Fortune-telling on Shrovetide

Maslenitsa is a traditional Slavic holiday celebrated just before the fast. On this day they saw off the winter and met the spring with noisy songs and dances, pancakes, all sorts of competitions, fisticuffs, etc. Young girls and married women used this day, and all week for fortune-tellers on the sucked for Pancake week and the predictions of the sex of the unborn child.

Divination by the Carnival for Love

The most popular divinations were associated with pancakes. After all, they were to be cooked all week long and how to walk around the guests, and invite them to themselves. The shape, size, color and other features of this favorite pastry could tell a lot. Here are some of the fortune-telling:

Divination by the candle-lit by the Shrovetide

As you know, the stuffed pancake at the end of the festive day was burned, so many fortune-telling were associated with the elements of fire. One of them is to get together with a company of girlfriends, write on the pieces of paper your desires and roll them. Light a candle beside you and bring the paper to the flame, and as soon as it lights up, immediately remove it. If only a small piece remains of the leaf, the conceived will come to pass, the half-burned one requires the application of one's own efforts, and the extinct hopes for the implementation of the intended do not.