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:
- if the first pancake turned out not a lump, but flat, yes smooth, then the future is waiting for a young happy and successful. The smoother the edges of the pancake, the nicer is the hubby, and the uneven and ragged edges promise a tough despotic husband;
- divination by Shrovetide to the Carnival gave the opportunity to learn the name of the future husband. To do this, you should go out in the evening to the street with a pancake in your hands and take an interest in the name of the first man you met. If the passer-by himself evoked sympathy and his name was euphonious, it was necessary to treat him with a pancake, otherwise he would eat it himself;
- well, when the guests eat all the pancakes is clean, but how many will remain, so many years and in the girls to suffer.
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.