Andrew's Day: love prophecies

“Andrzej, Andrzej, girls, benefactors, show your will, show your beloved,” the maidens sang. Pouring wax, throwing apple peels behind you, rearranging shoes, laying out bones signed with male names on the floor, and waiting for the dog to eat first ... There are many fortune-telling for an unmarried woman if she will meet the same one next year. Some are more popular, others are less popular, but no less reliable.

Lover or Ghost?

For centuries, in many countries, women have been looking for this day. answering a question in a dream: who will be my husband? They fasted all day and ate a very salty wheat cake before going to bed. Then they prayed seven times and finally asked St. Andrey, to send them a future husband in a dream, who will give them a glass of water to quench their thirst.

However, this state was not entirely safe - if the girl’s heart was not pure, if she was looking not for love, but for a rich husband, then in a dream, instead of a chosen one, a ghost could appear to her. And then she will lose the chance to get married altogether, not to mention the fact that the ghost will sow fear in her soul. That is why you need to protect yourself from this - spread garlic cloves around the bed, which drive away evil forces.

There is garlic Symbol of Saint Andrew's Day in Romania, where this day is considered ideal for cleansing houses from bad energies, expelling demons, ghouls and ... vampires, also energy ones. On the eve of November 30, a large amount of garlic is eaten there, the juice squeezed out of it is smeared on window and door frames, the heads are placed in fireplaces, on window sills and thresholds.

Cherry blossom prophecy

This is one of the most reliable divinations of St. Andrew. On this day, a girl who is curious about whether she will get married next year has to cut herself off. sprig of cherry or cherry tree and put it in water (of course you have to change the water every day). If the twig blooms on Christmas Eve, this is a sure sign that a wedding will take place. Please note that if only green leaves appear, the girl must be very careful, because she is threatened with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy ...

Not only St. Andrews

We celebrate a few days before St. Andrew's Day Catherine's name day (November 25). On the eve of this holiday there was a fortune-telling day only for bachelors. Today, after the catharsic, only a memory remains. But lonely English and Scottish witches on this day with a bottle of clean water go to the chapel of St. Catherine. There they turn around their axis nine times counterclockwise and loudly pronounce their long-standing request: “Saint Catherine, please, a husband: the only, handsome, rich. Help quickly, please be kind. Then they kneel on the floor, pour a few drops of water on it, draw a cross on their forehead with wet fingers and solemnly repeat the spell.

See also: How to prepare for St. Andrew's night?

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