Christmas is a sacred and mysterious holiday, and from it, like from the New Year, we expect a miracle.

We peer into foggy dreams, knowing that they predict the future; we, even contrary to the canons of religion, make fortunes for love on this day, knowing that our fortune-telling will come true. This holiday has a complicated history, peculiar signs and fortune-telling, that’s what we’ll talk about today.

Christmas story

Everyone knows that Jesus Christ was born on this day, although in fact there is no mention of the specific date of his birth in any holy book or in any revelations, and the East and West at the beginning of our era celebrated the Nativity of Christ on different days and even called it in different ways. For the Romans, it was actually Christmas, but in the East this day was called Epiphany, they were guided not by the date of birth, but by Epiphany, and celebrated on January 6th. The most interesting thing is that at that time, neither Western nor Eastern peoples had this as an independent holiday dedicated specifically to the birth of the Son of God; these dates replaced other holidays, trying to root Christianity and displace pagan cults.

When, according to legend, in the middle of the 4th century, Pope Julius obliged the Church of Constantinople to “set” a specific date for Christmas, he pursued two goals at once - the people had to realize the importance of the birth of Jesus as a sacred event, and stop celebrating the day of praise of the sun god Mithras and others pagan gods. As often happened in the future, the people transferred some of the features of the pagan god to Christ, but over time the cult of Mithras disappeared. The compiler of the “Easter tables,” theologian Dionysius the Small, chose the date December 25 precisely because of the celebration of the day of veneration of Mithra. So to speak, contrary to established traditions.

Christmas came to our ancestors in a ready-made form in the 10th century along with Christianity, and for a long time it was celebrated, just like Christmas, but then the Orthodox Church determined another date, which we still adhere to.

In Soviet times, it was not customary to celebrate Christmas, since all church holidays were canceled, and the main customs - Christmas trees, gifts, night festivities - were transferred to the New Year. And only since 1991, Christmas again became a recognized holiday and a legal day off, although the main celebrations still fall on New Year's Eve. Moreover, it is not customary to have much fun on Christmas night; this night should be dedicated to God, awareness of the place of faith in your heart, in your soul, night vigils in church or at least at home - in prayer and repentance.

However, our state is still secular, so many people perceive Christmas as a reason to have fun. And, probably, there is nothing wrong with this, since in order to observe the canons, one must be educated in this. And we were deprived of this for a long time. And for those who still adhere to church canons, you can start having fun after the morning service on January 7th.

Christmas fortune telling

At Christmas, as well as at New Year, you can be alone, or you can gather with friends at someone’s house. In fact, it all depends on how you perceive this action - as a ritual of serious predictions for the future or as entertainment dedicated to the holiday. If you want to learn something truly important, then it is better to retire, since any magic is destroyed by other people’s doubts and envy. Most often at Christmas they tell fortunes about the betrothed. Therefore, we will not deviate from this tradition.

Fortune telling for marriage

This is a collective fortune telling. The evening before Christmas, invite your friends over and have each of them bring a wooden or clay bowl and a new towel. Then knead the dough - from the same ingredients, with the same yeast, and according to the same recipe, so that everyone present is on equal terms. Cover all bowls with towels and leave in a warm place. Check the test every 10-15 minutes. Whichever of the fortune-telling ladies' dough rises first, she will be the first to get married.

Fortune telling by pie for marriage

On Christmas Eve, bake a pie with your own hands and before going to bed on Christmas night, place the pie on a chair or stool next to the bed. Place a knife on top of the pie, but only so that its blade does not point at you or anyone else. Say: “Groom friend, come for a pie.” If in the morning the knife is moved, then you will soon become a bride. If the knife remains in the same place and in the same position as you put it, then you will not get married in the coming year.

And be sure to note that you. You may well see the appearance of the person who will feast on the pie in your dream. This person will be your betrothed - this year or in a few years - depending on the position of the knife. Just don’t think about any of your fans before going to bed.

Fortune telling on the ice hole about the husband's character

It’s also better to do this fortune-telling together with your girlfriends, otherwise it’s a little scary alone. This fortune telling is carried out at night. Prepare a large stone in advance and find an ice hole in the nearest body of water. If you already have a fiancé, then this fortune-telling will predict how you will live with him when you get married - peacefully or in quarrels. And if there is no groom yet, then fortune telling will tell you what kind of person you will soon meet - calm or tough, domineering and rude.

Throw a stone into the water and listen to the sound it makes when it hits the water. If the surge is quiet, then the character of your future husband will be peaceful, not scandalous, and kind. But if you hear a dull or loud grumbling, then you will get a grumpy, authoritarian husband. The louder and longer the muttering, the more anxious it will be for you to live with the mysterious person or with the one you are yet to meet.

Fortune telling on a tear-off calendar

History of Christmas and Christmas fortune-telling

As you know, Christmas is a mysterious and sacred holiday from which we all expect a miracle. We remember dreams, knowing that they can predict our future, and we even make fortunes on this day, contrary to religious canons, for love, because we are convinced that our fortune-telling will come true. This holiday has a complicated history, peculiar fortune-telling and signs.

Christmas story
Everyone knows that Jesus was born on this day. In fact, the specific date of his birth is not mentioned either in the holy books or in revelations, and in the old days the West and the East not only celebrated the Nativity of Christ on different days, but they even called it differently. The Romans, like us, called it Christmas; in the East, this day was called Epiphany and celebrated it on January 6, focusing on Epiphany, and not on the date of birth.

Pope Julius, who obliged the Church of Constantinople to determine a specific date for Christmas in the middle of the 4th century, pursued two goals: the people's awareness of the birth of Jesus as the most important sacred event and the cessation of the celebration of the day of praise of the god Mithras, as well as other pagan gods.

As this often happened in the future, people transferred some of the features of the pagan god to Christ, and gradually the cult of Mithras disappeared. The theologian Dionysius the Small, compiler of the “Easter tables,” chose the twenty-fifth of December.

Christmas came to the Russian people in its finished form in the 10th century. For a long time it was celebrated simultaneously with Catholic Christmas - December 25, but subsequently the Orthodox Church determined a separate date, which we adhere to to this day.

In the Soviet Union, it was not customary to celebrate Christmas, since all church holidays were canceled, and many customs - night festivities, gifts, Christmas trees - were transferred to the New Year.

In 1991, Christmas became a non-working holiday, along with the New Year, although the main celebrations still occur on the night from December 31 to January 1. In addition, it is not customary to have much fun on Christmas night; it should be devoted to realizing the place faith occupies in the soul, night vigils in church or at home - in repentance and prayer.

However, in Russia, a secular state, Christmas is perceived as a reason to have fun.

Christmas fortune telling

You can tell fortunes at Christmas both alone and with friends. It all depends on how you perceive this action - as a ritual that gives serious forecasts for the future, or as entertainment dedicated to the holiday. If you want to know something really important, you better seclude yourself, since any magic is destroyed by other people's envy and doubts.

At Christmas, people most often make fortunes about their betrothed. We will also not deviate from tradition.

Fortune telling for marriage using dough
This is a collective fortune telling. Invite your friends to visit you on Christmas Eve, and let each of them bring a clay or wooden container, as well as a new towel.

Knead the dough: from the same ingredients, with the same yeast and according to the same recipe - so that everyone present is in equal conditions. Cover all bowls with towels and leave them in a warm place. Keep an eye on the dough every 10-15 minutes. Whichever of you has the dough rise first will get married first.

Fortune telling for marriage by pie
Bake a pie with your own hands on Christmas Eve and on Christmas night, before going to bed, place it on a stool or chair next to your bed. Place a knife on top of the pie so that the blade does not point at anyone. Say the following: “Groom friend, come for a pie.”

If the knife is moved the next morning, you will soon become a bride. If the knife remains in place, you will not get married in the coming year.

Be sure to remember what you dream about this night. In your dream you may see a person eating a pie. This person will be your betrothed this year or in a few years - this period depends on the position of the knife. But you shouldn’t think specifically about any of your fans.

Fortune telling on a husband's character in an ice hole

It is better to carry out this fortune-telling also with friends, since it will be scary alone. It is carried out at night.

Prepare a large stone in advance, and find an ice hole in the nearest body of water. If you already have a fiancé, this fortune-telling will be able to predict how you will live with him after the wedding - peacefully or in quarrels. If there is no groom yet, fortune telling will tell you who you will meet in the near future - a tough or calm, rude or domineering man.

Throw a stone into the water and listen to the sound it makes as it enters the water. If you hear a quiet splash, your betrothed will have a peaceful character, will be kind, and not scandalous. If you hear a loud or muffled grumbling, you will get an authoritarian, grumpy husband.

The longer and louder the grumbling, the more alarming your life will be with the person you have in mind or with the man you have yet to meet.

Christmas fortune telling on a tear-off calendar
This fortune telling is also carried out in the company of girlfriends. You need to take a calendar for the coming year, and also find a person who will help you with fortune telling.

Let your friend start flipping through the calendar, and you will mentally ask questions related to various dates, for example: when will I have an important meeting this year (big profit, important date, etc.). Having formulated a question, stop your friend. The date that appears will be the answer to your question.

This way, you can ask no more than six questions, otherwise fortune telling will become just a game. After you, the next fortuneteller will be able to ask questions.

Christmas fortune telling with chicken bones
You can guess this way either alone or with friends.

Mark in advance a place in the yard where you can hide the bone so that it can be easily found later, and so that no one will drag it away. The ideal option would be a hollow tree. In the city, you can simply place the bone on a garage shell.

Mark the bone somehow, for example, tie a ribbon to it. Your friends should also mark the bones they brought so that you don’t get them mixed up. On Christmas night, hide these bones outside in a marked place.

If the bone with your mark is in place in the morning, a local young man or man will become your husband. If she disappears, you will marry a newcomer who will be from another city or from another country. The same applies to the bones that were marked by your friends.

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When Christmas comes, my friends and I remember how in our youth we loved to tell fortunes and carol. We have an interesting story about a fortune-telling that came true...

We were 15-16 years old then, and it was the most innocent time, we were already falling in love, but no one had yet struck up a serious relationship. At our school there was a mathematics teacher, Lyudmila Petrovna, who knew everything about everyone: about the teachers, and about the students, and about their parents - about all the residents of the village. Either she had some kind of gift of providence, or she drew all the information from other sources. Lyudmila Petrovna never ceased to amaze us with details that sometimes only two people could know about. But then we did not delve into any thoughts about this.

This was in the mid-1980s. Christmas was then celebrated only in the family circle. We heard about all the rituals from our grandmothers, so the information was a mixture of Christian and pagan traditions and beliefs. Christmas worried us not about the birth of Christ, but about the divination and mystical miracles that happened at that time, according to the stories of “knowledgeable” people. From the same grandmothers we heard many different methods of fortune telling on the eve of Christmas, but many of them were difficult to prepare, some downright frightened us, and we chose only easy and harmless options.

First they threw felt boots over the fence. Wherever his nose points, that’s where the groom lives. But the guys caught the felt boots and hid them. This spoiled all the fortune-telling for us. Then we remembered another way: asking the names of the men we met. As the stranger is called, so will the husband be called. But on a winter night on a rural road you won’t see many passers-by, and such fortune-telling is not suitable for a crowd of girls. Then someone suggested simply knocking on the windows of houses and asking: “What is the name of my fiance?” Everyone liked this option. So we went from house to house, knocking on windows and asking one by one about the groom’s name. They called us the most ridiculous names, and we laughed until we dropped. The guys also went with us. They made fun of the girls, pushed them into the snowdrifts, hugged them, in short, everyone was having a blast.

So we reached Lyudmila Petrovna’s house. Apparently, having heard our noisy company from afar, she came out onto the porch and stood waiting for us. We surrounded her and began shouting with laughter, interrupting each other:
- Lyudmila Petrovna, tell me, what is the name of my fiance?
She commanded:
- So! Quiet!
We obediently fell silent.
- Now I’ll tell everyone everything! I'll just take a look at you! Who do I have here? Ah-ah-ah, Lena Satina! Your husband will be a Siberian!

We burst out laughing. Everyone knew that Sashka the Sibiryak had been hanging around Lena for a long time, but she didn’t even notice him, she dreamed of Slavka Popov and, of course, only wanted to hear this name. In response to Lyudmila Petrovna’s “forecast,” Lena only grimaced with displeasure, and she added:
- Don’t turn your nose up at him, he’ll become a big man! Who's here? - the teacher continued. - Yeah, Lyuba Dubinina! And you will marry Kalinich!
And again laughter. And again by. Ivan Kalinin is a second-year student, a poor student, and an inveterate hooligan. Everyone was afraid of him like fire, and Lyuba generally walked around a kilometer away.

And you, Irinka, will have Vasya Gurov as your husband! Oh, and you will have a lot of grief with him!
A slight chuckle of surprise rang through the crowd. Vasya Gurov is smart, activist, excellent student, from an intelligent family. And how can you endure grief with such a guy? Irinka just shrugged her shoulders, because she and Vasya didn’t even like each other. We studied at the same school, but it was as if we were at different poles.
- Where is Marina Spiridonova? - asked Lyudmila Petrovna. - Come to me!
Marinka was pushed forward.
- You will marry Seryozha Zhukov!
- Her father won’t allow her! - Sashka Yegorov shouted from the crowd.

And we all laughed again, because we knew that Marinka’s father was the school director. And Seryozhka, although a wonderful guy, is from a dysfunctional family. And they have been in a confrontation for a long time, Marinka and Seryozhka love each other, but Marinka’s parents are terribly against it.
- Yes, he will be an even better son-in-law! - Lyudmila Petrovna stood her ground. - And here is Marinka Denisova! The donut is ours! - she smiled when she saw the most well-fed girl in our class. - Take a closer look at Pavlik Shiroky! He loves donuts!
- No! - Pavlik was indignant to the general laughter. - I need her!
- Will be needed! She will give birth to four children for you!
Lyudmila Petrovna talked a lot about us then, as if she was fantasizing about what would happen to us years later, depicting our future for us. But we perceived everything that the mathematics teacher prophesied for us as a joke, proving that this could never happen.

Many years later. Once, when we all got together again, we remembered our school years, all the stories. Of course, we also discussed this comic Christmas adventure. And then we were surprised to discover that everything that Lyudmila Petrovna predicted came true down to the smallest detail. It was amazing and even scary, because she was a rural teacher, and not a professional fortune teller. She was just joking with us, but it turned out that just like that, while playing, she “distributed” our destinies to us. How could she see our future? Was some kind of secret really revealed to her or was it just a coincidence? Or maybe this was just that Christmas miracle? After all, Christmas is one of the most amazing and mysterious holidays!

Magic for Christmas. Yuletide fortune telling (scary story).

SO THAT THE MONEY WILL BE AVAILABLE ALL YEAR.

This plot is read in the evening on the first day of Christmas, when the first Christmas star appears in the sky.
This plot is read in the evening on the first day of Christmas- On the 7th.
Write a plot on paper, go to a window that faces east, look at the evening sky and the stars and read this plot:

"Glory to God, glory to Christ! Angels, praise, you know: Christ was born, Herod was indignant, Judas hanged himself, the world rejoiced. The glory of the Lord stands forever, does not break, and I have more money in silver. Lord, I praise Thy Nativity! Blessed be the day and hour, in which my Lord Jesus Christ was born for my sake, endured crucifixion and suffered death. O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, at the hour of my death, receive Thy servant on his journey, through the prayers of Thy Most Pure Mother and all Thy saints, as blessed Thou art forever and ever. Amen."

After this, burn the paper with the written plot and put 3 five-ruble coins in the ashes. In the morning, you need to remove them from the ashes and thoroughly rub the remaining ashes into the coins. Put them in your wallet and wear them throughout the year.

CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY FOR WEALTH.

"In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit!

As the son of God, he is merciful and patient to everyone.

How He forgives everyone on earth,

Loves, pities, blesses everyone,

So fate would be merciful and supportive to me.

Key, lock, tongue. Amen."

ON CHRISTMAS, after morning prayer, you need to say:

How the Lord was born

It would be like that in my house

Things were good

Bread and money poured in.

The pies were baking

Honey and cream flowed like a river

On all days, at all hours.

Key, lock, tongue.

Amen. Amen.

ON THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS MORNING, it is advised to wash your face by saying three times:

The Savior is born

The light of the world has appeared.

I too will be saved

Servant of God (name),

Through Jesus Christ.

Whoever does this will gain not only mental, but also physical strength. Sick people, after performing this simple ritual, recover.

ON THIS HOLY DAY, everything in nature has its own special power. Knowing this, the women broke off a piece of ice on the river and took it to their house. They put ice on the floor in the middle of the hut, and said:

How the heat will dissolve you,

So evil will escape from my hut.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Now, forever, forever and ever. Amen.

The puddle of melted ice was not wiped away - it had to dry up on its own. And the forged amulet worked wonders - the whole year there were no worries or troubles in the family.

CHRISTMAS MONEY RITE.

This ritual is performed on Christmas Eve. Fill a new flower pot to the top with soil, and light 3 large green candles around it. Then, moving your index finger clockwise along the edge of the pot, read “Our Father”, and then the spell 3 times:

“As the twelve months ring, so the wallets of the servant of God (name) would ring and rattle. Just as roosters crow twelve times, so for twelve dawns they keep their money, and twelve times they say to themselves: money to money, wallets to wallets, everything that’s mine is with me and all the money is with me.”

Place the pot in a visible place, the candles should burn out in 12 days (within 12 days, light them from time to time).

SIGNS FOR CHRISTMAS.

In Russian folk life, many signs are timed to coincide with Christmas, primarily weather and natural ones. They tried to determine how cold or mild the holidays would be, as well as what the Christmas weather promised in relation to the harvest, the well-being of people, the fertility of livestock, birds, bees, the amount of fish in reservoirs, berries, mushrooms, nuts in the forest, etc.

Weather at Christmas, snow - for a fruitful year (Penz.).

The snows are deep - so the herbs and bread will be good.

The sums are high - for a good year (Pinezh.).

There are numerous proverbs and sayings about the same thing:

Winter without snow means no bread.

The snow is deep - the year is good.

A lot of snow - a lot of bread; The water will spill and the hay will accumulate.

When there is snow, bread will arrive.

A snowy year will bring bread.

On Christmas Day the day is warm - the bread will be dark and thick.

There will be a snowstorm at Christmas - the bees will swarm well.

If Christmas is in the new month, then the year will be lean.

At Christmas, frost means a harvest for bread, a starry sky means a harvest for peas.

Frequent curls on the trees, patterns on the windows, similar to rye ears, downward with curls, and not sticking up - to the harvest.

Dark Christmastides are dairy cows, light Christmastides are chickens.

A good sleigh ride means a harvest for buckwheat.

On the holiday of the Nativity of Christ, it was customary to visit relatives, friends, and neighbors.

From Christmas to Epiphany, throughout all Christmastide, there are prohibitions due to centuries-old ideas about the holiday as a stop of time, a temporary pause during which one cannot engage in productive labor and everything that is associated with birth, beginning, development. A significant part of the prohibitions relate to spinning, sewing, weaving, weaving, that is, crafts associated with thread (rope, etc.) - a symbol of life and destiny.

At Christmas, if you weave bast shoes, you will be born crooked; if you sew, you will be born blind.

From Christmas to Epiphany, hunting animals and birds is prohibited - it is a sin. Misfortune will happen to the hunter.

Specifically Christmas ones include customs and beliefs associated with the arrival of the first guest. Thus, it is a common belief that if a stranger’s woman enters the house first at Christmas, then the women in that family will be ill all year.

For the sake of a large offspring, lambs were sometimes placed on the fur coat of the first visitor who came to “glorify” on the day of the Nativity of Christ.

Among the population of different provinces there was a belief that it was forbidden to drink water during Christmas meals. According to Novgorodians, “on the day of fasting,” on the first day of Christmas, you cannot drink water at breakfast: you will drink it often in the hayfield. In the Voronezh version, the same thing was explained a little differently: “You can’t drink during lunch on Christmas; whoever does not drink will not want water when there is nowhere to get it: on the road or in the field while working” [Yakovlev, 1905; 169].

In the Tambov province they believed that if you break your fast with sparrows at Christmas, you will be light and fast for the whole year.

The Christmas rules also applied to clothing: At Christmas they wear a new shirt, but a clean one (but already worn) is not allowed, otherwise there will be a crop failure.

On Holy (Easter Week) the shirt is either poor or white; for Christmas it is at least harsh, but new [Dal. Poslov., 900].

On Christmas, special behavior was envisaged for the owner of the house and his actions aimed at preserving the livestock.

On Christmas Day, the owner should not leave the yard - the sheep will get lost.

At Christmas, table legs are tied to prevent cattle from running around.

They don’t do bending work (they don’t make or repair hoops, runners, etc.), otherwise there will be no offspring of livestock.

During the period from Christmas to Maslenitsa, the largest number of winter contracts, verbal and written, are concluded. For example, in the Arkhangelsk province at this time the peasants were preparing to join the barge haulers. The land was entrusted to a “Cossack” (worker) or leased, and things were for storage; a certain amount of money was borrowed to cover travel expenses. At the same time, “foremen” (contractors) recruited artels of workers who were to work in the cities.

SCARY STORIES from life. Fortune telling for Christmas time.

After the Nativity of Christ, Christmastide begins, during which many girls and some guys like to tell fortunes. Orthodox priests speak out categorically against such “pagan relics,” but the people don’t really listen to them and continue to have fun, trying to look into the future.

My friend Lena once told herself a fortune about her husband. It was on the night of the Old New Year, the girl had recently turned 19. Her parents went to celebrate with friends, and she, left alone, decided to tell fortunes. But she was scared to do shamanism alone, so she called her friend Olya.

At midnight, each of the girls locked herself in a separate room. They lit candles, sat down in front of the mirrors and began to say something like: “Mummer, betrothed, come to me for dinner.” At first nothing happened. Minutes, hours passed... We must pay tribute to the patience of the girls - others in their place would have given up long ago and gone to bed, but these stubbornly continued to peer into the mirror, hoping to see their betrothed in it.

And then, at about 2 o’clock in the morning, Lena’s mirror suddenly seemed to be covered with a matte layer, and the candle began to smoke and flicker. Elena, as expected, wiped the mirror with a towel and began to peer intently into the ghostly looking glass. And then it started! Right behind her reflection, the girl saw a handsome young man smiling warmly at her. Having controlled herself and barely restrained herself from running away from the room in fear, she carefully examined the stranger for some time, and then sharply looked back. But, of course, there was no one behind her. And when the next moment she looked at the mirror again, there was no longer any guy there, the vision disappeared.

But her friend was not so lucky. At about the same time, Olga, who was sitting in the next room, instead of the friendly face of her future chosen one, suddenly saw the grinning, disgusting face of a dark-haired man, from whom anger and horror emanated. Out of fear, Olga even fell from her chair and became hysterical. Lena came running to her screams, and it took a long time to calm her friend down.

3 months later, when Lena had already forgotten about fortune-telling, at a relatives’ wedding she unexpectedly met among the guests the very guy who had appeared in her mind that night. They looked at each other until the evening, and when it was time to dance, Victor invited her to a waltz. In the summer of that year they became husband and wife. Now the couple already has two wonderful children growing up - a daughter and a son.

A year later, Olga also got married, but, of course, not at all to the one she saw in the mirror. And she had a chance to see the same guest from the Christmas vision at the beginning of autumn. He waylaid her in the evening on a poorly lit section of the road in a quiet residential area. He tried to drag her into a vacant lot behind the garages, but the girl screamed so desperately that he got scared at the last moment and ran away, managing to hit her in the face.

Later, Olya accidentally saw a familiar face in a crime TV show - it turned out that he was a maniac who attacked women, he was caught red-handed during another attack. Those who identified him were asked to call and come to the police station to give statements. And it was at the police station that the girl met her future husband, who at that moment was an intern and helped conduct identification parades.

But that's a completely different story.

It happened on Christmas Eve. Marina's parents were going to go to her grandmother, and she was left at home alone. The parents asked Marina if she really didn’t want to go with them, she answered that no. After all, today was the most mystical night. He and his friend Olya were going to tell fortunes for the “betrothed-mummer”. As soon as the parents left, Marina took the phone and began to dial Olya so that she would come quickly. The girl knew that this night was the best for fortune telling.
The girls gathered to tell fortunes on the mirrors. Marina found this fortune telling on the Internet, and since then the girls have only talked about it. They redrew secret signs that had to be drawn on the mirrors with their own blood. But Marina decided that nothing bad would happen if she drew signs with lipstick on all the mirrors except one. They placed mirrors opposite each other and also placed a large mirror under them. And after the girls built a mirrored corridor, Marina pierced her finger with a needle and drew a secret sign on the mirror. There is little left to do - light the candles and wait. It was midnight, and the girls were still looking in the mirrors. Suddenly the room became eerie - the candles went out and there was an oppressive silence. Olya jumped out of her chair in fear. In the mirror, on which there was writing in blood, the candles were lit. A friend, who was seriously frightened, asked Marina to stop this fortune-telling, but she could no longer be stopped. She believed that she would wait a little longer and she would see her betrothed. Then Olya, in despair, took her jacket and ran out of the apartment, leaving Marina alone. But Marina kept waiting and looking at the mirror where the candles were lit. Suddenly the silhouette of a man in a black cape appeared there. His face was not visible. He was dressed the way death is usually depicted. Marina was seriously scared herself and removed all the mirrors. It was late at night. Marina went to bed, but it always seemed to her that someone was walking around the apartment. Her friend Olya left long ago, and she knew that she was at home alone. But the fear did not go away. As soon as she closed her eyes, someone or something was approaching her. Having suffered all night and being seriously worried, Marina could hardly wait for the morning and immediately called her parents. Feeling that something was happening at home, she could not remain alone any longer. When her parents returned, it seemed to Marina that all the bad things were behind her. She tried all day not to think about what happened at night. She explained her poor health to her mother as a result of a quarrel with a friend and sighed with relief: her parents would protect her. In the evening in her room, she mindlessly switched channels and wondered what had scared her so much last night. Without finding an answer, the girl fell asleep. Suddenly, it seemed to Marina that there was someone in her room. But peering into the darkness, she saw no one. She was very scared: could the past nightmare really happen again? Who could it be? Banishing these thoughts, Marina turned on the light and fell asleep again. Mom, passing by Marina’s room, flipped the switch and the light went out. And the nightmare began again. The girl saw him again. I tried to turn on the light, but for some reason nothing worked. Suddenly she felt that they were beginning to strangle her...
In the morning, Marina was found dead in her bed. The cause of death was strangulation. But the police quickly hushed up the matter and no one found the culprits...

edited news Olyana - 9-03-2012, 14:20