Traditionally, while the girls were getting married and until the next Christmas, many already had babies or they were in a position. Those who were still expecting a joyful event were looking for at least some ways to find out their future.
It will not be superfluous to remind that the Orthodox Church is not very good at fortune-telling. But, even on Christmas Eve before Christmas, she exchanges anger for mercy. It is believed that on this night, also on all subsequent nights before Epiphany, which falls on January 19, the evil spirits weaken, and fortune-telling is no longer a demonic act, but simple fun.
On the night of Christmas, the people believed in it and they still believe it, various miracles are happening. Including, you can see your future, especially if it concerns children. It is especially good when there is a full moon on Christmas Eve night. This will be the case, for example, this 2018.
Special rules for fortune-telling:
The room where the ritual is performed should have a minimum of noise, light and people. Of course, you need to turn off the TV and music. Fortune-telling should be carried out closer to midnight, so that there is no more noise outside the window.
Also, during fortune-telling, you cannot cross your arms or legs, this can reduce the energy flow and make it difficult to look into the future.
You need to prepare well for fortune-telling: wash, put on clean clothes, untie your hair and comb it, remove jewelry, a belt and other items that can impede the free flow of energy.
Christmas fortune telling for children
On the floor of the unborn child
There may be different fortune-telling for Christmas on January 6-7 for children, including to determine the gender of the baby, informs the Rosregistr portal. To carry out this ritual, you will need to take a needle and thread. Hold the thread between your thumb and forefinger, try not to touch these objects. So hold the needle over your open palm. If she starts spinning clockwise, then your next girl will be born. If the needle starts swinging like a pendulum, there will be a boy. When the needle does not swing in any way for a long time, this indicates that the woman will not have children.
On the stones
I'll have to take ink and write on the stones those names that I like the most. You can just stick a piece of paper with the name to each stone. Next, you need to lower the stones into the water and start watching what is happening. If the inscription does not wash off the stone (or the piece of paper does not come off), then you will have so many children, how many stones the inscriptions remain on. By the way, the surviving names can also predict the sex of future babies.
We need to take a glass and pour water into it. Then on the night of Christmas Eve or on any of the Christmastide nights, except for Christmas from January 7 to 8, take the glass out into the cold and leave it there overnight. In the morning, bring a glass to the house and see how the water froze in it. How many bumps there are in the water, so many sons will a woman have, and how many pits there will be as many daughters. By counting all the signs, it will be possible to determine the exact number of children.
These are the three most popular divinations for children on Christmas, which have already helped many women to get peace of mind and make sure that the kids will definitely be there: you just have to wait a little. May all your dreams come true. By the way, we know a way to make a wish for Christmas to make it come true.
Christmastide two weeks of winter holidays are named, from Christmas Eve on January 6 to Epiphany, celebrated on January 19. Fortune-telling at Christmas is rightfully considered the most truthful. Christmastide roots go back to the times of pagan Rus. It was fortune-telling during the winter solstice (and this is the Christmas time) that was given special importance in pagan times. It was believed that it was on these days that the otherworldly forces were most active, and the boundaries between the worlds are thinner, which contributed to a more truthful result of New Year's, Christmas and Yuletide fortune-telling.
With the advent of Christianity to Russia, Christmas fortune-telling not only survived, but also acquired more meaning, and although the church tried to fight superstition and fortune-telling, they were carefully passed down from generation to generation, and have survived to this day in a slightly altered form.
There are three most popular birth fortune-telling - with a needle, on stones and with a glass. Let's find out more about them.
Fortune telling for children with a needle has another name: with a pendulum. It allows you to find out the gender of the child, as well as the total number of babies in your family. The word "general" is used on purpose: the fact is that this fortune-telling always shows, starting with the first child, what should be taken into account by those parents in whose family there are already children. To carry out the procedure, a minimum of material is required: a needle and a white thread (the color is not fundamental, but desirable). The next step is to rotate your left hand so that the palm is facing up and the thumb is to the side. The pendulum (needle) is lowered three times into the space formed by the thumb and palm. The needle is then positioned directly over the hand, approximately in the center of the palm. The movements of the pendulum will predict the gender of the firstborn: circular - wait for a girl, from side to side - for a boy. If the needle remains stationary, then there will be no children. After performing the procedure a second time, you will find out the gender of the second child, the third - the third, etc. This version of fortune telling is considered the most reliable.
Another option for fortune-telling for the birth of a child is fortune-telling on stones. For it you will need several pieces of paper, the same number of stones, a pen / marker and a container of water. On paper, you need to write a number of names that for one reason or another seem attractive to you. These scraps are attached to stones that are lowered into the water. Now watch carefully what is happening. Stones float, pieces of paper come off, inscriptions blur and wash away. On the gender of the child, and also possibly on his name, those leaves will be indicated that will survive as a result of this free swimming.
Fortune telling on children with a glass, or by water, is also quite common and time-tested. The only limitation is that it can be carried out only at a time of the year when night temperatures reach negative values. It is enough to take a small container into which you can pour water (previously, a glass was traditionally used for this, today it can be a glass, and a mug, or a small bowl). Before going to bed, the container is filled with water, a ring (preferably gold) is thrown there and taken outside into the cold. Someone uses a freezer, but the reliability of fortune-telling in this case is significantly reduced. Is the water frozen? Ask someone (it is important that it is not yourself) to bring the container. Examine the surface of the water carefully. The number of cavities formed will tell about the number of future daughters, bulges - sons.
Fortune-telling is called Christmas fortune-telling performed during the Christmas season. Christmastide is a wonderful two weeks of magical holidays, snow and hope, starting on Christmas Eve on January 6th and ending on Epiphany on January 19th.
Fortune-telling during this period is considered the most reliable and most often come true, because their traditions are rooted in the ancient times of pagan Rus. A great influence on the results of fortune-telling is also exerted by the fact that Christmas fortune-telling takes place on holy days, and according to legend, good spirits and angels help people.
Fortune-telling for Christmas is one of the most famous and interesting Russian traditions, which has come down to us from time immemorial. According to popular belief, the most powerful forces helped on the night of Christmas Eve. It should be noted that it is better to guess according to the old calendar, tk. all traditions go back to those times. On Christmas Eve, all magical prohibitions are lifted, mysterious forces rush to the earth: some - in order to harm people, others - to help. As a rule, girls and women wondered. They seriously tuned in, mentally fencing themselves off from the mundane, and turned to supernatural forces, hoping that they would help them discover the secret of the future.
Christmas divination in Europe
But it is not only in Russia that people resort to the help of mysterious forces during the Christmas holidays.
For example, in good old England there is an old Christmas fortune-telling, which is very similar to our fortune-telling from a log. With the onset of darkness, the girl went to the woodpile, took an armful of firewood and piled it at the hearth. In the morning, the firewood was counted: if there was an even number, then this year the girl was to have a wedding. Well, if the number of firewood turned out to be odd, then this meant that the wedding was postponed.
In the Czech Republic, girls read apples. After the end of the Christmas dinner, fresh apples were cut across. If the correct seed star turned out to be on the cut, then the coming year should have been happy. Divination by the reciprocity of feelings among the Czech people looked like this: you had to choose the most beautiful and mouth-watering apple and offer it to your beloved. The result depended on how much the object of passion is interested in the fruit: if he eats an apple, he will respond to feelings; if he eats an apple with the core, then be young together, and if he refuses or does not finish eating, then love is not mutual and there is nothing to hope for.
In Bulgaria, the most popular and faithful fortune-telling for Christmas is considered to be answering questions with the help of your favorite book. This fortune-telling is extremely simple. You just need to focus on your desire, guess the page number, paragraph and line, open and read what the prediction kept there.
In Greece at Christmas, people most often try to predict the appearance of a child, since the birth of a baby there is considered a miracle and the grace of God. In order to get an answer, put a cheesecake in the middle of the table. The fortuneteller is tightly blindfolded so that he does not peep, and he is given a knife in his hands, with which he needs to cut the cheesecake. If the knife falls in the middle of the pie, then in the new year it will bring the conception or birth of a boy. If the knife touches the edge, a girl will be born, but this event will have to wait. If the knife hits the tablecloth, there will be no children in the coming years.
Fortune telling for Christmas in Russia
But let's get back to Russian traditions. During Christmas and Christmas fortune-telling, you can look for only the most positive aspects in all predictions. Bad omens should not be given much importance, otherwise you risk setting yourself up for failure in advance, and this is absolutely unnecessary for anyone.
Christmas wax divination
One of the most widespread methods of fortune-telling in Russia is fortune-telling with wax. To do this, on one of the Christmas nights, it is necessary to collect cinders from paraffin or wax candles, melt them in some metal dish and melt it over the fire. You need to take white candles, festive colored candles are not suitable for fortune-telling. After the wax has melted, pour it into a bowl of ice water as quickly as possible. Try to pour the wax out in one stroke, this will convert it into a figurine better. This frozen figure will reveal to you the secret of the future. Take a closer look at your figure and determine what it looks more like. Here are some interpretations:
- house - soon you will be able to acquire a new farm; marriage is predicted for girls in the first place;
- a shapeless figure means a bad future and misfortunes;
- a pit or a small cave is the most undesirable figure, since it symbolizes the burial place and predicts a serious illness or imminent death;
- the wax has stratified into several strips - roads, travel and crossings;
- the wax has exfoliated into many small drops - to good money;
- mushroom - vitality, longevity;
- trees - branches of a tree directed upward promise quick joy, drooping ones predict sadness, longing and boredom;
- ring or candle - fast wedding;
- damn, sank to the bottom - a long girlhood;
- dragon - the fulfillment of hopes, the end of a project, a great job;
- stars - good luck at work, career advancement or academic success;
- bell - lead: bell crooked - bad, many bells - alarming;
- flower - marriage or a new lover;
- the figure of a man is a new friend;
- an apple - wisdom and health, an irregularly shaped apple - a temptation that must be overcome;
- a cross is a sign of an immediate illness;
- egg - the appearance of something new in life.
Fortune-telling with wax can also be done with milk. Before pouring wax into cold milk, you should say: "Brownie, my master, come under the threshold to drink milk, eat wax." And see what kind of figure was formed.
Divination by the barking of dogs
Such fortune-telling is designed to tell the girl about her future spouse. To do this, she must take a knife and, going out into the street, go to the nearest snowdrift. Next, you need to start cutting the snow, while uttering the following words: “Damn, don’t be silent, damn it, tell me what kind of husband I get, will I have to cry or laugh?”. After the words are spoken, you need to listen carefully to the dog's barking. If the barking of dogs, reaching your ears, is ringing and loud, then your husband will be kind and cheerful. If the barking is angry and abrupt, then the husband will be sullen and a man of strict rules. A hoarse bark predicts an elderly groom, and a sonorous and high-pitched one predicts a young one. Howl does not bode well - it predicts a short-lived marriage and even widowhood. If suddenly the dogs do not bark, do not despair: this only means that supernatural forces are in no hurry to reveal this secret to you. And you should not be offended at them for this, they know better what a person should know about his future and what not.
Christmas divination on the bow
This fortune-telling will help those girls and boys who are impatient to find out the name of their future husband or wife. And maybe it will help to choose if the girl hesitates and cannot decide in any way who to give her hand and heart to. In order to reveal this secret, you need, shortly before the night that you have chosen for fortune-telling, to pick up some good bulbs and write the initials of candidates for groom on them. For young men, respectively, likely brides. After that, the bulbs are placed in jars of water. On Christmas night, saying: "Oh, bow, onion, whisper, who will be the groom?" (for girls) or “Oh, bow, onion, whisper, who will be my bride?”, the sprouts should be measured. On which bulb the feather is longer, the name of your destiny is written there.
Fortune-telling for the future husband for Christmas
Fortune-telling for the future husband is the most popular type of fortune-telling among girls for Christmas. On the night of the holiday, the girl goes outside and asks the name of the first man she met. According to popular beliefs, what is the name of this person, so will the future husband of the fortuneteller. By the appearance of the first person you meet, you can also determine the degree of beauty and wealth of the future spouse. According to the stories of those who were not afraid to try this type of fortune-telling, this is how everything happened in their future lives.
You can find out what your narrowed person will be like in another way - by seeing him in a prophetic dream. In order to have a prophetic dream, you need to slowly and carefully comb your hair with a clean comb for the night and say: "Narrowed, dressed up, come to me dressed up." Then go to bed with a comb under your pillow. In a dream, the future groom will comb his bride's hair with a comb.
Another way to see the future spouse in a prophetic dream is as follows - you need to eat something salty at night and before going to bed say the following: "Who is my betrothed, who is my mummer, he will give me a drink."
They also tell fortunes with the help of glasses of water. You need to take four glasses and pour clean water into it. In the first, put a teaspoon of honey, in the second - half a spoonful of salt, in the third - a quarter of a teaspoon of citric acid, add a little wine to the fourth glass. Next, you need to thoroughly mix the contents of the glasses and cover them with napkins. The girl on whom the fortune-telling takes place comes up and without hesitation chooses one glass. If you get water with honey, then the husband's character will be good, and life will be sweet. Water with salt predicts tears and sadness. Water with acid is a sad, sad life, and water with wine will tell you what the husband will drink.
Christmas divination by burning threads is a fortune-telling for girlfriends who want to know which of them will marry faster. The girls cut the threads from one ball of the same length and set them on fire. Which of them will burn out the thread faster, she will be the first to marry. If the thread went out immediately or less than half burned out, then this means that there is no need to wait for a quick marriage.
Fortune telling on matches will help you find out how real it is to be together for a couple in love. For this, a matchbox is taken and inserted on different sides by a match. Matches are set on fire and allowed to burn. If the stubs are facing each other, then the conceived young man and the girl will be together. If one is facing the other direction, then someone from the couple will have a broken heart in the future.
Another Christmas fortune-telling, which is called "fortune-telling on a log." It is suitable for those who spend their Christmas holidays in the country or in a country house, where there is a fireplace or stove. The girl leaves the room and in the darkness pulls out one piece of wood from a woodpile. Then he returns to the hearth and examines it carefully. The log will help to draw a conclusion about what the future husband will be like. A smooth, even log predicts a good, handsome groom. A log with rough bark - ugly, but hard-working. If a log is caught in a thick and good bark, then the narrowed one will be rich. A peeled log predicts a poor groom, but this does not mean that he will not be able to improve his affairs in the future. Tolstoy will say that the groom will be strong and strong. A log with knots predicts a large family, a crooked log predicts a groom of age or with disabilities.
Christmas fortune telling by a cat is an easy way to find out about the character of the future spouse. The fortuneteller must call the cat and stroke him with her right hand. If the cat purrs, then the husband should be kind and affectionate. If he scratches, then the spouse will be cocky and pugnacious. If it meows, it will get the fortuneteller walking and talkative life companion. If the cat just runs away, then you can not dream of a wedding in the coming year.
Well, the well-known old fortune-telling by the boot. The girl needs to go outside at Christmas midnight with a boot and throw it behind her back. Where the toe of the boot looks, from there it is worth waiting for the matchmakers. But if the sock turned towards its mistress, then she will not see a wedding this year.
Divination by children
You can read fortune-telling about children using a ring or using a needle and thread. For divination by the ring, you need to take a bowl, pour clean water into it, throw a gold ring into it and put it in the frost. In the morning, look: if the frozen surface is flat, then a childless life awaits the fortuneteller; if the surface is uneven, then examine it carefully - how many tubercles, so many sons, and how many dimples, so many girls.
Fortune telling with a needle is more simple. Need to thread the needle. Holding the end of the thread with the fingers of your right hand, the tip of the needle should be directed to the middle of the palm at a short distance from its surface. If the needle begins to swing across the palm, then a girl will be born in the future, if along, then a boy will make your family happy with the birth of a boy. How many times the needle starts swinging in these two directions, so many children will be.
Divination by the shadow
This fortune-telling is done as follows. You need to take a newspaper sheet and crumple it well. You do not need to roll with a tight ball, otherwise fortune-telling will fail and you will not be able to understand anything. Then the crumpled paper is placed on a plate and set on fire. When the paper is completely burned out, you need to put a lighted candle next to the plate and look at the shadow that the burnt paper casts on the wall. According to this fortune-telling, the meaning of the figures that have arisen is similar to the interpretation of wax figures.
Divination by hair
At Christmas midnight, pour clean water into a bowl, add a small pinch of ash, a pinch of sugar and salt to it. Next, the water is thoroughly mixed and allowed to completely calm down. Then two hairs are thrown into the water: one - your own, and the other - your beloved. They put the bowl aside and go to bed. And the next morning, they evaluate the result of fortune-telling: if the hair is intertwined, then you can be together and the wedding can be played in the coming year. If the hair has moved some distance from each other, then separation awaits you and it is not destiny to be together. A drowned hair predicts a serious illness to the one to whom it belongs.
Fortune telling on dice (on dice)
For fortune-telling, you need to take two dice. The fortuneteller rolls the dice. You need a double, then you can peep into the future. You can roll the dice only six times. If the double did not fall out, then fate does not want the person to know what awaits him. Interpretations of the dropped takes:
- two units - failure in business and endeavors;
- two deuces - discord with loved ones and quarrels with friends and acquaintances;
- two triplets - travel, new impressions, new acquaintances;
- two fours - good luck in work and business;
- two fives - material well-being;
- two sixes - mutual love.
Fortune telling
You can guess on a wish on Christmastide in different ways. The main thing is, making a wish, how to concentrate and have a clear idea of what exactly you want.
For fortune telling on the grains, you need to take a handful of grain in your left hand, clench your hand into a fist and say your wish out loud. Then count the number of grains, and if it turns out to be even, then you are lucky and your wish will come true. With an odd number, your dreams will not come true in the coming year. Yes, you can take completely different grains. It is more convenient to use larger grains so that it is easier to count.
You can use another method. Make your deepest desires, write each on a separate piece of paper, roll it up and put it under your pillow overnight. And in the morning, reach out there and draw out the first one that comes along. What will be in hand will come true in the coming year.
There is also a Christmas fortune telling with a cat. Those who have a representative of the feline family in the house can make their most cherished wish and call their pet. If the cat crosses the threshold with the right front paw, then the desire will have to come true. If the left, then it is not destined to come true.
Divination by the mirror
This ancient fortune-telling was considered the most correct at all times. However, it also carried a danger. Often, impressionable young ladies fainted. And the thing is that, according to ancient legends, a mirror is nothing more than the line between the real and the otherworldly. Many signs and customs are associated with this belief. Earlier, when mirrors were made with the help of silver, it was believed that in addition to their connection with the world of spirits, they have a long memory that could harm people. Therefore, almost all signs regarding the mirror refer to bad omens. Everyone knows that a broken mirror bodes misfortune and trouble. In the old days, women could not look in the mirror during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth, because it was believed that this could destroy the shaky line between the two worlds and harm the baby and mother. At the same time, the mirror also served as a strong amulet: it was believed that evil spirits, reflected in the mirror, instantly and forever lost their strength.
But back to the divination itself. They wondered with a mirror in an "unclean" place (for example, in a bathhouse, where they washed off all the dirt), at midnight on Christmas Eve, when the border between reality and the other world became thinner. The girl who made the fortune-telling was supposed to be in the room alone. She had to take off her belt, loose her hair, and put two cutlery and a candle on the table. Having prepared everything necessary, the girl sat down facing the mirror and said: "The betrothed, mummer, come to me for supper." Exactly at midnight, in the mirror, she saw the face of a man leaning over her shoulder towards her. At this moment, peering into the face of her future groom, she had to utter the words that drove away the image: "Out of this place!" From that moment on, the danger departed. It was believed that if this is not said, the betrothed can leave the mirror, and then misfortune will occur.
Another fortune-telling with a mirror. The girl stood in front of the mirror so that she could see the month in it, and gazed into it intently. After a while, it began to seem to her that there were several months in the sky. Here she needed to quickly calculate their number. Fortune-telling said that such a number of relatives would be in the house of the future husband.
Another divination in mirrors is also associated with superstition. Mirrors were placed opposite each other in such a way that an endless corridor was formed, leading to the world of spirits and magical powers. The girl should have undressed, sat in front of the mirror and peered into the mirrored passage. The most daring fortune-tellers took off Orthodox crosses from their necks. An unclean spirit had to pass along the corridor, so that at midnight, after the words she uttered: "The betrothed, the mummer, come to me to have supper", to reveal the face of her future husband to the fortune-teller. Seeing his image, the girl had to say the same amulet that is used in fortune-telling with a mirror and a candle, namely: "Keep away from this place!". After that, the spirit disappeared, taking with it the image of a man. With this fortune-telling, friends could help the fortuneteller by making a circle around her from their belts, which served as a talisman and protection.
Fortune-telling for Christmas- an old tradition of the Russian people. However, to guess at Christmas time or not - the choice is yours. Many fortune-telling can promise troubles and misfortunes, childlessness, illness and even death. And some can plunge especially impressionable into a state of fear. In addition, it is worth considering how suggestible person you are, because It has long been known and proven that only what you believe in comes true. This applies to signs, beliefs, and fortune-telling. And do not forget the good old saying: "Everyone is a blacksmith of his own happiness"!
Christmas fortune telling for children has been known since time immemorial. Since in ancient times families were very large, the children simply had nowhere to go at the time when adults were guessing. And so that the kids “do not get underfoot”, various funny fortune-telling were invented for them.
On the eve of the Bright Feast of the Nativity of Christ, all Christians, young and old, are preparing for this solemn day. Everyone cooks kutya and the required dishes for the festive table.
They also come up with entertainment for guests, clean their own home, create small Christmas installations, etc.
In this pre-holiday bustle, children often have almost no work left, they interfere with parents and adults, constantly falling under the arm.
But giving little girls and boys an interesting and responsible task is very simple. It is enough to tell them about what Christmas fortune-telling for children exists.
Christmas fortune telling for children originated a long time ago. After all, families used to be large, and children simply had nowhere to go when adults performed various ceremonies and rituals for Christmas.
The children were almost always with their parents or left on their own. Therefore, initially, no specific practices created with the aim of finding out the fate were developed for them.
However, the old books do not clearly indicate the fact that there is no place for kids in the process of fortune-telling. Therefore, here are offered the most adequate Christmas fortune-telling for children, which they can do on their own.
It is interesting to guess with the kids on Christmas from books, and in this case any literature is taken. This fortune-telling is suitable for children of all ages: both kindergarten pupils, and schoolchildren and adolescents. In addition, you can change books from year to year, depending on the state of mind, erudition and emotional state of the children.
For Christmas, it is better to take the appropriate books: the Bible, Psalms, appropriate prayers and parables. Fortune-telling is carried out as follows:
First, a specific question is asked that bothers the fortuneteller. You need to ask it to the book on which you are guessing, mentally repeating it to yourself several times.
After the task is formulated, you need to open the book in the first place that comes across. After that, you need to set a certain line, from which the answer corresponding to the question will be read.
Fortune-telling experts confirm that a correctly formulated question is already half the battle. After all, books never lie if you refer to them with an open heart.
If the children are not really tomboy and you can entrust them to spy on strangers, then you can entertain them in one unusual way.
On the night before Christmas, several fortune-tellers should go to a street familiar to them or to a nearby one. Then, having thought of a specific house, they go to its windows and see what happens there.
Depending on what they see there, they can interpret their fate in different ways. If they see tightly curtained windows, life will flow peacefully, without change; spy on someone else's feast - the year will be cheerful, kind and eventful; will see dark windows - there will be no happiness in the near future, etc.
In this Christmas fortune telling, the age and gender of those people who zip past the windows of the hidden house are also important.
- If youth flashes, to joy and carelessness,
- If old people are for serious events and wisdom,
- If people are middle-aged - to stability and well-being.
Fortune telling for children - house assistant
In addition to serious, almost scientific observations of the weather and nature, on Christmas Eve it is proposed to entertain the kids with stories about the kind housewife. About how he protects a person's dwelling, in every possible way contributing to his free life and prosperity.
To do this, you need to show the children the pictures of the housekeeper in advance, tell about his abilities and character. You also need to teach kids to respect the forces that keep the house and live in it side by side with a person.
You can also tell the children how to feed the brownie by putting pieces of food and a couple of spoons of milk at the window at night. Thus, the "lured" brownie may well help with fortune-telling, getting close to the people with whom he lives.
So, directly fortune-telling will include the following stages:
You need to take a small saucer or jar lid. Pour fresh milk there and put an impromptu plate closer to the threshold of the front door.
While the milk is near the door, you need to melt all the candle stubs in the house in a metal bowl. After that, sentencing the vessel to pronounce the following words:
"My little house, dear master, come quickly, drink some milk, talk about fate."
When the wax is melted, you need to pour it into cold milk and fix the shapes that will be obtained when it solidifies in the liquid.
It is not always easy to disassemble what happened as a result of fortune-telling, but kids like this stage most of all.
You can interpret it like this:
- Stars - to many interesting events,
- Cross - to sorrow and disease,
- The flower is joy
- Animals are new friends
- Lines - travel, roads,
- People - many new characters in destiny, etc.
You can diversify Christmas fortune telling for children by attracting different pets to divination. For this purpose, hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs and cats are also suitable.
However, traditionally in rural magic, the cat is considered the most mystical animal. Since a cat can bring on its paws the truth about a person's future. It is better if the cat is black or tricolor, but any other color will do.
To complete this fortune-telling, you need to do the following:
Come up with and formulate to yourself or, on the contrary, loudly aloud a certain desire related to future affairs or events.
Then you need to call your pet by the name of an odd number of times. Call until the cat deigns to run into the room where the fortunetellers are sitting.
At the moment when a cat or a cat crosses the threshold, it is necessary to fix the fact which paw will be transferred through it first.
Fortune-telling is interpreted very simply: if the left paw went forward with the right, then the intended one is destined to come true. But if the cat turned out to be right-handed, then it is better to forget about that desire as unrealizable.
Fortune telling at Christmas for children - the cup of fate
Good fortune-telling on Christmas for children who really want to “be like adults” is fortune-telling with the distribution of “cups of fate”.
To perform this rite, you need to take absolutely identical circles, preferably deep and necessarily according to the number of fortunetellers, and then rinse them well (from someone else's energy).
After that, you need to scatter various objects in these circles in random order. Anything that can be found in the kitchen or in mom's caskets will do. For example, it can be coins, beads, slices of bread, sugar cubes, seeds, onions, salt, pebbles and other small caliber things.
Items at the bottom of the improvised "bowls of fate" are poured with black tea (so that the contents are not visible), and then offered to the fortuneteller for choice.
Each of the participants must choose a cup for himself and get an object from its bottom.
Decryption is performed approximately as follows:
- Bow - to sadness and disappointment,
- Pebble - to solving difficult life problems,
- Sugar or candy - life will be sweet and beautiful,
- A coin promises wealth and luxury,
- Businka - interesting meetings,
- Seeds - many new friends
If there is nothing in the circle, it means that life next year will not bring any special changes.
Perhaps you can pick up fortune-telling for older children in this video:
In the old days, Christmas fortune-telling for children was mainly invented by people of age. They gave assignments to the kids to keep track of various natural phenomena and signs.
For example, it was necessary to monitor the weather, animals and birds, the sky and precipitation, trees, etc.
The kids put all the diligence and concentration so as not to miss the smallest hints that nature gave. Up to the point that all the Christmas days were scheduled for the little things. Based on the analysis of each of them, it was possible to say what the weather will be in the coming year.
So, instruct your child to learn and notice these of the main natural phenomena at Christmas:
- Presence of snow... If there is a lot of snow on Christmas Day, this is a good and good year.
- Air temperature. If the day is generally warm and fine, then the harvest will be solid and good, the wheat fields will be full of grains.
- The presence of wind, or even a blizzard. If there is a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, there will be a lot of honey due to the abundance of bees.
- Number of stars in the sky... If there are many stars in the sky, then there will be a lot of peas in the harvest.
Children can even start a certain divination diary based on natural phenomena. There they can write or sketch their observations, noting and the signs associated with them.
The period of New Year's holidays is the most long-awaited and magical time of the year, our ancestors also noticed that predictions during this period often came true. The girls wondered about future husbands and boyfriends, about the birth of children and a happy family life. The most suitable period for predictions was considered the pre-Christmas night, the night before the new year according to the old style and the Epiphany night.
This tradition has survived and has come down to us, because it is interesting to know in advance what to expect from the new year that has come.
Most often, girls and women are interested in answers to personal questions, what the groom will be like, how many children she will have to give birth to and what gender they will be. It is the fortune-telling for Christmas on the onset of pregnancy that is the most accurate and truthful.
Signs for Christmas to get pregnant
In order for such a desired pregnancy to occur, it is in the coming year that you need to light a candle in the evening and sincerely ask the Virgin Mary, who gave life to Christ, to give the opportunity to also become a mother. You need to ask with faith and strong desire.
You can also try to bring the desired appearance of the baby closer with the help of symbols of new life - these are plant seeds, eggs, caviar. If the choice fell on grains or caviar, then count the amount that is a multiple of your age and eat them, but one egg is enough.
Another option is to go outside in front of the first Christmas star and feed the stray animals. If one of them runs after you towards the house, then, if possible, take him to you or feed him constantly, this will help to attract what you want.
Fortune telling on Christmas for pregnancy
To find out the gender and number of future babies, use fortune telling with a thread (or your own hair) and a needle. To do this, you need to take a thread of silk or your hair and thread the needles into the eyelet, 
holding the thread in your right hand, bring it over your left open palm, on which you need to take your thumb to the side. Lower the needle up and down three times, then direct it to the center and observe how the needle behaves. If it moves like a pendulum - expect the appearance of a son in life, a circular movement foreshadows the birth of a little daughter. After the first attempt, repeat the procedure, lowering the needle between your fingers, and so on until the needle stops. The movements of the needle symbolize all children destined for life: both those already born and those who are to be expected.
