Nowadays, many people celebrate various pagan holidays, as well as engaged in fortune-telling and other mystical practices. Therefore, it is necessary to know when the Christmas holidays begin for those who also want to know their destiny for the next year.
When do the Christmas holidays begin and end?
Traditionally, this period of time begins on Christmas Eve, that is, on Christmas Eve (from 6 to 7 January). It is on this evening that you can begin to engage in various divinations, as well as conduct rituals and read conspiracies. This period ends before Baptism, that is, on January 19. If you want to understand from which day the Christmas holidays begin not according to the current calendar, but according to the old style, you need to turn to the so-called Julian calendar. According to him, the saint began on December 24 and lasts until January 6th.
From what date can you guess at Christmas?
Many believe that it is during the Christmas season, so sometimes called Christmas gifts, various rituals acquire special power, for example, you can find out your fate with the help of fortune-telling . It is believed that the most truthful and accurate prediction can be obtained on the night of Christmas, that is, from 6 to 7 January, but on other days of this period, fortune telling will be no less effective.
In order to know the future, it is necessary not only to know when people start to guess fortunes, but also how to do it correctly. To date, there are several simple ways with which you can get a hint from the higher forces.
Take a sheet of paper, crumble it, put it on a flat plate and set it on fire. When the lump ignites, you need to bring down the flame and put the dish so that a shadow appears on the wall from the unburnt paper. Look at what a shadow looks like and thus get a clue about what awaits you ahead.
Pour cold water into the container, light a candle and drip wax into a bowl of liquid. According to the form of frozen paraffin, you can understand what changes the coming year will bring.
Write on 10 scraps of paper for 1 desire. Fold the leaves, put them under the pillow and in the morning get one of them. What you pulled out, and will come true in the coming year.
Such methods of divination are completely safe, and most importantly, they will not require any serious preparation. And time can be spent quite fun, guessing what a frozen wax or unburned paper looks like. It does not matter from what date you began to guess fortunes, most importantly, to believe that good predictions will come true.
Customs and traditions
As already mentioned above, this period of time is also called the Christmas season. At the holy days our ancestors were amused in this way - in the evening people dressed up in various fancy dresses, knocked at the houses of their neighbors and said - "Master, mistress, treat let's take, otherwise we'll take the son or daughter." In response to this phrase, it was customary to present people dressed in costumes with various sweets or pastries. But for the action to look even more cheerful, the youth in the masquerade
Christmas trees were considered a merry time, when you could pobalagurit, plenty to roll on sleighs from snow mountains, and also to tell fortunes. For example, many girls who wanted to meet a narrowed-down, at this time, went out at night to the intersection and threw their boots, closing their eyes. The farther the shoe fell, the more likely it was that in the coming year the woman would marry, but the side of the road spoke about which direction the bride would come from. It was also possible to ask the first man to meet his man, so they learned how they would call their future husband.