Signs and superstitions for housewarming in a new house (gifts and customs) and other signs for housewarming

There are a huge number of signs and superstitions regarding moving into a new home. People came up with certain rituals and beliefs for a reason. All actions and interpretations are aimed at ensuring that the energy in the new house or apartment is positive, and that life in the room is filled with joy and carefree happiness. Therefore, it is worth understanding what signs exist when moving into a new house.

Housewarming is an important stage in people's lives, so it is important to do everything right

Folk rituals when entering a new home

For those who pay special attention to folk signs and superstitions, it is important that it is the owners of the new house who initially enter the apartment. However, some interpreters of omens think that this superstition should not be followed. And the most important person who should initially enter a newly built home is a pet belonging to the moving family. And it’s best if this animal is a cat. It is believed that a representative of the cat family is an animal that brings peace and prosperity to family and home life every year. They bring peace and joy into your home with their positive aura. Therefore, apartment owners should not rush and enter the house first than their pet.

Letting a cat be the first to enter a new apartment is considered a good omen.

Another superstition and good omen that you need to observe when entering a new apartment is scattering coins on the threshold of the house. It is believed that this action will bring prosperity and financial well-being to the residents of the house for the whole year. And it doesn’t matter whether the coins are gold, silver or copper. What is important is the fact that the coins will hit the threshold and thereby attract funds. Therefore, new owners definitely need to throw a handful of coins on the threshold when visiting their apartment for the first time. This action can be repeated every year and even on New Year's Eve.

If a young family does not move into a new building, but into a purchased apartment in which people have already lived, then the first thing they need to do is do some general cleaning. And it doesn’t matter that the apartment will be sold in perfect order. Cleaning actions are not only hygienic, but also energetic. When cleaning this way, special attention should be paid to the corners of the house. It is there that negative energy can accumulate unknowingly from year to year. After all the steps to thoroughly wipe off the dust have been completed, you should invite your good friends and close relatives to the housewarming party. Then all the corners of the rooms will be filled with positive energy of love, laughter and joy for several years to come.

Housewarming traditions in Russia

An old Russian folk sign for housewarming is to let the cat into the house first. This tradition dates back to pagan times. In those days, the oldest member of the family was the first to enter a new house. Previously, several generations lived together at once, no one moved away, no one exchanged money, and it turned out that the oldest could be very many years old. The meaning of this custom was that the one who enters a new house first will very soon die in that house. Here is the one who lived the longest in this world, and became a victim to the pagan forces of that time, who for this in the future protected the house from evil. But time passed, signs, customs and traditions of housewarming changed, and some were forgotten. People became wiser and began to let the cat into the house first, thus removing the curse from the first person to enter the house, and the sign of imminent death does not apply to cats.

Another very popular housewarming sign in Russia is that wherever the cat lies down, place the bed there. It is believed that the moment a cat enters a new home, it chooses the best place in the house. Therefore, it was in this place that the bed was placed so that the sleep would be healthy and evil spirits would not disturb you at night.

There is a very interesting old folk tradition of leaving a rooster in a new house overnight. The rooster will spend the night in the new house - in the morning he will disperse all the evil spirits.

Actions to attract wealth

In order for money to flow like a river into the wallets of the owners of a new home, it is believed that several important steps must be taken.

As mentioned above, the cat should be the first to enter the house. Or another pet covered with fur.
Also, you should hide a small banknote under the tablecloth on the kitchen table. A similar action should be taken when the festive table is set for friends and relatives invited to a housewarming party.
In accordance with Christian and Slavic traditions, a new apartment must be consecrated. For these purposes, a priest is invited to walk around the room, sprinkle with holy water and read special prayers.
Placing the icon above the door of the room. Usually, after the consecration of an apartment, the priest gives such an icon to the owners of the house. Such an icon will protect the house from leakage of financial flows, and will also prevent the occurrence of the evil eye and envy of the owners of the house.

Signs and superstitions about the brownie

Many people believe that brownies live in old houses. A family can live in the same apartment for many years and a brownie will definitely settle there. What should you do if, when moving to a new apartment, you want to take your brownie with you? After all, such a good spirit very well protects the family from the evil eye, quarrels and bad intentions. In order to attract a brownie to a new home, the first thing you should do is talk to him. You need to mentally call him with you and explain that life in the new house will not be worse for him, but on the contrary, it will be better. The brownie must feel faith and hope in his presence. If you put positive energy into this conversation, the brownie will definitely hear the call and move to a new home.

When moving to a new home, be sure to invite a brownie with you

Folk sign "Housewarming"

Signs by season and month

It is generally accepted that housewarming is a very important stage in the life of any family and person, because if everything is done correctly and all the folk signs for housewarming are observed, then it will be possible, if not to start life with a clean face, then to save the family from a huge number of problems.

There are a huge number of signs when moving, with their help you can ensure that your new apartment or house is free of negativity. Considering the difficult religious situation in the country (over many centuries, signs and superstitions associated with paganism, Christianity and even atheism have been mixed up in people’s minds), there are more than enough superstitions regarding housewarming.

For example, someone is worried whether they will follow them from their old apartment to a new house, and whether they will like their new habitat or whether they will start to get rowdy.

Quite a long time ago, housewarming signs appeared about who should be invited into a freshly renovated or just purchased and unfurnished apartment. And depending on the superstition, the main character also changes. For example, someone is sure that the oldest member of the family should be the first to enter a new house. It seems to represent wisdom passed down from generation to generation.

However, one should not forget about the negative nature of this sign. There is something like a belief: whoever enters a new house first will have to be the first to leave it. Times are new now and signs have transformed. Someone lets a cat into the house ahead of them. And someone carries his wife in his arms: supposedly a woman is not allowed to enter a new house through the threshold herself.

Black cat and purebred rooster: signs for housewarming

It’s worth saying in more detail about the customs of letting a cat into a new apartment, since this ritual is the most common of all existing ones. According to legend, a cat will have to spend a lot of time in the house, sniff it entirely and explore all the corners. If this is possible, spend the night in the new apartment.

Then, as you understand, another portion of horror begins: if the next morning everything is fine with the animal, the cat is playful and cheerful, then the owners of the new home also should not worry about their future life in their home. And if the cat is found lifeless, then you should think about it.

By the way, a separate branch of the sign is that the cat will have to lie down somewhere. This place is considered to be favorable and a child’s bed, or even a spouse’s bed, should be placed there. Such customs promise the absence of troubles, because the cat will not advise anything bad. Although there is another interpretation: where the mustachioed-striped one lay down is a negative place, and a bed cannot be placed there.

It is curious that the cat is not the only animal that had the role of test pilot: sometimes a purebred rooster was chosen for this “position”.

In ancient times, our great-great-grandfathers were convinced that the rooster was a natural exorcist capable of expelling evil spirits from a new apartment. At the same time, he also has the ability to increase the wealth in the house and give the owners offspring. It is difficult to explain what the logic of the sign is, and therefore it is not very popular.

Fire sign for housewarming: powerful protection

Ancient beliefs mention that you should definitely bring a fire lit in an old house to a new home. To make it clearer: this is roughly how the Olympic flame is transported around the world every 4 years, only here you can do without pretentiousness and torches. It is better to give the new residents some gifts before moving, like a candle or lamp, so that they have something to carry the fire in.

The ritual of transferring fire is carried out with the aim of installing protection over a new apartment or house from various subtle dirty tricks, such as malicious spirits. In addition, with the help of fire, a brownie could easily move from house to house.

Usually, a brownie can be lured quite simply without the help of a torch, but if the process causes difficulties, then it is better to try this fiery omen, otherwise the brownie will become sad and bring suffering to the new owners.

Many folk traditions emphasize that a cat living in a house is almost a relative of the brownie. And if the brownie suddenly leaves the home for some personal reason, then the cat takes care of it as a “substitute” for the spirit.

It seems that it was this funny superstition that in very ancient times was the reason for the widespread acquisition of cats in all households.

Another very interesting sign regarding the cat is that the main rule of its establishment in the old days was: the color of the animal’s fur should either match or be very similar to the color of the owner’s hair. An absolutely inexplicable superstition, which is not practiced these days and few people know about it.

Modern signs for housewarming

Since today more and more people are learning about the features of bioenergy, the traditions are corresponding, justified at least from some aspect, from a logical point of view. For example, in order not to leave behind their own energy footprint (no matter whether good or bad), people try not to leave a single speck of garbage in their previous apartment.

It is clear that leaving such “gifts” as a full trash can to new owners is simply impolite, but such behavior is dictated not only by the rules of good manners. The fact is that there are people who sincerely believe: the garbage they left in the old place can serve as an absorbent for negative energy and transmit it to the new apartment.

And if you are completely unlucky, then through this garbage someone can cause damage to the previous owners. It is unlikely, of course, that this will happen, but it is still better to take care and be careful.

Returning again to the brownie, one cannot help but recall his most favorite item, regardless of place of residence and time. Any old woman knew that brownies loved brooms. And if you had a broom in your old apartment, then be sure to take it with you when you move. With its help, the brownie will quickly move in after you and get comfortable in the new apartment.

By the way, it is recommended to install brooms in a corner where no one will take it (except for the brownie himself), with the handle down. This is exactly what the symbolic designation looks like: everything negative and bad is promptly swept out of the house and will never return here again. Actually, this is precisely the responsibilities of the brownie.

Don't whistle and don't keep what's broken, otherwise there will be trouble.

It is unlikely that there are people who have not heard of the famous belief: do not whistle, otherwise there will be no money. Well, with regard to any living space, whether old or new, this sign is 100 percent correct. Most people know that if you whistle in the house in front of one of your grandparents, you can get a well-deserved slap on the head. And it’s good if you don’t bring lack of money to the house.

And under no circumstances should you keep broken, cracked dishes, or containers with chipped edges in the house. Any faulty item must be removed from the home so as not to cause disruption in the energy sector. One way or another, the unfinished will still be broken soon, because any process itself tends to end.

Finally, you can tell us one rather positive sign for a housewarming party: immediately at the moment of starting readiness, when all things are already packed, when leaving the old apartment, throw a few coins on the floor. There are several in each room. It is believed that such a ritual should bring happiness to both old and new owners.

Signs for housewarming

From generation to generation, knowledge and special signs are passed on, which have long been present in the everyday life of many, and which are known from our ancestors. For example, a sign that a new house must have a special broom or broom to protect against the evil eye, misfortunes, sorrows and misfortunes.

Everyone has seen horseshoes hanging at the entrance to apartments more than once. A horse's horseshoe is believed to bring good luck to its owner. In order for the sign to work at full power, the horseshoe must be removed from the horse. Also, a horseshoe will be an excellent protector against quarrels between household members and lack of financial wealth.

And when entering a room, bunches of dry herbs act as a good amulet. You can take pleasant herbs such as St. John's wort or chamomile. Herbs, like a broom, protect owners from the evil eye and envy of house guests.

These are all traditional Russian superstitions and rituals associated with moving into a new home. There are also Eastern superstitions, for example, the energy teachings of Feng Shui, which fully addresses the issue of the correct arrangement of furniture in a new home, as well as rules for moving in accordance with Eastern traditions. It won’t be a mistake to use Eastern traditions when moving to a new apartment. There is no difference in which version of superstition will be used by the new owners. The main thing is that all actions are positive.

What to give for housewarming

Almost all signs on this matter agree: you can give anything, except money. Undoubtedly, new owners need money more than ever. They will have to make repairs in their apartment or house, purchase a lot of household items, etc. However, it is better not to give money for housewarming. They promise new residents constant need.

It is also not recommended to give watches, mirrors and sharp objects. For new residents, such items, according to popular belief, will only bring grief, sadness and disagreements in the family.

Currently, the range of housewarming gifts is quite diverse. You can give kitchen utensils, small furniture, cutlery or dinnerware to the owners of a new home. But the best gift is considered to be a horseshoe. This decorative item is the most powerful amulet. It not only protects against any negativity, but also attracts good luck.

You can also give an electronic fireplace, heater, beautiful candles or lamp. Such items attract warmth and wealth to a new home.

In the old days, our ancestors gave sheep's wool to new settlers. Such a gift promised the new owners wealth and prosperity. Today, wool blankets, pillows or rugs can be good analogues of sheep wool. According to popular belief, it is not recommended to give bed linen as a gift for housewarming. The owners must choose this item for themselves.

Day to move

Many signs and traditions highlight the particular importance of the day on which the main move of the owners to a new home will take place.

The interpretation of popular signs and superstitions agrees that it is best not to move on Monday. On this day, all actions aimed at entering a new home will go awry. Many small and unpleasant obstacles will arise. Which will undoubtedly spoil the mood of the newly-made owners of the apartment. For moving purposes, it is better to wait until Tuesday. After all, this day will portend a lot of fun and good luck in your home life. The environment for moving purposes indicates that the owners will not stay in the new place and will soon, for some reason, have to change their place of residence. Therefore, the housewarming party should be postponed to Thursday. This day is quite neutral for moving and does not carry any special energy messages. Friday is generally not considered a good day for starting any business, including organizing a move to a new apartment.

It is best to transport things, clean and start arranging your home on Saturday. Sunday is a day of rest. On this day, it would be better to organize a feast with friends and relatives. Thus, the most positive days for organizing a move into a new home are Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday.

Our grandparents believed all these superstitions for a reason, but based them on their own life experience and on the experience of their parents. Believing in omens will help you tune in to a positive mood in a stressful situation from changing your place of residence.

Housewarming and construction. Signs and rituals associated with housewarming and house construction

Home construction

To choose a location for a future building, pieces of oak bark were laid out on the ground. After three days, they turned it over and looked: if there were only spiders and ants under the bark, it was a bad place, unsuitable for habitation. If there were earthworms there, you can build. Or they baked three small round loaves. The owner of the house carried them to the construction site in his bosom, took them out and rolled them on the ground. If they all lay down with the top crust facing up, the place was considered good and safe. If the loaf turned over and lay on the top crust, they looked for another place to build it.

If everything pointed to success, then, with God’s help, they got to work, not forgetting to put a silver coin and grains under the far right corner of the building, so that neither bread nor money would be transferred to the new house. Sometimes they added wool for good luck and incense for holiness.

In ancient times, there was a belief that a new home would only be durable when the head of the family who settled in it died and in the soul of the deceased the house would receive its own brownie.

Signs and customs for those who build a house

• It does not bode well for a new building on the site of an old house, the last owner of which died without any relatives, or where the old house was destroyed as a result of a natural disaster.

• It was believed that the relative who entered the house first would die first, so the eldest in the family had to enter first.

• To ward off death from the owner of the house, the owners secretly came to the staging site, cut off the head of the rooster and buried it where the front corner of the house was supposed to be.

Home construction

They tried to appease the carpenters ahead of time. We agreed on the terms and drank what we had. When the two lower logs were laid down, the owner came and brought vodka: they drank “stack logs.” They laid the first row of main logs - they sawed the “cover”. When the prepared log house was transported and placed in the indicated place, a treat was arranged again. The matitsa (the main beam on which the roof is laid and the ceiling is strengthened) was raised in a particularly solemn atmosphere. When the house was built, measures were again taken to protect it from evil spirits: sun signs were painted on the stove, partitions, floors, and always on the log - through which evil spirits could first enter the house - sun signs were drawn, crosses were drawn. To protect the house from misfortunes, skates were made on the roofs of residential buildings and grain barns.

Wlozin

We always moved to a new house at night. Of course, it is difficult to completely move your belongings at this time, so we limited ourselves to a few items that symbolize life in the house: a pillow, pots, bread, soap. The cattle were always moved at night to protect them from the evil eye. The old housewife in the old house covered the table with a tablecloth and put bread and salt on it. The owner lit a candle in front of the images and, after general prayer, put the icon in his bosom. Then he approached the cabbage and said, opening the door to the underground: “Sousedushko, brother, let's go to the new house! Just as we lived well and well in the old house, so we will live in the new one. You love my cattle and my family." After that, everyone went to a new home. The owner carried a rooster and a chicken, the hostess carried bread and salt and kneading dough, and the rest of the belongings were distributed among family members. Having opened the door, the owner first of all let the rooster and hen into the hut and waited for the rooster to crow for the housewarming. Then he entered the house, put up the icon, opened the cabbage and invited: “Come in, little brother, little brother!” The housewarming party ended with family prayer. Then the hostess set the table, lit the stove and began cooking. There was also such a custom as transferring the old sacred fire to a new house. The eldest woman housewife (mother or mother-in-law) lit the stove in the old house for the last time, shoveled the hot coals into a clean pot and covered it with a white tablecloth. In the new house, the young owners greeted her with bows and bread and salt. The brought coals were poured into the stove, the tablecloth taken from the pot was symbolically shaken in all corners, as if releasing the brownie. The pot was then broken and buried under the front corner. If the new hut was far away and it was not possible to move the sacred fire there, they moved a poker and other attributes of the hearth instead.

Signs and customs associated with housewarming and moving to a new place of residence

the happy days for housewarming. The Entry into the Temple of the Virgin Mary was considered especially successful for housewarming.

• The first to enter a new house should be a rooster or a cat, or an unfamiliar person, often non-Orthodox, followed by the owner with an icon and bread and salt, and then the whole family.

• To your new home you must take an icon, uneaten bread with a handful of salt, a kneading bowl with dissolved dough, a rooster, a chicken and a cat. When letting a cat in the door, they said: “Here, master, is a furry animal for a rich yard.”

• Having placed the icon in the red corner, they cut off a piece from a loaf of bread and placed it under the stove for the brownie.

• The rooster is a symbol of fire, a symbol of the hearth. It was believed that if a rooster crows when brought into a new hut, it foretells a happy life for the owners. If he is silent, it means that some kind of grief awaits them in the new home. Sometimes on the night of relocation the rooster was left in the hut until the morning so that its first cry could be heard in the new home.

• In some areas, the mistress of the house before dawn (so that no one would see) tried to run around the new hut three times naked with the words: “I will put an iron fence near the yard so that no fierce beast will jump over this fence, no reptile will crawl over, no dashing person will He didn’t step his foot, and the forest grandfather didn’t look through him.” To keep this castle strong, the woman at the gate also threw herself head over heels up to three times with the sentence, so that “the family and fruit in the new house will increase.”

Housewarming. How to organize a housewarming party

The new home had to be consecrated, and for this purpose a priest was invited to the house. After the ritual was completed, a festive table was set, on which dishes that had a symbolic meaning were placed: pies that foreshadowed good relations with future neighbors, some kind of chicken dish, for example, “rich” cabbage soup in chicken broth (to have money, chickens don’t bite) etc. The feast was supposed to start with vodka (pure, as a sign of wishes to the owners for a cloudless, happy life in a new place). The first toast was always raised to the long life of the owner of the house (then to the hostess and children).

It was customary to give housewarming gifts immediately before leaving. The gift must be expensive, for family use.

Signs and customs associated with housewarming

• Guests invited to a housewarming party must bring bread and a full salt shaker with them - a wish for abundance and prosperity in the house.

• As when choosing a place to build a house, they again rolled loaves of bread on the floor and watched how they would fall, how the owners would have to live in the new place, happily or not.

• Under no circumstances should new residents be given an envelope with money.

• When leaving a new home, it is good to say: “Peace to your home!”

When and how should you move to a new house or apartment?

❧ When moving to a new house or apartment, do not take with you the bed or chair on which the person died, otherwise very soon there will be a new deceased.

❧ When new furniture is brought into the house, you need to notify the owner - the brownie:

Here, master, is my new belongings,

May he not be the first and not the last!

❧ If people are marking a house, they need to put some change at three corners and say:

Peace, quiet, wealth.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Then there will be wealth in the house.

❧ You cannot bring hawthorn and white lilac branches into the house, this will bring immediate misfortune. Feather grass is also not stored in the house.

❧ To ensure that your new home is never inhabited by Prussians (cockroaches), two-tailed bugs, bedbugs and other insects, you need to take care of this when laying the house. Ask the carpenters to drive a nail between the first and second log. Before you give this nail to the carpenters, say this to it:

I will trim a tree with a nail.

Let them lie next to each other

Let them diligently produce: purity, health and wealth.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

❧ If carpenters, when making a log house, lay a log with a protruding knot, then the residents of the house may develop tumors. If you notice this, it is better to have a carpenter remove this build-up.

❧ It has been noticed that if three windows in a house face north, then the owner’s feelings for his wife grow cold.

❧ When moving from an old home to a new one, do not forget to take the owner with you to the new mansion. They do it this way: they take an old broom, tap it on the threshold and say:

Housewife-housewife, sit on the sled,

Take a ride to a new place,

And get along in the new place.

The broom is being taken to a new home.

❧ If a housewife wipes her hands on the tablecloth, she can thereby bring poverty or lack of money to her home. This is how they fix it. Shout out the window as if calling out to someone. But you only need to shout your name, that is, if the hostess’s name is Tatyana, then she should shout out the window: “Tanya.”

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