks, put them under the pillow. In doing so, say:

Go to bed, try to remember the dreams that you will have tonight. In the morning, as soon as you wake up, randomly draw one card with your hand. If you get:

  • jack - your future husband will be young;
  • king - means that the groom will be older than you in age.

As for the suits, the peaks mean a wealthy, successful man. Baptize - an unfamiliar man, a new acquaintance. Worms - the chosen one will be from the circle of closest friends and acquaintances. Tambourines - a narrowed acquaintance of friends who will introduce you.

Divination for the fulfillment of a wish

They perform fortune-telling on holy week, the night from 13 to 14 is best suited for this. There are several techniques for fulfilling desires.

For cereal. Take rice, put it on a plate. Make a wish over the cereal. Formulate clearly without interpretation. Then take a handful of rice and toss them lightly on the table. Count the grains. If their number is even, then Hurray! The wish will come true!

For water: pour clean water into a bowl. Whisper your wish. Take out a cup of water on the porch or on the balcony, on the street, preferably under the open sky. Look in the morning: find a hole in the water - the wish will not come true, if the surface is flat - wait for the fulfillment of your plan.

For chicken bones. Cook the chicken. Eat a paw for dinner. Save the bones. Fold them carefully in a rag, a red paper napkin. And then take it out the gate to the street. Make a wish. The following words are spoken:


Put the bundle behind the gate, go home.

Early in the morning come to this place, check: if there are no bones in place, then the desire will not come true; if the bones are powdered with snow, then it is worth abandoning the plan, and if the bones are intact, then everything that you have planned will come true.

Ways of divination for Christmas time, simple and popular

There are several ways of divination on holy days. In Russia, the following items were used for predictions: cereals, salt, cards, mirrors, water, wax, candles. Often they took coins and engaged in predictions with the help of animals. The most popular in the village were simple ways of divination for Christmas time, it was believed that they were the most faithful. And in order for this to be so, you just need to believe! You all probably know the most popular Christmas divination - throwing a boot or felt boots through a gate or window. Where he will show with his toe, from there and wait for the groom.

Rituals on Christmas Days in Holy Week

In the days from Christmas to Epiphany, our ancestors were always looking for signs and clues to predict the future. Rites on Christmas days before Epiphany were held for one purpose - to find out about your future. During this period, they were guessing at the future groom, health, fate. To see their future directly, they tried to perform the ceremony and see a prophetic dream.

The ritual of "ordering" a prophetic dream was popular mainly among women. Do you also want to see a dream predicting the future, in which there will be clues and signs of fate? Remember, on holy days all the doors to the subtle world are open, so treat dreams with special attention. Very often in the period from 7 to 19 prophetic dreams are dreamed.

If you deliberately want to see a prophetic dream, then do the following rite. Take a round mirror. Place it under your pillow before bed. Relax before going to sleep and say 3 times special words:

You will definitely see a prophetic dream, just do not forget that you need to go to bed before midnight.

The original way of divination at Christmas time

Among the original methods of divination at Christmas time, the following can be mentioned: pulling out a log from a woodpile, to which they approach with their backs and randomly pull out a log with their hands. If the field is even, then the groom is fine, and crooked - the future husband is clumsy, it will be flawed.

Fortune telling at the closet where clothes are stored. This method is also classified as non-trivial. This is not only accurate, but also a fun way to predict. In the company of girls, call a boy, a girl of about 10 years old. Men's and women's things should be in the closet. The child should go with his back to the closet, and then pull out one thing at random. At the same time, the child asks the question: “Whose is this?” Vieingly, all who guess should answer: "Mine." Who is the first - that and the prediction.

If pulled out of the closet:

  • Suspenders - the future husband will have a big belly, a lover of food;
  • tie - rich, wealthy;
  • cowards - a womanizer;
  • scarf - with a weak potency;
  • pants - a funny joker;
  • socks - a man of modest means;
  • skirt - a fashionable person who follows fashion;
  • gloves - "thievish", dishonest;
  • jacket or sweater- a good reliable spouse;
  • hat - a smart person with high intelligence;
  • shirt, shirt

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    The Christmas ritual was performed by those who were lonely and already desperate to find their love. All those who wished to meet their soul mate and tie the knot with her performed the following ritual at midnight during Holy Week. You need to go to the church, go around it 12 times around it clockwise. At the same time, one should make an appeal to God for help in finding a new love. It is believed that such a ritual destroys loneliness and removes vows.

Hello, dear friends and visitors of the site! Let's talk today about fortune-telling, yes, about it. And when else to guess, if not at Christmas time, it lasts from Christmas to Epiphany. From January 7 to January 19 - Christmas time. Let's get to know each other better, what are they, these fortune-telling for the Christmas time.

And it all starts on Christmas Eve! It is magical, fabulous and so conducive to believe in miracles, even the most non-believers, somewhere in the depths of their souls, believe in a miracle.

Why is fortune-telling precisely at Christmas time, there is a belief that in these numbers the world of reality and the world of spirits come into contact. Therefore, you can look into the future, learn about your destiny.

This is how we are arranged, we want to look into the future, find out about our destiny. This is especially interesting for young people, so you want to know what it will be like, betrothed. I would like to take a look into the future.

I want to warn you that Christmas fortune-telling is a very serious matter and requires compliance with certain rules.

You should not guess at home, it is better to do it in non-residential premises (bath, barn, attic), if fortune telling is associated with mirrors, animals and cards.

If you are going to guess, remove the cross, rings and loose your hair (if long).

Suddenly, a situation arises when you become scared (knock, blurt out somewhere), just say "Chur me, chur." These simple words help, even protect. That's what the old people say.

Ways of divination for Christmas

My dear readers, nevertheless, I would not advise you to guess on the mirrors. This fortune-telling is best done under the guidance of a fortune-telling specialist. And for yourself, you can choose simpler and harmless ways.

Prophetic dream

The very first and most pleasant way to know your future is a dream. Dreams during this Christmas period are prophetic, and through a dream you can find out a lot: who will be narrowed, what events await you, what life will please or upset.

In the evening, take the lock, bag and favorite dress, put the dress in the bag and lock the bag with the lock, and put the key under the pillow. You will go to bed, say: "Come, betrothed, for the key, unlock my dress."

Before going to bed, pour water into a glass and put it on the table next to it, say: “Come narrowed one, give me water to drink.” Whoever comes in a dream will be your soul mate.

You can guess a dream by day of the week:

Say these words before bed. This is what my grandmother taught me.

  • Tuesday - "from Monday to Tuesday, I look at the windowsill, with whom to spend a century, come spend the night."
  • Wednesday - "Wednesday, Wednesday, dream of bread or water, bread is good, water is bad."
  • Thursday - “Thursday, Thursday, I will buy - I will sell, I will find - I will lose. If I find it, it's good, if I lose it, it's bad.
  • Friday - "Friday, Friday, whoever loves, let him dream."

Wake up in the morning and analyze your dream, it’s even very interesting, sometimes you dream about it, but it really comes true.

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Fortune telling with shoes for the betrothed

And this ritual with shoes is very simple. Take a boot, a felt boot or a shoe, go out on the road in the evening and throw it over your left shoulder onto the road.

Where the shoe will look with its nose, from there the groom will be waiting. If the shoes are facing the house, do not get married this year.

Divination on a gold chain

There is a beautiful fortune-telling on a gold chain, you need to guess before midnight. Remove the chain, take it in your hands and warm it. Shake it in your hands and throw it sharply on the floor. All fortune telling is how the chain will fall. What figure the chain forms, this will be your prediction.

  • A straight line is for success and luck in life.
  • A circle is a closed situation, a predicament.
  • The triangle is a great success in all matters and in love.
  • Confused - illness and difficult financial situation.
  • Heart - you are loved and love will bring you a happy life.
  • Snake - expect betrayal, beware of slander and gossip.

The most favorite divination is divination on wax. The girls gather in the evening, stock up on candles and vied with each other to guess the meaning of the welded figures.

For this divination, candles are needed, preferably wax and a dish of water. We light a candle, and as soon as the wax begins to melt, we take the candle in our hand and drive it over a dish of water. The movements must be circular. The wax drips and figures are created in the water. Half a minute is enough to get a figure.

We take the figure out of the water and consider what it reminds you of, what it associates with. Let your imagination run wild. Associations should arise arbitrarily. What you see is what awaits you this year.

You can also see the shadow from the wax figure on the wall, turning it, the shadow can tell a lot...

You can look at the hint on the Internet, type in the search engine "the meaning of wax figures" and get a complete transcript.

Note: after you took the figure out of the water, and there were a lot of wax droplets left in the dish, this is a good financial situation, money. And if you have not formed a single large figure, but only droplets, then nothing significant will happen this year.

There are a lot of fortune-telling methods, I told you only about the most popular ones that I myself once used.

Video - truth and myths about divination at Christmas time

Christmas time is an amazing time, a time of joy, fun, kindness. People go to visit each other, give gifts, do charity work. And young people carol, divination for Christmas time becomes a small miracle for them. Dear friends, I wish you joy, kindness and good mood! With love and respect, Alevtina