Traditionally, while the girls were getting married and before the next Christmas, many had already had children or were pregnant. Those who were still expecting a joyful event were looking for at least some ways to find out their future.

It will not be superfluous to recall that Orthodox Church not very good at divination. But, even she on Christmas Eve before Christmas changes her anger to mercy. It is believed that on this night, also on all subsequent nights before Epiphany, which falls on January 19, devilry weakens, and divination is no longer a demonic act, but simple fun.

On the night of Christmas, people believed in it and still believe it, various miracles are happening. Including, you can see your future, especially if it concerns children. It is especially good when there is a full moon on the night of Christmas Eve. This will be the case in 2018, for example.

Special Divination Rules:

In the room where the ritual is performed, there should be a minimum of noise, light and people. Of course, you need to turn off the TV and music. Fortune-telling should be carried out closer to midnight, so that there is no more noise outside the window.
Also, during fortune-telling, you can not cross your arms or legs, this can reduce the energy flow and make it difficult to look into the future.
You need to prepare well for fortune-telling: wash yourself, put on clean clothes, untie your hair and comb it, remove jewelry, a belt and other items that can interfere with the free flow of energy.
Christmas divination for children

On the floor of the unborn child

There may be various fortune-telling for Christmas on January 6-7 for children, including determining the sex of the baby, informs the Rosregistr portal. To carry out this ritual, you will need to take a needle and thread. Hold the thread between the large and index finger try not to touch these items. So hold the needle over the open palm. If it starts spinning clockwise, then your next baby will be a girl. If the needle begins to swing like a pendulum, there will be a boy. When the needle does not swing in any way for a long time, this indicates that the woman will not have children.

On the rocks

It will be necessary to take ink and write on the stones those names that please the most. You can just stick a piece of paper with a name on each stone. Next, you need to lower the stones into the water and begin to observe what is happening. If the inscription does not wash off the stone (or the paper does not peel off), then you will have as many children as there are inscriptions on the stones. According to the preserved names, by the way, you can also predict the sex of future babies.

Take a glass and pour water into it. Then on the night of Christmas Eve or on any of the nights of Christmas time, except for Christmas from January 7 to 8, take the glass out into the cold and leave it there overnight. In the morning, bring a glass into the house and see how the water froze in it. How many tubercles on the water will be, so many sons will a woman have, and how many pits - so many daughters will be. By counting all the signs, it will be possible to determine the exact number of children.

These are the three most popular fortune-telling for children at Christmas, which have already helped many women to get peace of mind and make sure that the kids will definitely be: you just have to wait a bit. May all your dreams come true. By the way, we know a way to make a wish for Christmas so that it comes true.

Any pregnant woman and her close circle, sooner or later, begin to be interested in the question of the sex of the unborn baby in order to fully prepare for his birth.

Today, modern medicine makes it possible to determine the sex of the fetus with an accuracy of up to 85% even at a gestational age of 16 weeks, using ultrasonic radiation. But many future parents do not forget about other non-standard methods of determining sex, such as all kinds of signs or fortune-telling that predict how many children a woman will have, and what gender, and make it possible to find out the sex of the future heir or heiress for another early dates pregnancy.

In addition, ultrasound, as practice shows, does not always give completely reliable results, since it is influenced by various factors, such as the professionalism of a medical worker, the presence overweight in the future mother, the state of the equipment on which the study is carried out, and the position of the child in the womb.

It also happens that the baby simply does not want to reveal his gender to his parents and often curls up in his mother's womb, covering the genital area with his arms, legs or umbilical cord, thereby preventing the doctor from determining the sex. In this case, you can resort to the help of various fortune-telling and folk signs.

This type of fortune-telling is considered one of the most popular today, and its interpretation is quite simple: if a woman begins to look unimportant with the onset of pregnancy, becomes covered with age spots and pimples all over her body and face, and quickly loses hair on her head, then, most likely, she carries a girl under her heart, who sucks all her beauty out of her mother. If, on the contrary, a pregnant woman becomes more beautiful and prettier every day, then she is expecting a boy.

A similar method of determining the sex of an unborn child is not denied even by medical specialists. Many doctors associate the coincidences of such a plan with the banal hormonal changes in the body, to which all pregnant women are subject.

Divination by the gender of the child according to the shape of the belly of the expectant mother is no less popular, but this method takes place only closer to the very moment of childbirth, when the belly has gained a sufficiently large volume. If on later dates the stomach of a woman is small in size, sharply protrudes forward and is invisible from the back, then it is believed that a boy will be born, if it is more rounded in shape and captures the sides well, then a girl.

This method is similar to another way to determine sex - by weight gain in a pregnant woman. When the expectant mother gains weight in proportion to her body and does not particularly get better, it is believed that she is wearing a guy, but if the figure of a pregnant woman expands greatly, especially in the waist and hips, then the expectant parents should wait for the girl.

Fortune telling on the gender of the child by the behavior of a pregnant woman

If a woman during pregnancy behaves more capriciously and more demanding than usual, then with a high degree of probability it can be argued that she is expecting a girl. If the expectant mother, on the contrary, is calm and cold-blooded, as never before, then, most likely, she will have a boy. Such interpretations are closely associated with hormonal changes in the body.

Also, randomness and lack of concentration in the movements of a pregnant woman speaks of the birth of a boy in the future, and lightness and grace, on the contrary, predict the appearance of a girl.

Gender determination with a wedding ring

Fortune telling on the sex of a child by a wedding ring was at one time popular not only among the Slavic peoples, but also in Egypt.

To carry out such a ritual, only two things are required: the ring itself from the woman’s finger and a thick thread that is threaded through the ring and hung over the central part of the pregnant woman’s abdomen. If the ring swings over the stomach in the direction "back and forth", then it is believed that the future boy lives inside it, if it moves in a circle, then a girl should be expected.

In such divination, it is allowed to replace the ring with a pendulum, but in this case all movements of the object above the stomach are interpreted in the opposite way: circular - to the boy, back and forth - to the girl.

This method is slightly similar to the previous method for determining the sex of the fetus. Only here, instead of a ring, a new needle is used, which has never been used before, and an ordinary white thread. By analogy with the previous method, the thread is threaded into the needle, and then suspended above the center of the palm, having previously descended three times into the recess between the palm and thumb. If the needle swings randomly from side to side, then a boy should be expected, if it moves in a circle, then girls.

Important! Fortune-telling on a needle can only be used for a woman who has never given birth before, has never had an abortion and has never been pregnant before.

Today in Russia, such fortune-telling is especially often practiced at Christmas, trying in this way to determine the sex of the unborn child at an early stage of pregnancy. In general, Christmas divination on the gender of the unborn child has always been considered one of the most truthful, therefore, if pregnancy falls during this period, then you should not miss the opportunity to once again clarify the gender of the unborn baby.

Folk omens

There are also many signs associated with determining the sex of the unborn child. Here are the most popular ones:

1. If a pregnant woman is drawn to sweet food, then a girl will be born, if you want more meat products, something salty or sour, then a boy.
2. If a future mom suffers from severe toxicosis in the early stages of pregnancy, this is considered a sign of the appearance of a girl in the family. And when a woman feels great and is not prone to vomiting, then, most likely, she will have a boy.
3. Increased activity in the growth of hair on the arms and legs is a sure sign of the manifestation of the male essence of the conceived fetus.
4. If a pregnant woman often sleeps on her right side, then most likely she is expecting a girl, and if on her left, then a boy.

Other ways to help determine the sex of the fetus

In addition to fortune-telling at Christmas and folk signs, helping to determine the sex of the unborn child at short periods of pregnancy, there are certain methods compiled on the basis of scientific research or some kind of observation. True, they give the correct answer only 50% of the time.

To date, the following methods can be found in the public domain:

• The Chinese calendar, which, based on data on the age of the mother at the time of conception and the month when fertilization occurred, provides information about who future parents should expect: a boy or a girl. It is presented in the form of a table, where the rows indicate the age numbers, the columns indicate the month of conception, and at the intersection - the expected sex of the child.
• The Japanese method of sex identification, which is presented in the form of two tables. In the first of them, in the rows and columns of the table, the months of birth of the mother and father are indicated, the intersection of which gives some figure. In the second table, you can directly see the interpretation of the obtained value by comparing it with the month of conception of the child.
• Determination of sex by the fetal heartbeat is a method that already for a period of 10 weeks makes it possible to assume the gender of the unborn baby. If the number of heartbeats per minute is 140 or more units, then you should wait for the baby to appear, if less, then most likely a boy will be born.
  

  Attention! This method should not be taken seriously, since ultrasound does not make it possible to listen to the fetal heart rate in full.

• A blood renewal test, the essence of which is that the blood in the male body tends to be renewed once every four years, and in the female - once every three years. To determine the future sex, it is necessary to find out which of the parents has younger blood by dividing the number of full years of the future dad by the number "4", and mom - by the number "3". If the woman's blood is younger as a result, then a girl should be expected, otherwise the couple will have a boy.

Finally

In any case, when determining the sex of a child, you should not worry if the result obtained does not meet expectations. Moreover, ultrasound remains the most reliable and reliable method today.

People say that on the night of January 6-7, on Christmas Eve, the predictions are the most accurate and truthful. Christmas Eve is not only a great Orthodox holiday, but also a start for famous Christmas divination- the period lasting until January 19 (Epiphany). According to popular beliefs, on this night all prohibitions are lifted, mysterious forces rush to the Earth. One is to harm people, the other is to help.

In the old days, girls, about to tell fortunes, tuned in to a serious mood. They mentally fenced themselves off from the real world and turned to supernatural forces. We have tried to collect the most interesting and reliable Christmas divination which, we hope, will help you unravel the mysteries of the future.

When can you guess?

The best time for divination, as we have already reported, is Christmas Eve. It is then that astral spirits and ghosts penetrate the physical world, making contact and reporting the facts of our future.

Another suitable period of winter attempts to look into your future is considered the segment between January 8 and January 18. At this time, they are also guessing, recognizing their betrothed (name, hair color, character, estate), an early or distant wedding, the number of children, a successful or unsuccessful marriage. Recognized as special Vasiliev evening when the result is highly accurate, even prophetic. It - 13th of January. No less successful in divination and January 18 - Epiphany Christmas Eve.

Preparing for divination

• You need to tune in to a serious mood;
• dissolve the hair;
• untie all the knots that are on the clothes (belts, belts, decorative elements);
• remove bracelets and rings;
• mentally fenced off from the real world;
• formulate the question precisely.

The best divination

1. Divination for the future with cups

For divination, you will need several cups corresponding to the number of fortunetellers. A ring, a coin, bread, sugar, onion, salt are placed in the cups, a little water is poured into one cup. FROM eyes closed, each of the fortune-tellers, in turn, chooses a cup.

The predictions for the future are as follows: ring - for the wedding; coin - to wealth; bread - to prosperity; sugar - for fun; onion - to tears; salt - unfortunately, and a cup of water - to life without much change.

2. Divination for the future with candles

You will need a bowl of water, halves of a walnut shell, in an amount equal to the number of fortunetellers, and the same number of small candles or their pieces. Candles need to be inserted into the shells, light them and let them float in a bowl.

The girl whose candle burns first will be the first of the fortune-tellers to marry. Accordingly, the girl whose candle burns last will be the last to marry. If someone's shell with a candle sank, that girl will not be married at all.

3. Divination on paper

Take a sheet of paper and crumple it up. Place the crumpled leaf in the bottom of an upside-down plate or saucer and light it. After that, bring the saucer with burnt paper to the wall and carefully turn the saucer until some kind of shadow appears on the wall, according to the outlines of which one judges the near future.

4. Divination on wax

For divination on wax, you will need two wax candles, one of which needs to be lit, and pieces of the other put in a spoon and, heating the spoon over a burning candle, melt the wax. After that, the melted wax is quickly poured into a glass with cold water and by the light of a candle, the future is judged by the figure formed.

5. Divination YES-NO

Above the jar, with any cereal or grain, they hold left hand palm down. Concentrating, you need to ask a question that interests you. After that, take a handful of cereals from the jar and pour it on the table, then count the number of grains. If the number of grains is even, it means a positive answer - YES, an odd number, means a negative answer - NO.

6. Fortune telling on the number and gender of future children

On Christmas Eve, you need to pour water into a glass, put a ring in it and put it in the cold. Before going to bed, a glass is taken from the cold and the future children are judged by the ice surface formed in it. The number of tubercles indicates the number of boys, and the number of pits indicates how many girls there will be.

7. Divination by the book

They took a book at random and asked a question. After that, they called the page number and the line number on it - what was written in this place in the book, and served as an answer.

8. Fortune telling on the king of diamonds

You will need the appropriate card, which you need to hide under the pillow and make a wish on the man you want to see as your husband. Then go to bed. What you dream about tonight will be your future. On this night, all dreams are prophetic.

the day before Happy Holiday of the Nativity of Christ, all Christians, young and old, are preparing for this solemn day: they cook kutya and the prescribed dishes for holiday table, come up with entertainment for guests, clean their own homes, create small Christmas installations, etc. In this pre-holiday turmoil, often there is almost no work left for kids, they interfere with parents and adults, constantly falling under the arm. But to give little girls and boys an interesting and responsible task is very simple. It is enough to tell them about what kind of Christmas fortune-telling exists for children.

Among the people, children were not assigned a special role in the fortune-telling process, they were almost always with their parents or left to their own devices, so initially there were no specific practices created to find out fate for them. However, in ancient books and collections of folklore, the fact that there is no place for children in the process of divination is not clearly indicated. Therefore, the most adequate fortune-telling for children, which they can carry out on their own, is offered here.

If there are many books in the house

It is interesting to guess with the kids on Christmas from books, and in this case any literature is taken. This fortune-telling is suitable for the children themselves different ages: and kindergarten pupils, and schoolchildren, and adolescents. In addition, you can change books from year to year, depending on the state of mind, erudition and emotional state of the children. By Christmas, it is better to take the appropriate books: the Bible, Psalms, appropriate prayers and parables. Divination is carried out directly in the following way:

• First, a specific question is asked that disturbs the fortuneteller. You need to ask it to the book on which they are guessing, mentally repeating it to yourself several times.
• After the task is formulated, it is necessary to open the book in the first available place, setting a certain line, from which the answer corresponding to the question will be read.
• Divination experts confirm that a correctly formulated question is already half the battle, and books never lie if they are addressed with an open heart.

Divination through other people's windows

If the children are not completely tomboys and can be trusted difficult task by spying on strangers, you can entertain them on Christmas Eve with the following fortune-telling:

• On the night before Christmas, several fortunetellers go to a street they know (you can go to a street next to their own) and, guessing a specific house, go to its windows to see what is happening there.
• Depending on what they see there, they can interpret their fate: they see tightly curtained windows - life will flow peacefully, without change; peep at someone else's feast - the year will be cheerful, kind and rich in events; they will see dark windows - they will not see happiness in the near future, etc.

In this fortune-telling, the age and gender of those people who flash past the windows of the hidden house also matter: young people - to joy and carelessness, old people - to serious events and wisdom, middle-aged people - to stability and prosperity.

The future - through folk omens

In the old days, it was mostly people of the age who could come up with a good fortune-telling for children at Christmas, who gave the task of tomboys to follow the signs: the weather, animals and birds, the sky and precipitation, trees, etc. The kids put all their diligence and concentration so as not to miss those smallest hints that nature gave. Up to the fact that all the days around Christmas were painted in detail. Based on the analysis of each of them, it was possible to say what the weather will be like in the coming year. So, instruct your child to learn and notice such of the main natural phenomena at Christmas:

• The presence of snow. If there is a lot of snow on Christmas Day, this is a good and good year.
• Air temperature. If the day is generally warm and fine, then the harvest will be sound and good, the wheat fields will be full of grain.
• The presence of wind, and even a blizzard. If there is a snowstorm on Christmas Eve, there will be a lot of honey due to the abundance of bees.
• The number of stars in the sky. If there are many stars in the sky, then there will be many peas in the harvest.
• Children can even start a diary of divination by natural phenomena, where they can write down or even sketch their observations, noting the signs associated with them.

Fortune telling on the knees of a brownie

In addition to serious, practically scientific observations of the weather and nature, on Christmas Eve it is proposed to entertain the kids with stories about a kind houseman who guards a person’s home, in every possible way contributing to his free life and prosperity. To do this, you need to show the children pictures of the house in advance, tell about his abilities and character, and also teach the kids to respect the forces that keep the house and live in it side by side with a person. As part of this practice, it is proposed to teach children to feed the brownie, exposing him to the window at night with pieces of food and a couple of spoons of milk. “Bared” in this way, the brownie may well help with fortune-telling, kinding to the people with whom he lives and whose house he serves. So, the divination itself will include the following steps:

1. You need to take a small saucer or a lid from a jar, pour fresh milk into it and place an impromptu plate closer to the threshold of the front door.
2. While the milk is standing near the door, you need to melt all the candle ends in the house in a metal bowl, while saying to the bowl: “My little house, dear owner, come quickly, drink milk, talk about fate.”
3. When the wax is melted, you need to pour it into cold milk and fix the shapes that will turn out when it solidifies in the liquid.
4. It is not always easy to make out what happened as a result of fortune-telling, but this stage is most liked by kids. You can interpret it like this: stars - to the set interesting events, a cross - to sadness and illness, a flower - joy, animals - new friends, lines - travel, roads, people - many new characters in fate, etc.

Practice guessing on cats

You can diversify children's fortune-telling for Christmas by bringing pets to fortune-telling. For this purpose, hamsters, and guinea pigs, and dogs, and cats are suitable. But traditionally in rural magic it is considered the most mystical animal that can bring on its paws the truth about the future of man, a representative of the cat family. It is better if the animal is black or tricolor, but other colors will do. You need to do the following:

• Come up with and formulate to yourself or, on the contrary, out loud a certain desire associated with future deeds or events.
• Then you need an odd number of times to call by the name of your pet. Call until the cat deigns to run into the room where the fortunetellers are sitting.
• At the moment when the cat or the cat crosses the threshold, it is necessary to fix the fact which paw will be the first to be transferred through it.
• Fortune-telling is interpreted very simply: if the left paw went ahead of the right, then the plan was destined to come true, but if the cat turned out to be right-handed, then it is better to forget about that desire as unrealizable.

Cups-spoons-ladles

A good fortune-telling at Christmas for children who really want to “be like adults” may turn out to be one in which all the salt lies in the distribution of the so-called “cups of fate”. So, what is needed for this?

1. Take exactly the same circles, preferably deep and necessarily by the number of fortunetellers, after which they are well washed (from someone else's energy).
2. Then you need to scatter various objects in random order according to these circles, which can only be found in the kitchen or in mom's boxes. For example, it can be coins, beads, pieces of bread, sugar cubes, seeds, onions, salt, pebbles and other little things of small caliber.
3. Items at the bottom of impromptu "bowls of fate" are filled with black tea (so that the contents were not visible), and then offered to fortunetellers to choose from.
4. Each of the participants must choose a cup for himself and get an object from its bottom.
5. The decoding is done approximately as follows: I got a bow - to sadness and disappointment, I got a pebble - to solve difficult life problems, there was sugar or candy at the bottom - life will be sweet and beautiful, a coin - promises wealth and luxury, a bead - interesting meetings, seeds - a lot of new friends, but if there was nothing in the circle, then life next year will not bring much change.

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