Did you observe something strange in the behavior of your Russian Woman?
This article is devoted Russian superstitions that have a great influence on Russians. Some superstitions are particularly common, another are extremely difficult to understand and practiced by the minority of the population.
For example, your woman can refuse to sit on cold surface. Russian Women thought that it’s extremely harmful to a woman’s health and have a bad influence on her ability to bear children. Next, before your woman leaving house for a long journey, she asks everyone to sit for a minute. Usually that superstition explains as last opportunity to think of something that may be forgotten.
Another strangeness – refuse to clean the room after someone has left the house. While knocking on wood Russian woman have a propensity to add a symbolic spits over her left shoulder. Symbolic amount of spits always three. Does she break a mirror?
Your woman would feel awful about it. And it would worse if she looks at her reflection in a broken mirror. Did you notice Russian woman never use gestures to show something negative? She often uses something else as the object. It is bad luck, she thinks. Also Russian woman always prefer to celebrate birthday parties on or after birthday, never before.
Your woman refuses to return to home for forgotten thing? Or she returns and looks in the mirror again? You shouldn’t annoy, she just believes it is a bad omen and the journey probably will be bad. You should also suppose you woman if a bird flies into the window.
Please, try to set her mind at rest because it is a very bad sign in Russia that means a death. If you want to present her a purse you should present it only with a little money. Unfilled purse often means bad financial luck. While eating never hand a knife straight to another person. Much better give a knife directly, but pointing the sharp end to yourself. Remember: you shouldn’t laugh over her superstitions.
It is a very important and deeply rooted part of her life.
