It is very ancient custom and tradition and it is very much distributed and popular in Russia. And if you are interested I will tell you a little about it. So, more often in guessings for Christmas to take part unmarried girls because the goal of a guessing it to learn something about the future husband. Ways of a guessing huge quantity, from the most simple both amusing up to serious and mystical. The most widespread ways.
1. At midnight the girl goes in the street and asks a name of the first of man which she will meet, so should call her future husband.
2. Take three kinds of a ring - gold, silver and cheap, put they in any small bag. Then the girl should get a ring from a bag and determine material welfare of the future husband. Gold it means rich, silver it means an average condition not so rich and not so poor and the cheap ring it means that the husband will be poor.
3. Somebody puts a ring in a boot of the girl and when she to dress boots it will be possible to determine whether there will be she marriage this year.
4. Pour in a wide basin (pan) of cold water, kindle wax of a candle in the spoon and quickly pour out wax in the water. As soon as wax will stiffen, pull out it from water and look that has turned out.
Similar guessing. A usual sheet of a paper crumple in hands, put on a plate and set fire, after it will burn down bring a plate to a wall thus that the shadow from a paper lay down on a wall. Turn in in a hand a plate and look that has turned out. In such two last ways will determine the future for whole year, they look as a guessing on a coffee thick :-).
One of the most mystical guessings is connected to participation in it of mirrors. I will tell you fairly I never guessed in my life such a way because for this purpose it is necessary to be very courageous and to have strong nerves. In this guessing of a mirror settle down definitely, they are put opposite each other so that the mirror corridor has turned out. Nex to mirrors put a some candles. The girl sits between these mirrors and looking in this formed mirror corridor should see the future husband. The girl should be in a room (and it is even better in all the house) completely one. This really terrible guessing. There are many stories about that than similar guessings can end, but it is already absolutely other story.
I have told to you about several ways of a guessing, I hope you will correctly understand all of them, I tried to explain them as it is possible easier. It is only small part of ways of a guessing but these are one of the widespread ways and on them you will know that such guessing for Christmas in Russia. Now I am do not guess any more because it is not so interestingly to me, but earlier my girlfriends and I met together and guessed on the grooms. It was for a long time and I do not remember already what turned out at me :-). I have met you without any guessings and it is much more important for me. I love you very much!!!
