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SUPERSTITIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA: ARE THEY DIFFERENT?
 


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ДАНКОВ 2014Г.

SUPERSTITION
CONCLUSION

and revealing the most widespread superstitions and studying the origin of them.
Hypothesis is the superstitions influence the life of a man

This work is devoted to comparison and studying Russian and English superstitions and beliefs, and also to their value in daily human life.
Theoretical and practical importance of this work is that material can be used at various lessons and lectures.

notion, not based on reason or knowledge.
Religious practices are most likely to be labeled "superstitious" when they include belief in extraordinary events (miracles), an afterlife, supernatural interventions, apparitions or the efficacy of prayer, charms, incantations and prognostications.

It is possible to see one’s own future in the tea leaves. When you make tea with tea leaves, you turn the tea cup upside down after having finished drinking it. Then wait until the water disappeared, look at the shape of the tea leaves. The first thing you see in the cup is a prediction of what will happen to you. In Russia, the most common is to use coffee instead of tea to known what will happen.
Breaking a mirror gives 7 years of bad luck according to the Russian and British beliefs.

symbol today. Some people put them on or above their front door. But the horseshoe needs to be the right way up. The luck runs out of the horseshoe if it is upside down.

Spilling salt is said to cause a fight or argument during the day. Often people will throw salt over their shoulder after they spill it, in order to blind the devil, who sits at your left shoulder. These superstitions are the same as in Russia.

is a very unlucky day. In England, there is no more ominous day, than Friday 13th. As for Russia, there have one more day that means bad luck. It’s Monday. You cannot borrow money on Monday otherwise, you won’t have it back.

Lucky to find a clover plant with four leaves in Britain and a five-leaf flower in Russia. Legends claim that the four-leaf clover was the only thing Eve was able to bring with her when she was expelled from paradise.

days of the year is the 31th of October. The day of Halloween, a feast for the dead.
If you hear foot steps behind you on this night, don't look back. It may be the dead following you. If you do look behind you and see the undead, you will die within the year.
In Russia this festival is not so common as in Britain. But there is another one which is the most popular - The Old New Year. Girls and boys usually put on their fancy dresses and go from house to house with boiled rice with raisin and honey.

British and Russian superstitions we have defined the word "superstition", made the comparative analysis of English and Russian superstitions, found differences and similarities, the most common superstitions.
Our research work shows that the most popular superstitions in Great Britain are Friday 13th, a horseshoe and an umbrella. In Russia, the most popular beliefs are a black cat, a broken mirror and spilling salt.
To Russia and the Great Britain such superstitions as broken mirror, the number thirteen, to spill salt is a bad luck. In addition, many wedding beliefs and superstitions are very similar in both countries.