A hen who crows like a rooster and a woman who whistles are fit neither for God nor for man. (In Normandy they say this: “Une poule qui chante le coq et une fille qui siffle, portent malheur dans le maison” (“A hen who crows like a rooster and a daughter who whistles bring trouble to the house”).
And in Cornwall: “A whistling woman and a hen that crows like a rooster are the two greatest misfortunes in the world.” Whistling women caused particular fear among residents of the Yorkshire coast. When a group of our acquaintances boarded a ship in Scarborough, the captain surprised everyone by refusing to take one woman on board. “Not this lady,” he said. “She whistles.” By a strange coincidence, this ship nevertheless disappeared during the voyage. In Devonshire and Cornwall, not a single miner ever whistles underground. In the border counties, a crowing hen is considered a harbinger of death. A remarkable event was recorded in the parish of East Kilbride, which greatly contributed to the strengthening of this superstition. An old woman once heard her chicken crowing loudly on an earthen embankment near her house. She told her neighbor about this and added that now something bad was bound to happen/A few weeks later her husband died. A month later, the hen crowed again, and a few days later the old woman’s son was killed. When the hen screamed for the third time, the old woman’s daughter died. Then she finally broke the chicken's neck. And after that, no one in her family died for quite a long time. In the Church of St. Thekla (the village of Llandegla, Wales) they tried to treat epilepsy with the help of a chicken or a rooster. In fact, the disease should have spread to the bird. The sick person first had to wash his hands and feet in the sacred spring located next to the church, throw a four-pence coin into the spring and read the Lord's Prayer three times. After this, the bird - a rooster or a chicken, depending on the gender of the patient - was placed in a basket and walked with it first around the source, and then around the church. Then the sick person entered the church and, immediately after dawn, prostrated himself to his full height under the Communion table. He then donated sixpence and left the church. The chicken (or rooster) was left in the church. If she died, it was believed that epilepsy had passed on to her from the patient, who was thus freed from his illness. If you doubt the effectiveness of this treatment, then here are the words of the parish clerk: as recently as 1855, he saw a bird in the church , who was in convulsions from the epilepsy transmitted to her. But, on the other hand, a chicken left in a cramped basket and deprived of food was undoubtedly doomed to a quick death. In Wales there was a superstition that if New Year If the chickens are not fed all the varieties of fruit that are in the house, then they will begin to think: should they stop laying eggs? The fruits had to be finely chopped and mixed. If the chicken stops laying eggs or gets sick, then the culprit is considered to be the yard or kikimora. “Very often, the kikimora plucks out the feathers of chickens. To prevent the kikimora from harming the chickens, they hang rags of calico, a neck from a broken clay washbasin, or, finally, a “chicken god” under the chicken infestation. “The chicken god” is a stone that is often found in the fields with one or several through holes" (see NIGHTMARE). "If a hen crows like a rooster, then this is not good: there will be a dead person in the house." "To prevent chickens from losing their eggs, they rub their anus with salt. When a young hen lays her first egg, then the housewife should take this egg and stroke her husband’s head with it, saying: “Let Chernushka (chicken’s name) have as many testicles as NN (husband’s name) has hairs on her head.” “In the family where the kidnapping happened, always Many people are suspected, especially in villages. There, the right and wrong are gathered in the same hut in the evening, the fire is put out, and a chicken covered in soot is let in. The chicken, bypassing those on the right, touches them; but when approaching the thief, he seems to scream, runs away and does not let him near him. In this case, all those who are right, but of necessity, are stained with soot; The kidnapper alone does not receive this honor. Then they bring in the fire and see who is painted with soot and who is not. If there is a person who is free from this, then he is found guilty." "To raise chickens, especially of a good breed, a peasant will never give his neighbor eggs to hatch chickens. Otherwise, as they say, all the chickens will die." Peasants' chickens often lay eggs in other people's yards. In order for chickens to lay eggs, a few tail feathers are cut off and the feathers are placed in their nests." If a chicken crows as a rooster, then in Russian villages this is considered an extremely unfavorable sign - someone in the family will die. (See the corresponding superstition in English folklore). But such a chicken is not always chopped down. They catch it and begin to measure it from the wall to the opposite threshold, turning the bird over its head. If it ends up on the threshold with its head, its head is chopped off; if it is with its tail, then its tail is cut off and released About the unfavorable meaning of whistling, see the article of the same name. Chickens bathing in dust means rain. If someone brings a hen into the newlyweds' house and makes it crow like a rooster, it will be good sign for a young family. (Yorkshire).
Based on the external similarity of cackling and the noise of a quarrel, when everyone is shouting at the same time. But since chickens can cackle at once due to the appearance of a predator (the same fox), then a quarrel is actually possible - due to the fact that one of the owners did not look after the chickens. There are many proverbs about chickens: they run around like a chicken with an egg; the hen cackles, but the rooster is silent; you tell the chicken, and she tells the whole street - etc. Another allegorical folk wisdom: “Don’t listen to where the chickens cluck, but listen to where they pray to God.”
Signs
If the roost is hung with broken jugs, the chickens will lay eggs well. If you find a stone with a hole and hang it in a chicken coop, the chickens will be safe. - The broken jug here also symbolizes the “chicken god” - a well-known pebble with a hole. It is believed that such items protect chickens and help them lay eggs. Most likely, these objects were primarily protected from the evil eye, since everyone’s gaze first of all stopped at them. That is why pots without bottoms (as well as bottles and any other utensils) were displayed on poles - so that they could be seen from afar. Perhaps housewives support this sign for the simple reason that they are sorry to part with old dishes.
Don't count other people's chickens - you'll jinx them.- Someone else's account is generally a recognized danger of the evil eye. Many people know the funny cartoon with the refrain “Oh, now he’s counted you too!” When counting, we turn our gaze to the one who is being counted, and the gaze itself is interpreted as taking away something. Housewives also associate this prohibition with the fact that they do not want someone else to know how many animals they have on their farm.
If a chicken crows like a rooster, you need to cut off its head, otherwise it will bring trouble.- Recognizing that it is not good for a hen to crow when a rooster crows, people at the same time say: “If the hen sings (crows), there will be beer.” The meaning of the sign is mystical: it is believed that such a chicken can become a werewolf, which means you need to get rid of it.
If you want chickens, plant a hen when the cattle come from the field. You can't eat eggs where the hen sits.- Quite sound advice that smart housewives follow to this day. If the cattle have not yet been placed in stalls, it costs nothing to scare the hen off the nest - and then she may not sit on the eggs again. And in the second case, the reason for the ban is this: having tasted the remaining shells, the hen may also peck the eggs - there are many such cases.
“Chickens bathe in dust - it means rain”.
To breed chickens, a peasant will never give his neighbor eggs to hatch chickens, otherwise all the chickens will die.
A skinny chicken meeting spring promises melancholy throughout the year.
“If you find a stone with a hole and hang it in a chicken coop, the chickens will be safe.”- Therefore, the chicken coop was rarely left without “magical” protection - usually an object representing the “chicken god” was hung there. For different nations these were various amulets. So, for example, in Rus' it was a broken jug. It was believed that these amulets protected chickens, hence the signs: “If you hang a roost with broken jugs, the chickens will lay eggs well.”
In Devernai, chickens often lay eggs in other people's yards. For such chickens, so that they would fly in their home, several feathers were cut off in the tail, and the feathers were placed in their nests.
If someone brings a chicken into the newlyweds' house and makes it crow like a rooster, it will be good.
If you want to protect your house from thieves, keep a black rooster. It is believed that the black suit has always been special, associated with the dark, the devil, the witchcraft, but it protected “its own” from strangers.
The chicken symbolized strength and fertility. On the first day of the wedding, as well as on the first wedding night, fried chicken was always served to the bride and groom.
There are many more beliefs about the rooster and hen, write them in the comments. Those that are confirmed will be added to this review.
Signs about pets
It is a sin for a woman to cut or stab a bird, and even more so a four-legged animal.
-If livestock lies under the roof, it means bad weather, and in the yard, it means a bucket.
-If a sick animal turns its head to the sides or stretches it forward, then it will certainly die, and if it bends its head under itself, it will recover.
-To determine whether a sick animal will recover, you need to give it a sniff of tobacco or pepper: if the animal sneezes, it will definitely recover, but if not, it will die.
-When slaughtering a domestic animal, in no case should the owner who loved and pitied this animal be present, since in his presence this animal will not soon be skinned, and moreover, it will show signs of life until the last.
If turkeys bathe in sand or snow, then rainy weather should be expected in the summer and a thaw in the winter, but bathing them during the thaw indicates that it will continue.
Horses neigh - for good.
-A warrior's horse sniffs - he will be killed.
In order for the cow to get along with the bull as quickly as possible, you need to give her bread and salt and always through the fence.
-If a pregnant cow licks her back, she will calve as a bull, and her sides as a heifer.
-If a cow “cleans” from the rear udders, she will bring a bull, and if from the front, then she will bring a heifer.
-If a few days before giving birth, the tip of a cow’s tail becomes wavy or twists like a rope, then she will calve as a bull, and if it remains the same or becomes disheveled, then the cow will calve as a heifer.
-When the cow calves, you can’t give anything to anyone.
- A cow calving twins means a fire.
- A cow moos all night - for worse.
-If a cow, especially a black one, looks into a house where there is a sick person through the window, then the sick person will certainly die.
-When a pregnant cow is in danger of miscarriage, it is necessary to throw an ax over it three times in the same direction.
-You cannot allow a cow to eat the calf's place and chaff: if this happens due to the owner's oversight, then the cow's teeth will soon begin to fall out, and her milk will foam.
-If a black cow walks ahead of the herd in the evening, then the day will be stormy, and if it is white, then the day will be clear.
-To prevent the cow from being jinxed at the fair, along the way it is milked at a crossroads and with the milk obtained in this way, the hooves are washed and a cross is drawn with it on the cow’s sacrum.
-A cow must be sold with a milking box.
-In order for a purchased cow to know the yard of the new owner, you need to give her either a loaf of bread or a pinch of salt on the stove door with the sentence: “Just as the door doesn’t leave the stove, so don’t you leave the yard.”
-You can’t ask how much milk a cow gives - you can jinx it, that is, it will give less milk.
-If you milk a cow with “unclean hands,” that is, after what the husband and wife do, the cow will lose milk and the teats will become damaged.
-If a cow stops milking, then someone happy in the family, usually a girl or a child, must buy it from the mistress or from the cow for a penny - from that time on the cow is called the property of the buyer and will begin to be milked again.
-If a cow that calves for the first time brings a heifer, then this is a sure sign that after the next calving she will not add milk to her milk yield, since cows that calve for the first time as a heifer bring a full milk yield.
-If a cow is milked with blood, which, by the way, happens because a swallow accidentally flies under her belly, then she must be milked through the mistress’s wedding ring.
-If a cow throws grass or hay on itself while it eats, then this portends a crop failure for the grass.
-The cow moos - the owner will be angry.
-If the milk foams when milking a cow, it means rain.
-If he brings two single-haired calves, it will be good.
-If he brings two calves of different colors, it will be bad luck.
-If a cow’s horn is broken, then you need to find it and throw it into your well, otherwise the milk yield of the cattle will decrease.
-If a cow sniffs a dead person, her milk will easily become viscous; to correct this, you need to give the bull a drink from the milk pan.
-When a cow is slaughtered, an ax is placed in the place where it was killed so that the other cows do not yearn for the slain one.
A tricolor cat protects the house from fire.
- A black cat crossing the road is not good.
-The black cat is afraid of thunderstorms.
-If two people notice a black cat crossing their path, they will quarrel.
-Newly born kittens cannot be named and compared with mice, otherwise the cat will suffocate them.
-You can’t take a cat for nothing - it will die, you need to give at least a small coin or a boiled egg for it.
-So that the cat knows the house of the new owner, you should wash the paws of the cat brought into the house on the stove damper, while saying: “Just as the damper does not leave the stove, so do not you leave the house.”
-The newly acquired cat should be poked with its muzzle into the stove damper.
-If a cat lies on the table, then this is not good; someone in the family will die.
-It’s not good if a cat sleeps often and for a long time on the head of someone’s bed: it will certainly “grow over” the owner of this bed, and he will die.
-You can’t pick up a cat by the tail, otherwise it will shit everywhere in the house.
-Whoever loves cats will also love his wife.
-The cat reaches towards the person (stretches) - towards renewal.
- A cat reaches for water or laps it up more than usual - this means bad weather.
-The cat washes itself (licks itself) and puts up a crutch (raises its hind paw up) - to a change in the wind or invites guests (to guests), if its hind paws are hot - guests are welcome, if its paws are cold - guests are unwelcome.
-The cat washes itself - to the guests, the cat is taken and thrown to the door: if it moves away, then good guests will come, and if it stays, then a beggar.
- A cat licks its paw - to guests, if after this the cat is blindfolded and remains in the room, then the guests will be welcome, and if the cat runs underground, then they will be unwanted.
-With which paw the cat washes itself, you have to wait for guests on the other side.
-When a cat is washing itself, you need to take it by the paw, if the paw is warm, this is for the arrival of relatives, in order to find out what gender of a relative is coming, you need to take the cat, push its muzzle into the door three times and lower it to the floor: if its tail raises, the man will , lowers - woman.
-If a cat lies with its face to the east and washes itself, then this portends good weather, but if it faces the west, then bad weather,
-The cat scratches behind the ear - to the guests.
- The cat lies down in a ball somewhere higher, on something soft or on the stove - to the cold, to the frost.
- A cat rubs against something - it will be warm.
- A cat is tearing up a wall - it means bad weather.
-The cat is sleeping soundly - for warmth.
-The cat scratches the floor - towards the wind, blizzard.
-The cat pulls the trees in the yard with its paws, and the carpets in the room are pulled towards the wind.
-If a cat scratches the door with its claws, it means a strong wind.
- A cat buries its face - to frost or bad weather.
-The cat lies belly up - for warmth.
-The cat will stretch out on the floor in the middle of the room, stretching out its paws and throwing back its tail - towards the warmth.
-The cat washes itself, licks its paw - for good weather.
- A cat licks its tail and hides its head - to bad weather.
- A cat sits on a pole or in a stove - to the cold.
-The cat sits on the windowsill and looks out the window - to the warmth.
- A cat plays and scratches with its claws - it means frost. - if a cat runs around the room in winter, it will be frosty.
-Vomiting in a cat means damp weather.
- A cat eats grass - it means rain.
-When a cat is basking its butt in the sun, the weather is bad.
-If a gray or black cat crosses the road during the day or white at night, then misfortune will happen; a white cat during the day or a black cat at night does not portend misfortune.
- Standing sways - to the long journey to the owner.
-Ranges, rushes or simply walks from corner to corner - to abuse and quarrel.
-The cat is lying around - to the wind or to the rain.
-You should not let your cat eat or smell boiled peas: it can go deaf.
-Whoever stepped on a cat wanted to get married.
-Whoever kills a cat will have no luck in anything for seven years.
-If you cut a cat's whiskers, her sense of smell will be dulled and she will not catch mice until they grow back.
-You cannot take a caught mouse away from a cat or even disturb it when it is fiddling with it, otherwise the cat will stop catching mice.
-When moving to new house They let the cat spend the night in advance.
-If a strange cat comes to the house, this portends misfortune for the owner.
-You can’t carry a cat on a horse - the horse will wither.
-If you give a ride to a person with a black kitten on a horse, then the horse will “get dry” (get sick).
-The cat is specially released into the stable at night so that it does not allow the horse’s mane to curl.
-According to the ideas of schismatics, cats should not be beaten, then, as a sign of friendship, they will provide their claws in the next world, with the help of which it will be easier to climb into the kingdom of heaven (up a steep mountain).
-You can’t kill a cat, because it will be the first in the next world to meet its owner.
-You cannot sleep with a cat, and you must be careful not to inhale the air it exhales, as this may cause frogs (that is, evil spirits) to form in your head or stomach.
If there are a lot of rabbits in the village, it means famine.
If they fly off their roost at night, it means trouble.
- They fight - to guests or to news.
-Cackling means bad weather.
-If chickens, rummaging in the ground, are showered with dust, as if bathing, this means that there will be rain.
-If in the evening all the chickens scream at the same time, then there will certainly be a quarrel in the house.
-If the chickens are going to bed early, it will rain.
-The cry of chickens at night portends misfortune.
-Chickens cluck at night - signifies war or recruitment.
- A chicken entered the hut - to the news.
-The chicken flies around the hut - to the frost.
- A chicken stands on one leg - it means it’s cold.
-The chicken fell from the roost - surprise.
-Chickens wagging their tails means a blizzard.
-The hen crows like a rooster and her feet are cold - unfortunately, for the deceased. If chickens crow like a cock, especially chickens, then this is considered an unkind omen - a misfortune will certainly happen in the house, which can only be averted in the following way: you need to grab a hen (or chick) and measure it from the front corner to the threshold (or from the gate to the threshold ), and which part of the body lies on the threshold, chop it off; if it’s a head, then the head, if it’s a tail, then the tail. They think that this is where the unclean spirit is located. Others, hearing the singing of a hen or chick, answer him: “On your own head!” - and immediately cut.
-If a chicken crows like a rooster, and her legs are hot, it means a fire.
-If a chicken always crows like a rooster, then there is no problem, such a chicken is usually very laying (often lays eggs).
-The hen that constantly sings along with the roosters is a laying hen - she can lay eggs every day.
-The mother hen places her chickens under her in bad weather.
-It is necessary to place a hen on an odd number of eggs.
-When a young hen lays her first egg, then the housewife should take this egg and stroke her husband’s head with it, saying: “Let Chernushka (the hen’s name) have as many testicles as N (the husband’s name) has hairs on his head!”
-In order for a hen to lay eggs in her own nest, and not among her neighbors, as is often the case in villages, several feathers are cut from her tail and placed in her nest.
-For chickens to lay eggs in your yard, you should eggshells burn in the oven or pull out a feather from the tails of those chickens that lay eggs outside the home, and also burn in the oven.
-To prevent a chicken from entering someone else’s garden, you need to catch it and drag it through the hole in the fence through which it entered the garden.
-To prevent the chicken from losing its eggs, you should rub its anus with salt.
-If hens are placed on eggs to hatch chicks on Friday, then mostly pullets (female chicks) will be hatched.
-If a chicken lays an egg on the Annunciation Day and slips this egg into the hen’s hands, then it will certainly hatch into a freak.
-In the year of the wedding, the newlyweds should not plant a brood hen to hatch chicks, otherwise the young one will get sick whole year.
-If you find a stone with a hole and hang it in the chicken coop, the chickens will be safe.
-If the owner of the house dies, then this year it is necessary to plant a brood hen to hatch chickens, so that even after the death of the owner the farm he has started will not fall down.
-The chicken has straw dragging at its feet - to the dead man.
When a mare is brought together with a stallion for mating, one should proceed in this way: if they want to have a stallion from the mare, then they do it in the first quarter of the month, and if it is a mare, then in the last quarter of the month.
-It is necessary that the mare during mating has a position with her head to the south, otherwise the born stallion or mare will be weak and frail.
-If a horse foals before its age, that is, before three years of age, the owner will go bankrupt.
-When a horse foals, you can’t give anything to anyone.
-The horse should be harnessed to the plow for the first time on the very day on which this animal was born; if the birthday is not known, it is determined by lot.
-Zarzhet - to good news.
- It will ring when returning home - it means that everything is safe at home and everyone is happy about the return of the traveler.
- Snorts - there is a road ahead to trouble, to rain or to the owner.
-A horse standing dejectedly and often sighing usually anticipates a long journey and travel adversities.
-A horse's vigorous standing, frequent sneezing and blinking have for centuries foreshadowed well-being on the road.
-If a horse sneezes before it leaves the owner’s land, or stumbles during the first three miles, then the trip can be considered unsuccessful: supplies will be damaged on the road and the guest will not be welcome where he is going.
-A horse sneezing on foreign land always indicates that the guest will be welcome.
-The fall of a wheel, the disposition of a horse, the loss of a whip, etc. are unfavorable signs that predict minor obstacles in the matter for which the journey has been undertaken.
-If he snorts on the road, those to whom you are going will be happy.
-On the road, he snorts and shakes his head - the rider and horse expect a good reception where they are going.
-The horse began to snort and shake its head about a mile from the destination of the trip - the traveler will not only be well received, but will also have a fun time visiting.
- A horse stumbles on the road, wanders reluctantly - the reception at a party will be bad and the plan will not go well.
- Snores - to bad weather.
-Shakes his head and throws it up - to bad weather.
-If suddenly a horse in the forest begins to wheeze and is having difficulty, it means the devil has sat on it and it is hard for it. To get rid of an invisible, uninvited rider, you need to stand in front of the horse and look through the collar at the horse's back.
-If the horse gets tired on the road, then you should run around it three times, and then it will walk easily again.
-If the horse sleeps lying down at night, go to the bucket.
-If the horse often changes one position to another, sighs, either the horse is sick, or its owner is facing a trip, most likely a sudden one.
-If a horse lies in the stable in the morning while others are standing, the owner will have an unexpected ride on it that same day.
-If a horse has lived with its owner so long that it has lost at least one tooth, then such a horse will return to its owner, no matter where it is sold.
-If a horse stumbles under you, don’t expect luck.
-Don’t cross the place where the horse was riding, or you may get lichen.
-If you stand in the place where the head of a horse was riding, your stomach will ache and calluses will appear on your feet.
-If you need to cross the place where the horse was riding, then you need to spit on this place, otherwise your nose will often bleed.
-If you come across a bald horse first, then don’t expect success that day.
-If you come across a rider on a white horse first, it means good luck.
-If a woman steps over a horse's collar, the difficulty of the horse's work will double until the culprit steps back over the collar.
-You cannot transport a cat on a horse, as this can cause the horse to lose weight.
-You should not carry a dog on a horse, otherwise the horse will burst into tears; a dog, even the smallest one, unusually soars (makes the horse sweat) like a huge weight. The same thing happens if a mouse happens to be in the cart: like a dog, it also adds enormous weight to the cart.
- You cannot approach a horse with fear, as well as without calling out by name - it can kill you.
-It’s good to transport tobacco and wool on a horse, as this makes the horse grow healthier.
-A leopard skin saddle is harmful to a horse.
-A horse that has ever carried a deceased person cannot be taken on a wedding train or on any other serious or ceremonial trips; if a hive of bees is transported on such a horse, then all the bees will die on the road, and if an empty hive is transported on it, then there will be no bees in it.
-If a dead person was transported on a horse, then the horse begins to feel sad; to fix this, you need to let someone ride it to church.
-If a horse gnaws the ground, it means it is strong.
-If a horse eats food with its eyes closed, it will soon die.
-If the horse unharnesses on the road, it means that something wrong happened in the house, most likely the wife cheated on her husband.
-You are riding a horse, and it resists (and the dog presses against the horse) - that means the wolf is somewhere nearby.
-You should always sell a horse with a halter;
-When you buy a horse at the market, you need to grab a piece of land from under the right hoof of the horse’s front leg and then, having brought this horse home, throw the captured land into the yard in order to “dry” the purchased horse to your home so that it does not run away to the old one to the owner.
-A restive horse has crooked front teeth (incisors).
-If you race a purchased horse together with your horses until you sweat and let the sweaty one go to the hay, then the horse will not go to the old owner.
-To prevent a purchased horse from leaving the yard, you should cut off a tuft of hair from its mane and bury it in the ground at the gate.
-If a newly purchased horse, having arrived at a new place, lies down in the middle of the stable, it means that it is in hand, that is, it has arrived at the yard.
-If the next morning the horse has a braided mane, it means that it has come to the yard.
-If such a horse lies against the wall, it means that it does not fit into the hand, the brownie does not accept it.
-If a two-strand horse dies, it must be buried in the yard, otherwise twelve more horses will die after it.
-If a dead horse is taken out through the gate and head first, then the remaining horses may die, so the dead horse should be taken out of the yard through a spinning wheel dismantled in the yard and feet first.
If the hen was placed in the nest on Monday or Friday, then she will hatch only cockerels, and if on Wednesday or Saturday, she will hatch hens.
-According to other ideas, a hen planted on days from " male name" (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday), will hatch exclusively cockerels, and on days "from female name"(Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) - chickens; Sunday should be considered a favorable middle in this regard.
-The hen needs to be placed in the nest first on one egg, and then all the others should be placed in turn, if at the same time the housewife wants the chicks to hatch, then for each egg she makes a fig under the hen.
-As soon as the last egg is placed under the hen, she must be covered with the emptied cap (which contained the eggs) so that the chickens hatch with shaggy hair.
-In order for a hen to hatch tufted chickens, she needs to be lightly pulled by the forelock.
-If in the first three days you take a hen with a nest to a field or forest and keep it there for several minutes, then neither the hen nor the broods will spoil the gardens.
-If a black whale throws one or more hatched eggs out of the nest, then you need to wait in the house for a seriously ill person or even a dead person.
White animals are loved as clean, pretty and beautiful, but preference is not given to any favorable animal; most often they are kept in the house precisely because of their pleasant appearance and only those breeds that the brownie does not pay attention to or whose death is not unprofitable, as, for example, cats, dogs, horses, goats, cows, chickens, etc. are chosen exactly the color that the brownie “loves,” which is “around the house” or “to the house,” that is, the color with which the animals were successful with a given owner: healthy, strong, strong, gave a lot of milk, wool, and so on.
To have sheep, you need to have a dog.
-If the owners want black sheep to be born, then on Maundy Thursday they walk around the yard with a firebrand.
-When the sheep lambs, you can’t give anything to anyone.
-If the sheep “roar” - it means rain.
-If the sheep's wool becomes wet and soft, this means that there will be rain.
-On the day of the Nativity of Christ, the owner is not allowed to leave the yard, otherwise the sheep will get lost.
-If a recently lambed sheep does not allow the lamb to come under it, then one of the owners should go out into the street and say after the first person passing by the yard: “Wait! My sheep does not stand near the lamb” - and then go home, After this, the ewe will feed the lamb itself.
-Before shearing begins, they lightly hit the sheep’s head with scissors, saying: “Know, sheep, your shearing!”; At the end of the haircut, a piece of wool is passed from head to tail, saying in a whisper: “Put on a warm zipper.”
-When the sheep die, you need to bring a wasp’s nest and stick it somewhere in the barn, then the sheep will be found, live or grafted into the yard, like wasps into a nest.
Having bought a rooster, you should not take it home to a woman, otherwise the neighbor's roosters will beat him and he will be a coward.
-If a rooster is offended by another rooster, you should catch the offender and let the offended one peck him, after which the offended rooster will feel courage and will beat his offender.
-In order for your rooster to beat someone else’s rooster, you need to feed it on the damper (from the stove) in the morning on Maundy Thursday.
-To make the rooster angry, you need to feed him the wrapper of an aspen nest.
-If two tail feathers, or pigtails, as they are called, are pulled out of a rooster’s tail, then the rooster will be weak and cowardly, and not only the neighbor’s roosters will offend him, but also the hens.
-To prevent a rooster from entering someone else's yard or garden, having caught it there, you should drag it through the hole in the fence through which it entered the garden.
-To have a white rooster in the yard means there will be no childhood illnesses, children will not be afraid and will sleep peacefully.
-A black rooster in the house saves you from thieves and thunderstorms.
-If a red rooster constantly sings at the gate, it means there will be a fire.
-Roosters crowing in the early evening foreshadows a change in weather.
- A rooster crows as a hen - unfortunately.
-The roosters are crowing at the wrong time - there will be new decrees.
-If the rooster crows at the wrong time, shakes his head or crows all night, then there will be trouble.
-If a rooster crows late at night at the wrong time, then you need to slaughter it as soon as possible, otherwise there will be misfortune in that house.
-If a rooster crows at twelve o'clock during the day, it means to the deceased.
-If during severe frosts the rooster crows at the wrong time at night, this means that the cold will weaken.
-If the roosters crow at night, it's a fun night.
-If a rooster crows before midnight, it means that he sees evil spirits, that is, the devil, and drives him away with his singing.
-If a rooster crows at the gate, then you need to expect a guest, and by the direction of the rooster’s head you can make an assumption where he will arrive from.
-If a rooster crows on the porch or at the threshold, then there will be guests.
-When after three years the rooster lays an egg, an unclean spirit will come out of it; if anyone keeps a rooster’s egg, he will live richly.
-There is also such a belief associated with the rooster egg: when the rooster gets old and weakened, which happens in the seventh or ninth, less often - the fourteenth year of his life, then, according to the state of his strength, he lays an egg, which is born in him from unclean phlegm , the egg can be round or oblong, from such an egg a basilisk will be born - a snake, whose mere glance brings people into fear and horror, and the whistle kills all living things, not a single bird will fly past the place where the basilisk settles, not a single the beast will not run, because the air there is filled with basilisk poison, but the basilisk is afraid only of the rooster and dies when it hears its singing.
-When moving to a new house, a rooster is allowed to spend the night in advance.
-If the rooster dies, then some misfortune will happen in the house: either there will be a fire, or someone in the house will die, or the year will be difficult for the whole family.
-If a rooster and a hen die in the yard at the same time, then someone will die.
The bee is “God’s little animal”, God’s servant, a symbol of purity, therefore they are found only among righteous people.
-During the suffering of Christ on the cross on Golgotha, the bees drank the bloody sweat that appeared on the forehead of the crucified man and thereby eased his torment, stung the hands of the soldiers who scourged Christ, and subsequently spread the news of the resurrection of Christ throughout the Christian world.
-The bee has its own patron saints - Saints Zosima and Savvaty, who, according to legend, brought the queen bee from Athos in the head of a cane, released her into the Russian land and thereby laid the foundation for beekeeping in Rus'.
-It is good to place icons of Saints Zosima and Savvaty in the apiary, and to serve prayer services to the righteous themselves.
-On the day of the celebration of St. Zosima (April 17), the bees should be fed with prosphora, blessed on the eve of the Annunciation - the bees breed well.
-A bee hive will never be struck by lightning.
-Whoever receives bees as a gift should not say the usual words of gratitude like “thank you”, instead he should say, for example: “That’ll be fine” - only under this condition will the bees take root with the new owner and will breed well with the giver.
-You cannot give queens and bees from the apiary, otherwise the swarm will not land and will fly away from the apiary.
-In order for bees to breed well, you need to buy an odd number of hives and put a piece of incense on the first hive.
-Bees are sometimes not friendly to the owner who loves honey, and, in addition, they do not breed well with him.
- A wax candle, brought from the all-night vigil on Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, is taken care of by the shrine (shelf or icon case with icons) until the day the hive is removed from the omshanik (an enclosed room where bees hibernate) to the beehouse, placed in the beehouse on this day, the candle This ensures abundant honey production and protects bees from the evil eye.
-Bees are taken out of the omshanik on Maundy Thursday during Holy Week, or on the day of St. Pud (April 15), or even later - on Zosima the Beekeeper (April 17), and it is good to take out the hives in the new month: the bees will then gather.
-How many days before the Annunciation the bees will fly out of the hives, the same amount of time after the Annunciation they will have to sit in the hives.
-Sinful people don’t have bees, but righteous people do.
-Bees usually sting an evil and vicious person and never a righteous one.
-In the presence of bees, you cannot use foul language or behave in an unworthy manner.
- You can’t eat in the apiary.
-An alien swarm will fly into the yard - fortunately.
If someone else's swarm flies underground, the whole house will be happy.
-The queen bee sings - she is going to kill her rival.
-A bee roars if the queen is a drone.
-Bees are buzzing - it means rain.
-If the bees in the hives are in strong motion and buzzing during bad weather, then this portends good weather.
-A bee stung means a quarrel.
-When bees fly over a village street many times during the day, then a dead person should be expected in the village.
-The farthest flight of a bee from its deck is seven miles: once a bee has flown over this limit, it can no longer return to its hive.
-In addition to queen bees, worker bees and drones, sometimes you come across a “prince bee”, a large and long bee, its presence in the hive brings special happiness to the beekeeper.
-In the event that other people's bees attack the hive and take away the honey, you need to catch the main robber and place it under an aspen stake stuck in the ground - all the other robbers will sit on the stake, and then it will not be difficult to exterminate them.
If several blocks of bees are stolen from an apiary, the rest of the apiary will be transferred; in this case, the owner, in order to prevent the loss of the apiary doomed to destruction, should sell it in advance.
Grunts - not for good or for bad weather.
-Squeals (roars) - to a quarrel or to bad weather.
- If you come across it, there will be no way.
-Eating hay is bad.
- Carrying straw and twigs - to the onset of cold weather, to a storm.
-Drags a piece of hay or a broom along the ground - to bad weather.
- Itches - for warmth.
-Itching about something means bad weather.
-If a pig runs and squeals constantly, then it will rain.
-If in winter a pig moves far from houses, to meadows and fields, then you should not be afraid of winter, it will be mild.
-If a pig itches on the corner of a house, this means that either the weather will change, or the residents are being condemned somewhere, or the sick person in this house will certainly die.
-If a pig injures a wolf attacking it in self-defense, then it will certainly and immediately be torn apart by its comrades.
- Asleep - to the cold.
- Digs the ground - there will be trouble.
-If a pig rolls on the ground, rolls in the mud, then it will rain soon.
-On Maundy Thursday (before Easter), pigs are slaughtered for the holiday before sunrise.
-When pigs are slaughtered on Maundy Thursday, some of the lard, melted on the same day, is left and stored at a holy angle - it helps against illness.
-Pigs usually dig arable land and meadows on those farms whose owners were in the habit of putting their shoes on the stove in winter.
-If a pig digs a hole in front of someone’s house and lies in it with its head facing the cemetery, then a dead person should be expected in that house.
-If pigs leave the herd and run home squealing, then it’s raining.
-When the pig farrows and the piglets are still with her, then if someone comes and looks at them with the evil eye, the pig can eat all her piglets.
-If pigs on the farm start to die, then you need to slaughter several chickens and put them in the underground for the brownie.
One drake gets along with as many ducks as there are curled feathers at the end of his tail, and therefore for breeding you need to leave a drake with as many curled feathers as possible and leave ducks according to the number of them.
If a cattle scratches its neck or body in a bush, causing wounds and sores to appear, then you need to tie wreaths of fresh bird cherry branches with swollen buds and fresh color around its neck.
-Feed should not be given to cattle without washing, otherwise the cattle will be thin.
-In a leap year, cattle have poor offspring.
-If the offspring of any animal appears in the house, then only the one with the lightest hand should pick it up first.
-On the day of the birth of any animal, nothing is given from the house: when there is profit in the house, there should be no loss or expense, in order to avoid bad consequences.
-You cannot pat a newly born pet on the back - it will not grow well.
-Relatives cannot sell livestock, otherwise the livestock will be transferred.
-If livestock lies under the roof, it means bad weather, if in the yard, it means it’s in a bucket.
If a puppy has black in his mouth, then he will turn out to be a good, that is, evil, dog.
-In which direction the dog pulls, it promises profit.
-If a dog breaks a window from the outside, then you should expect big troubles from outside: fire, illness, theft, and so on.
-If a dog breaks a window from inside the house, then troubles must be expected in the house itself, for example, someone will become hopelessly ill or die.
- Be afraid of the dog that rushes on the sly.
-The dog digs a hole in front of the window - to the dead man.
- Howling is a bad sign.
-Howls, raising his muzzle - to fire or famine.
-If all the dogs in the village howl, the whole village will burn.
-Howls, lowering his muzzle to the ground, or digs a hole - towards the dead, sometimes - to his own death.
-Howls and holds his muzzle straight - to war or famine.
-When howling, moves his head from side to side or from bottom to top - to a whole series of misfortunes.
-In which direction the dogs howl - in that direction there will be a fire or a dead person: if in front of the house - in the house.
-If he howls in front of the windows, especially of a sick person, it will certainly lead to his death.
-In general, the howling of a dog is considered a bad omen.
-If a dog howls at night, then you need to turn the pillow under your head and say: “On your head” - and then it will shut up.
-In order for the dog to stop howling, you need to take off your shoes and place them with the backs facing the dog, with the soles facing up.
-To stop a dog howling, you need to take off your shoes from your left foot and, turning them upside down with the sole, stand with the same foot on it and look in the direction from which the howling is heard: this will stop the dog howling.
-Dogs are playing - for the wedding.
-Dogs play in winter - there will be snow.
- Rubbing around people walking down the street means a gift.
-Barks - meeting with a friend or acquaintance.
- Standing on his feet, swaying - the owner has a journey ahead of him.
- Presses close to the owner - to bad weather.
- He clings to the horse, but the horse does not go, he resists - there is a wolf somewhere nearby.
-Does not eat crumbs after a sick person means death is imminent.
-Chews grass - for rain.
-Eats little and sleeps a lot - means rain.
-Eats little - means inclement weather.
- Lying around - to bad weather.
-If a dog starts rolling on the ground like a horse, then this portends bad weather.
-If a hunting dog runs to the hunt joyfully, frolics, jumps, then the hunt will be successful, but if it follows the owner dejectedly, as if reluctantly, then there will be no success in the hunt.
-You can’t pick up a dog by the tail, otherwise it will shit everywhere in the house.
-If a dog becomes friends with a cat and even bites its fleas, this means that the owner and mistress have begun to hate each other.
-If someone else's dog sticks to the house, then this portends profit for the owner.
Letting a dog into the room is a sin.
-A dog bite cannot be shown, otherwise it will not heal for a long time.
-If a mad dog bites you, you need to dig a hole and sit in it.
-If you give a dog as a gift, you must definitely take something in return, at least a penny: otherwise the dog will run away.
-In order for a dog to be found, the owner in the morning, before he has eaten, must spit on a piece of bread and let the dog eat it, and then the dog will not run away, but, on the contrary, will get used to the owner and become attached to him.
-If the dog is lost, then you need to call it by name up to three times through the chimney at the time when the first smoke comes out of the newly flooded stove, and the dog will be found.
-The fur of a dog is filthy, that is, unclean, and therefore, having come into contact with a dog, you cannot pray, sit down to eat, or touch sacred objects without washing your “filthy hands.”
-Whoever stole a dog must measure its tail with a thread - then it will not run away.
Whoever sees the born calf first should lightly hit it on the head with a piece of hay or put salt, straw or hay in its mouth, and have time to do this before it drinks its mother’s milk - then the calf will quickly learn to eat grass;
At the birth of a calf, the owner herself must be present and tie the calf’s umbilical cord with her own hands, so that no witchcraft or ghost is done to the cow and calf (so as not to jinx it).
- You can’t stroke the calf on the back - it will wither.
-The appearance of a calf cannot be reported until three days later, so as not to be jinxed.
-When the time has come to announce the birth of a calf (that is, after three days), you need to talk about it as loudly as possible so that the calf’s voice is loud.
-If a calf was born in winter and needs to be kept warm, then it can only be carried by wrapping it in hay or straw; if it is carried with bare hands, then its hair will not grow for a long time, and if in some clothes, then it will will chew it constantly.
-If a born calf has red-pink teeth, this means that sooner or later it will be eaten by a wolf; such a calf should not be left for breeding.
- For divorce, you need to leave a calf that has an odd number of teeth.
-When you go to a calf, bleed the gum with a straw, so as not to disfigure (not jinx it) or sell the cattle profitably, and when you go along the road, spit bloody saliva over your left shoulder, then you will sell it at a high price, and the animal will not be sold in the yard.
-Under no circumstances should calves be beaten with a splinter split from a log; you can beat a calf with a stick, rope, etc., but not with a splinter: this will cause the calf to lose weight and not grow.
If a white chicken hatches, it means a loss on the farm.
-If anyone looks at the newly hatched chickens and marvels, the chickens will not live even two days.
-If the chickens do not quickly calm down before roosting, then bad weather should be expected the next day.
-The chicken cries, that is, squeaks pitifully, - to the illness of the owner of the house.
When a chicken is put on eggs, the eggs should be placed under it from a hat or something else furry - for greater fertility and so that the chickens are hairy-legged and with tufts.
-If you stick several wax plates on an egg and place them under any hen, she will hatch colorful chicks.
-Often housewives place eggs on their causative site to increase health and fertility.
-Chicks will not hatch from the eggs if someone in the house has died, in which case they say that “the eggs freeze.”
-If the eggs are taken from the nest different people or someone steals them, then the chickens stop laying eggs.
-If a man takes eggs from the nest, the chickens stop laying eggs.
-You cannot give eggs to your neighbor for divorce - all the chickens will be transferred to the farm of the one who borrows the eggs.
-When eggs are occupied for the hen, they cannot be carried or transported through water (river, canal, etc.): the chicks will not hatch.
-A boiled egg is rolled over the cattle from head to tail and then thrown through the manure, so that the cattle can walk in the summer as roundly as the egg, and the horses run as fast as the egg rolls on the manure, and there must be an egg at the end of it all eaten by the one who did all this.
Signs associated with insects
Ant. - Being bitten by an ant means enmity and disputes. If ants appear near your doorstep, this indicates prosperity.
Bee. - If a bee flies into a house and stays there for a short time, then this promises good luck to all its inhabitants. In some countries, fishermen believe in a rich catch if a bee flies in the same direction in which their boat is sailing. Killing a bee is bad luck. Interestingly, the Romans considered the flight of bees to be a bad omen. Decisive defeat of Pompey's army by Caesar at Pharsalos in 48 BC. was foretold in advance when a swarm of bees settled on the sacred altar.
Bug. - Since the ancient Egyptians gave divine honors to the scarab, this beetle, like others, has become a symbol of happiness. If a beetle crossed your path in rural areas, that is good omen. The larger the beetle, the more happiness it brings.
Cockroach. - All over the world these unpleasant insects are treated with disgust; and not without reason, since if a cockroach appears in an unusual place, then it predicts death.
Cricket. - Since time immemorial, people all over the world consider it an insect that brings happiness. In the house where the cricket has settled, peace, prosperity and family happiness will reign. If a cricket suddenly leaves a house where it has been for a long time, this predicts illness or death.
Grasshopper. - These cheerful insects bless travelers and promise good news.
Ladybug. - This cute bug is considered everywhere a symbol of good luck and happiness. The ladybug with seven spots on its back especially brings good luck.
Spider. - Seeing a spider in the evening means financial losses; in the morning - to sadness; at midnight he predicts restlessness and unrest. Seeing a spider on your clothes or on your body means increased wealth. If you see a spider weaving a web, then a conspiracy is being woven against you. Killing a spider, especially at night, is a very bad omen.
Wasp. - A wasp sting is a warning to beware of jealousy, deception and dangers.
Interesting article about signs and superstitions that are associated with animals, birds, insects. In the article I looked at the 10 most popular (in relation to our country).
Superstition can be interpreted as a meaningless belief that does not bring any benefit. Although most people will not agree with this, since superstitions and signs have become very integral to our lives. Many of them are associated with animals, birds and insects. So, the most common ones.
1. There will be no luck if a black cat crosses your path. Everyone has their own way of fighting to neutralize this sign (spit over your left shoulder, cross your fingers, wait for someone else to pass). The roots of this superstition go back to the distant past, when it was believed that a black cat or cat was a servant of the devil. According to legends, witches turned into black cats. Although there are countries where the black cat is treated neutrally or is considered to bring good luck.
2. If you were given an animal as a gift, you must pay at least a penny for it, otherwise it will die or run away. Most likely, this is due to the fact that in the old days sacrifice was obligatory. That is, before starting a business, it was necessary to pay off, to give part of one’s wealth to the gods or people.
3. If you refuse a pregnant woman, then mice (moths) will ruin everything in the house. Now it is difficult to trace the origin of this superstition, but many follow its lead. And pregnant women often use it to get what they want.
4. A dog howls to indicate trouble or a dead person. This is most likely due to dogs' well-developed sense of smell. According to doctors, before death, a person’s body undergoes certain changes, which cause a change in odor.
5. Everyone knows that before entering a new home, you need to let the cat in there. This will bring good luck and prosperity in the new place. This sign is associated with the brownie; our ancestors believed that he was in every house and was its guardian. The brownie can be good or evil, but he doesn’t like it when new people move in. Therefore, so that he does not harm people, they let a cat in.
6. If black cockroaches appear in the house - to wealth, red ones - to sadness or poverty. The explanation is quite simple, cockroaches live where there is food for them. There are more than 3 thousand species of them, but you can often see black and “Prussians” in houses. Black ones are larger in size, which is why they symbolize wealth.
7. There are ants in the house - be kind. The basis of the superstition was that ants live in colonies, that is, large families, and only where there is something to eat.
8. If a bird (not a raven) knocks on the window, there will be good news. Although it is believed that a bird flying into a house is a harbinger of misfortune. This sign goes back to the time when our ancestors associated the souls of the dead with birds.
9. The sparrow is a cursed bird and it must be driven away from the house. This belief is associated with the story of Jesus Christ. During the crucifixion, swallows carried away nails from the cross, and sparrows brought them back. Therefore, it is believed that the birds were cursed for this.
10. And we’ll probably end up with rats running from a sinking ship. The sign arose when ships were made of wood, rats lived in the holds and were the first to discover a leak, begin to worry and run away.
Whether you believe it or not is your own business, the main thing is that it does not harm you and others.
Few people like to talk about rodents. They don’t like them, they even disdain to look at them. Rodent lovers can be found very rarely. The only exception is hamsters. But we will not talk about these furry creatures, which many children love very much. We will talk about mice and the signs that are associated with them.
The dove has always been considered a symbol of peace and happiness. Unfortunately, judging by the statements of many forum users, they simply hate doves and call them anything but a symbol of peace. This “love” is especially great among owners of expensive cars. And all because these peaceful birds love to dump their droppings on the hood or roof of the car, or click their paws on the glossy surface of the car. But these car owners don’t think that a person who doesn’t have extra money won’t be able to have an expensive car. And if a bird poops, it always means money. Is it really bad? If we were every person, we would only need to rejoice at such an event, but our rich people are angry at the birds that promise them good incomes.
The frog has always evoked the opposite feelings. Some people are afraid of them, others are disdainful, and some admire frogs. But, nevertheless, the frog is very popular among the people, and there are many signs associated with it that are still popular in our time.
Killing a frog is a great sin. Most likely, this sign is due to the fact that people believe that frogs are the souls of those people who drowned during the global flood. If we remember the Bible, before the flood people were extremely corrupt. They did not want to work, they committed adultery, stole - in a word, they violated all the existing commandments of God. But, despite the fact that those people were so wicked, they have already been punished by higher powers, which means that we, now living, have no right to judge them.
The snake is a symbol of wisdom and deceit. And that's true. A snake will never attack a person, or an animal either, first. If it is possible to avoid a fight, then the snake would rather crawl away on its own and not get involved in trouble. Well, as for deceit, this is also true. The snake, before attacking, will hatch a plan of action for a long time. It is believed that snakes are very vindictive. If someone offended her, she will find her offender even after many years.
Comments (2) Stork
Added by admin | Animals | Wednesday 8 December 2010 17:03
This brings wealth to the house on whose roof the stork has settled. People have been watching birds and animals for a long time. Therefore, it was precisely thanks to such observations that for many generations it was noticed that, as a rule, wealthy people live in those houses on the roof of which storks live. Not necessarily very rich, but not in need of anything - that's for sure. The stork is considered a very smart bird. They say that storks understand human language. Not just intonation, but the meaning of what was said. They can even cry like humans. And if storks create a married couple, then they are inseparable for the rest of their lives. That is why it is believed that if storks live on the roof of a house, then the people living in this house receive both happiness and love, and what can be great wealth.
Comments (1) Dog
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 12:20
To prevent the dog from running away, you need to tear out a tuft of fur from its neck. – The belief is based on the principle of ownership and transfer of a part to the whole. Once the owner owns a tuft of fur, then symbolically he owns the entire dog. In reality, this is also explained by the fact that the native smell will again attract the runaway dog.
Comments (0) Cockroaches
Added by admin | Animals | Monday 21 January 2008 12:07
Black cockroaches in the house mean wealth, red cockroaches mean sadness. – This belief is explained in the same way as that associated with ants in the house. Cockroaches appear where they are not cleaned very carefully, where crumbs or any other food remains. That is, in other words, where fairly wealthy people live who can afford not to count the pieces. In total, there are more than three and a half thousand species of cockroaches, but black and “Prussian” cockroaches most often live in human homes. The division of cockroaches into black and red ones was clearly made for the reason that red ones are more difficult to fight and they multiply faster. In addition, they are more often carriers of pathogens of infectious diseases.
Comments (2) Fly
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 12:05
A fly got into the soup - expect a gift soon. “It’s unlikely that there is any real meaning in this, except for one thing: it’s a pity to pour out the soup.” Therefore, a squeamish person who sees a fly on his plate is told about an upcoming gift, hinting: either you will lose the gift, or take the fly out and continue eating. It's about about the first course, because from the second, even a squeamish person will simply brush away a fly with his hand, without any attempt to throw away all the contents. And therefore, in this case, it is not necessary to promise him a gift.
Comments (5) Black cat
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 11:58
A black cat crosses the road - there will be no luck on this day. You must either turn around its axis, or, breaking the rod into two parts, throw the fragments in different directions. You can cross your fingers on your right hand, placing the middle one on the index one. - The black cat is one of the most sinister symbols in Slavic mythology. It is directly connected with evil spirits, with witches, sorceresses turn into it, etc. This motive is widely reflected in folk tales, and in literature (just remember Gogol’s stories). Accordingly, it is believed that a black cat crossing the road can bring bad luck to a person. How to get rid of such an “evil eye”? Turn around its axis, that is, start the path again, “from a new turn.” Break the rod, that is, open the road closed by the cat, again free this road for yourself, make it open and clean. Cross your fingers (sometimes take hold of a button), that is, resort to the help of a symbolic cross (buttons are often sewn on with threads that form the shape of a cross).
Comments (5) Chickens
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 11:53
The chickens all cackled at once - a quarrel was inevitable. – Based on the external similarity of cackling and the noise of a quarrel, when everyone is shouting at the same time. But since chickens can cackle at once due to the appearance of a predator (the same fox), then a quarrel is actually possible - due to the fact that one of the owners did not look after the chickens. There are many proverbs about chickens: they run around like a chicken with an egg; the hen cackles, but the rooster is silent; you tell the chicken, and she tells the whole street, etc. Another allegorical folk wisdom: “Don’t listen to where the chickens cluck, but listen to where they pray to God.”
Comments (0) Fox
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 11:50
Meeting a fox is bad news. – The sign is associated more with the image of this animal, depicted in numerous fairy tales, than with real observations: the fox has always been portrayed as cunning, insidious, and unkind. But in reality, a fox encountered near a home may foretell a shortage of chickens and other domestic animals. It is no coincidence that there is a proverb about people: “Where I pass as a fox, there will be no chickens there for three years.”
Comments (1) Horse
Added by admin | Animals | Monday January 21, 2008 11:45
The horse stumbles - don't expect good luck. – The horse is one of man’s oldest companions, and therefore, over centuries of living together, man has endowed the horse with a huge number of abilities that are not always inherent to it. At the same time, there is no doubt that the horse is an intelligent, sensitive animal. She is sensitive to danger: her excellent sense of smell allows her to react to the smell of a predator from afar. She can smell water and grass, even if there is still a considerable distance to them. A stumbling horse is a symbol of trouble: it means that something is wrong either with itself or around it. In mystical terms, a stumbling horse was associated (in contrast to a frisky, galloping horse) with that light. This dates back to ancient times, when the coffin with the body of the deceased was carried to the cemetery on a horse. The horse stumbled and dejectedly returned from the battlefield, carrying its dead rider. And finally (turning again from mysticism to everyday life), a stumbling horse may be sick, which, naturally, portends failure in peasant farm.
If the horse drinks melt water, everything will be fine. – Since ancient times, not only people, but also animals have been finding ways to treat. A person drinks water from healing mineral springs, and a horse finds healing properties in such water.
Horses neigh for good.
A collar removed from a sweaty horse is used by healers as a remedy. If you put it on a patient, all the illness will go away as if by hand.
A cat makes a horse dry, a dog makes it healthier. – Probably a sign of hunters who took dogs with them.
Horses snort on the road - a joyful meeting.
A horse neighs to sadness, stomps to a chase.
A warrior's horse sniffs - to be killed. – */an old sign.
If, leaving the house, you meet a white horse, you should immediately spit on the ground to ward off trouble. – */folk sign.
A horse snores - to bad weather, to a blizzard.
A horse snorts - indicates rain or warmth.
The horse greedily eats grass in the evening - expect rain the next day.
A horse lies down under the roof - to wet weather, bad weather, if it lies down in an open place - in a bucket, heat.
The horse shakes its head and throws it up - to bad weather, to rain.
In winter, the horse lies down - for warmth.
Horses' hooves sweat - a sign of warmth.
The horse lies down on the way and becomes stubborn - towards the snow.
Water from a bucket that a horse has not drunk can alleviate illness if you wash it with a slur.
A horse with identical white “stockings” on its front legs brings misfortune to its owner, but if there are “stockings” on the front and hind legs, then this, on the contrary, brings good luck.
Nikita's Day - awakening of the "water grandfather" - ice drift.
Signs of April (from April 1 to April 15)
The word April comes from the Latin word for warmed, warmed by the sun, sunny.
In the old days, April was called pollen, because... the first flowers bloom this month.
There are subseasons of April.
Signs of March
The word March came from Byzantium. Since the adoption of Christianity, the March style of chronology was adopted, i.e. The New Year began to begin on March 1 - the month of Easter celebration. March was considered the first month of the year.
Signs and their secret power
If a black cat crosses the road, it means bad luck.
You can't laugh on Friday night, because you'll definitely cry on Sunday morning.
Don't sit on the table - the day will end badly.
You can't take out the trash in the evening - you take away the money.
Don't borrow money after sunset - there will be no money.
If you meet a pregnant woman, it means good luck.
You can't eat from a knife - your mother-in-law will be angry.
Don't lick the plate - your husband will be bald.
Do you believe in omens? What are signs?
Signs of February (from February 1 to February 28)
The last month of winter has arrived - February. He is also bokogrey, snowfall, stitch, fierce, cut, low water. The Latin name “fevruarium” came to Rus' from Byzantium.
Old New Year. Vasiliev's day
(Day in the folk calendar)
Patron of pigs, guardian of gardens from worms. They boiled pig's legs to prevent people's legs from hurting. The girls solved dreams and told fortunes. They believed that fortune telling on this day always comes true. They poured grain on the floor, put water, threw in pieces of clay and brought a rooster and chicken. If they drank water at the beginning, there will be tears in the New Year; if they pecked grain, wealth will await; if clay, death will enter the house. It was believed that the first day of the year, spent properly, guaranteed good luck for the entire year.
Christmas Eve, Carols - Christmas Eve
(Day in the folk calendar)
Signs of January (from January 1 to January 5)
In general, over the course of a month, the daylight hours increase by 1.5 hours or more. In January, the birch chaga mushroom and pine buds are harvested. “In January, the pot in the oven freezes.”
Folk signs for January
Cold Januarys almost never happen in a row. If January last year was warm, then January this year will be cold. Dry January - the peasant is rich. Gray January means trouble for the bread. If January is cold, July will be dry and hot: don’t expect mushrooms until autumn.
Signs for the New Year and Christmas
On the night of December 31 to January 1, according to tradition, the New Year is celebrated.
Day of Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius and others (beheaded in 305 in Armenia).
Eustratus. “Martyr Eustratus is glad of the sun.”
Memorial Day of St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra-Lycia, saint of God and wonderworker (died in 351)
Favorable days
One of the oldest English superstitions associated with medicine and has survived several centuries.
Memorial Day of the Great Martyr Catherine (313).
For refusing to renounce the Christian faith, she was sentenced to beheading. She laid her head on the chopping block herself.
Catherine. Catherine's day. Katerina Sannitsa. Catherine's day. Katerina Frost. Sannitsa. Woman-giver. Katerina is considered the patroness of marriage and brides. On Catherine's day, folk festivities and sledding down the hills - sleigh rides - were organized.
Falling star - omens
When someone dies on earth, a new star lights up in the sky. (Yorkshire).
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When you see a shooting star above your head, make a wish and you will be happy for a whole year. (Wales).
Signs of December (from December 1 to December 6)
It's cold. Jelly. Cold. Studny. Student. Zazimnik. Gruden.
The word December comes from Byzantium and is called “dekemerium”.
The first month of winter. The year is ending.
From December 1 to December 22 - First Winter.
From December 22 to 31 - Root winter.
December is characterized by frosts and thaws. He “will pave, and nail, and give the sleigh a go.”
Temperatures in the middle zone sometimes drop to -30 0C. But frosts are not as terrible as lack of snow: if the ground is covered with a blanket of snow, it will not immediately sink to depth. Crops will not die before winter.
In December it gets dark early, although the increase in daylight hours is 26 minutes.
According to the Bianchi Forest Calendar, in December until the 20th - the “Month of Winter Guests” (the third month of autumn). From December 21 - the “Month of the First White Paths” (the first month of winter).
Killing a ladybug means inviting trouble. (Everywhere).
It is very interesting to note how rarely people decide to kill a ladybug, although they kill other insects without hesitation. The real superstition associated with the ladybug is that it symbolizes the Virgin Mary - hence its English name "ladybird".
Insects
If a ladybug lands on your hand, you need to ask her: “Ladybug, should I live, should I die, or should I fly to heaven?” If she flies away immediately, then the weather will be good; if not, it will be bad weather.
Ladybug is the insect of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the red color symbolizes Her cloak). Therefore, you cannot offend a ladybug. Killing a ladybug means inviting big trouble. Not only can you not kill it, but you can also shake it off your sleeve only by nudging it with a blade of grass.
If you want to find your love, then tell the ladybug when she sits on your hand: “Golden ladybug, fly east, fly west, fly north, fly south, find my love.”
Once upon a time, there lived the eternal blacksmith Severko the Fair. It was he who forged the sun, stars, moon, and the entire firmament. Severko had a beautiful wife, but she only fell in love with someone else. For betrayal, God turned the beauty into a ladybug, scorched by punitive fire - lightning. Her children are also punished by fire. Of the seven children (the ladybug is called the “seven-spotted one”), only the seventh withstands the sent test of fire - it is he who becomes the prophetic insect ladybug, because his mother’s sin is forgiven.
A butterfly flew into the house - let it out, otherwise it will be a disaster. The butterfly is the soul of the deceased. You cannot kill a butterfly that has flown into the house - you must carefully catch it and escort it outside through the window (just like a ladybug that has flown into the house).
Ants in the house - fortunately.
Black cockroaches in the house mean wealth, red cockroaches mean sadness.
Dreaming about cockroaches means a wedding.
In the middle of winter, a fly flies in the house - to the deceased. Try to get rid of it as quickly as possible and say a prayer to Jesus Christ:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
Your crown is the end of human sorrows,
Ibba, Lord, save us sinners from sorrows, sorrows, and evil diseases.
From a fierce thief, from an unkind eye, from an unclean word,
From a sorcerer, a sorceress, a heretic, a heretic.
From bullets, from hot arrows, from a sharp knife.
My word is strong and molding.
Now and ever and forever and ever.
Seeing a spider in the morning means sadness. During the day - to love. In the evening - to hope. At night - to worries. If you saw a spider in the morning, cross yourself and say a prayer to Jesus Christ: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, let the spider carry our sins to you along a thread, and let it carry away our sorrows along a thread. Amen".
A white spider nests above the bed - fortunately. Black - unfortunately. Try to carefully throw him out of the house without killing him.
Seeing a spider unexpectedly in the house and getting scared means bad news; don’t get scared - everything will be fine.
Funeral
If you encounter a funeral procession, walk at least a few meters with it or behind it - this will allow you to avoid the deceased coming for you.
An ember from a censer that falls out while a priest is walking near a dead person is a sign that soon there will be another dead person in this house.
When someone in the family dies, the mirrors in the house are covered up; you cannot look into them - the deceased “looks out” at people through the mirrors, that is, he can take them with him.
The coffin is larger than the deceased - to another deceased.
Before lowering the coffin into the grave, you need to throw a coin there. This is done so that the deceased pays for moving to the “other” world.
The afterlife of the soul
At the moment of death, the dying person feels incredible relief. Physical pain goes away, bodily torment and suffering go away. The soul leaves the body and can see the body from the outside. At the same time, the body is already perceived as alien, unfamiliar, even unpleasant. The soul feels complete indifference to it and does not want to return to it at all. On the contrary, the soul enjoys the newfound freedom and wants to fly away from the body. The soul does not understand why people cry over this body, what and why doctors do with it. A deceased person may not immediately understand that he has died. He tries to reach out to the living, to talk to them - but finds that he is neither seen nor heard. He tries to move and realizes that he can easily pass through walls, through objects, through other people, without encountering any obstacles.
For the first three days, the soul is directly next to the body, then, until the ninth day, in its home. She goes through ordeals for forty days and only on the fortieth day after death does she find peace. Then she meets with her living loved ones on memorial days and in order to meet the dying.
Dreams foreshadowing death
Dreams about actual death are extremely rare - not a single sign means death, but can mean illness, loss, trouble, deprivation
A dream of death is just one of the signs indicating imminent death. For a dream to truly foretell death, it must coincide with a number of signs indicating the approach of death in reality. There are many such signs known. For example, if mice scratch at the head of a patient, he is unlikely to get up (if he is on his feet, he will get better); if a raven croaks on the roof of a house - to the deceased in the house, if on a church
In addition, symbols of the other world and signs of death can be seen in initiation dreams, that is, dreams foreshadowing a person’s transition to a different qualitative state (after all, death is nothing more than a transition to another state). The same symbols can also foreshadow a wedding (also a transition to a different state). Therefore, they can only be considered in combination with each other. The same signs can predict something completely different for children (children - girls who have not reached girlhood, and boys - adolescence).
Signs of approaching death
Before moving on to the description of the signs that foreshadow death, I want to warn you that the messengers of death never come alone: many signs should indicate death at once, both in a dream and in reality. ONLY IN THIS case should you be seriously wary.
IF in the house you see with your peripheral vision that some black shadows are flashing, or you hear some strange knocks, this could be a warning, although not necessarily about death, but, as a rule, about some kind of trouble or trouble.
If you decide to build a house for yourself, then make sure that the roots of the bird cherry tree do not fall under the foundation. And do not plant bird cherry trees in close proximity to the house. If you have already planted it, then replant it further away. Bird cherry roots, penetrating under the house, will bring death to all inhabitants of the house. The roots of other trees are considered less dangerous to health and life; however, when building a new house, try not to leave a single root in the ground - the family will get sick and die.
You will learn what kind of dream means what, what peculiarities in the behavior of animals promise, what can be picked up on the street and what cannot. Learn to read and interpret the signs of fate in order to always make the right decisions and not get involved in dubious matters.
Signs of prosperity
Dropping small money on the floor means a major financial loss. To prevent this from happening, you need to take the money, put it in your wallet and say: “Don’t walk by, live and be fruitful.”
You cannot throw away pieces of bread - this means there is a shortage in the house. It is better to feed it to birds and animals.
Do not sweep the table with your hand - there will be no abundance.
It is better to repay the debt not in the evening, but in the morning - money will be found.
Anyone who plays cards while sitting with their back to the month will certainly lose.
If you cut your nails on Tuesday and Friday, you will find money.
If you want to escape from lack of money, eat more blueberries.
Changing someone's money for small change leads to tears.
Don't leave a knife in the bread - you'll find out you're hungry.
Don't sit on the table - you will be poor.
Signs for good and bad
You cannot undereat or underdrink - you leave evil behind. Empty eggshells must be crushed so as not to leave evil behind.
After dinner, leaving half-eaten pieces of bread from your slice on the table means leaving your happiness there.
Porridge comes out of the pan - unfortunately.
Don’t sit down at the table as the thirteenth person, otherwise you’ll get into trouble.
Keeping broken dishes in the house means bringing misfortune upon yourself.
Leaving a knife on the table overnight means big trouble.
A knife on the table with the tip up means bad things.
If doors that never creaked suddenly creaked, there would be trouble.
Losing a glove or mitten is bad luck. It is bad to accidentally put your right foot in your left shoe or start putting on your shoes with your left foot.
Finding a button means trouble. To prevent anything bad from happening, you don’t need to lift the button. Show her the fig and say “Forget me!”
If someone does not finish the bread and takes another piece without noticing, one of the relatives far away is hungry.
Hold on to the corner of the table more often - find your corner.
The person who wears the hat of another will miss him.
Wearing other people's things means changing your destiny. Losing a belt from a dress or coat means an illegitimate child.
Accidentally breaking the chain that you wear around your neck means freeing yourself from heavy responsibilities, shackles, breaking painful bonds.
Your ears are burning - someone is gossiping about you: the right one - they say bad things about you, the left one - they remember well.
The smoke does not light up or goes out quickly - someone is sad without this person.
To ask someone for something, you first need to walk around that person three times.
To lean on another person is to pass on your laziness to him.
Do not sweep the floor when someone dear to you has left, so as not to block his path to your home.
If someone is called by the name of a person who has left, then this person will be angry when he arrives.
Signs of evil spirits
Do not leave uncovered dishes on the table overnight, especially with food - left on the table the night before open container evil spirits frolic at night.
When you sit on a chair, you can’t cross your legs and swing your legs - you’re rocking the devil.
Never leave a book you are reading open - otherwise the demon will continue to read it, and you will forget everything you read, and even what you learned by heart.
After you wash your face, you should not shake the water off your hands - this causes devils to multiply: as many splashes fly, so many devils will appear.
Profit, health
Long thick hair, combing your hair in a dream portends profit.
Long nails mean profit.
Receiving something in a dream means profit, fulfillment of desire.
Paper money means profit.
White bread means prosperity in the house.
Utensils for kneading dough, especially wooden ones, are a sign of wealth.
Seeing a boy in a dream means profit (a girl means an unexpected event).
If an animal gives birth in a dream - to profit, for a woman - to pregnancy, childbirth.
Eating beans or peas in a dream: for a man - to profit (for a woman - to pregnancy).
Human excrement dreams of money.
The death of a person means longevity, health, and perhaps a wedding. If a sick person dies in a dream, then
he'll get better.
The sun is rising - good. To success, luck, profit.
Lice are wealth.
Heavy rain in a dream means good luck.
Seeing buckwheat in a dream (sorting cereals, buying, cooking, eating) - good, means wealth.
Milk means profit.
Vegetable oil - for the patient - for recovery.
Dressing in a dream means good health and profit.
Small children are good news.
Toad, frog - successful move, profit.
A woman with buckets means profit, especially if the buckets
full, but also with empty buckets - good.
Carding
Scratching your elbow means sleeping in a new place. Your mustache itches - get the gift you want. My head itches - I hear swearing. The right palm itches for profit, the left for loss. The neck itches - it’s time for a feast. The nose itches - for news, wine, christenings. An itchy eyebrow means a date or tears. The left eye itches to tears, the right one to look at the dear one.
Lips itch - for kissing.
The leg itches - hurry somewhere.
The tongue itches - to a quarrel.
Yawn
If a person yawns, he must cross his mouth with the Holy Sign in order to block the entrance of the unclean Spirit there.
If two people yawn at the same time, they should drink wine together.
Sneezing
If a person sneezes two or four times in a row, and then immediately gets up and walks around the room, then the matter whose outcome he is currently concerned about will be completed successfully.
If during a conversation someone sneezed, then the one who spoke at that time told the truth. At the same time, pay attention when the person with whom you are agreeing on something begins to sneeze. If, for example, when signing a contract a person sneezes once, then the terms of the contract will be met; if he sneezes three times, the contract will be broken. But if someone sneezes twice a night for three nights in a row, then this is a harbinger of imminent death in the house.
Hiccup
Hiccup - someone remembers. To find out who exactly they are, they make a wish for someone they know, moisten the little finger of their right hand with saliva and run it along their right eyebrow. If there is a hair on the finger, it means that the one for whom the wish was made remembers. If you hiccup heavily, they remember it with pleasure; if you hiccup lightly, it means they scold you.
If you hiccup, then you need to say: “For good, so remember, and for evil, so complete. To get rid of hiccups, say: “Hiccups, hiccups, go to Fedot, from Fedot to Yakov, from Yakov to everyone.” Repeat this quickly until the hiccups go away.
Children. Continuation
If there are children under one year old in the house, then after sunset do not take anything out of the house (slops, garbage). Also, if they ask you for something, do not give it. Otherwise the child will get sick.
After sunset, do not throw children above their heads - children will get scared and have trouble sleeping.
Do not let your child under one year old look in the mirror - he will be scared.
In order for your children to live amicably with each other in the future, it is necessary to put on the shirt in which the child was baptized for the first time, in turn, on all subsequent children.
When there are infants in the family, you cannot leave spoons in the plate overnight - the children will cry.
If you wean your child from the breast, then you need to cut a piece from the whole bread and take a pinch of salt, give it to the child and say: “Here, go eat your own bread. So that you can be rich and big, like this holy bread.”
When you wean your baby from the breast, don’t use it any more. If you put it back, the child will grow up ogling; if you do this three times, the child will have a “deadly evil eye”: he will stare not only at those around him, but also at himself.
You cannot give a child the name of a father, brother, sister, or in general anyone who already bears this name in the same house - one of the two may die.
You can't hang anything over the cradle - the baby won't fall asleep.
If someone leaves food on a plate at the baptismal table, the child will grow up with pockmarks. They tell grown-up children the same thing: if you don’t finish your porridge, you’ll get caught with a pockmarked bride (or groom).
At christenings, when they drink to the health of the newborn, one glass should be poured upward. They also put bread on the highest shelf so that the newborn will eat it when he grows up to this shelf. Throwing the glass towards the ceiling, they say: “May our Vanya jump like that!”
Anyone born on a new moon will live happily ever after.
If a child does not begin to walk independently for a long time, you need to put a broom between his legs and then scatter the rods.
Until six weeks, the baby should not be shown to strangers - otherwise they will jinx it.
When a woman in labor is taken to the maternity hospital, nothing can be given to anyone from the house where she lives for three days - so that everything goes well for her.
A woman in labor should chew her hair during labor - the birth will be easier.
The woman in labor should not have any knots, fasteners, etc. The knots must be untied and the fasteners unfastened. If the braid is braided, you should undo it - then the birth will be easy.
While a woman is giving birth, all doors in her house (apartment) should be opened - the birth will be easier.
Snake - to your husband, intimate friend. A snake bite means pregnancy.
If a woman catches a hare in a dream, then this means pregnancy. A hare will give birth to a boy, a hare will give birth to a girl
ku. (A man dreams of hares to death.)
Eating fish means pregnancy. Fishing in clean water means pregnancy. If in a dream you eat loach, perch, bream, then a boy will be born, if pike, salmon, white fish, then a girl will be born.
One chicken or duck means the birth of a girl (too many birds means a loss).
Bird - for the birth of a girl.
Mouse - to pregnancy.
If animals give birth in a dream, it means the birth of a child, pregnancy, profit.
Replanting a tree in a dream or growing it, especially from a closed space, portends pregnancy.
There are tomatoes and watermelons in a dream. - to pregnancy. Stealing watermelons means pregnancy.
Eating nuts and beans in a dream means pregnancy, and prosperity for a man.
Cats. On the road
A black cat crossed the road - come back, otherwise there will be no luck. However, pay attention to which side the black cat crossed your path. A woman will be in trouble if she crosses her path from left to right, and a man - on the contrary, from right to left. If returning is impossible and you cannot turn off the road, you can play it safe. To prevent the omen from coming true, you need to take a twig, break it into two halves and throw them in different directions - to open the road. Or put the middle finger of your right hand on top of your index finger (make a cross with your fingers), wave it three times in front of you and say: “Go your way, but don’t touch me.” Or you need to turn around your own axis and continue in the same direction. Or you can show the cat the muzzle with your left hand, while crossing yourself with your right, and say:
“I am going to health and prosperity, but I will not give them to you. Follow your interests through the dark forest.”
Witches love to turn into black cats at night.
The cat meows endlessly - expect a child in the family.
If a cat reaches out to a person, it promises renewal or benefit.
If a cat living in a store runs its left paw over its ear, then visitors will definitely come to the store or a profitable deal will be made.
First, you need to comb the cat with a new comb (new comb, massage brush), then the teeth will not break for a long time.
When moving to a new house or apartment, you must first let a cat in, then life in the new place will be rich and prosperous.
The cat washes itself - it washes guests (invites).
If her paws are cold at this time, the guest is either unexpected or unkind. If they are warm, friends or relatives will come.
When a cat washes itself, you can tell it; “It’s black behind the ear, it’s black behind the ear.” The cat will hear and wash behind the ear. If a cat washes a guest and you want them, say: “Before the cat had time to wash itself, the guests arrived.” If you want guests to drive by, say: “The cat is empty; I took a long time to wash, but didn’t wash my guests.”
The cat is fast asleep or sleeps with its belly up - to warmth and heat.
If a cat lies with its belly up or moves its paw around its face three times in bad weather, then the weather will be good.
Sleeping with its muzzle under its belly means bad weather or cold.
Curls up into a ball - to frost (cold snap).
In autumn, spring, winter: he sits in the stove (climbs onto the radiator) - to the cold in the yard.
In winter: spreads its tail - to a blizzard. Licking the tail - a blizzard. The floor is scraping - notice, blizzard, wind.
Licking the tail, hiding the head - to bad weather and rain.
Licks a paw, washes itself - for a fine day.
Signs for gardeners
Before working in the beds, you need to eat heartily, then the harvest will be rich.
Clicking seeds on the beds means pests will spoil the harvest.
It is better to plant all ground vegetables in the new month, and root crops - in the full month.
To prevent thieves from getting into the garden, aspen stakes should be buried in each corner.
If you are tired while working in your garden, you cannot rest between the beds and under the elderberry bush - you will get sick.
To have a good harvest, on the holiday of Ivan Kupala (July 7), before sunset, you need to break willow branches and scatter them around the garden.
When planting seedlings, say: “Don’t be long-legged, but be big-bellied; don’t be empty, but be tight; don't be red, but be tasty; don't be old, but be young; don’t be small, but be big.” And you will have a good harvest.
If you want carrots and beets to grow richly, you need to help them with this at the planting stage. Early in the morning, the seeds are moistened with water from a spring, into which copper money is dipped. You can also moisten it with ordinary river water at three morning dawns. No one else should see what you are doing: “Another eye, like a dashing raven, is envious, and envy, like rust, will eat up the entire harvest.”
Autumn signs
Birch trees tell what spring will be like in the fall: the leaves begin to turn yellow from the top - expect early spring, from below - late, and if evenly - medium.
At the beginning of October, the leaves of the birch tree did not fall - the snow would fall late. And if everything falls off before October, then at the end of January - beginning of February there will be a prolonged thaw.
Thunder in September - for a long, warm autumn.
Thunder in October means a snowless, short and mild winter.
Rains in November mean winter is coming.
Mosquitoes in November - be a mild winter.
There will be snow in November - there will be a good harvest in the summer.
If there are a lot of acorns on the oak tree, then the winter promises to be long. If there is an abundance of nuts and few mushrooms, winter will surprise you with its severity, but will delight you with snow.
Summer signs
If there are a lot of berries on the mountain ash tree in the forest in summer, autumn will be rainy, if there are few berries - dry.
If the berries (lingonberries, blueberries, raspberries) are pleased with the harvest, the winter will be harsh.
If there is a lot of field sow thistle in the summer, this means a cold winter, and if there is sorrel, this means a warm winter.
In the morning, heavy dew and fog mean a good day; if they are absent, it means bad weather.
If dandelion flowers close in sunny weather, it will rain. But it happens the other way around: the sky frowns, clouds are floating across it, but the dandelion flowers are open, which means there will be no rain.
The fluff from a dandelion flies in the wind - to dry weather, does not come off the head - to rain.
Ducks scream and splash - it means rain.
The burdock spines are pressed tightly against the head and do not prick - a sign of bad weather. Burdock is prickly and brave - for dry, hot weather.
Spring signs
A lot of sap flows from the birch tree in the spring - summer will be rainy and autumn will be late.
If the birches become pubescent before the maples, June and July will be dry, and August will be rainy. If in the spring the birch tree throws out its leaves before the alder, the summer will be dry, and if the alder blooms first, the cold and rain will torment you.
Birds build nests on the sunny side - for a cold summer.
If the beginning of May is warm, it will be cold at the end (and vice versa).
Fogs and thunderstorms in May promise a bountiful harvest, hail - a hail-blasting summer.
The violet flower has opened wide - there will be clear, dry weather. Before bad weather, the flower closes and droops.
The same thing happens with the daisy.
Roses and rose hips still won’t open their buds - a sign of prolonged bad weather.
Signs of the house.
If a person has already crossed the threshold when leaving home, there is no point in returning: there will be no luck on the way. However, if you really have to, you should look in the mirror before going out.
Greeting a person across the threshold means making it possible to quarrel with him.
If a person has gone on a long trip, it is strictly not recommended to do cleaning for three days after his departure. Otherwise, the traveler risks not returning home.
Whistling in the house means problems with money.
If a person gets caught on something when leaving the house, the sign warns that he will have to quickly return.
If a guest chokes in someone else's house, he will return there in a year.
If a person takes out the trash in the evening, he may be preparing for a quarrel.
If a girl does not want to be left without a husband or marry a bad man, she should look north when leaving the house.
If you give away some of your household items for the Annunciation, the house may become scarce.
Plaster falling from the ceiling foreshadows the arrival of uninvited guests.
Signs about the threshold.
If a bachelor sits on the doorstep, he risks being left without a wife forever.
Putting a scythe on the threshold means protecting your home from unkind people.
The sign prescribes not to do anything across the threshold - neither greet each other, nor give things, etc. Ignoring her will cause the best relationships to deteriorate.
This belief is associated with the special role that was attributed to the threshold in the old days. It was believed that it served as the boundary of two significantly different energetic environments - the home environment and the outside world.
In the old days, newlyweds leaving the house had to cross a torch that was lit on the threshold. This ritual helped them find family happiness. There was also a way to invite prosperity into your home. An unlocked lock was placed under the threshold when the future spouses left the house and went to church. And when they crossed the threshold again on the way back, the lock was closed and the key was thrown away.
Signs about the mirror.
If someone died in the house, it is customary to cover all the mirrors with cloth.
This is done so that the deceased is not reflected in them, and his soul does not wander around the home.
The mirror breaks - big trouble lies ahead. As the sign says, perhaps it is not the one who broke the thing who will die, but the person close to him.
The roots of this belief go back to extreme antiquity. Even our ancestors, seeing their own reflection in the water, believed that their second selves were looking at them. The reflection in the mirror is also a second self, so breaking this object is tantamount to killing yourself.
It is strictly forbidden to keep cracked mirrors at home: it is believed that a crack is a bridge through which evil entities can enter ours from another dimension.
Looking in the mirror at night means attracting misfortune, and if you look into it after 12 at night, you can see the devil. Good Friday is especially dangerous in this regard. Among Slavic peoples, women are not recommended to look in the mirror during pregnancy, after childbirth and during menstruation.
If a person eats in front of a mirror, all his beauty can go to the other world.
A baby under one year of age should not show himself in the mirror: his sleep will be disturbed and he will have nightmares. In some areas it is believed that this will also delay the development of speech. Bringing an unbaptized baby to your own reflection at night means inviting trouble.
Signs of a guest.
If you sit down on the path before leaving for a visit, you will be received well and cordially in someone else’s house.
If a guest leaves the house after a feast before the hosts remove the tablecloth from the table, their daughters will not be able to get married in the near future, since the grooms will refuse them.
Putting something on inside out before leaving for a visit is not a good omen, as it promises a cold reception.
Two people say something at one moment - to the guests. You can also prepare for their arrival if a person chokes during lunch.
If the long-awaited guest still does not show up on the doorstep, you need to shake the tablecloth with which the table is covered. According to the sign, this will speed up his arrival.
If the firewood in the fireplace makes a crackling noise, sparks, or if a log falls out of the fireplace, this is a sign that guests will soon be in the house.
Signs of the groom.
If the groom gives yellow flowers, it may lead to separation. Taking photos together before the wedding can lead to the same consequences.
If the bride gives the groom a knife, the sign suggests that by doing so she risks breaking off their engagement.
If the groom carries the bride in his arms across the threshold of their new common home, a long and prosperous life awaits the couple. living together. If the bride crosses it herself, conflicts will not be long in coming.
If a girl gives her lover a handkerchief as a gift, then it is likely that they will separate without ever getting married. The same applies to hand-knitted clothing items (sweaters, scarves) given to the guy as a gift. In this case, the beloved will find another lady of his heart.
Signs about color.
A preference for a particular color can shed light on a person's character. Thus, red color is usually very popular with energetic and powerful people. Since it is active, quickly tires the eyesight and excites the nervous system, people who have a special love for it are often considered too hot-tempered and unbalanced. People who have a lot of complexes like red. For them, personal, intimate life, and they are in constant fear of failure in love affairs. The color red is highly stimulating, but if a person gets too carried away with it, it will become difficult for him to concentrate on anything, since the nervous system will be overexcited.
If a person likes the color yellow, then, as the sign says, he is most likely characterized by calmness and balance. This color has the ability to fill the soul with cheerfulness and relieve stress and depression.
Blue color appeals to those who remain calm in most situations. This is not surprising, since blue helps the nervous system recover and gain the ability to concentrate well. However, excessive addiction to this color is fraught with a degree of relaxation at which it will be too difficult to mobilize. But the blue color has a very contradictory “nature”, and this leads to the fact that both active and calm people love it. Moreover, if the color calms the former, then, on the contrary, it makes the latter more energetic and confident.
It has been noted that green is preferred by people who are also characterized by calmness and prudence. However, with all their balance, they are ready to repel any attacks on themselves. Thanks to the calming properties of green, the psyche and defenses are strengthened.
There are people who prefer white and black to all other colors. Despite the opposite colors, people are united by the ability to defend their interests, clearly and quickly respond to any situation, as well as balance and calmness, even conservatism. Black has long been worn at funeral ceremonies because it symbolizes death and sadness. White is the color for wedding ceremonies; it serves as a symbol of innocence and purity. It is believed that initially ancient priestesses wore white tunics, which was supposed to indicate purity of morals.
Signs about insects
A fly gets into food or drink - a gift.
Finding a spider on a dress means profit.
Kill a spider - forty sins will be forgiven, but unfortunately.
A small spider descends before your eyes - to news, to a letter.
Killing a ladybug means inviting trouble.
To kill a beetle is to invite disaster. Seeing a flying beetle in your home or anywhere is unlucky.
If a fly falls into a glass from which you are drinking or about to drink, this portends success for you.
If you kill the firefly, you will kill your love and may even cause the death of your beloved.
A white spider nests above the bed - fortunately; black - unfortunately.
To see a spider in the morning means sadness; during the day - to love; in the evening - to hope; at night - to worries.
Ants in the house - fortunately.
Seeing a spider unexpectedly in the house and getting scared means bad news; don’t get scared - everything will be fine.
If a spider falls on your face from the ceiling, this is a good omen.
Since ancient times, domestic animals have been a means of food and life support; people monitored their behavior and identified patterns. Chickens, which are associated with a lot folk signs .
Particular attention was paid to the brood hen: it must be planted with an odd number of eggs. Only without strangers and at the moment when the cows have already come from the pasture. It was believed that only in this case many strong chickens would hatch.
The place where the hen sits required special respect; it was not allowed to whistle or cook scrambled eggs. If the jug breaks, it’s not a big deal, because you don’t need to throw it away, but just attach it to the roost and the chickens, according to the signs, will lay eggs even better than before. It is advisable to add another pebble with a hole to the composition with the jug, and then you can definitely sleep peacefully: all the chickens will be safe and healthy.
If your hazel grouse has laid its eggs, you should under no circumstances distribute them among your neighbors to hatch chicks, otherwise you will be left with nothing.
In order for the hen to fly in her own nest, and not among her neighbors, a feather was carefully cut off and placed in her nest. Another, less humane option for solving this problem is to pluck the feathers from the tail and burn it in the flame of the stove.
The man listened warily to the chicken's clucking. If they suddenly all started singing in unison, a quarrel in the house is inevitable. If a chicken crows like a rooster, expect trouble. But there is a way out - signs advise cutting off its wild head as quickly as possible and adversity will bypass the owner’s house.
If chicken knocking on the window or climbed into the house - wait for news. She laid a small egg - to minor everyday problems.
Chickens are walking weather stations that help knowledgeable people predict the weather. Severe frost and cold are foreshadowed by hazel grouse standing on one leg. And if they wag their tails, expect a blizzard and blizzard.
Chickens wallowing in the dust or getting ready to sleep early foretell imminent rain. Also expect bad weather if the hen hides the chicks by placing them under her.
Here is another curious sign: when the young woman has had sex for the first time, the mistress of the farmstead must take an egg and gently move it through her husband’s hair, saying with feeling, for example, the following cherished words: “let the hen Pestrushka have as many more eggs as Ivan has hair.” at the top."
Two people take the gnawed arch (collarbone) of a chicken or other bird by the ends and pull it towards themselves. Whoever gets the largest portion will have his wish fulfilled.
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Since time immemorial, chickens and roosters have lived next to people. Among many nations, chickens were the most popular among various domestic animals, since even the poorest person could afford this unpretentious bird.
In the distant past, it was impossible to imagine any farm or farmstead without chickens and roosters.
And for many centuries of proximity to man hens and roosters became frequent heroes huge amount folk signs, beliefs and superstitions.
The most unusual sign among them is when a hen crows like a rooster. Knowledgeable people say that this actually happens. And it's no wonder that folk beliefs In this case, they advise you to expect something very unusual, more often - bad.
However, a chicken's rooster song does not always foretell trouble. If a chicken started singing in the newlyweds' house , - this is a very good omen. It promises the newlyweds a long and happy life.
Weather signs about chickens
- If chickens wag their tails in winter, it means a snowstorm.
- While rummaging in the ground, chickens shower themselves with dust, as if bathing - a sign of rain.
- A chicken standing on one leg means it’s cold.
- The continuous clucking of pieds foreshadows bad weather.
- Before any worsening weather, the hen gathers her chicks and securely covers them with her plumage.
- The chickens got ready to go to bed early - in anticipation of the rain.
Household beliefs about chickens
- If chickens fly off their roost at night, this is a sign of trouble.
- When one hen falls from the perch, a surprise awaits.
- Chickens fight - to the guests.
- If in the evening all the hens cluck continuously at the same time, then a quarrel will certainly occur in the house. And if this happened at night, then you need to expect misfortune.
- If a straw is attached to a chicken's foot and is dragging, it is a sign of a dead person.
- A chicken comes into the hut - to the news, flies around the house - to the frost.
- Seeing a chicken through the window is a sign that promises a quarrel with a female person.
- The sign that a chicken knocks on the window indicates that you need to prepare to receive news.
- It is a very good omen if someone else’s chicken comes into the yard. This promises not just stable income, but real wealth. If the bird also lays an egg, then there is no doubt about the special mercy of fate in the near future.
- Anyone who hits a chicken with a car will lose their family well-being.
- Separately, it should be said about the sign about the black chicken. A bird with this color was popularly considered a good talisman for its owners against the evil eye, damage and envy of neighbors. In Rus' they believed that if you also got a black rooster, you would not be afraid of thieves or evil people.
Signs and beliefs about chickens and eggs
Chickens on a farm all year round They provided the family not only with meat and feathers, but also with fresh eggs. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of folk superstitions and beliefs are inextricably linked with chicken eggs.
- In order for chickens to lay eggs well, you need to hang a stone with a hole in the chicken coop.
- Popular beliefs do not recommend that men collect chicken eggs in the poultry house, since then the chickens may stop laying eggs. The same thing can happen if you burn eggshells.
- To ensure that chickens roaming freely around the site return to lay in the nest, several feathers clipped from their tails are placed in it.
- They put it in the stork's nest egg so that the chickens lay eggs as large as the stork.
- To make chickens lay eggs better, it is customary to put Christmas straw in the nest.
- The hen must be placed on an odd number of eggs. And it is best to do this on, then the offspring will be healthy.
- A large egg with two yolks predicts a wedding for a young girl, a new addition to the family for a married woman, the birth of twins for a pregnant woman, and good luck in love and business for a man.
- A small egg, according to signs, means minor troubles that can concern both everyday problems and workers.
- If you dreamed of a small egg, this means that a person is inclined to make mountains out of molehills, to attach unduly great importance to insignificant words and actions.
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