The Witches' Days - St. Ondrej

The next in the series of the witches' days was St. Ondrej's (30th of November). This day was especially for the girls, who got up to mischief, played practical jokes and had parties.

This day was also full of different prophecies about getting married. The girls would go around the houses of their boyfriends stealing wood, which they would afterwards use for heating the stoves on which they would cook dumplings.

Each girl cooked her dumplings in a separate pot, and in each of the dumplings was placed a little note with a boy's name written on it. Whichever dumpling first floated to the top of the pot was the decisive one, and the girl was supposed to marry the boy whose name was hidden in that dumpling.

One of the superstitious practices on this day was the pouring of the lead. This involved the girls pouring molten lead into cold water, and from the shapes that the solid lead formed they would predict their future, or the job of their future husband.

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