Signs and superstitions before the exam. Signs before the exam for luck and superstitions for successful passing at the institute or school
Today I will talk about the signs associated with threshold at home, and will very likely write on the subject for a few more blogs in the future.
The threshold of the house has always been (and is now) the border - between the internal, protected space of the house and outside world. Crossing the threshold meant leaving the house or, conversely, entering it. Leaving the house was tantamount to the beginning of the road - the Way.
It is now that we treat the symbolic signs of borders with disdain, although we honor outer borders- we enclose our plots with fences, hang signs "Private property", etc. But for our ancestors, other, intangible boundaries had great value, and the threshold was just one of the symbols of the boundary.
Until now, as proof of these ideas, the idiomatic expressions “cross the threshold” (meaning to make a final decision, commit an irreversible act), “go beyond the threshold”, “do not dare to cross the threshold of my house”, etc. have been preserved.
Therefore, many signs, rituals and sayings are associated with the threshold of the house, some of which I will now cite and explain their meaning, and, if possible, their origin.
“Greetings or talking across the threshold - to a quarrel”, “ do not say hello through the threshold - to the dead ».
The deep meaning becomes clear if we recall the customs of our ancestors - before a deceased person was often buried right under the threshold of the house in which he lived. Up to the 18th century. in some regions of Russia, stillborn or dead before baptism (in the pre-Christian era - before the first rite of naming) babies were buried under the threshold for protection from evil forces.
So it turns out that wishing health (hello) through the deceased is both a blasphemy against the deceased and a false wish for the living. It was believed that the “offended” dead person could take one of the living who offended him to him.
In addition, the threshold, the doorway are symbolically the Gates and the people standing on different sides, already in different conditions, from different worlds- which clearly increases the chances of misunderstanding and mutual distrust, from which it is not far from a quarrel.
"Merchants do not stand on the threshold in the shop (you will drive away the buyers)."
First of all, because a long standing on the threshold occurs with open doors, and opened door ceases to provide protective functions. Through it, beneficial energy (in this case, the energy of wealth, money) leaves the house, and unwanted energy entities can get there.
From the rites, one can recall the one according to which the groom (or rather, already the husband) must bring the young wife through the threshold of his house, always in his arms, until the moment of the wedding she was a “stranger” (from another Kin) in this house, now she has to become “ his".
It is impossible to ignore the symbolic meaning of crossing the threshold when leaving the house - this action is tantamount to the beginning of the Road. Before this, it is imperative to “sit down on the path”, and after that, in no case should you return, otherwise “there will be no way”. But if it is necessary to return, we have to perform various ritual and magical actions in order to neutralize this exit from the flow of movement, in order to resume our Path without loss.
In magic, the threshold is also often used.
To protect the house, a rooster or a vessel without a bottom was buried under the threshold, but with the neck up. The knife under the threshold also has magical properties protect the house. Charmed objects are placed under the threshold - amulets about the well-being of the house.
During ritual magical actions related to water, the used water is required to be thrown out over the threshold with sentences.
Linings are very often prescribed to be left on the threshold (under the threshold), not only in order to step over it (ali), but there is also the use of the power of the place itself.
In Rus', there were many sayings about the threshold, I will give some.
"Do not put a trace on the threshold"- do not come anywhere.
“More foot will not shift the threshold”- on the termination of friendly, neighborly and other relations.
"Here's God, and here's the threshold"- a direct instruction to a person to leave.
"To take out the dirty linen for the threshold"(the same as “to wash dirty linen in public”) - talk about quarrels, troubles to strangers.
All of them emphasize the significance of the threshold as a boundary, an indicator of belonging (friends - foes) and relationships (a person enters the house, through the threshold it means a friend).
Like the gate as a whole, it represents the passage from the outer (profane) to the inner (sacred) space, entry into new world. Associated with certain rituals and requires special attention.
This concept acquires great symbolic meaning in speech turns that have come into use ("on the threshold of maturity", "on the threshold of consciousness", etc.), apparently in connection with the aforementioned belief in the presence of "guardians of the threshold", as well as with archaic rituals of "transition" .
drown in water; enter dark forest, at the door in the wall - threshold symbols of the entrance to the dangerous unknown.
The flow is associated with "threshold" symbolism, denoting a boundary line between two states or two forms of reality, such as conscious and unconscious, or sleep and awakening.
As a boundary symbol, it means the meeting place of the natural and the supernatural, which is ritually determined in the ceremony of "destroying the boundaries", redefining the spatial structure of the cosmos, just as New Year's ceremonies redefine the structure of time.
In many cultures, it is considered that it is inhabited by its patron, the "guardian of the threshold", who should not be offended. The bride, before she first enters the house where the newlyweds will live, is carried over the threshold, apparently in order to deceive the "keeper", to convince him that she lived here before. The "Threshold Keeper" has the power to stop uninvited aliens, such as demons or witches.
The Vestals, goddesses of virginity, are threshold goddesses, for example, Lara. The guardians of the threshold, which must be overcome by those who go to a sacred place, are dragons, snakes, monsters, dogs, scorpion people, lions, etc. In physical and spiritual reality, the guardians prevent the walker from going too far, going too fast, meeting or seeing more than he can bear in occult or esoteric knowledge.
The god of fertility Dagon, revered by the Philistines, had a temple in Ashdod, the threshold of which could not be stepped on and over which it was necessary to step over (1 Samuel 5:5, cf. Zeph 1:9 - a warning that one should not jump over the threshold according to pagan custom).
Entry and exit had to be clearly foreshadowed so that they would not be a surprise to supernatural forces. The Israelite priest had to wear golden bells sewn to the hem of his robe, "so that a sound could be heard from him when he enters the sanctuary before the Lord and when he goes out, so that he does not die" (Ex 28: 34-35).
Figures of guardian gods or supernatural animals were often installed at the threshold of sanctuaries.
In Japan, salt is sprinkled on the threshold for him so that he drives away the spirits of the dead.
In Europe, a pentagram was carved on the threshold (but more often on the crossbars or on the door). Faust drew a pentagram so that Mephistopheles could not cross the threshold of his house.
St. Clara of Assisi, according to legend, placing the monstrance with the host on the threshold of her monastery, put to flight the pagans who surrounded the monastery.
For the Slavs, this part of the house, in traditional ideas, is a symbolic border between the house and the outside world, “ours” and “alien” space. AT Everyday life many prohibitions were associated with the Threshold, as with a border and therefore dangerous place: it was not allowed to sit down or step on the Threshold, to greet or talk through it, to pass anything to each other through the Threshold, especially children.
According to Ukrainian signs, you can’t eat on the Threshold, otherwise people will gossip; it is impossible to pour water over the Threshold after washing or slop, otherwise night blindness will attack; it was forbidden to take revenge on the hut from the Threshold, otherwise you will sweep into the hut of the "evil ones" and the matchmakers will bypass it; don't sweep the trash across the Threshold, especially if you're pregnant, otherwise she'll have a difficult delivery and the baby will vomit frequently.
If you chop something on the Threshold or beat on it, then you will thereby let the witch and toads into the house, and also give yourself up to the power of the fevers that live on the Threshold. Being on the Threshold was associated with death, in the song: “I’m sitting on the threshold, I’m looking beyond the threshold.” The threshold, as the border of the house, was protected with the help of amulets.
In the Russian North, a drop of mercury or a dried snake skin was laid in the Threshold of a new house even at the construction stage, and a horseshoe or a piece of pink salmon spit was nailed to the Threshold. The Hutsuls buried a piece of iron under the Threshold on St. George's Day, so that those who cross it would have healthy legs.
The Russians, having built a new bathhouse after the fire, buried a strangled black chicken in the ground under its threshold. Going to church to baptize a child, Ukrainians and Western Slavs put hot coals, a knife, an ax or a sickle on the Threshold or near it to protect against the evil eye. In the Poltava region, the baby was handed over to the godmother through an ax lying on the Threshold of the house.
In the Zhytomyr region, godparents stepped over a knife placed with the point up on the Threshold. In the Kursk province. a newborn boy was handed over to the godmother through the Threshold, so that he would become the “guardian of the house.” Numerous episodes of family rituals were associated with the Threshold.
At a wedding, a young woman, entering her husband's house after the wedding, should not touch the Threshold, which is why she was sometimes carried in her arms. However, in some places in Russia, the bride, on the contrary, stood on the Threshold or jumped from it with the words: “Sigh, lambs, the top is coming!”
In Ukraine, the young stepped on the Threshold, thereby asserting their rights in the new home. Until the 19th century in Ukraine, the custom was preserved to bury unbaptized babies under the Threshold; this corresponded to the understanding of the Threshold as a place where the souls of the dead dwell, and as a boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
In the Poltava province. stillborn children were buried under the Threshold, believing that the priest would christen him when he stepped over P. with a cross in his hands. When taking the coffin out of the house, it was customary for all Slavic peoples to hit P. three times with it, which symbolized the farewell of the deceased to the dwelling. This was done so that the deceased would no longer return home (Eastern and Western Slavs) or so that no one else died in the family (Southern Slavs).
However, in some places, on the contrary, it was not allowed to touch the coffin over the Threshold and doorways. In Zaonezhye they believed that if this happened, the soul of the deceased would remain in the house and it would not be easy to survive. In difficult childbirth, the woman in labor was transferred three times through the Threshold of the hut, which symbolized the exit of the child from the mother's womb.
In the Vyatka province. the newborn was first placed on a fur coat on the table, and then carried to the Threshold and said: “As the Threshold lies quietly, calmly and quietly, so my child, God’s servant (name), be quiet, calm and healthy.” In Zaonezhye, a woman, returning home after giving birth, stepped over a baby, laid in a hut along the Threshold, with the words: “As this threshold is strong, so you will be strong ...
All lessons and winners, stay on the Threshold, and I will take health with me. ”In family rituals and especially in traditional medicine with the Threshold is associated the idea of overcoming longing, the habit that they wanted to get rid of, illness and getting rid of suffering. The Ukrainians of the Kharkov province. an orphan child on the day of the funeral of his father or mother, sitting on the Threshold, had to eat a piece of bread and salt, so as not to yearn for the deceased and not feel fear. In the Vologda region out of anguish, they sprinkled the patient with water over the Threshold, and the healer stood outside, and the patient in the hut.
In Zaonezhie, in order to wean a child from the breast, the mother fed him for the last time, sitting on the Threshold or standing, placing her feet on both sides of the Threshold. The threshold was the place of many medical procedures and rituals. For Russians, with back or lower back pain, a person lay down on the Threshold, and the last child in the family, a boy, put a broom on his back and lightly chopped it with an ax, during which a ritual dialogue took place: “What are you talking about?” - "Utin (disease) seku." - - "Seki is much better, so that there is no age."
In the Vyatka province. the mother "buried a hernia" in the child, sitting on the Threshold; the sorceress measured the child on the Threshold, and then chopped on the Threshold his “roar, commotion”. in the Arkhangelsk region. on the Threshold they were treated for fear: the patient was put on the Threshold, the healer went around him, holding a knife and an ax in her hands, then plunged them into the Threshold; at the same time they said: “What are you talking about?” “I cut the fear, I cut it with an ax, I cut it with a knife, I calm the pain and fear.”
On the Threshold, sorcerers, witches and other dangers were symbolically destroyed. Among the Moravans, a woman who was under the influence of witchcraft drove an ax into the Threshold, with this she gouged out the eyes of the sorceress and pricked her body. On Christmas Eve the Hutsuls went around the cattle with bread, honey and incense, closed the barn and then drove an ax into P. to close the wolf's mouth.
The Slovaks drove an ax into P. during a thunderstorm as a talisman. Sitting and standing on the Threshold as an action contrary to everyday practice was widely used in Slavic magic, including those associated with evil spirits, and could be accompanied by other actions of a blasphemous nature.
In the Russian North, girls used to tell fortunes while sitting or standing on the Bath's Threshold; leaving the bath, the girl stepped on the Threshold with her left foot, and with her right foot on the ground and uttered the words of a conspiracy; to see the devil in the bath, they went into it at night and, stepping with one foot over the Threshold, they removed the cross from the neck and put it under the heel.
In Zaonezhye, it was believed that on Easter everyone could see a brownie and talk to him: for this, one should not go to matins, but sit on the Threshold and light a candle brought from matins on Maundy Thursday. In Polissya, on Good Thursday, the hostess spun a special thread until sunrise on the Threshold, sometimes stripped naked.
Lit.: Baiburin A.K. Dwelling in the rituals and ideas of the Eastern Slavs. L., 1983. S. 135-140. A.L. Toporkov
Conspiracies to protect the house (from the Internet)
In any house, in addition to the given energy, dictated by the earth's crust, always has its own internal. Energy lines, like a web, envelop our homes. Some are good, others are evil. Your well-being and the “mood” of your home often depend on which ones are more. The introduction of someone else's negative energy, due to envy of prosperity, peace and harmony that reigns in your family, also plays a significant role. How to protect your home from the arrows of the evil eye and damage, you will learn by reading the conspiracies given in this chapter.
On the first Sunday of the month, pick up aspen branches, on Monday, steam them in a bucket. When the water boils, read the plot 12 times in a row, looking into the bucket at the branches. Wait for the water to cool to the desired temperature, wash the windows, doors, floors and, last but not least, the threshold and porch. Pour water at the crossroads, while the clothes should be modest, one-color. You can't talk to anyone on the way there and back. CONSPIRACY:
If a person is unpleasant to you, and you, due to delicacy, cannot refuse him a house, do so. Put a small piece of bread (the size of a fingernail) in his coat pocket or jacket, jacket with the words:
How can this bread not be a grain. So don't go to my house. Amen.After the person leaves, mop the floor immediately.
It’s not so easy to enter an apartment, so dirty deeds are done at the doorstep. To prevent this, read the plot on the front door, on the threshold.
Charm on the threshold
The threshold is not only part of the door to your apartment, but also a certain kind of energy that separates you from the outside world. It protects from thin eye and envy, from corruption, if appropriate measures are taken. There are signs associated with the threshold of the house: they don’t stand on the threshold, they don’t talk. You either go outside the threshold yourself, or you let the guest into the apartment. In any case, do not stand on the threshold. Otherwise, you will stagnate the well-being coming to the house. No items are passed through the threshold. Above the threshold there should always be amulets. In the old days, various sharp objects were stuck. Or hang a red hot pepper. You can make a beautiful “mosaic” out of these items for decorating an apartment so that no one asks, “why do you have some kind of thorns above the door?” A young fresh branch of aspen is hung over the door, where it dries, a wormwood root, or an ordinary black poplar, which has the same protective properties as aspen.
Protective conspiracies on the threshold of the house
Damage is often directed at the threshold of the house, in which case it is worth you to cross the “spoiled” threshold, and the damage will cling to you and spread to the whole house. Therefore, it is useful to learn how to protect the threshold of your home. There are several ways to do this.
1. On Friday at noon, take three pinches of salt from a wooden salt shaker with your left hand and throw them into a bucket (basin) of water. Wash the threshold with this water three times, while saying:
Salted with salt, soaked with water, salt does not rot, and damage does not stick to my house. Turn away, roll back, turn back! Get out, I didn't call you. Amen.
Pour out the rest of the water at the pedestrian crossing.
2. Take a broom and mark the threshold three times, saying each time:
I sweep away sorrows, illnesses, ailments, damage, lessons, superficial evil eye, bringing. Threshold metenny, God blessed. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Every schoolboy and student during serious training tests at least once used omens before the exam, but not all such attempts to enlist the support of windy luck were successful. Perhaps this is due to a misinterpretation. popular superstitions or non-compliance with the rules of pronunciation of the call - check for yourself!
What superstitions on the eve of the exam is worth remembering
It's no secret that different people participation in educational process give different, sometimes opposite emotions. Some people find school subjects easy to learn and interesting; someone tries to memorize the material, while not understanding anything in it; for individuals, study is akin to Sisyphean labor - no matter how hard they try to delve into the subject and remember the basic rules of the topic - there is no result.
What can we say about tests, annual exams and state certification, which are stressful even for round honors students, and losers are generally plunged into a stupor and jitters. Among the various methods for obtaining a high score, student signs-prohibitions occupy a special position - even the most notorious lucky ones try to adhere to them.
Let's start with the well-known to everyone - before the GIA exam and any other important test, you can not wash your hair or cut your hair, otherwise you risk washing, destroying the accumulated knowledge.
Since ancient times, hair has been considered a store of information, and adherents of magic still claim that through the vegetation on the head one can contact higher powers or the spirits of the dead. Therefore, no trips to the hairdresser and long water procedures- comb your hair, tie your tail, and go!
The same applies to trimming nails: a couple of days after the appointed test with the examination committee, we stop doing our own manicure so as not to shorten our memory.
The main thing is not to overdo it - nobody canceled hygiene and neatness - otherwise the teacher only because of disgust for your appearance may lower the score.
An important rule for each test subject: when preparing for the test, do not leave the read textbooks and notes open, otherwise the material covered will disappear from your head tired of cramming.
- God forbid a negligent student to show his grade book to someone on the eve of the exam - he will not receive more "troyban" or will go for a retake.
There is also a rumor among young students that it is undesirable to be the first to take an exam in physical education (more about law school applicants and athletes), otherwise you will have to run around the classrooms later.
So, what can not be done, we found out, now take care of the call of Lady Fortune.
In addition to the traditional student sounding like "shara (freebie), come!" there are a number of good accompanying beliefs that provide the "martyrs of science" good mood and self-confidence on the day of the exam.
- There is a superstition that what is placed under the pillow tutorial in the subject contributes to the consolidation of the learned topics. And if in the same way you hide your own written answer to the desired ticket, then you will pull out exactly this task during the exam.
- O useful properties everyone has heard of chocolate for the brain, but only a few students know that a chocolate bar, carefully placed at the feet of the examinee the night before, will be charged with good luck. All that remains is to eat it in the morning, and a high score is guaranteed for a diligent student.
- Informed representatives of the student fraternity know that a favorable outcome in passing a test or exam can be ensured by clothing in which they have already received a good mark. Therefore, the guys carefully store happy outfits and put them on when the session time comes.
- When you get your first perfect mark, tie your record book tightly. wool thread, better than red, so that luck does not evaporate.
- Over the past decades, schoolchildren have experienced tremendous stress and anxiety during the period last year training and during the passing of state examinations. The following sign will help calm the worried child - in order to pass the exam well, put five kopecks in the shoes you put on - a coin will bring the desired score.
The visualization of the picture also helps a lot: imagine how you are looking for your last name in the lists of applicants, and how opposite it you see the highest number that your knowledge was assessed. Do this exercise more often, not forgetting, of course, to repeat the material covered. What does he say before the exam?
There are many youth traditions regarding exam day. Although young individuals are skeptical of adult advice and all sorts of superstitions, on an important day for fate, they also seek to bring good luck to their side, following popular predictions:
- Tie a red thread bracelet around your wrist, and do not forget to first wind a few knots on the thread so that nothing gets mixed up in your head.
- Waking up in the morning, get up exclusively with your left foot, but lift it first when you cross the threshold own house and audience.
- The hand with which you pull the ticket should also be left, and in general, it is advisable to give more load to the left on this day. upper limb. Scientifically, this tradition is easy to explain: by performing all the usual manipulations with the other hand, a person forces the brain to rebuild and the processes in the head - memory, attention, thinking are activated.
- A good sign if you manage to hold on to a person who has just passed the exam for the highest score. Congratulate the lucky person on their success with a firm handshake and cross your fingers, then luck will smile at you too.
- When crossing the threshold of the office, mentally say what grade you want to receive.
- It’s great if you manage to turn something sweet in your hands before choosing an exam task (it can be raisins or dried apricots), that is, to lure luck, and immediately pull the ticket!
- Many students sincerely believe in lucky numbers- when choosing a ticket, draw the third, fifth, seventh or ninth in a row.
- A place of honor among examination superstitions is occupied by the quarrelsome tradition, according to which the examinee should be scolded by friends or relatives directly during the answer. Moreover, it is important not to pronounce the words "fool", "stupid", "idiot", otherwise the omen will work the other way around.
True, it is rather difficult to guess the exact moment - therefore, the patient relatives have to “reproach” their offspring with curses for half a day. And the poor boy or girl remembers signs,
Threshold - a transverse beam on the floor at the bottom of the doorway. The threshold, like the door, in folk ideas is a direct and symbolic boundary between the house (one's own, not dangerous) and the rest of the outside world (alien, dangerous). Moreover, these ideas can be found both in everyday life and in various ritual actions, especially in the rites of passage - maternity, wedding, funeral.
When building a house and during the rite of passage to new house the owners take a number of actions for a further prosperous stay. So, first of all, the owner lets a cat or a rooster through the threshold of the house: if the rooster goes towards the red corner, life in the new place will be happy, if not at the threshold.
In everyday life with the threshold associated special rules behavior, as well as certain prohibitions: You can not sit or stand on the threshold.
But despite the fact that this rule is always declared, in practice, gatherers constantly observe violations of these rules by the villagers: people who come in for a short time often sit on the threshold, not to visit, but to inform or ask neighbors for something.
They don’t greet and don’t pass things over the threshold, they don’t cross the threshold without the invitation of the owner. At the same time, the threshold is only one of the symbolic boundaries existing in the house. So, a person who comes to the house can cross the threshold, but at the same time he cannot go beyond the matitsa without a special invitation.
Must comply certain rules not only when entering the house, but also when leaving it. When leaving the house on the threshold, it is necessary to say a protective prayer, ask permission from those who will protect on the road.
The threshold (together with the porch) is of particular importance in the matrimonial relations of the village youth. The threshold of the house where the girl lives, the guy is not supposed to cross: the one who enters the house is evaluated by the elders as claiming the status of a groom.
At parties, the threshold turns out to be the location of the village guys: At such meetings of the girls, their own, village guys came, sat at the threshold, and had their conversations.
When a guy took a girl away from a holiday to his house (in the village it was called getting married with a self-propelled gun or a cigarette), the girl became a wife, that is, she changed her girlish status to female as soon as she crossed the threshold of the guy’s house.
The husband's parents meet the young at the doorstep, presenting them with bread and salt. In the Leshukonsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, a young woman should immediately, “on the threshold” ask permission from her mother-in-law to call her “mother”.
In the Arkhangelsk region, when the bride was taken to the bathhouse, she should not have touched the threshold with her foot - "otherwise the girls from the village will not get married for a long time."
In the maternity rite, the threshold is associated with a number of magical actions, especially in cases of difficult childbirth: my grandmother gave me some water to drink. And she was doing something at the door. They say they washed the threshold at the door. And they gave water from the threshold to drink.
AT funeral rite when taking out the coffin, it is necessary to hit it three times on the threshold so that the deceased can say goodbye to the house. To wash the floors, after the deceased was taken out of the house, they began precisely from the threshold.
The threshold serves as a place for performing healing magic: the patient lies down on the threshold along the floorboard, and the healer performs a magical action on him.
The threshold as part of the doorway is found in the descriptions of divination. Thus, violating the prohibition, they sit on it while calling the betrothed or recognizing their further fate. Often various objects are used in this case: mirrors, candles, horse collars.
The threshold is associated with the idea of memory and forgetting. So, for example, there are a number of proverbs on this topic: memory is like up to the threshold; crossed the threshold and forgot.
This is a mystical place.
The place where Yav and Nav meet.
Where the worlds converge: the world of the living and the world of the dead.
The threshold holds a huge number of secrets and mysteries.
Many rituals are performed on the threshold.
Among the Slavs, the threshold is on a par with crossroads and borders, which are also considered the most mystical places.
It is believed that two roads converge on the threshold - one leads to the house, the other - from the house.
This is the contact of two realities: entry and exit.
A place of resistance of two forces: dark and light.
And the threshold is the place where these forces are powerless.
The threshold is the so-called place of doing nothing.
According to legend, it is on the threshold that evil spirits live.
And therefore many magical rites and are made precisely on the thresholds.
That is why many signs are associated with the threshold.
For example, illegitimate dead children were buried under the threshold so that the priest, entering the house, would sanctify the soul of the baby with his presence.
Do not stand on the threshold;
Nothing is passed over the threshold;
They don't say hello across the threshold...
Let's talk about this mystical place in more detail. Sit down comfortably, we are starting ... They don’t greet through the threshold, they don’t say goodbye, they don’t sit on it, so as not to anger the household god and so that they don’t attack evil forces. Merchants never stood on the doorstep, so as not to frighten off luck, buyers and, in general, income. At dusk, garbage is not taken out through the threshold, this can lead to losses. They say: take out the trash over the threshold after sunset to failure and bad luck. If you take out the trash after a departed friend, he may never return. But if the enemy left, then the opposite is true: after him you need to spit over the threshold and even say a hot word - the threshold will endure everything and will not allow the enemy to come to him again.
The threshold helped to get rid of the unnecessary: from longing, from habit, from illness and suffering. For example, a healer outside, in front of the threshold, sprinkled water on the patient, who was outside the threshold, in the house. Under the threshold of the house, evil spirits often cause damage: they scatter needles - so that there is no health, salt - for quarrels, and torn money for lack of money. In no case do not take all this with your bare hands, do not step on it, and do not even step over such a lining! It is necessary to collect all these tosses carefully with a broom or paper. And rather, in the trash can, away from home. And throwing away, be sure to say:
Where it came from, where it will go
Evil and misfortune will carry away."
(Lena Oparina)
or:
I won't take someone else's, but I won't give my own either.
Given by man, carried away by the wind.
(Lena Oparina)
You can’t stand on the threshold, otherwise you will interrupt the well-being going into the house.
After the guests leave, it is necessary to shake the tablecloth over the threshold, into the street - there will always be prosperity in the house and many guests.
To avoid a quarrel at a party, cross the threshold with your right foot.
To ensure that there is always money in your house, hide three new shiny coins under the threshold by saying three times:
Silver to silver
money to money to this doorstep to this house
You can not sweep the garbage through the threshold, especially a pregnant woman, otherwise she will have a difficult birth, and the baby will often vomit.
In Rus', there was a custom: young people, leaving the house, stepped over a lit torch, after which an open lock was placed on the threshold; and when they returned from the church, they stepped over this castle. After that, the lock was closed with a key, and this key was thrown into the water (river, ..).
If a woman could not give birth in any way, then the midwives took her through the threshold three times so that the baby would come out of the mother's womb more easily.
But the newborn was wrapped in a fur coat and laid on the threshold, saying:
As the Threshold lies quietly, calmly and quietly, so my child (name) be quiet, calm and healthy.
During the rite of baptism, the mother passed the child (especially the boy) to the godmother through an ax lying on the threshold of the house, so that he would become the guardian of the house.
Numerous folk rituals and therapeutic actions.
So on the threshold, the mother could cure her child's hernia. Why did she sit on the threshold and, as it were, bite off a hernia.
On the threshold of treatment and fear. The patient himself should stand on the threshold, the healer with a knife and an ax in her hands goes around him, and then sticks them into the threshold, while saying:
What are you cutting?"
“I cut the fear, I cut it with an ax, I cut it with a knife, I calm the pain and fear.”
You can’t cut anything on the threshold - you will let the evil spirits into the house.
If a single guy sits on the doorstep, then the brides will bypass him and his house.
If the longing for the deceased is not appeased in any way, then one must sit on the threshold and eat a loaf of rye bread.
In order for the child to wean easily from the breast, the mothers carried out the last feeding on the threshold, but only so that the legs were on opposite sides of the threshold.
When building a house, protective objects and objects were laid under the threshold, promising prosperity and peace to this house.
There's a lot more to the threshold.
But you can't tell everything at once.
So if you want to know more, then often look to us for a light, and what if you draw something else useful for yourself ?!
Good luck to you, Love and Happiness! And let the misfortunes pass you by!
With love, your Lena Oparina.