On Christmastide, girls and guys are guessing at their betrothed. They want to know their fate in advance: what will the wife (husband) be called, whether the family will live in abundance, how many children there will be, etc. Many different methods of fortune-telling have survived to this day.
Fortune telling
Eat a lot of salty food in the evening to make you thirsty at night. Going to bed, say the phrase: "My betrothed, come to me in a dream, bring me water." The guy who dreams is your future husband.
Before going to bed, in the place where you usually have a pillow, build a bridge out of twigs. Put a pillow on him and, falling asleep, say: "My betrothed, take me over the bridge." According to the reviews of fortune-tellers, it is known that the groom really comes in a dream. You can check it for yourself.
You can try another old fortune telling. Take a padlock, turn on the water in the faucet. Hold the lock over the stream and say: "My betrothed, come to me in a dream, ask for water." Then the lock is locked and placed under the pillow. This night the girl should dream about her future husband.
Take a comb and place it under your pillow before bed. Say the phrase: "My betrothed, come in a dream and comb me."
It is believed that an unclean spirit comes to a girl in a dream in the form of her future groom.
Cards will help you find out your future husband. Take the deck, take out the four kings, put them under the pillow. Say: "My betrothed, my mummer, come to visit me." In a dream, you will see your groom in the form of one of the kings. It is possible that the betrothed will not dream alone. How many men you see, so many husbands will be in the future.
Not only the girls themselves, but also their mothers can call the future groom. To do this, you need to take the girl's thing, hang a lock on it. Say: "The betrothed, come to the bride to help out." Further, the thing, together with the lock, is placed under the pillow. And the son-in-law should dream of his future mother-in-law. Perhaps she will also be shown a figure in a dream, which will mean the number of years before her daughter's marriage.
Street fortune telling
Sit by the window at night, your family should be asleep so as not to disturb you. Say: "The betrothed, pass by my window." Now wait for the first pedestrian or company of passers-by to appear. If people walked past the window and at the same time they were having fun, whistling, laughing, then a good life in marriage is ahead. A silent passer-by, on the contrary, means a poor existence in marriage.
Go outside, find a fence made of boards. Passing along it, say: "Poor or rich, widower or bachelor." On what word the fence ends, this will be the future husband. You can judge the veracity of fortune-telling when you meet your betrothed.
Take a felt boot or boots, go outside. Throw the load over your right shoulder. Before that, say: "In which side does my betrothed live?" In which direction the toe of a boot or a felt boot shows, from there the groom will come for you.
In another version of fortune telling, the boots must be removed from the left foot, and not taken out with you in your hands to the street.
You can guess in the name of the future spouse. Bake a pancake, go out with him after 22 hours, but no later than midnight. Go and nibble on a pancake. Ask the first passer-by that comes across his name. This is the name your future husband will have. If you met a woman first on the street, it means that you will not get married in the next year.
