December 31 – celebrate the New Year

December 31 in the folk calendar is Modest’s Day and New Year’s Eve. According to folk signs, today one should not be in sadness and despondency, since bad thoughts can charge negative energy for the next year.

You need to celebrate the New Year at the festive table – then the year will be profitable. It is impossible to do without a Christmas tree, or at least spruce branches – there will be no help. You can’t cook meals, set the table and make other preparations in a bad mood – the whole next year you will have to solve your own and other people’s problems. You should not serve crayfish and crabs on the table – otherwise you will move back all year, not forward.

It is better to go to the festive table in new, clean, ironed clothes – there is a sign that then in the coming year you will please yourself with new clothes. You just need to wear your own clothes. If you take someone else’s outfit, you can bring into your life the problems of the person to whom these clothes belong.

Before the new year, it is worth getting rid of old things, broken dishes, cracked mirrors, because such things can carry over the negativity in your life for the next year.

Before the holiday, it is desirable to distribute all debts, then in the new year you will not have to borrow.

Seeing off the old year, you should remember its main events that influenced your life. It is believed that if you spend the outgoing year well, he will take with him all the sorrows and sorrows. Summing up the results of the outgoing year, make at least approximate plans for the future – then it will be easier for them to come true.

According to popular beliefs, you can’t say offensive words about both the outgoing and the coming year, and, if possible, you should forgive your enemies and offenders – entering the new year without evil thoughts, resentment and regrets, you set it to positive.

Shortly before the chiming clock, open the front door for a short while – release the old year. And after midnight, also open the door for at least a few seconds – so that luck and happiness enter the house.

In the kitchen, you can leave a plate of food for the brownie. According to legend, then in the coming year he will help the owners in everything.

Food left after the New Year’s table should not be thrown away. It must either be eaten or fed to animals or birds.

You can not give things that symbolize bad habits – piles, glasses, ashtrays and so on. It is believed that with such gifts you will do a person a disservice.

It is impossible to quarrel, conflict, gossip on this day – this will scare away good luck.

You can’t leave sharp objects in a conspicuous place, and put a broom or a broom at the front door – evil forces can take possession of them and ruin your life.

On the evening before the New Year, you can’t sew up clothes or sew on buttons so as not to “sew up” good luck. You can not repair and buy shoes – to health problems.

And it’s better to get a haircut in advance – a haircut on this day, according to signs, can lead to problems with hair.

Popular signs on December 31 are as follows:

– What is the weather on December 31, this will be in June.

– if the snow falls in large flakes – to warming;

– if there is a strong frost – there will be no snowfall;

– if a western or south-western wind blows – to a thaw;

– if you meet a big and kind dog – good luck;

– if the domestic cat is calm – the year promises to be successful;

– if a cat lay down on a person’s lap – in the new year he will be accompanied by good luck and success.

Dreams that occurred on the night of December 31 are often prophetic and may indicate something that can contribute to good luck.

Alena Bodrienko.

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