Fortune telling on spoons is one of the most common divination methods, which has remained in everyday life from our great-grandmothers. They told fortunes in this way both in cities and in villages. I bribed this method with its availability. And no wonder. Everyone had the main subject of divination, especially since in the old days people mostly used only spoons for food.
Rules and guidelines
In the old days, the ceremony was usually held on St. Basil's Day (January 14) or on Christmas Eve after dinner was taken. In order to find out the future and get answers to questions of interest, wooden spoons were used. Nowadays, fortune telling can be done on spoons and metal. The only thing to pay attention to is her age. Cutlery must not be new or used by another person. Based on this, a fortuneteller could only use devices that belonged to his family during divination.
With the help of spoons you can find outabout the quality of future life, tell fortunes on a wish, determine what awaits in fate, and also summon a spirit or conduct fortune-telling on spoons with a brownie. In our article, we will try to explain how to tell fortunes using cutlery, and how to decipher one or another arrangement of spoons during the process.
Simple divination
To find out who occupies what place in the family, it was necessary to conduct a ritual of divination on spoons, having prepared, in addition to cutlery, those who wished to participate in the process and a basin or a tub of wood. All cutlery must be put in a tub and covered with a lid. After that, the spoons need to be shaken and left to lie in the same place until the morning. After the required time has passed, the lid should be removed and see whose spoon is in which position.
- The member of the family whose spoon is under the cutlery of the others will face problems and troubles, but close people will help to cope with this.
- Whose spoon lies apart from other cutlery, loneliness awaits.
- The cutlery, which is placed on top of the other spoons, indicates the informal leader in the family.
To find out what the future husband looks like, girls in the old days used "fortune telling on Kutia".
What a spoon is wrapped in, or How to recognize a betrothed
On the eve of Christmas, young people were guessing at the groom. To do this, an unmarried girl had to take a spoon, with which she collected kutya, and wrap it in her father's or brother's pants. Then hide the cutlery under your pillowand not speak to anyone for the rest of the evening. In a dream, according to legend, she was supposed to see the face of her future spouse.
This method also has the name "Spoon under the pillow" divination.
What lies ahead
Using this method of divination, you can find out what to expect from fate. For divination, it is necessary to prepare cutlery, according to the total number of fortunetelling people.
Immediately before the ritual, one should eat in the circle of those gathered, using spoons for eating. After the meal, you need to take a flat plate and lay out all the spoons around its circumference. Each of the participants must remember exactly where his spoon is and how it is located, since the result of fortune-telling depends on this. Next, the plate with cutlery is removed to a secluded place.
To find out the result of divination, in the morning you need to look at the location of each cutlery:
- if it is in the same place, a fortuneteller expects a long life;
- a slightly shifted cutlery can be a harbinger of illness;
- the device completely changed direction - cardinal changes in life and destiny.
In order for the process of divination to be fun and interesting, it is preferable to guess in a large company of people. In addition to simple divination methods, there are also more complex ones. To conduct them, you need not only the presence of cutlery at hand, but also the courage to evoke the spirit or ask for help from the brownie, who can indicate the correct answer during divination.
Divinationon paper spoons
For the ceremony, it is worth preparing the necessary props: cutlery, white paper (cut into strips 2 cm wide and 20-30 cm long), candles, a flat dish, a towel.
To perform the ritual, you need to open the window (so that there is a way for the spirit) and decide in advance which of the dead will be called. Then, having settled in a circle, each of those gathered should light a candle and put it in front of him. One of the company should put a dish in the middle of the table, laying out spoons and paper on it for each participant (one for each).
After that, all participants should join hands and say the following words 3 times: "Spirit (name of the deceased), come to us. Spirit (name of the deceased), you are here, hear us and tell us the answers to the questions!" When the words are spoken, the window should be covered so that the spirit does not leave the room during divination on spoons.
Divination rules
Each of those gathered takes one spoon in the left hand and a strip of paper in the right. Then he asks himself a question to which you can answer “yes” or “no”. The strip must be folded in half, and the handle of the spoon should be placed at the fold. Then wrap both ends of the strip around the handle until all the paper is on the handle of the cutlery.
All the spoons are put on the dish, and one of the participants covers them with a towel and starts to twist the collected cutlery clockwise, making about 10 turns. Then the towel is removed, and each of those gathered takes a spoon, a stalkwhich looks at him. The ends of both strips should be carefully taken with your fingers and unwound. In the event that the cutlery remains inside the paper, the wish will not come true. Conversely, if the strip of paper is completely unwound and the spoon remains in a free position, this means “yes.”
When the ritual is over, you need to blow out the candles, open the window, put all the props on the dish and, holding hands, say the following: "Spirit, we release you and thank you for your help, you can return to where you came from!"
