Signs claim that you can incur misfortune if you behave incorrectly in the coming year.
Every fourth year is different from the previous ones – it is one day longer. Anything that is different from others is usually scary. So the leap year is credited with a lot of negative properties: they say, it does not bring anything good to people. Whether to believe in these signs is everyone’s business, but we are sure that all troubles can be avoided if you take some care.
1. You can not get up early and leave the house before dawn. On Kasyanov’s day, February 29, all the worst that can happen happens. Therefore, our ancestors tried not to leave the house that day, not to do anything important, so as not to incur trouble. And the best thing is to sleep a little longer to survive the worst day in your sleep.
2. You cannot move. Signs predict misfortune for those who decide to change their place of residence. Especially if you do it radically – to leave for another region or even a country. Signs assure that the move will entail family squabbles, quarrels and conflicts.
3. You cannot build and buy real estate. Nothing good will happen in a house bought or built in a leap year, signs are sure of this. Households will be sick all the time, and repairs will drag on for an eternity. However, if you carefully consider the choice of real estate, check documents, thoroughly study the place to build a house, everything will certainly be fine.
4. You cannot sell valuables. It is better to postpone major transactions, where you act as a seller, until next year: the sale of real estate, cars, and other valuable things. Popular wisdom predicts that if you hurry up, you will regret these deals. Well, there is common sense in this: haste has not yet benefited anyone.
5. You cannot buy and sell animals. Yes, bad news for pedigree breeders. But hardly anyone will wind up their business just because of the calendar and popular superstitions.
6. Do not plant and sow. Summer residents are probably shocked by such news. And, too, they are unlikely to take a ban on armaments. Moreover, if you check the work schedule with the lunar calendar and the weather forecast (by the way, what happens to the weather?), Then for sure everything will be fine.
7. Do not pick mushrooms, berries and herbs in the forest. This prohibition is especially strict on the day of Ivan Kupala. What is it, to be left without strawberries, mushrooms and wild garlic? However, there is an opportunity to get around the sign. Entering the forest, you need to say: “Leap year, keep the bad for yourself, and let me take the dear. Amen”.
8. You cannot bring home finds of a round shape. If you find a coin, mirror, ring or something similar on the ground, leave it lying where you saw this thing. However, such things should never be brought home at all, regardless of the year.
By the way
February 29 according to the Slavic calendar is the day of Koshchei-Chernobog. This is the god of all the worst, evil, gloomy and dark on earth. “Koschey looks at anything, everything withers,” says the proverb. To avoid misfortune, on the night of February 29 to March 1, as soon as midnight strikes, you need to crush a raw egg in your hand. Which, according to folk tales, symbolizes Koshcheev’s death.
And in Scotland there is a law: if a woman proposes to a man on February 29, he must either agree or pay a fine. This is the only day of the year when a woman can offer a man to marry her.