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Girls! Shall we tell fortunes?
When the clock starts striking on New Year's Eve, write your wish, burn the piece of paper, stir the ashes in a glass of champagne and drink before the clock finishes striking 12 times. Then your wish will come true in the coming year!
Wish come true
When the clock starts striking on New Year's Eve, write your wish, burn the piece of paper, stir the ashes in a glass of champagne and drink before the clock finishes striking 12 times. Then your wish will come true in the coming year!
Ancient fortune telling by clock
This is how they used to guess at Christmas in Minsk
It's good if there is a wall clock in the house. For fortune telling you need them to be without glass. Lock yourself in the room where they hang, turn off the lights and draw the curtains. Now go to the clock and use your hand to turn the arrows in any direction. Spin for a count of twelve and then stop.
Turn on the light and look at the big arrow. If it is between two numbers, choose the one to which it is closer. Or move it at random to any of the nearest numbers. Now look what awaits you.
Explanation:
Number 1 – life will proceed without shocks and surprises. A quiet year awaits you, which you can devote to self-education.
Number 2 – consult a doctor immediately. Perhaps you are facing an illness that needs to be prevented right now.
Number 3 – successful completion of the work started. But only hard work and perseverance will help you achieve your goal.
Number 4 – hidden difficulties. Be ready to meet them fully armed!
Number 5 – improvement of material well-being.
Number 6 – be extremely attentive to the signs of fate. Show extreme restraint and caution.
Number 7 – career takeoff. Focus to survive this test.
Number 8 – conflict with someone close. Try not to engage in it - be modest and calm. If they give you a challenge, don’t accept it.
Number 9 - wisdom will help you. You know what to do to change everything for the better.
Number 10 - no machinations of enemies will even indirectly affect you. If you worry, you will harm yourself.
Number 11 is the beginning of a happy time. Wherever you go, new friends and pleasant acquaintances await you.
Number 12 - you will become the main participant in great events, so choose your friends carefully. This is a lucky sign!
Wax figures
Take a candle and, breaking it into small pieces, throw it into a metal mug or ladle. Then heat the mug over the fire until the wax completely melts. Now quickly pour its contents into the prepared basin of water. You will get an abstract figure. They use it to guess what it looks like most. You can see a man, a car, a new house, fireworks in the frozen wax... This image will be associated with your future.
Fortune telling for little girls
Place several light objects in the nut shells: a lollipop, a ribbon, a ring, a hairpin... Place these boat shells on the water and blow many times. Which shell floats to you before others is what awaits you. A ring means an introduction, a piece of candy means gifts, a ribbon means you’ll be beautiful all year, a hairpin means your hairstyle will drive boys crazy...
wish-granting coin
Ask a question or make a wish. And then throw a coin into a vase filled with water. If the money bounces, the plan will come true; if it sinks, the desire will not be fulfilled.
What will the new year be like?
Pour water into a shallow bowl and place it on the windowsill or balcony for the whole New Year's Eve. In the morning, look: if the ice has risen, it will be a good year, if the ice has frozen, your life does not promise to be calm, and if the ice has frozen in waves, there will be both grief and happiness. And only if a hole forms in a bowl of ice, life's trials await you.
Yuletide fortune telling on strings
1. In the old days, girls cut threads of the same length and set them on fire. Whose thread burns out first will get married first. If the thread goes out immediately or less than half has burned out, then you will have to wait until marriage.
2. Dip a few threads into the water. If they spin in the water, this portends a good life; if they float motionless, this portends trouble.
a few more traditional fortune telling...
...based on the book
Place your left hand on the cover of your favorite book and ask a question. Then open it at random and read the line beginning under the thumb of your left hand.
...in dreams
Eat something salty before bed, but don't drink it. When you go to bed, say: “Betrothed, mummer, come to me and give me something to drink!” Whoever gets you drunk in a dream is the one you will marry!
...on a mobile phone
While looking at your phone, make a wish out loud. If the first call is from a man, it will come true. From a woman - it will come true, but not too soon.
...on the bow
Write the names of your three favorite guys on three bulbs. Put them in water. Whichever bulb sprouts first is the reason why you should expect a marriage proposal.
...on a cat or dog
Make a wish and then call your cat or dog. If she crosses the threshold of the room with her left paw, the wish will come true, if she crosses the threshold of the room with her left paw, it will not come true.