TO BRING IN THE NEW YEAR!

 

FOLK CUSTOMS

 

Twelve grape: It calls for eating twelve grapes as soon as the clock turns twelve. Each grape represents the twelve  months of the New Year. With each grape, one can make a wish. Aiming to finish eating all of them within the first minute of the New Year.

 Underwear: It calls for wearing yellow underwear at the moment  when New Year arrives. It is believed, doing so brings wealth and prosperity in the coming year. One wishing for double prosperity would reverse the undies and then wear them.

Twelve Shafts of Wheat: placing twelve shafts of wheat on the dinner table, as doing so ensures abundance of food to eat in the coming year.

Suitcase: running hard and fast around the house with a suitcase in hand, as doing so ensures travelling in the coming year.

The Right Foot First: With clock turning twelve, the first step should be made with the right foot only, as doing so ensures positivity and right decisions in the coming year.

Money Proximity: keeping some amount of money in form of hard cash, either in pocket or hand at the time when clock turns twelve. This is believed to ensure financial security and stability in the coming year.

Clean Surroundings: Absolute cleaning of households and surroundings on a day prior to New Year. This is to ensure incoming of positive energy in house and familiy.

Lentils Luck: Eating lentils along with rice on New Year's Eve ensures a year of abundance.

Burn Ano Nuevo: Bonfire and Fireworks, sending off the previous year and welcoming the new at the point of clock ringing twelve, it is burnt. People write their faults, or any feared bad luck on a piece of paper and throw it in the burn fire. According to beliefs, doing so ensures liberty from all past troubles, mistakes and sins, in addition bad luck.

Other tradictions include baking up a special New Year bread, it will have a coin places inside it. At midnight, the head of the family cuts the bread, and distributes it to the family members. The family member that gets the coin is considered to hold good luck for the entire coming year. Another tradition is to place a jewerly piece in champagne glass, the toast is done at the arrival of New Year. This is done to ensure wealth and prosperity in the coming year.

In Costa Rica, homemakers will sweep out the entire house on Decembar 31st to remove the previous year's evils and get a fresh start to the New Year.

Throwing a pan full of water over one's shoulder, is believed to sway away all the bad luck of the past year, therefore good luck in the coming year.

Wearing red under garment on New Year with a hope that the coming year will make them meet their spouse or true love; and wearing yellow with a hopes of having good luck in the coming year.

Washing a bucket of water out the front door to symbolize getting rid of all the bad luck from the past year.

Placing mone yin the mailbox for prosperity.

Raise your glass a toast with love and respect Wishing all travel, good health, prosperity and love in the New Year. 

Wishing you 100 more Happy New Years!

New Year's Day is January 1. and is the most widely celebrated holiday on Earth, since most people participate, regardless of religious beliefs. The festivities center around New Year's Eve with abundant fireworks. New Year's greetings are said in a large number of languages and dialects. For example, greetings in the two official languages of Afghanistan include „Sad Saal be in Saal-ha!“ (Farsi, „Wishing you 100 more Happy New Years!“) and „Nawai Kall Mo Mubarak Shah!“ (Pashto, „Happy New Year!“).

„Antum Salimoun!“ (Arabic) or „Asgwas Amegas!“ (Berber).

„Erjanik Navasard!“ (Armenia).

„Sretna Nova Godina!“ or „Neka ti bude hairli i berićetna Nova godina!“ (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Bosniaks also observe the Islamic New Year on the first day of Muharram.

„Prosit Neujahr!“  or „Ein gutes neues Jahr!“ (German).

„Yeni Iliniz Mubarek!“ (Azeri).

„Shubho Nabo Barsho!“ (Bangladesh).

„Z Novyum Hodam!“ (Belarusian).

„S Novim Godom!“ (Russian).

„Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!“ (Dutch).

„Bonne Annee!“ (French).

„Felice Anno Nuovo!“ (Italian).

"Feliz Año Nuevo!" (Spanish).

"Feliz Ano Novo!" (Portugal)., etc.

LOVE AMULET

 TULIP BULB AMULET

Carry a tulip bulb as a magickal amulet to bring love into your life. You can also wear a tulip bulb on a necklace or sleep with one under your pillow at night to attract a new lover, increase your sex appeal, or induce romantic dreams.

GOLDEN KEY AMULET

Wear a consecrated golden key on a chain as an amulet to attract a lover or a soulmate. ( The key is a symbol sacred to Frigga, the Norse goddess of love , and the patroness of marriage.)

LOVE GODDESS AMULET

A locket containing the image of the love - goddess Venus ( or any other deity of love ) attracts love and passionate feelings when worn as a magickal amulet on a chain around the neck.

SEASHELL AMULET

Wear a necklace of seashells as an amulet to attract a lover.

PEBBLE AMULET

Water - worn pebbles were regarded as powerful love charms in the Torres Straits. Wear a holed pebble on a string or chain like a necklace, or carry one in your pocket or purse to transmit your love vibrations and to attract a soulmate.

QUARTZ AMULET

Wear or carry a rutilated quartz ( also known as " Venus hair stone " and " Cupid's arrows " ) as a magickal amulet to attract love.

TO DISPEL THE PAIN OF UNREQUITED LOVE: Carry vervain in your right pocket or in a consecrated charm bag worn over your heart.

TO REUNITE PARTED LOVERS : Find a dead newt ( a creature ruled by Venus ) and powder it by the light of a waning moon. Place the powder in a small leather pouch with lemon verbena leaves, a diamond ( or diamond ring ), and a small lock of hair from each of the estranged lovers . Tie up the end of the pouch with a red cord, and then carry or wear it as a magickal charm bag. ( IMPORTANT REMINDER : Be sure to use a newt that is already dead. Never kill any living creature for magickal purposes ! )

TO MAKE ANOTHER DESIRE YOU : Wear over your heart a charm bag containing a heart - shaped amulet of pink wax, made on a Friday and scented with lemon, musk or patchouli.

THE MAGICAL POWER OF URINE - FOR HEALTH, LOVE, AND AGAINST MAGIC

The most famous detail when it comes to urineis the one that brings it into close contact with the medicine. Namely, urine therapy or urinary therapy has been a method of treatment known to man for thousands of years, from the earliest cultures to modern times. The oldest writings on urinary therapy date back to 5000 years ago and were found in India. The document consists of 107 verses called "Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi" ("Rejuvenation by drinking urine") and is part of scripture called "Damar Tantra". In short: urinary therapy involves drinking your own urine, massaging the whole or just parts of the body, putting on compresses, and much more. In ancient times, urine was used to treat wounds but also to whiten teeth. In his book “Naturalis Historia”, the Roman author Pliny the Elder writes about the use of urine in the treatment of wounds, dog or snake bites, skin diseases, eye infections, and the treatment of burns and scars.

Today, it is known that urine purifies the body, removes excess mucus, and has a number of specific and beneficial effects. The most important thing to know is that urine after excretion is completely sterile and has an antiseptic effect. In Bosnia, it is believed that washing with urine cleanses the face and gets rid of acne. Also, it is believed that the first and last stream of urine should be avoided while the middlestream is clean and has healing properties. It can be consumed in drops under the tongue, it is safe to drink, or it can be made homeopathically, it all depends on what kind of disease it is. For example, to treat a severe cough, the patient would have to drink a glass of his own urine for seven mornings straight.

According to Turkish folklore, the first urine in the morning is considered pure and therefore has healing and magical properties. Namely, just as magic and medicine have gone hand in hand since their inception, it is impossible not to look at the story of urine from a mystical aspect. Continuing the Turkish tradition, it should be mentioned that in voodoo magic it is believed that the first drops of urine, which a person drops in the morning, have magical power, and it is used in recipes for making amulets to increase libido and potency.

We will soon be convinced that the people in the Balkans were very well acquainted with its powers. Apart from its medicinal purpose, urine has also found its magical application here, especially in rituals of love magic. In Bosnia, the following magic method is practiced to arouse passion in the desired person: you need to urinate in a small bowl, then touch the middle of the liquid with the index finger of your right hand, transfer a drop of urine, and drop it into a cup of coffee, saying: “The same way you cannot spend a day with urinating, you cannot live without me and my love”.

In Romania, a woman who wants to enchant her husband or lover pours a few drops of her urine into moonshine and says, “Just as I can’t stop urinating from day to day, the same way my darling cannot be without me. Just as the vagina and the anus, the anus and the vagina are connected, so is my darling connected to me! ”

 

URINE AGAINST MAGIC

Few people know that in addition to the fact that urine can be used to create love between two people, the same connection can also be canceled. Namely, among Arabs and Turks, love spells are traditionally broken with urine, and the process itself is quite simple. A person who suspects that theyare under the influence of love magic should bathe in their own urine. With this method, it is necessary to mix urine with the bath water and wash yourself with the mixture.

Furthermore, a person who believes they have magic in them can drink their own urine to break down the supernatural action and restore their mind and body to a normal state. This may sound disgusting to most, however, it is an effective method of breaking the spell. It is not necessary to drink clean urine, instead, it can be mixed with Coca-Cola or fruit juice and then drunk.

 

FORECASTING FATE

 In order to find out why a married couple does not have children, or which partner has a health problem, urine was taken from both spouses, each in a separate container, and then a little wheat bran was thrown into both. The containers would be left overnight and then observed in the morning. It was considered to reveal the person who does not have the ability to reproduce if no bugs (insects) appeared in their urine container.

In Egypt, the custom of divination with the help of a pregnant woman's urine is very well known in order to find out in advance what sex the child she is carrying will be. For this prediction, a little wheat and barley are taken and thrown into a container with fresh urine. If the wheat germinates, it will be a boy; if barley sprouts, a girl will be born.

 

BOSNIAN RITUALS FOR HAPPINESS AND MONEY

 A man who wants to be successful in life would have to say the following, each and every time he goes to urinate: "My penis, you are the master of the whole house, no one can harm you!"

To have luck in money, on "young Friday" you need to spray your wallet with urine and say, "As I couldn't live without a penis (or vagina), so can’t the wallet live without money”.

When a dead cat or dog is seen, one should urinate over them and say, "I am urging my happiness to be alive and not dead!"