A leap year, or it is also called the word “leap year,” causes many rumors and superstitions, which mainly boil down to the fact that this year is unhappy and promises only negative events. In this article we will talk about how fair these opinions are.

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A little history

The word “leap year” came to us from the Latin language, that is, it is of ancient origin, and its literal translation sounds like “second sixth”.

According to the Julian month, the Earth goes through its circle in 365.25 days, and every year the days shifted by 6 hours. Such an error could easily confuse ancient men, and in order to avoid this, it was decided that after every fourth year another day would be added to the annual circle. Accordingly, this year will include 366 days, and they will be added in the shortest month - February, it will consist of 29 days. To distinguish it, it was called a leapfrog.

In Ancient Rus', in turn, there were many legends about the occurrence of leap seasons, and each of them, even then, was perceived as necessarily unlucky. Legends about the arrival of the new calendar and the leap year in Rus' were also reflected in the Saints. So, February 29 is dedicated to the memory of St. Kasyan, and people call it Kasyan’s Day. Several legends and apocrypha (stories that are not recognized by the church as confirmed and consistent with what we know about God) are dedicated to this day. But it sheds light on the origins of the bad reputation of leapfrogs.

According to this legend, Kasyan appears to the common people not as a man, but as an angel, and a fallen one, who was once seduced by Satan, as a result of which he fell away from God. However, later he realized how wrong he was, repented and prayed to the Creator for mercy. Taking pity on the traitor, God, before accepting him back, assigned His angel to him. The celestial being shackled Kasyan and, by order from above, beat him on the forehead with a metal hammer to bring him to his senses for 3 years, and on the fourth he freed him.

The second legend about Kasyan

According to the second legend Kasyan is a person, and Kasyanov’s day is the date of his name day. However, according to the legend, that man systematically drank himself to death for three years in a row, but on the fourth he came to his senses, repented, gave up his addiction, turned to repentance and became a saint - he acquired the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the people believed, it was appropriate for him to celebrate his day so rarely - only on February 29.

The third legend about Kasyan

This legend is dedicated to Saint Kasyan, who travels across the earth, and Nicholas the Wonderworker, well known to Christians. And then they meet a man along the way. He asked them for help because his cart was stuck in the mud. Kasyan responded to this that he was careful not to spoil his clean robe, but Nikolai, not afraid of the dirt, immediately helped. The saints returned to the Kingdom of God, and the Creator noticed that Nicholas’s robe was dirty and asked him what was causing it.

The saint told him what happened on the way. Then the Lord noticed that Kasyan’s clothes were clean and asked the question: were they really traveling together? Kasyan replied that he was afraid to stain his clothes. God realized that Cosmas was being cunning, and arranged it in such a way that his name day is celebrated once every 4 years. And Nikolai’s name day for his meekness is twice in 365 days.

Anyway , whatever it may be, the leap was recognized as bad. Therefore, the superstitious Russian people tried to somehow protect themselves from this day.

  1. I tried to finish all important things before the 29th of February.
  2. Some did not dare leave the house.
  3. On February 29, if the sun came out, it was called Kasyan's Eye or Kasyanov's Eye. Then they tried not to get under the sun, so that the saint wouldn’t jinx them! And he did not bring suffering and illness to the poor man.

As in ancient times, in today's world there are often superstitions and signs that do not best define the leap years of the 21st century. We will list some of them:

Why is a leap year considered bad?

This attitude is quite understandable: the appearance of the 29th day in February characterizes the whole year as being different from others, and psychologically sets it apart from others. This can be important for people who are unsure of their abilities. It will be much easier for him, citing this special period, to refuse something new than to expend energy for self-development or starting some kind of business.

For the same reason, it will be easier not to get pregnant, so as not to give birth later, because there is an increased fear that the birth will be difficult, the baby may be born sick. And if not, then suddenly his life will turn out to be joyless or difficult.

Our inventive people see and the threat in the very name of the leap, saying that it “mows down” people, in other words, takes them away, leads to death. Therefore, the holiday is celebrated with caution (or, conversely, on a special scale - you never know who will die...). This is a very common belief that tries to creep into statistics. It is becoming accepted that the mortality rate increases every 4th year. At the same time, these data are in no way confirmed by the statistics themselves.

You can’t pick mushrooms either, much less eat them or sell them to people. No, not so as not to be poisoned, but so that “bad soil” does not bring “anything bad” to a person.

It is believed that the leap year entails natural disasters and all kinds of disasters: drought, floods, fires.

Which years are leap years?

In the last century, as well as in the current one, such calendar periods also caused horror. A list of them can be seen in the image or found on the Internet. Also, the year 2000, the same millennium, in turn was a leap year, opening the whole millennium.

Despite the fact that with the development of technology, information has become more accessible and it is possible to learn more and expand one’s horizons, getting rid of primitive fears, many continue to anxiously await the leap, internally preparing themselves for problems and troubles, and when they come (if they come), it is perceived as doomed: well, it’s a leap year... An extra day in February. Deadly!

There are special calendars that indicate when exactly the leap year occurs. It is enough to look carefully at the table and find (or not find) the current figures there. It is enough to know at least one leap year, after which you can calculate them yourself using elementary arithmetic. Let's say you're interested in leap years in the 21st century. Find the calendar and view it. Having learned that 2016 is a leap year, it is easy to understand that the next year will come in 2020.

If you trust statistics, a very small number of all disasters and troubles occur on leap years. The superstitions that exist today can be interpreted by the fact that people who closely followed the misfortunes and troubles that occurred during leap years gave an exaggerated meaning to what was happening only because of the unflattering reputation of the latter. I would like to wish people who highly trust superstitions about leap years to pay more attention to positive events and changes. And then, perhaps, a list of good and joyful signs will be collected that will restore the reputation of the Leap Years.

All life on Earth is determined by its proximity to the Sun and the movement of the planet around it and around its own axis. A year is the time during which our planet flies around the Sun, and a day is the time of a complete revolution around its axis. It is, of course, very convenient for people to plan their affairs by week, to count a certain number of days in a month or year.

Nature is not a machine

But it turns out that during a full revolution around the Sun, the Earth does not rotate around its axis the full number of times. That is, there are not a full number of days in a year. Everyone knows that this happens 365 times and this corresponds to In fact, a little more: 365.25, that is, an extra 6 hours are accumulated in a year, and to be completely precise, an extra 5 hours, 48 ​​minutes and 14 seconds.

Naturally, if this time is not taken into account, then the hours will add up to days, those to months, and after a few hundred years the difference between the generally accepted and astronomical calendar will be several months. This is completely unacceptable for social life: all holidays and memorable dates will be postponed.

Such difficulties were discovered quite a long time ago, even under one of the greatest of them - Gaius Julius Caesar.

Order of Caesar

Emperors in Ancient Rome were revered on a par with gods and had unlimited power, so they simply changed the calendar with one order, and that’s all.

In Ancient Rome, the whole year was built on the basis of the celebration of Kalends, Nons and Ides (these were the names of the parts of the month). In this case, February was considered the last. Thus, there are 366 days in a leap year, with the extra days in the last month.

After all, it was quite logical to add a day in the last month of the year, in February. Moreover, interestingly, it was not the last day that was added, as it is now, but an additional day before the calendars of the month of March. Thus, February became two twenty-fourths. Leap years were appointed after three years, and the first of them occurred during the lifetime of Caesar Gaius Julius. After his death, the system went a little wrong because the priests made a mistake in the calculations, but over time the correct calendar of leap years was restored.

Nowadays, leap years are considered a little more complicated. And this is due to those few extra minutes that are obtained by introducing a full additional day every four years.

New calendar

The Gregorian calendar, according to which secular society currently lives, was introduced by Pope Gregory at the end of the 16th century. The reason why a new calendar was introduced is that the old timekeeping was inaccurate. By adding a day every four years, the Roman ruler did not take into account that the official calendar would be ahead of the generally accepted calendar by 11 minutes and 46 seconds every four years.

At the time of the introduction of the new calendar, the inaccuracy of the Julian calendar was 10 days; over time it increased and is now 14 days. The difference increases every century by about a day. It is especially noticeable on the day of the summer and winter solstice. And since some holidays are counted from these dates, we noticed the difference.

The Gregorian leap year calendar is a little more complex than the Julian calendar.

Structure of the Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar takes into account the difference in the official and astronomical calendars of 5 hours, 48 ​​minutes and 14 seconds, that is, every 100 years one leap year is canceled.

So how do you know which year is a leap year and which is not? Is there a system and algorithm for canceling an extra day? Or is it better to use

For convenience, such an algorithm has actually been introduced. In general, every fourth year is considered a leap year; for convenience, years divisible by four are used. Therefore, if you need to find out whether the year of your grandmother’s birth or the beginning of World War II was a leap year, you just need to find out whether this year is divisible by 4 or not. Thus, 1904 is a leap year, 1908 is also a leap year, but 1917 is not.

The leap year is canceled at the change of centuries, that is, in a year that is a multiple of 100. Thus, 1900 was not a leap year, because it is a multiple of 100, non-leap years are also 1800 and 1700. But an extra day does not accumulate in a century, but in about 123 years, that is, amendments need to be made again. How do you know which year is a leap year? If a year is a multiple of 100 and a multiple of 400, it is considered a leap year. That is, 2000 was a leap year, just like 1600.

The Gregorian calendar, with such complex adjustments, is so accurate that there is extra time left, but we are talking about seconds. Such seconds are also called leap seconds, so that it is immediately clear what we are talking about. There are two of them per year and they are added on June 30 and December 31 at 23:59:59. These two seconds equalize astronomical and universal time.

What is different about a leap year?

A leap year is one day longer than usual and has 366 days. Previously, back in Roman times, this year there were two days on February 24, but now, of course, the dates are counted differently. This year in February there is one more day than usual, that is 29.

But it is believed that years that have February 29th are unlucky. There is a belief that during leap years the mortality rate increases and various misfortunes occur.

Happy or unhappy?

If you look at the mortality chart in the USSR in the second half of the 20th century and in Russia, you will notice that the highest level was recorded in 2000. This can be explained by economic crises, low living standards and other problems. Yes, the year 2000 was a leap year (since it is divisible by 400), but is that a rule? 1996 is not a record-breaking year for mortality; in the year preceding it, 1995, the mortality rate was higher.

This figure reached its minimum level in almost half a century during non-leap years, but in 1986 the mortality rate was also low, much lower than, for example, in 1981.

There are many more examples that can be given, but it is already clear that mortality does not increase in “long” years.

If you look at fertility statistics, you also cannot find a clear relationship with the length of the year. The leap years of the 20th century did not confirm the theory of misfortune. The birth rate in both Russia and European countries is falling evenly. A slight rise was observed only in 1987, and then the birth rate began to rise steadily after 2008.

Maybe a leap year determines some tension in politics or predetermines natural disasters or wars?

Among the dates of the start of hostilities, you can find only one leap year: 1812 - the war with Napoleon. For Russia it ended quite happily, but, of course, it was a serious test in itself. But neither the year of the revolution of 1905 nor 1917 were a leap year. The year the Second World War began (1939) was certainly the most miserable year for all of Europe, but it was not a leap year.

In leap years, explosions also occurred, but events such as the Chernobyl disaster, the tragedy in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, volcanic eruptions and other disasters happened in the most ordinary years. The list of leap years in the 20th century does not at all coincide with the mournful list of misfortunes and disasters.

Causes of misfortune

Psychologists believe that all statements about the death of a leap year are nothing more than superstition. If it is confirmed, they talk about it. And if it is not confirmed, they simply forget about it. But the expectation of misfortune in itself can “attract” misfortune. It is not for nothing that exactly what he fears often happens to a person.

One of the saints said: “If you don’t believe in omens, they will not come true.” In this case, this could not be more appropriate.

Leap year in Hebrew

The traditional Jewish calendar uses lunar months that last 28 days. As a result, the calendar year according to this system lags behind the astronomical year by 11 days. An additional month of the year is regularly introduced for adjustment. The leap year in the traditional Jewish calendar consists of thirteen months.

Leap years happen more often for Jews: out of nineteen years, only twelve are ordinary, and another seven are leap years. That is, Jews have many more leap years than usual. But, of course, we are talking only about the traditional Jewish calendar, and not about the one according to which the modern state of Israel lives.

Leap year: when is next year

All our contemporaries will no longer face exceptions in counting leap years. The next year, which will not be a leap year, is expected only in 2100, this is hardly relevant for us. So the next leap year can be calculated very simply: the nearest year that is divisible by 4.

2012 was a leap year, 2016 will be a leap year too, 2020 and 2024, 2028 and 2032 will be leap years. It's quite easy to calculate. Of course, it is necessary to know this, but do not let this information frighten you. And in a leap year, wonderful and joyful events happen. For example, they are considered lucky and happy.

Every 4 years, humanity lives in a leap year. It is this year, in February, that magically becomes 29 days.

There are many signs and beliefs associated with it, many of which have pagan roots, but there are also Christian elements. Sometimes, it comes to the point that during a leap year people give up such usual activities as a seaside holiday or regular trips to the country.

What is a leap year and how valid are the signs associated with it?

Leap year: where did the extra day come from?

Do you think that the Earth makes a full revolution in exactly 365 days? No, this is not so - the Earth makes a full circle around the Sun a little longer, namely, 365 days and 6 hours.

In other words, every year an extra quarter of a day is added. Over the course of 4 years, such quarters equal 24 hours. So it turns out that a year that is divisible by 4 (2008, 2012, 2016, the leap year calendar is based on this principle) is different from the rest.

The leap year is designed to eliminate this surplus and bring balance to the calendar. If it were not for the leap year, then in a couple of centuries the new year would have moved to the beginning of March, and this is quite serious!

Leap year differences

The differences between a leap year and other years, from a material point of view, are limited only by the number of days. In addition, people have to work one more day. Sometimes, however, it turns out to rest once again, but this happens quite rarely.

From an astrological point of view, during the Earth's path around the Sun during a leap year, a large number of troubles occur:

  • people's everyday problems;
  • man-made disasters;
  • natural disasters;
  • relatively high mortality rate.

However, one can argue with the latter - there are no comments from funeral service workers about the increase in mortality. Only slightly more elderly people die.

Leap year: greetings from Antiquity

For the first time, the ancient Romans became concerned with the problem of the calendar not corresponding to the real flow of time. In this country, it was forbidden to transfer significant dates to another time of the year. People were guided by the movement of the Sun across the sky.

Guy Julius Caesar solved the problem quickly and radically - from the moment of his reign, people began to live according to the Julian calendar, which added one day to February every 4 years. The transition to the new calendar began gradually, not everyone accepted it, but time took its toll.

Over time, the pagan calendar migrated to Christian culture. But in some regions this year is associated with Kasyan Visokos, one of the saints, the patron saint of monasticism.

Allegedly, he binge-drinks for three years, and after 4 years he comes out of the drinking binge and takes it out on people for the fact that his day is celebrated only once every 4 years.

Here, however, there is a problem - a Christian saint, by definition, cannot be a binge drunkard, plus there is no record in the church that Visokos likes to drink.

Signs and beliefs associated with leap year

Nowadays, leap year is treated relatively simply, but in the past, some people were afraid to leave the house on February 29th during a leap year. For example, there was a superstition that if you were very cold on this day, and at the end of February the frosts could be severe, then a person would certainly catch a severe cold and die.

The same applies to livestock. Popular belief says that any mistake in caring for pets on this day can cost the animals their lives. For example, malnutrition or overfeeding.

Starting a new business in a leap year, according to popular belief, cannot bring much success.

Everything is bound to go awry: even if a person builds a house, or even opens a business. In addition, all major matters should be postponed at least until February 29 - this time is considered the most unfortunate since the beginning of the year.

To appease Visokos a little, you need to do the following:

  • when the chimes strike, throw a glass of vodka out of the window (other alcohol will do, but it must be strong);
  • drink without clinking glasses when it is exactly midnight;
  • If you do end up clinking glasses, then before you take a sip, you need to put the glasses on the table.

According to popular belief, Visokos's anger will subside a little before the completion of the next track around the Sun.

Another interesting sign is associated with collecting gifts from nature. Usually, picking mushrooms and berries is difficult on February 29, but things found on the street, for example, money, can bring trouble if they get into the house.

And if at the same time the dog howls (Dog Day on February 29 is itself a bad sign), then disaster is guaranteed. You need to ignore him, saying, “Forget me.”

Leap year prohibitions

Since this year is so unlucky, people have come up with many prohibitions, by observing which you can ward off trouble from your home. By the way, nature also “participates” in these prohibitions.

For example, according to the recollections of old-timers, in leap years there is usually a weak apple harvest.

So, what not to do in a leap year:

  • You can't sing carols at baptism. This ritual itself is relatively associated with evil spirits, and once every four years they are especially “attentive” to people. It's better not to attract any rubbish. So no matter how many sweets people offer, it is better to avoid carols.
  • It is not recommended to sell products produced on your own farm. It is believed that happiness and wealth leave the house with them.
  • You shouldn’t show your baby’s first erupted tooth to anyone, except perhaps your closest relatives. If you break the ban, the child will have crooked teeth.
  • You cannot start new big things, including getting married. Everything will go wrong, this has already been discussed above.
  • You can’t buy “coffin things.” It sounds strange, but for some older people it is the norm to buy things for their funeral. Such an action during a leap year will hasten death.
  • Women are strictly prohibited from dyeing their hair. This can lead to the lady going bald.
  • Changing your place of work or place of residence is prohibited. A person simply will not get accustomed to a new place; he will have to start everything from scratch (this point is sometimes impossible, because there are different circumstances in life).

Having children joins this forbidden group, but not everyone takes this restriction seriously.

Maybe this all sounds archaic, but the fact remains that people often complain to astrologers and psychics about misfortunes that began precisely after violating such prohibitions.

Conclusion - until the Earth makes a full revolution around the Sun in a leap year, some activities should be abandoned.

What do astrologers think?

In 2016, I made an anonymous personal calendar for a young man. He was going to start a new business project, but numerology showed that the undertaking would not only be extremely unsuccessful, but could even lead to the death of my client.

Unfortunately, he didn’t listen to me, he did the opposite. The result is deplorable - although he remained alive, he lost everything to the last penny, and is now starting a new life.

Surprisingly, most of these calendars for different people, made during leap years, showed similar results. I don’t really believe in the involvement of negative entities in the problems, but the influence of the planets in these years is extremely negative.

The leap year should pass calmly and without unnecessary movements, I can tell you that for sure!

Irina, Moscow

All the predictions I made for people wanting to get married on a leap year didn't say anything good. This time is a time of failures, misunderstandings, conflicts and contradictions, what kind of marriage can we talk about?

At the same time, many of these “weds” separated even before the wedding. Since 2016, only 5-10% of those families have survived.

Mortality, by the way, is also increasing! Older people die in droves during leap years. Pray more often, do not anger the higher powers! And go to church, every 7 days or so.

Svyatoslav, Yaroslavl

I believe that leap year is a pagan Slavic belief. The ancestors endowed February with demonic power and feared it like fire.

So this belief has come to us in a greatly modified form. There's nothing wrong with a leap year, but a little care still wouldn't hurt.

Irma, Moscow

High mortality, that's what a leap year is. It is rare to make favorable forecasts at this time.

Basically, people have some problems to solve. I advise you not to violate the leap year prohibitions and undergo purification rituals more often.

Svetlana, Samara

We all know that a normal year consists of 365 days, but there is also a leap year, which includes 366 days. It occurs once every four calendar years, and the month of February in such a year includes one more day. But few people wonder why such a year is called a leap year, and today we will tell you about the origin of this name.

Origin of the name "Leap" year

As is the case with many other names known today, the origin of “Leap” Year has its origins in Latin. This year has long been called “Bis Sextus”. The Latin translation of this name means “Second Sixth”.

It is worth noting that such a calculation of time was introduced by the Romans, and in the Roman calendar BC, days were not counted in the same way as they do today. The Romans were accustomed to counting days in terms of the number of days remaining until the next month. The Romans inserted an extra day between February 23 and 24. February 24 itself was called “sectus,” which meant “the sixth day before the beginning of March.” In a leap year, when an additional day was inserted between February 23 and 24, February 24 occurred twice, which was called “bis sectus”, as we already noted - the “Second Sixth” day.

It is easy to understand that “Bis sectus” in the Slavic sense can be easily converted into “leap year”, because these names are consonant. However, in the modern Gregorian calendar, an additional day, as is known, is inserted not between February 23 and 24, but after February 28. So, once every four years, we have the opportunity to observe on wall calendars, calendars in our computers and smartphones, the day of February 29th.

Why do we need a leap year?

Having figured out why a leap year is called that, it is also necessary to take a short excursion into why such a year exists at all and why it was introduced.

We all know that a normal year consists of 365 days, we are used to it, and we do not doubt this statement for a second. However, in reality it is not entirely correct, since each year is equal to 365.4 days, that is, 365 days and 6 hours. Of course, such a calculation of time is very inconvenient, and it certainly leads to certain shifts in people’s perception of the flow of time. That is why scientific astronomers decided to calculate each multiple of four years in the amount of 366 days (using 4 excerpts of 6 hours from other years), and all the rest - 365 days exactly.

It cannot be said that on the eve of the New Year, everyone except children is in a good, upbeat mood. The past year has been too full of sad and sad incidents. It doesn’t add to the joy that next year will be a leap year. However, it is not recommended to celebrate the holiday with such a gloomy mood, so let’s try to think rationally about how real our fears are when trying to consider the near future. It is quite possible that this will make the coming 12 months seem less gloomy.

Leap year - what does it mean, is it good or bad?

If the second month of winter has 29 days rather than 28, then the year is called a leap year. It appears due to a slight discrepancy in the number of days in our astronomical calendar with the actual time during which our planet makes a complete revolution around the Sun. Since this happens in 365 days and 6 hours, the scientific world decided to take into account the “extra” day of February that did not fit into the “tail”.

A leap year means that February of this year is one day longer.

In fact, an additional day in a year does not have any impact on the world around us, since its appearance is a tribute to convention. If negative changes occurred in the lives of people and countries on the eve of a leap year, then the resulting trend, if countermeasures are not taken, will continue due to circumstances, and not because of an “extra” day.

However, people who are distrustful of any changes in life tend to “look for the elephant in every fly” and expect bad things at every opportunity. Due to this, many people imagine social and political troubles during a leap year. It is logical to assume that with such an attitude, many large-scale tasks will be carried out with insufficient zeal and, as a result, the standard of living will definitely decrease as a result. As a result, the leap year will be blamed for the worsening state of affairs, and not their own carelessness.

Wedding during this period

In the old days, during leap years, professional matchmakers were left without work, because girls were given the right to independently choose a spouse. It is possible that this is why the expression “you can’t get married” was born - as an indication of the fact that when forming a family, the initiative was transferred to women. Over time, the essence of the tradition was lost, but a cautionary rule appeared that did not recommend starting a family in a year whose February has 29 days. Since it was believed that a married couple was expected to:

  • unstable financial situation,
  • unhappy life together.

Interestingly, getting divorced in a non-standard year is also not recommended. According to forecasts, such couples are guaranteed a lack of personal happiness in the future. But for the most determined experts in traditional recommendations, a loophole has been left:

If a spouse freed from marriage obligations comes to church with a towel and utters the cherished words “I pay tribute to the leap year, and you, family angel, stand next to me.”

That is, there is a chance that the person who performed the ritual will still be able to find his true “native” soul mate.

Even for those getting married in a church, a verbal talisman has been invented, which must be pronounced by the priest performing the ceremony. It sounds like this: “I crown with a crown, not a leap end.”

Birth of a child

Superstitions favor newborns in a leap year and promise a good fate in all respects. So you need to be brave, maybe even two.

What does it mean to be born in a long year?

Signs regarding people born in a leap year, oddly enough, are very favorable. Such people are predicted to have luck in business and an easy fate. Those born on a rare day in February are credited with something beyond their ability: the gift of prophecy.

For those born on a “strange day,” this actually means that every three years in a row, legal name days will have to be celebrated either on February 28 or March 1.

What can and cannot be done in a year whose February has 29 days?

You can't do:

  • For the taboo on haircuts (So as not to harm the health of the future child).
  • Tell those planning new events and business projects about their plans. (However, if partners cannot be notified of intentions, then what kind of business will get off the ground?).
  • Drowning kittens. (No comments).
  • Sell ​​any domestic animals (Then the year will definitely seem hungry for livestock farmers).
  • Caroling. (Otherwise a person may be exposed to circumstances under the influence of which he will change greatly).
  • Laying the foundation of a house, building a bathhouse. Otherwise, everything built will soon fall into disrepair or be lost due to fire. (Apparently, in some cities the leap year has been firmly established for a decade and is not going to go away).
  • Change place of residence, source of income.
  • Celebrate the holiday of the “first tooth”. (The punishment for not following the recommendation may be bad teeth for life).
  • Go out on a quiet mushroom hunt. (Experienced experts say that every four years the mycelium is renewed, which negatively affects the quality of even good mushrooms - they become unsuitable for food. However, on which stump can you read in what years the local mycelium experienced the process of rejuvenation?).
  • Prepare funeral equipment for future use.
  • Travel far from home. If you can’t get out of traveling, you need to cast a special spell. Or simply wish yourself a mental quick and safe return to the same house - if you have a desire to return to it.

You can and should do:

  • Burn the old slippers and put a new pair in their place. It is recommended to burn used house shoes, saying phrases with the wish that all troubles and misfortunes burn in the observed fire.
  • On New Year's Eve, thank the forces of the Cosmos for all the good things that happened in the past year, household members, luck in business.
  • When you hear a dog howling at any distance from you, you need to say: “Go howl, but not to my house.”
  • When planting a garden with seedlings, sowing seeds, say something like: “I plant, but I won’t go into the ground.” (Maybe it’s better not to spend all your free time in the garden and give yourself a break sometimes?).

Why is this year dangerous?

In fact: what you want, expect it.

People who believe in the unfavorable aura of a leap year are preparing to receive from it:

  1. complications in the life of a country and a person in particular (due to political or religious instability, which, as a rule, affects the everyday life of citizens of the state and the world);
  2. problems with the harvest (unpredictable frosts, problems with precipitation, excessive sun activity, migration of crop-damaging insects);
  3. difficulties in concluding partnership agreements, failure to meet deadlines under previously concluded agreements;
  4. health problems, decreased immune strength.

It is dangerous because, succumbing to the influence of superstitions, a person will begin to take a less active position. Because of this, even though he may refuse a good career offer, business project, partnership or marital relationship. And good chances in any field do not come very often.

Therefore, only you can choose: build your life with an eye on ancient superstitions, which can exist today in the form of concepts that distort the actual essence, or take an adult approach to solving existing problems.

Considering the growing popularity of all kinds of negative predictions during periods of financial crises, with intensifying political confrontations on the world stage, it can be assumed that next year many of the people around them will fall into a kind of somnambulistic state and will show low social activity.

The following benefits can be derived from this:

Take a closer look at your surroundings: employees, associates and partners who will make fateful decisions, without making allowance for the superstitious restrictions that exist for 2016 - this is the main driving backbone of your business.

Such people do not draw conclusions based on unsupported conclusions, but are guided purely by facts. An exception can only be made for people - if there are such people in your circle - who truly have super abilities and download the necessary information, as they say, “out of thin air.” Although in reality they are most likely just excellent analysts.

When concluding contracts with new partners, first try to find out their ins and outs in their personal lives. If it turns out that a person is superstitious by nature, then:

  1. you can take on the role of a super being and make sure that the desired partner every now and then catches the eye of “signs” indicating great benefits for him when collaborating with you;
  2. Be prepared for the fact that a change in the terms of the agreement may occur unexpectedly, since the representative on the other side will dream or imagine something wrong.