Under the heading Horoscopes: national signs of spring
How far did not extend the zone, a person can be described within it is always a place for the undefined concepts, give birthfolk beliefs and superstitionsFaith ingood and bad omensWho helped a man to survive in the vast, sometimes not very friendly world.
Many superstitions by our ancestors had in the time of their creation home in nature, for example, sign spilling salt. Although since the appearance of the signs of this took many centuries, still do not know the essence of the signs people can confidently say that sprinkled salt to quarrel. Not knowing that this sign was born in the people only at the time when the salt was very expensive. Each gram of it spilled led to a quarrel in a family where waking up this precious product.
Or another example of consumer signs. So until now believed that before the birth of a child can not buy him any thing. And it has its own beliefs simple, though sad explanation. The fact is that in ancient times was a very high mortality rate among children, and, in addition, women often give birth already dead babies. In this case it is a question of the poor, and it is clear that women could not normal, healthy eating, relax, watch out for pregnancy - hence the high mortality rate. But this social disorder also had another side - before birth (not knowing that he would be born alive), buy some dowry for the baby was considered too expensive. And so was born this belief.
And in the days of our ancestors, and today is retained sign: smash the mirror to misfortune. She wears the same household character. Mirrors were unknown to the Slavs, were created in a distant Venice and were considered magical thing that could create a reflection of any thing. No wonder many folk tales mirror - a magical object that knows how to talk, pointing the way to the magical land, is the entrance road to the underworld. Do not know the secret of creation mirrors our ancestors attributed them plenty of magical properties and created a lot of them aroundfolk beliefs and superstitionsWhich gave risegood and bad omensSuch as fortune-telling and questions to the mirror at Christmas. The girls were very afraid and waited for Christmas Yuletide time to look into a mirror image of the hallway to find her betrothed.
With the introduction of Christianity, from the Orthodox Church established a negative attitude toward the signs. But no matter how much we do not read the works of famous personalities, we can say with certainty that they have been brought up in the folk traditions, adhere to the belief in thefolk beliefs and superstitionsAnd never started affairs without consulting thegood and bad omensTo be observed in their environment.
Famous example of faith in omens is the case with Alexander Pushkin, who hastened to St. Petersburg. Suddenly the road crew poet ran a hare, which is verybad omenSo Pushkin returned to the estate. If he reached St. Petersburg, could not refuse to take part in the rebellion of his friends Decembrists - and a poet who would have been necessary with protesters in the square, we would have lost much earlier.
Perhaps thisbad luck was his goodBut not always persuaded to follow superstitions. In Pushkin's lifefolk beliefs and superstitions and included a few days before his death. Who does not know that back - itbad luck, a good omen it is not no one would call. It became fatal for Pushkin. His contemporaries say that, going to a duel, the poet returned, but was associated word and could not refuse to execute a debt of honor. What ended his duel, everyone knows whether to believe in the fact that it - coincidence orfolk beliefs and superstitions, Everyone decides for himself, the story only tells about what happened on that fateful day.
A lot of speculation related togood and bad omensGives birth to the end is not aware of the other world. The man of today, little is what will happen to him after death, so come up with many fantastic stories based onfolk omens and superstitionsLong established by our ancestors. The famous fairy Bag of Bones - a vivid example of the relation of our world and the world of the dead. In his personality united all the features of the dead people, all their knowledge and wealth, all their thoughts and actions in the world, so meeting the hero in a fairy tale with Koshcheev - transition to the world of the dead,bad luckWhich does not always save him from death, if he does not bring the victim (horse armor). Nowadaysa good omen and the custom is for the funeral of a familiar person to come up with a "victim" - to give financial assistance to relatives, bring flowers.
We forgot about the concept of sacrifice in thisFolk beliefs and superstitionsAnd perform it as a duty to have passed into the other world. Meeting with the funeral procession can not be considered a bad omen, but can be a good sign your participation in the sorrows even stranger. Not everywhere, but preserved the tradition of transmission dishes of the deceased to the first comer. ThisPeople sign once united faith and superstition in their burial traditions. Receiving such a sign, a person thinks about bad luck reminders of death, but we are all mortal. A good tradition can be considered initiation through the apparatus of the deceased to the mysteries that are not available until the man took a step into the unknown world.
There are signs of bad, there are good, but one thing is clear - any one of them can benefit if you know how she was born, and for what, in fact, was born.
Julia Ivanova
Women's magazine JustLady