St.Andrew’s Day( in Poland called ‘Andrzejki’) - predictions evening celebrated on 30th November, the day of Saint Andrew the Apostle. Andrzejki is a special opportunity to host last revelry before starting Advent (the time waiting for the birth of Jesus).
St. Andrew's fortune was once purely matrimonial and were for unmarried girls. Initially, St. Andrew's treated very seriously, and the omens were held only individually, in isolation. In later times took the form of collective, organized in groups on the issue of peer virgins. Today turned into a casual fun that brings together young people of both sexes.
St. Andrew's habits and predictions The most famous predictions include pouring molten wax on water . You can pour the wax directly or through the hole in the key. Based on the shape of a wax figure or shape of the shadow cast by pouring it predict the future. Most of the predictions is to predict which of the girls will be married first, and so, for example:
• Each of the girls takes the bone and placed in the room at any point, then the room lets
the dog, which chooses the bone may have to get ready for the wedding.
•Another way to predict quick marriage is fun with the shoes. Girls set the shoe on the left foot one by one in the room and then not proceed with the beginning of the last as long as the first shoe will not touch the threshold. Girl, the first shoe hit the threshold, the first to marry. To predictions come true in some parts of the Poland ladies fasted overnight and then in the evening ate salty herring without water and lay down to sleep with male pants under his pillow. In the night he dreamed them future husband.
• Other omens St. Andrew's, for example, predicting the peel: peel the apple so that was one piece after which throw it back, the shape is meant to peel the first letter of the name of her future husband.
• You can also put in three cups; a coin, a ring, a leaf and the fourth leaving blank. After mixing cups choose one of them and if you hit a coin – it is wealth, ring foretells marriage, leaf - love and empty cup means that in the new year there will be nothing new.
• How to know the name of the future husband / wife? Put under the pillow cards with the names. In the morning after waking up take one of the draw cards and read the name.
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