Merry Christmas! like, again!

[avrelia]

Other than that the mean cold has cauhgt with me, and I feel disgusting. I should be doing fun stuff, yet I don't. Slowly writing several long posts, that I eventually hope to post this weekend - if I have time, because it is looking to be busy.

Or, and it is the Christmas Eve for me, finally. I don't do anything specific, and I would be really confused if anyone asked me to do something, but I still consider this day special.

Several years ago (10-14 years ago) I would be fortune-telling right now - using various weird means like burning paper on a skillet and others. The way of surviving Russian customs boggles me to no end.

Our pagan ways managed well through Christianity, and state-approved atheism, and all kinds of enlightenment. I mean, it is not what it was before, but when I think of origins of some stuff, I realize that it goes a way back, so way, it isn’t funny. But, I guess, other cultures have their pagan rudiments as well – I mean not in books, in myths, in but in the general life habits.

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[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

When people ask me about Russian Xmas customs, I shrug and say that everything I know is from books. Very sad, but true, at least in my case.

I've never tried the fortune-telling stuff... it had freaked me out just reading about it... and still does [yeah, I'm a big baby sometimes]

Merry Christmas, again!

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I was influenced by literary examples. If Tatiana Larina did it, I can as well. Plus, it started when we with my friends from school were on trips during winter vacation. Bunch of teenage girls left to their own devices for a week – we were up to no good. ;) So, it was kind of fun we had in a company, without taking anything seriously (a good beginning for a teenage horror movie.) Then, when the school trips and the school was over, the fortune-telling stayed as a special, slightly weird kind of amusement to perform at home, and to discuss later.