Проект Ермошиной С. по теме "Рождественские гадания"

Christmas guessings

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• People decorate the interiors of the cottages with greenery. Sometimes there is a kissing bush instead mistletoe. On custom, on the eve of Christmas man have right to kiss any girl stopped under an ornament from this plant.

The traditional Christmas pudding (which must be stirred in the making by every member of the family) is the highlight of a Christmas dinner.

Traditionally a coin is placed into it. It will bring good luck to a person who will find it.

You know, what you want, of cource.

• Make a wish and go to gates of church. Look at people, coming to gates.
• If from 13 persons there are a lot of women – the wish will not be executed, if there are a lot of men – it will be executed.
• (If the man guesses – the answer is opposite.)

Kindle wax and pour it in bowl with milk. What do you see?

• Cross – death,
• church – need, sufferings,
• flowers – the new gentleman,
• animal – the enemy,
• stripes – roads, moving,
• stars – good luck in work or study,
• silhouette of the person – the friend.

If you have seen something bad for yourselves, dig wax and milk, good – water flowers by milk and use wax for the following guessing.

You can know about the future life, listening conversation in the another's house.

Unessentially there should speak about you. But if in the house anybody shouted – you will have troubles, quarrels.

Cheerful conversation foretells good life.

The most courageous and brave girls went to midnight in church in hope to hear there singing and on it to define the destiny.

At night in church there was not service, but due to imagination girls sometimes heard wedding singing which foretold a fast marriage, or dirge which meant death of the close person.

This guessing is distributed in many countries.

Late at night leave on street and ask the first passer-by, what’s his name. The same name will have your future husband.

• Before going to bed at night before Christmas it is necessary to say: « My God the Christ, 3 prelates in my house: the first sees, the second will tell, the third will show destiny».
• The seen dream will predict destiny .

The original Russian phrase: «Господи Христе, три святителя в избе: один видит, другой скажет, третий судьбу покажет»

Leave to gates of home and listen – where the dog barks, therefrom there will be a husband.

• If the bark rough – he will be malicious,
• if the bark cheerful, sonorous – the husband will be kind.

If you have cat, you can use it for a guessing.

• Ask a question, on which it is possible to give the answer "yes" or "no". Throw out your cat and look, what paw it will cross through a threshold, entering back.
• If it crosses a threshold the right paw – the answer is "yes“, the left – "no".

Even usual books can be useful to a guessing.

• To receive the answer to a question, think of number of page and a line and read, what it is written there.

Questions

Are the listed guessings used in Russia?

• No;
• Some of them;
• All of them.

What guessings can be used not only in Christmas night?

• Guessing with cat;

• Guessing with wax;
• Asking a name;
• Listening conversation;

• Guessing near gates of church;

• Guessing with books.

What famous guessing was not mentioned in this presentation?

• Guessing with wax and milk;
• Guessing with mirrors;
• Guessing with coin into pudding;
• All was mentioned.

Answer, please, the following questions! It is important for us to know your opinion!

What do you think about...

...use of guessings?

...kissing bush? Is it funny tradition?

...Christmas at all?

...our presentation?

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