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The Old New Year is not just a holiday dedicated to the meeting of the New Year, but the day on which St. Basil the Great was venerated. From St. Basil's Day, as from the New Year, the Slavs began time calculations. On this day, it was customary to go on a visit with treats, carol and receive guests at home. Everyone tried to set a rich table, treat them with pies, vegetables, dumplings.

Despite the fact that Vasily was the patron saint of pigs, a roasted pig was an obligatory treat on the table that day. The holiday was celebrated on the night from the 13th to the 14th, and what is connected with the night could not do without mysterious deeds. The rituals for the old New Year were especially adored by young people, who could not ignore the question of their future. But, first things first.

Why is Old New Year a magical time?

The magical property of the old New Year has its roots long before the acquisition of the Christian faith, when people celebrated their New Year according to the Julian calendar. Ancient people knew for sure, or rather believed that it was with the winter sun that the heavens parted and bestowed their good on people, because in winter a person neededeven more protection than in summer. With the advent of Christianity, January 1 coincided with the birthday of Saint Melania, the protector of the poor and needy.

Then a new calendar came to replace and this day, or rather the night, was smoothly transferred from the 13th to the 14th, which coincided with the day of Basil the Great, who, among other things, was also the patron of the new harvest. Carols and various magical rituals were layered on the celebration, because so many patron saints, including heaven itself, cannot bypass such a time with their blessing.

This evening it was customary to ask for a new good harvest, on which life depended. That is why in the old New Year people generously organized the sowing of millet on the ground, on each other, coming to visit, or walking the streets. By the way, the holiday was also called Generous or Generous Evening precisely because of the gifts and because there was sowing that evening.

The Rite of Sowing

Ancient traditions for the old New Year or Christmas were especially loved by children. Early in the morning they sowed grain and millet to all the people in their area. The housewives tried to catch the grains in the hem, so that later they could feed the poultry with them. This was considered active help for the hens.

During the sowing, various requests were made for more millet, barley, lentils and other grains in the future harvest. But this tradition was associated not only with the harvest. For example, in a rocky area, where planting was tight, they also sown. This brought another kind of fertility into the house: children, he alth, good trade, and so on. Sowing was also done duringweddings and again actions are associated with fertility, but for newlyweds. The grain was supposed to bring many offspring and happiness to their home. Today, such a tradition can also be found on Christmas holidays and weddings, in some regions they sow for housewarming, so that happiness and good luck live in the house. Here you can find Old New Year's plantings, carols and bounties.

Fortune-telling - the most ancient rites

Divination can rightfully call itself the oldest tradition. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans firmly believed in the prophecies that the oracles predicted to them. The oracles were specially selected people who knew how to predict the fate of the state, drought, wars and so on to the rulers. Someone considered and still considers this a genetic deviation in them, and someone claimed that they do everything under narcotic fumigation and no more.

Today it is not entirely known whether true prophecies have come down to us or whether historians described them in a way that was beneficial to the rulers. But, one way or another, the future did not give rest, and the predictors were popular, there were more and more of them. One generation treated them with respect and brought gifts, the other considered them to be sorcerers, witches and burned them at the stake.

Our Slavic ancestors, of course, had a couple of herbalists and fortune-tellers in every village. But, either there were few fortune-tellers, or the thirst to own one's future could not stay in a young body, in general, all young people, and it was she, came to what they themselves began to predict for themselves. Traditions, rituals and rituals spied on by grandmothers came out inthe masses of the people. Basically, the predictions concerned several topics - the harvest, the betrothed, children, because a person's life revolved around just this.

As for rituals, they also go back deep into centuries, when people worshiped pagan Gods, asked them for something, making sacrifices. In order to “cajole” their heavenly rulers, magical actions were performed in a solemn, beautiful, often very expensive form.

Today, this has acquired a certain "backstage", if not to say "kitchen". Everyone can organize anything in their home, the main thing is to match the days and dates. And January, like no other month, is suitable for everything unknown, especially various kinds of magical manipulations for the old New Year.

Old New Year's rites for marriage and love

There are many fortune-telling for the beloved and narrowed, the simplest, but always strong and effective were those where the ring was present. But you will be surprised, ordinary dumplings, it turns out, were also suitable for divination not only for fate, but also for love and marriage. To do this, you must definitely mold the dumplings yourself so that you can put the desired filling. Of course, for our female ancestors, modeling dumplings for the Old New Year was a tradition, the girls specially gathered and sculpted a dish in large quantities and with different fillings.

You can use this idea in 2023, plus the mass approach will make it easier for you to stay in the kitchen. The filling should be completely different and they should be cooked in such a way thatso that the guessers have a choice. Each filling has its own explanation, for example:

  • potatoes - lean boring life;
  • cabbage - to offspring this year;
  • any green - fortunately and to strength;
  • lavrushka - to we alth and fame;
  • with beets - to shame;
  • with carrots - to matchmaking;
  • with berries - to love. Falling in love, confessions.

You can put more complex fillings in dumplings, but you must warn guests, otherwise the beauty of their teeth will suffer:

  • coins - to tears;
  • peas or beans - to a rich dowry;
  • ring - for the imminent wedding;
  • lock - we need to talk less;
  • rope and knots on it - to obstacles;
  • pin - a warning about a possible sin with the opposite sex.

You can also find an empty dumpling or a dumpling filled with dough, in both cases, this means a boring, empty life this year. The girls believed that divination on dumplings was very effective and truthful. Remarkably, the interpretation of the fillings in each region was different.

Fortune telling

You will need a mirror, a bowl of water, a candle. At midnight, carefully look at yourself in the mirror with a lit candle, which must be kept between you and the mirror, repeating the words to yourself:

"Betrothed, come and marry me away."

  • After that, put the mirror in a basin of water, drip wax into the water from above.
  • If the wax merges into a wreath (ring), then marriage is just around the corner.
  • There can be several rings, then there will be several contenders for your hand, respectively.
  • A broken ring symbolizes a relationship not brought to the altar.
  • A lot of scattered drops of wax will tell you that you are exchanging too much for empty deeds.
  • Big blurry pancakes tell you there will be no wedding this year.

Divination for love

Divination with roosters was very popular. Each girl came to visit with a rooster in her hands, they were put in the so-called pen, and they made a path of grain through the whole room to themselves. The first lady whose cock reaches her must be married. But there were also such representatives of this poultry that reversed or pecked not in their path. Accordingly, they interpreted this something like this: either the groom will run away, or go to another.

Rites for the Old New Year, attracting money and good luck

Young girls conducted various fortune-telling, for feelings and weddings, but fortune-telling for money and luck could be carried out by married ladies, however, among our ancestors this was considered bad form, but furtively women went for it.

Rite with a rooster

This uncomplicated ceremony was performed by the girls in an attempt to find out what kind of life they would spend - rich or poor. The rooster had to be left overnight in the room, the grain hidden under the bed, under the armchair, in general, out of sight. If at night the Rooster finds and pecks at the grain, then life will be poor, at least this year. If he does not find your hiding place,it means that your life will be rich.

Divination on crumbs

In the old New Year, you need to gather and treat as many friends as possible, after they leave, pour all the crumbs from the tablecloth into one bag. Then sprinkle them on the threshold of your house (if it is a house on earth, if it’s an apartment, then don’t) and each window sill of the room, the more crumbs, the more chances that your life can be richer. After 7 days, the crumbs should be swept away and given to the birds.

Rite with a candle

For this purpose, you should buy a thick green candle, a red ribbon and a red purse. Take several large bills, tie them with a ribbon and say over the candle:

"Money in a ring of fire to money on my porch. As the fire is hot, so will my sum be full, like a gift! Money is drawn to money, they come to our house.”

Put the money into the red wallet and keep it there for exactly seven days, every day from the 13th, saying this conspiracy in front of the candle.

Rites for happiness when cleaning the Christmas tree

Surprisingly, removing the Christmas tree, it turns out, you can also make wishes that can come true, which is what our ancestors did. For example, get acquainted with the rite to get rid of seven troubles.

Rite of seven troubles

Before you remove the Christmas tree, of course, you need to dress it up and put it up. Dressing up a green beauty, you will need real apples, in the amount of 7 pieces, which should be wrapped in paper, where you write what you want to get rid of, respectively, also no more than seven times. Wrap an apple in papertie with a thread and hang like balls on a Christmas tree.

On the night of January 13-14, it will be necessary to clean up the Christmas tree. First you need to remove all the balls, and your apples last. Saying with each removed apple your desire, which is written on the wrong side of the paper, you throw it into a clean bucket. Then the apples must be buried in the ground under a tree, even if it is frozen, with the words:

"Bad to the earth, good to me."

After put the tree outside.

Rite with spruce needles

Rites for the old New Year associated with the Christmas tree are different. Discharging the Christmas tree on Old New Year's Eve, you should say these words:

“As the Christmas tree leaves the house, takes all its needles, so my troubles would all leave the house! Words are strong, deeds are true! Amen.”

Be sure to sweep the needles and scatter them down the street. Cleaning the Christmas tree will be much more fun if you know that everything bad leaves the house with it.

To believe or not to believe in the traditions of our ancestors is everyone's business, but you can try, all of a sudden, it will still work out!

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