Pancake fortune-telling: how to attract love, luck and prosperity in your life

Maslenitsa is one of the oldest holidays in Slavic culture. Since ancient times it has been a time to see off winter and welcome spring. Traditionally, the celebrations were accompanied by fairs, folk festivals and the burning of an effigy of Maslenitsa. Also in Shrovetide week held various rituals and divinations designed to attract love, wealth and prosperity. "Izvestia" publishes the most popular fortune-telling, which are addressed in the holiday and nowadays.

Pancake Week fortune-telling on the first pancake

Among the most common methods remain divination on pancakes. Special importance is attached to the first pancake. If it turned out dense, then this year you will have to work a lot. Burned on one side of the pancake promises trouble, and thin and evenly fried on both sides - success and prosperity. A ruddy pancake means good health, but a pale pancake means sickness and ailments.

If during cooking the first pancake stuck to the pan, then in the coming year you can not dream of marriage. If he turned over with ease, then before the end of the year there will be joyful events or engagement. Even edges of the pancake portend a happy marriage, and torn or uneven - lack of happiness in family life.

By the number of large holes in the first pancake, you can determine the number of children in the family. And to find out the sex of the future child, pregnant women need to see who will take the pancake from the plate: if it is a man, then the family will be born a boy, if a woman - a daughter.

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Pancake stuffing fortune-telling on Shrovetide

In the old days there were many divinations and on the filling of pancakes. The flavor of the pancake served as a kind of prediction. According to what filling will fall, determined how the year will be. In order to look into the future, it is necessary to prepare pancakes with salty, sweet and sour fillings. One pancake should be left empty, and in one more put a pea or a bean.

Each person should take one pancake from the plate. A pancake with a sweet filling is for a joyful and successful year. Salty - to sorrows and disappointments. Spicy - ahead of waiting for events that will tickle the nerves. An empty pancake means that there will be no major changes, and life will go on as usual. A bean inside promises wealth and abundance.

Also on the stuffing you can find out the character of the future chosen one. A pancake with cottage cheese means that the beloved will be a typical mama's boy, unable to make independent decisions. If there will be a pancake with fish filling, then meet a man with a cheerful disposition. Pancake with meat portends a meeting with a thorough and serious gentleman, and with caviar - rich and successful.

Pancake fortune-telling by candles

Shrovetide is closely associated with the element of fire. This is the ritual burning of the effigy, and greeting the first rays of the sun. Therefore, wax candles are often used for divination. It is desirable not to take damaged or already used candles, as well as candles of dark colors.

To perform the ritual you need to write on a piece of paper your desire. For example, I want to get married successfully or make a fascinating trip. Then you need to bring the sheet to a burning candle and see what will remain of it.

If the flame is extinguished before burning the paper, the wish will not come true. In the case when the leaf burned half, you will have to make efforts to make the wish come true. Fully burned sheet - a good sign: it means that all the wish will soon come true.

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Pancake Day fortune-telling by dreams

Among other popular divinations for Pancake Day are dream divinations. They are suitable for those who are in search of their soulmate. To see the soulmate, before going to bed you need to eat a salty pancake, saying: "Suzheny, come, water drink." What man will dream, that will be the future husband.

Back in the old days, girls secretly put under their mother's bed a frying pan, on which she baked pancakes on Shrovetide, and said: "Fiancé, to the future mother-in-law come to taste the pancakes". In the morning they asked the parent who she had dreamed about.

For divination on dreams and other rituals is the whole Shrovetide week, but the most truthful are considered divinations on Saturday and Sunday night, and on the last day of Shrovetide week it is forbidden to guess, as this day is Forgiveness Sunday, and then comes Lent.

Earlier "Izvestia" told what divinations are held on Epiphany.