Why you can’t drink tea with a spoon in a circle: what they have said long ago and what kind of interpretation now.
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We all do not believe in signs. And at the same time, we involuntarily try to spit immediately over the left shoulder, if by accident, a rally salt, grab the button, seeing a black cat who crossed the road. Many do so mechanically, without even thinking what this or that sign means and how do we know what needs to be done in this case.
And really, where from? Let's try to figure it out.
Why you can’t drink tea with a spoon in a mug: signs from centuries
It has long been with food, the process of absorption of food, with a variety of foods and drinks, many beliefs, customs, prejudices and signs are associated. They are transmitted from generation to generation. Remember at least a widespread saying that our grandparents did not get tired of repeating during breakfast, lunch and dinner: "When I eat, I am deaf and it."
In many cases, signs were associated precisely with drinks poured into containers. And spilled, by the way, too. So, for a long time, tea believed that to pour tea - to luck, to changes for the better, and these changes concerned any side of human life.
- But the spoon left in the cup or in the circle was considered a bad omen, because symbolized, according to the ideas of our ancestors, the bridge that serves to get into our world of all evil spirits. For such a bridge, demons can access the human soul, therefore, a spoon not pulled out of a glass was perceived in time, like a sign of imminent diseases and troubles. In addition, demons, as you know, push people to the most vile acts, up to crimes.
- And even in a dream, a spoon was considered a bad omen: to drink with its help meant ambulance.
- Also, stirring sugar in a drink and without removing a spoon, a person could bring financial troubles and debts.
- Unlike the English signs, stating that two spoons in a tea saucer - for an indispensable wedding, in Rus' for a long time believed that the girl, leaving a spoon in a glass, didom herself to loneliness. Who needs such a muddler, capable of his forgetfulness to create a lot of problems in financial and household chores!
- Moreover, giving her boyfriend tea with a spoon left in a cup, the girl risked being immediately thrown by him, because superstitions were stronger than romantic feelings.
But there are no rules without exception. Previously, the spoon helped to cool the drink in many ways, which ordered the man to bring a glass not only with hot tea, but also with a spoon in it. But the representative of the weaker sex should certainly put a spoon on a saucer, because she received tea not in a glass, but in a cup in which the cooing process proceeds more intensively.
Why you can’t drink tea with a spoon in a circle: modern interpretation
Today, old beliefs have acquired the meaning of the rules of good tone. In addition to the fact that it is ugly, stirring sugar in a cup, it is considered the same indecent in society not to pull it out and not put it on a saucer.
Modern spoons (if this is, of course, not the family table silver) very quickly and heavily heats up, so you can accidentally burn yourself. Yes, and get into the eye - also. Apparently, it is with this that the sign about a spoon in a cup, characteristic of our time: did not pull it out on time - to a soon visit to the optometrist it turns out that centuries -old observations and experience dictate to us today as the rules of etiquette, and for superstitious people also have a mystical significance .
Be that as it may, but a spoon during a tea party must be removed from the cup. And why are you doing this: by etiquette or according to signs - decide for yourself.
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