Almost everyone in the childhood was fond of the most popular fable with the cuckoo - counting how much to live. So, after uttering the phrase: "Cuckoo, how much should I live?" We must count the number of her cries. As soon as she stops screaming, this number is the remainder of allotted years.
In fact, it will accept how the cuckoo is cuckooing, there is a whole lot. In perceptions associated with the cuckoo is always sacredly believed, since even in ancient Russia she was honored as a mysterious bird with female symbolism, which can see the future.
What does she portend?
They say that if you were engaged in something at a time when you heard the cuckoo cry, then you will be engaged in this activity the whole next year.
For example, if you are unlucky, and you are repairing a car, then there is the possibility that you will have to spend another twelve months with it. And for those lucky people who were lucky enough to hear it on vacation, it means that the year promises to be without any problems and difficulties.
Singing a cuckoo for luck
If you hear that the cuckoo begins to sing, you have time to shake a purse or a pocket where money lies, then the next year the financial difficulties will bypass you.
In the event that the first scream of the bird was heard from the west or east, then it portends wealth and just a happy life. And when singing from the front, it's to health.
Singing the cuckoo unfortunately
Some signs about the cuckoo are quite negative. It is believed that to hear her voice in the village - to trouble. Also, if this bird flew over someone's head, then this person can die soon. The bird, seen on the cattle pen, foretells the sea. In the event that it does not sit down anywhere, but only flies over the houses, then one must prepare for a fire.
A sign if the cuckoo is cuckooing on an empty forest
It is believed that that year will not be productive when singing a cuckoo, when the forest is not yet dressed in foliage.
This also has a completely logical explanation, since the cuckoo is a migratory bird, and returns from the warm edges of one of the last. Therefore, if it arrives, and the forest, even though not very small, is not clothed, then the climate for this year is already not going as it should be.
Apparently, the people's signs about the cuckoo are of a very different nature depending on the situation where it was seen.