Folk signs help predict the future with incredible accuracy. And this is not surprising, because beliefs have been accumulated for centuries and tested in action more than a dozen times. What, for example, does it mean if a spoon falls? Wait for a woman, a child or a stupid person to visit. But this is not all the decoding of a completely ordinary incident.
What does the falling spoon symbolize?
Did you happen to drop a large spoon from your hands or did it slip off the table by itself? Wait in the house for an adult or married woman. If a dessert spoon was involved in such an incident, then a young unmarried girl will appear. In order to understand exactly what the folk omen promises about a falling spoon, it is necessary to follow the flight path and the landing features of the cutlery.
Did the spoon fall on the floor evenly, without frills? A friend will come and you will have a pleasant evening.
If the spoon falls and turns over in the air several times, then the guest will need wise advice.
Dropped a spoon with any contents? The visitor will need not so much moral support as material assistance.
Important: If you do not want to receive guests in the house, then pick up the little thing and knock it three times on the edge of the table. Otherwise, just put it on the table.
If a large spoon falls, then a fierce squabble between the spouses is coming.
Financial position
In addition to guests in the house, a fallen spoon predicts monetary losses. Pay attention to what material the cutlery is made of. Each has its own decoding.
- A plastic disposable spoon in folk signs, if it falls, it predicts minor expenses.
- Wooden - you will lose / spend a relatively small amount.
- Aluminum - tangible, but necessary waste.
- Steel - serious financial losses.
- Cupronickel, silver - lose a very large amount.
If you yourself threw the product in a fit of anger or discontent, then get ready to part with money outside the home. Moreover, financial losses can be associated with completely unpredictable circumstances, ranging from a pleasant purchase or theft to a pay cut or an unexpected fine.
What predicts the fall of a teaspoon
If an ordinary tablespoon represents a mature woman, then a teaspoon represents her own child, even if he has grown up a long time ago. A teaspoon in folk signs marks the appearance of their own offspring in the house.
- Did a teaspoon fall on the floor with the bulge up? The visit will be pleasant and short. The children simply decided to visit their parents.
- If the spoon falls with a bulge down, then due to problems that he cannot cope with alone, the child will stay in the house for a long time.
- If the product lay on the floor with the handle to the door, then the situation will be resolved quite safely, and the child will leave his father's house.
- If the small pen points in the opposite direction, then you will have to figure it out for a long and tedious time.
Important: If you do not have adult children yet, then after the fall of a teaspoon, wait for the visit of friends or relatives with a horde of their children.
Why find a spoon
In the old days, it was believed that the product in question was literally akin to human energy, therefore each eater had a personal spoon and it belonged to him alone. If the dinner thing was lost or disappeared, then this symbolized the loss of vitality. But what does it mean if you happen to find spoons?
- Did you happen to find a spoon? Don't hesitate to pick it up. Acquire the troubles of the previous owner.
- You can not pick up a rusted thing that you found on the ground. You'll get in a lot of trouble.
- Whoever found a spoon will suffer from gluttony.
- Are you sure that you were jinxed and suddenly found a no-man's item? Carefully lift it up and throw it strictly over your left shoulder - get rid of adversity.
Important: But if a silver spoon was found on the street, then it should certainly be picked up, cleaned and stored as a talisman to attract good luck.
Another folk sign about spoons says: if you steal a spoon from a rich house, you will get rich. Just make sure you don't get caught stealing someone else's property. Otherwise, instead of prosperity, you will get big problems.
Popular spoon signs
All folk signs unanimously claim that an ordinary tablespoon can protect a house from poverty, preserve and increase well-being. It is not surprising that there is a special money talisman, the size of a ring, called a rake. In order to attract good luck and money, it is placed in a wallet, pocket or a place directly related to finances. If you believe in the indicated talisman, then there is no reason to neglect other ancient beliefs.
Important: You cannot lend spoons. Returning to the house, they will bring misfortune and misfortune to other people.
If there is no way to refuse, the item should simply be sold, demanding a nominal fee. In case of return of a debt, the products must be cleaned by keeping them in running, well-salted water and in the sun.
- It is strongly not recommended to specifically knock with a spoon on the bottom, the walls of the dish. There will be a big scandal.
- The habit of thoroughly licking the device after eating guarantees a husband / wife with healthy, clean facial skin.
- You can not blow into an empty spoon - you will get sick.
- Spoons disappear - to the displeasure of the brownie.
- You can’t eat with two spoons at once - you will lose your luck, you will be dissatisfied with everything.
- Ancient signs forbade keeping products on the table with a bulge down. Allegedly, they will be buried with their eyes open.
- Fork and spoon crossed? Be a grand scandal.
- For the first time offered a small child a spoon? Watch which handle he reaches for it. If it is right, it will be lucky, if it is left, vice versa.
- Godparents are required to give the baby a set of cutlery for baptism. If this is not done, then the child will always live in poverty.
- In order for milk teeth to grow even and healthy, silver teaspoons are given to the baby.
- If, setting the table by mistake, put an extra cutlery, then an unexpected guest will appear.
- The same promises a sign if you forgot one spoon on the table after dinner.
- You can not put the product on the edge of the plate, but with the handle on the table. It is believed that devils will get into the food along the makeshift bridge.
- A teaspoon left in a cup of tea has a similar interpretation.
- If you have the habit of drinking from a mug with a teaspoon, then you can get injured, get sick, lose money and good luck.
- If a lonely girl prefers to drink from a glass like that, then let her not complain, they don’t marry me.
- For a married woman, a sign prophesies a walking spouse.
- Two spoons that accidentally ended up in the same plate signify a quick wedding.
- Whoever has the most spoon in the family is in charge.
Folk signs about spoons insist: it is harmful to wash the utensils immediately after eating. In the process of eating, the object is saturated with the energy of the eater, and the water immediately washes it away. This makes a person vulnerable to the evil eye, damage and other witchcraft.
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Looking for a spoon to stir the sugar in your tea again? Recently bought, and again somewhere gone. What an attack! Who is kidnapping them? The most unpleasant thing in this situation is not lost. And in the anxiety that it can cause. In obsessive thoughts, in fears of brownies and poltergeists. Although there are people who like to show off the otherworldly tenants in the apartment, as if it were a pet. But most of us are calmer when everything is clear and stable. So where do the teaspoons go? Read the stories of eyewitnesses, much will become clear.
In our time of economic crisis and the availability of any information, many people use household items for occult and magical practices. So there is a superstition that teaspoons, which are used to stir sugar and eat cakes, are associated with positive energy, home comfort, happiness and celebration. Therefore, stealing a spoon, you thereby, as it were, take away a particle of the good and positive of its owners.
“They can be stolen as to replenish the collection (there are such connoisseurs and collectors of everyday small things). And in order to take away luck and money from the family from where they took the spoon. Such, alas and ah, is a fairly common occult action. I have a friend, so if a big feast is planned, she always buys inexpensive cutlery in Auchan. Don’t steal, they are not yet “accustomed to the family”, so it’s not scary to lose them.”
Evil jokes of colleagues and relatives
The situations are different. Mysticism is a rare phenomenon, but stupid jokes and the desire to annoy you as the cause of strange disappearances are much more common. Be sensible in a good way and think about who could take the spoon, who could drop it, who could play a joke.
“I know the history. Colleagues decided to play a joke on the guy at work. Teaspoons were stolen from him all the time. And in correspondence with him by mail, the phrase “buy spoons” was inserted into the text of the letter in white type (invisible to him). Google reads your letters, and based on the letters, it gives out suitable advertising banners. The machine does not care that the font is white, it still sees it. And this guy kept advertising banners with offers to buy spoons all the time, and the spoons disappeared all the time. The boy thought that the cuckoo had gone.”
“My mother-in-law thinks everything about the brownie, the spoons disappear. I'm afraid to reveal the truth to her: I've already dropped 5 pieces per stove. Unintentionally)) "
Household reasons for the disappearance of dishes. Simple riddles.
I myself am a mother of many children and I know how children love everything shiny and beautiful. Many times I discovered hiding places with candy wrappers, household small things. If you have children, the easiest solution is to watch them.
“We carry a small one. Hid all the teaspoons somewhere. Most importantly, we can't find it. All climbed, well, no, and that's it. And then suddenly he comes out, so proud, and a spoon in his hand.
“My daughter helped her mother clean the dishes after the feast, and threw out teaspoons, like NONFORM. Why do we need small spoons if there are so many large ones in the house :))) "
“My friend also lost spoons from the house, until one of them fell on her head when she approached the entrance. It turned out that the two-year-old daughter threw them out the window. They flew beautifully."
They were surprised until they saw how someone was poking forks in a cupboard! An investigative experiment was immediately carried out, and at the same time a search, during which they found: forks, spoons, nipples, cars, cubes, string, candy wrappers, cards with letters, a sock. We have this someone so many hamster minks all over the apartment! You don’t have time to clean one up, he winds up another one, puts my hooks and beads with buttons in there.
The reason for the loss of spoons is the most banal - absent-mindedness. But why and how people throw away the right things without noticing it, you can think about it. Banal fatigue, lack of sleep, hassle and stress make us inattentive. You smoke, sit in a stuffy office for days, or are busy with small children all day long without getting enough sleep for years. The nervous system begins to work worse, concentration of attention is disturbed. Inattention may be associated with anxiety, depression, vascular disorders. This is really worth attention. Spoons disappear - pay attention to yourself, your health, mental and physical.
“I lost my teaspoons. Simply heaps. Didn't have time to buy. Cursed at the brownie. She swore until her husband pulled out a plastic cup from under the yogurt, along with a spoon, from the garbage can. It turned out that I was open myself, throwing out spoons.
“All of our teaspoons disappeared once. It turned out that children with yogurt boxes were thrown out. I began to follow, they still disappear, but much less often.
“A few years ago we moved into a new apartment. About six months later, spoons began to disappear. The apartment is after repair, there are no gaps, my husband and I lived together. All the corners are covered, there are no spoons anywhere! Pieces 3 went missing in about a month. She told me at work, they advised me to hang an icon. They hung it up, the spoons stopped disappearing.
For lovers of mysticism, the story ends here. I confess in a whisper to the Materialists: at about the time when they hung the icon, I once noticed behind me that I was throwing away a box of yogurt, but the spoon remained in it. It was then that it dawned on me who was poking the spoons.
“But recently I climbed into the upper kitchen cabinet, where you can climb only by standing on a chair. I go there at least once every 5 years. There are hefty basins and the same pots. And between the basins, I saw a lonely silver spoon, which had all disappeared from us a long time ago. So I don’t know, is it true that the brownie is naughty, or five years ago I climbed there with a spoon in my mouth and left it there.
There are a lot of such stories, it happens that people have been racking their brains for years about where the thing went. But in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, tired and swamped with problems, we can easily just throw it away and not notice. The site has a lot of stories of loss due to inattention, you can read. This is indeed a common occurrence.
“A long time ago, a child’s hat went missing. How I killed myself! The hat was cool, you can't buy one like that. Yes, and then we lived, like everyone else, not rich, the cap was also dimensionless, to wear it, but to wear it. She searched everything, but in vain, the hat evaporated. A few years after she went missing, it dawned on me where she had gone. Children grow up quickly, the things we grew up with didn’t stay at home, there’s nowhere to store them, and the time of the 90s was the time of the cycle of things in nature. What was better passed on through acquaintances, what was worse was thrown out. Here is one little coat and carried to the container. And the hat was in the sleeve of this coat, but I didn’t notice. Eh, and after all, it would be okay to give it to someone, and so I threw it away, overlooking it.
Disappearance of spoons and household poltergeist
This also happens. Such mysterious disappearances have their own logic that can be felt. Usually it is hidden, hidden, a secret that is not talked about or even guessed. Maybe cheating husband or wife. There may be a forgotten abortion or an illegitimate child. Or injustice towards loved ones, someone forgotten, etc. Look for lost spoons, think, discuss, and thus give an outlet for energy. These speakers can be seen, there are quite simple ways. Usually this is the psychological meaning of mysterious incidents.
“When moving, having moved the heavy sofa, I found whole deposits of spoons. How did they get there? Couldn't all the guests have stuffed spoons under the furniture without exception?
“I lived with my husband in a rented apartment. The apartment, in principle, is in a new house, but it definitely had a brownie. We felt and heard it. Many times I heard the run of small legs from the room to the kitchen, I often dreamed. In the first nights, he even strangled her husband. Basically, he didn't do anything bad to us. Only a few teaspoons disappeared without a trace. When they moved to a new apartment, they were never found.”
“I don’t know if I believe in brownies or not. But we've been missing teaspoons for a few years now, and I don't think guests take them away. From the very beginning there was a set of 6 cupronickel spoons plus 4 pieces of different ones. They began to disappear, they searched everything - no. When there were only 2 left of the set, it became not funny at all. My husband and I began to carefully put them in their place and double-check a hundred times whether there was a forgotten spoon in an empty jar of yogurt. After some time, all 10 pieces disappeared, I put in new, cheap ones, 6 pieces. They also began to disappear. Then my mother gave me a set of 6 cupronickel. Treated like gold. There are 3 left. I can’t blame the child, because it started long before he learned to move independently in space.
How to return the lost
Something like this happened to me fifteen years ago. Things began to disappear at home. Little things, such as a sock, a bra, a hairpin, a comb, spoons. So, when I told about this at work, one woman advised me to pour milk in a saucer and put it under the bath in the evening and say: “Like, brownie, drink some milk and give things away.” I did not believe in all this, but I did it out of curiosity. What do you think? Things are starting to come back! Of course, I'm a skeptic, but who knows...
Sign to find money
A find in the form of money (paper or metal) is a harbinger of the beginning of all sorts of troubles and diseases. Found money cannot be picked up from the ground and carried to your house. In addition, damage is often reduced to money, after which they are scattered at crossroads. So, picking up such a find, you can incur misfortunes. If you still took the money found in your hands, you should immediately spend it on some good deed or give it to the poor.
There is also an opinion that a person finds money when he is in dire need of it. And how difficult it is to resist the temptation, especially if the amount is impressive! Having picked up such a find, a person must understand that it was given to him for a reason. You will have to pay for it later. And no one knows what the payback will be.
Omen to find a pin
The found pin, like all cutting and stabbing objects, is a dangerous find. It is possible that for someone it simply unfastened and fell to the ground. However, many specialists in the field of magic use pins to remove and induce damage. So this seemingly harmless object can be charged with powerful negative energy. Do not pick up the found pin. Otherwise, all the negativity can go to you and, accordingly, negatively affect your life.
Sign to find an earring
According to popular beliefs, earrings (or one of them) are lost if their owner has accumulated a large amount of negative energy. Another reason for the loss of an earring may be damage to a woman in order to separate her beloved. Therefore, in no case should you pick it up from the ground, bring it into the house, and even more so wear the earrings found.
Find the sign icon
If it so happened that you found the image of some saint, you should not immediately carry it to your house. But you can't throw away the icon either. Before bringing an image into the house, you need to consecrate it in the temple. After all, it is not known who prayed earlier in front of the found icon. Perhaps this person was a sinner who atoned for mortal sins. As a result, all his sins can pass on to you, and you will “carry the cross” for them all your life. If you do not want to take the icon to your home, give it to the ministers of the church.
Sign to find a knife
A find in the form of a knife (dagger) is a warning of danger. She testifies to an imminent scandal, betrayal, tears, a fight and even an attack. To avoid such troubles, you should not pick up the found knife from the ground.
Omen to find gloves
And such a find, unlike the finds described above, bodes well. If the found pair of gloves is made of genuine leather, it means that good luck awaits you in financial matters. This may be an inheritance, a large cash prize, a lucrative deal, or an expensive gift. And if you find one glove, this indicates that a meeting awaits you ahead, which will be fateful.
Sign to find a watch
There are many popular beliefs about watches. And one of them says: if a person finds a watch, it means that he is missing something important in his life. He's probably just forgetting something. Also, this find may also indicate that a person mismanages his life and he should definitely reconsider his attitude to many things and change his views on them.
A sign to find a pectoral cross
The significance of this find is interpreted in different ways. Some argue that the person who found the cross will pay for all the sins of its former owner. Others are sure that such a find is an omen of happiness and God's blessing.
Sign to find the key
Finding a key on earth means that many opportunities in life will soon open up to a person. This will lead him to success and prosperity. The found key also says that the wishes of the person who found it will come true.
Omen to find a ring
There are also mixed opinions about this find. For young girls who find the ring, the find portends an early successful marriage. And all the rest of the people - misfortune. However, not everything is so bad! If you don’t pick up the found ring from the ground and bring it to your house, nothing bad will happen. It is said that rings, especially those made of precious metals and with the presence of natural stones, can store information about their former owner for centuries. So, the found ring can negatively affect you and your loved ones. In addition to all that has been said, damage or illness is often reduced to rings. Therefore, you should not pick up the found ring, and even more so put it on your finger so that the negative energy does not pass to you.
Sign to find a chain
If you find a gold or silver chain on the street, folk signs do not advise you to rejoice at such a find. Beliefs say that if you saw a lost chain, then it is better to leave it where it lies and not pick it up, since damage to poverty or loneliness can be reduced to a precious thing.
Omen to find a bird feather
Finding a beautiful bird feather on the street is a very good sign that promises success and prosperity. After all, it was not for nothing that our ancestors considered the bird feather to be one of the strongest amulets that protect a person from harm. But one detail should be noted - the feather will bring you good luck if you see how the bird drops it. This means that higher powers are sending a sign to you. If you find a feather that has been lying on the ground for a long time, you should not pick it up.
Some people, however, are afraid of bird feathers, believing that they are somehow connected with the world of spirits, with the world of the dead. However, these are usually empty fears, behind which there is nothing serious.
Now that you know which finds can be picked up from the ground and which cannot, you can protect yourself and your family members from various negative consequences. Forewarned is forearmed"!
Almost ten times a day we hold a spoon in our hands, not even realizing that in the old days this simple object was considered special - magical.
Ordinary cutlery personified a specific family member - living or dead. Therefore, everyone in the house had their own “tool”, and the rest of the children and household members were strictly forbidden to use it. To avoid confusion, the spoons were specially marked. And what other legends surrounded scoops?
The head of the family should have a larger spoon than the wife. Otherwise, not a man, but a woman will rule in the house.
According to the laws of Domostroy, a man was assigned a dominant role in the house. Not the slightest hint was allowed that, with a living spouse, the wife could take the reins of government into her own hands. And so that the weaker sex knew its place and remembered it day and night, the men were not lazy to cut their own spoons - bigger and deeper.
What to say to that? Today, when spoons are of the same size and shape, everything has changed a lot - often the whole house rests on women. So, dear men, draw conclusions: if you want to be a real, and not an imaginary head of the family, our advice to you is to get a big spoon.
If by chance there are two spoons in one plate, the wedding is just around the corner.
A sign that is widespread everywhere, in our time, however, is pretty much forgotten. But what about the wedding, you ask. Yes, because spoons, as we have already said, represent different people. This means that as soon as the scoops find themselves side by side, in the same way, “two solitudes” will soon be together.
It is no coincidence that in the old days in Wales, the guys carved a pair of beautiful spoons from wood, which were called love ones, and gave them to the girls. Miss looked at this present as a marriage proposal. By the way, if two spoons, through an oversight, ended up in the plate of a married lady, no one doubted that the young woman would have to go down the aisle twice. Accordingly, a couple of spoons in a married man's plate also hinted at remarriage.
When lending a spoon to neighbors, you should not take it back, otherwise you will bring various troubles to the house with it.
It turns out that as soon as this cutlery gets into someone else's house, you can forget about it forever: it immediately becomes the property of another family. Why? Since someone used your spoon, it was "charged" not only with the energy of this person, but also with the energy of his house.
Therefore, she received a very strong - double - charge. And no matter what manipulations you then do with your property, all in vain, the scoop has become alien to you.
You can not wash the spoons immediately after dinner - there will be no luck.
Strange omen, isn't it? But this is only at first glance. The fact is that spoons, like people, "after a delicious dinner according to the laws of Archimedes" are supposed to take a break. From the same series and another sign.
Washed spoons should not be wiped, but hung on a shelf specially adapted for this, where water should drain from them. Anyone who ignores this rule runs the risk of running into big trouble.
It turns out that our ancestors believed that by wiping scoops, you can send damage or the evil eye on a person in no time. In order to avoid such a misfortune, they allowed the spoons to dry on their own. And only such a “tool” can be eaten without fear of witchcraft or the evil eye.
You can’t knock a spoon on a table, wash plates or other utensils, otherwise a grand scandal will break out in the house soon.
As we already know, spoons represent different members of the family. Well, since the spoons are rattling, it means that soon the guns will “rattle” in the house - a conflict will break out. By the way, the harder they beat with spoons, the more bitter the quarrel will be. In this case, the strife will happen before the spoons and the rest of the dishes have time to put in place.
Therefore, in the old days, it was only necessary for some young fool to hit the table with a spoon, the punishment was not long in coming - the stern father immediately beat the violator of home peace with his spoon on the forehead.
An extra spoon on the table for lunch or dinner for a guest.
Everything is very simple: by putting an extra object on the stop, you seem to be inviting guests to the house. After all, a spoon cannot lie idle during a meal!
The spoon has fallen - wait for the visitors.
It is well known: something falls out of hand - for the imminent arrival of guests, and a spoon is no exception.
But they looked at this embarrassment a little differently: dropping a spoon, in some cases they were waiting for the visit of a child, in others - a fool. True, there was a different opinion in the center: a fallen foot spoon here predicted an imminent quarrel in the family.
Having finished eating, the spoon should be thoroughly licked - otherwise the bride or groom will be pockmarked.
In the old days, people's attitude to food was special, reverent, because each piece is taken literally with sweat and blood. Here, no one has ever scattered, not only in a piece - even the smallest bread crumb! It was considered a great sin to leave food behind on a plate. And for intimidation, one must think, signs similar to the above were invented.
Blowing into an empty spoon is a sin; you can bring ailments upon yourself.
The spoon is for eating only. The one who blows into it is engaged in pampering, therefore, is sitting idle. And if you play the fool, then you deserve the legal punishment in the form of an illness. Get what you deserve!
You can’t put a spoon with the concave side down - you will die with your mouth and eyes open.
Another horror story. Let it be known to you that in former times the rules of etiquette existed not only in the highest circles of society - the peasants also had their own unwritten laws. One of them said: put the spoon with the concave side up - and that's it! Why? If suddenly food remains in the spoon after dinner due to an oversight - pieces of porridge, the remains of cabbage soup, hodgepodge, etc., then thanks to this position of the spoon, the leftovers will not fall on the table.
Here, it turns out, and all the wisdom.
If a child for the first time took up a spoon with his right hand - luck will accompany him all his life, with his left - he will grow up as a loser.
An old English proverb. In the most obvious way, it shows us that the inhabitants of foggy Albion, like our ancestors, firmly believed that the right side is the focus of good forces, and the left is at the mercy of the devil.
If the baby was not presented with spoons for christening, he will spend his whole life in poverty.
Another sign comes from the UK. And it arose thanks to a long tradition: in the United Kingdom, it is customary for godparents to give spoons to their godchildren. Usually these are the so-called "apostolic spoons", that is, spoons on the handles of which the images of the apostles were carved or engraved.
Wealthy godparents usually presented the little ones with twelve spoons, one of which was silver. (Hence, by the way, came the well-known English proverb: born with a silver spoon in his mouth.) Less wealthy citizens gave fewer spoons, and the poorest - a single one of plain metal.
By the way, Shakespeare's Cranmer from the play "Henry VIII" hints at this custom, arguing that he is not fit to be the godfathers of the royal daughter. To which the king, without a shadow of embarrassment, answers him: Well, well, my lord, on a spoonful of spending a little».
In the life of a modern person, superstitions still occupy a special place. Many are skeptical about signs, and someone is constantly guided by them in everyday life. One way or another, all of us at least once in our lives were guided in everyday life by the experience of our ancestors, albeit at a subconscious level. So the sign why you can’t drink tea with a spoon in a mug has both ordinary and mystical meaning.
Where did the belief that you can not drink tea with a spoon in a mug come from?
There are many signs associated with eating and drinking. Our ancestors attached special importance to this aspect of life, so beliefs passed from one generation to another, continuing to exist for centuries.
For example, people believed that spilled tea portends positive changes in all areas of life.
The spoon left in the mug was perceived by our ancestors as a kind of bridge-guide for any evil spirit. It was believed that through this cutlery the devil could get into the outside world and take possession of the soul of a person. According to beliefs, a spoon in a glass portends illness and turmoil.
Moreover, it was believed that the possessed demon could provoke its carrier to terrible deeds and even crimes.
Spoon in a cup and a sign about money
The habit of not removing the cutlery from the cup after stirring the drink was considered a harbinger of major financial problems.
Another belief says: stole a spoon - you will live with someone else's grief
The monetary omen primarily concerned men, because from ancient times it was the man who was entrusted with the duty of the breadwinner and maintainer of the family.
The ancestors believed that such a person was doomed to poverty: not taking out a spoon means losing all your savings and living the rest of your life in debt, warding off financial well-being.
Superstitions about marriage
And for unmarried girls, a spoon left in a cup, according to the beliefs of the ancestors, promised loneliness until old age. It was believed that a potential groom would never marry such a forgetful mistress. Because along with the bride, problems with work and money will enter his life, and bad luck will begin to accompany him in all matters.
If a girl tried to treat the gentleman with tea with a spoon, he could immediately leave her and never return - the fear of the omen was so strong
According to other beliefs, the habit of drinking tea or coffee with a spoon in a cup portends serious difficulties in arranging personal life. This sign applies to both women and men: if you do not part with a bad habit, then it will be extremely difficult to find a companion close in spirit, and family life will bring continuous disappointment.
The modern meaning of signs
The current view of the sign of a spoon in a mug is associated with the existing rules of etiquette and the logical background of superstition. Of course, you can ignore the prejudices of the ancestors, and the postulates of good manners ... But, you see, drinking coffee or tea with a spoon is not so convenient and is even fraught with minor domestic injuries.
A spoon in a cup can easily damage the eye. What if she's really hot? No one is safe from accidental burns.
There is a modern sign: if you forgot to get a spoon from a mug and drank a drink, you will soon visit a doctor. It is not difficult to substantiate this superstition from the point of view of elementary logic - you can inadvertently injure yourself or burn yourself with a spoon. So such beliefs are more likely the result of popular experience than mystical omens.
Etiquette and sign: how are they related
The rules of etiquette have also changed over time. In the old days, it was customary for men to present tea with a spoon. The drink was served in a glass cup on a cup holder, and a teaspoon served as a kind of device for cooling the drink.
Beautiful ladies, on the other hand, should remove the appliance before drinking tea. According to etiquette, the drink was served to women in a cup on a saucer, after stirring the sugar, the spoon was left on the saucer. In cups, tea cooled much faster than in glassware, so drinking did not need additional cooling.
Interpretation of a dream about a spoon: if in a dream you drink hot tea from a mug with a spoon, severe trials are possible in the near future
Today, the attitude to tea drinking is completely different. According to the rules of etiquette, it is customary to remove the spoon from the mug, as it interferes with the beautiful and neat enjoyment of coffee or tea. And in order to avoid stains on the table or tablecloth, it is recommended to use a saucer. In addition, in the process of drinking a drink, a cup with a spoon inside creates characteristic sounds. Such behavior is equated with bad manners, because certain inconveniences are created for others.
To believe in signs or to be ironic about the beliefs of our ancestors is everyone's personal choice. In our article, we talked about the causes of the superstition about a spoon in a mug, and also connected the people's vision and the traditions of modern etiquette. As a result, it is still better to remove a spoon from a cup in order to pass for a well-mannered person, as well as to avoid burns and injuries.
