What cannot be done during pregnancy: signs. Bans for pregnant women, what can not be done to pregnant women and why?

A wonderful and joyful time for the expectation of the birth of a baby has long been considered sacred. During this period, the expectant mother should radiate only positive energy and feed, respectively, as bright and clean.

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It is with the period of pregnancy that many long -standing signs are associated that determine what is possible and what cannot be done during pregnancy. Here they are.

Why should pregnant women cut your hair?

It has long been believed that the hair stores vitality. Recall, because not only pregnant women, but all the other people, the old people from childhood said that the hair removed from the comb after combing should not be thrown out into the street. There were even strictly defined days, when it was possible to wash, comb or, moreover, cut the hair.
They did not advise cut the kids until they were a year old, and it was not worth combing the baby either. And in some areas, this ban was operating up to 7 years. Esotericists believe that the hair is organic and our natural part as nails, teeth, etc. And having this piece, you can influence a person, harm it, draw an evil eye or damage.
That is why a pregnant woman, in which its part of it lives, you can not cut your hair, so as not to take vitality either from himself or the baby. Locked, and even more so left in a prominent place (for example, in a hairdresser), they can become a light prey of an envious person or the one who wants to be evil to this woman, turning into a formidable crashing weapon. Otherwise, beliefs say, even the birth of a dead child is possible. There is a more natural explanation of such a ban. Hair is an additional cover that protects from the cold, which is important for the future mother.

Why should pregnant women comb hair on Friday?

Why should pregnant women comb hair on Friday? This sign refers to the veneration of the healer Paraskeva Friday, which has long been considered a “woman’s intercessor”, especially the patronizing women in labor.
To scratch your hair on this day, you can bring the insult to your patroness, and thereby lose her help at the moment when the birth begins. Therefore, pregnant women cannot do this.

Why should pregnant women cross the fruits that grow in the ground?

The sign says that, pregnant women cannot be crossed through fruits in the ground (for example, potatoes or radish), because a woman can do not wait for the birth of a child - there will be a miscarriage.
Such a sign is connected with the ground in which the fruits are growing. The remains of those who have already died also rest in it, so folk signs are seen in such an act disrespect both to the dead and to the ground, along with everything that it gives.
Having crossed, and thereby without respecting the fetus, a woman can receive a response from the ground, which in turn does not respect her fruit, taking herself.

Why should pregnant women step over a log?

And not one field in this case is in question, but about any, even a small obstacle. If this is a rope, then we are talking about, as we recall, it can go about the umbilical cord, if the pitchfork or ax - the ban comes to the fore with sharp or cutting tools, the broom - this is the abode of the brownie, stepping over which the woman will inevitably cause him offense.
The list can be continued, but the general meaning of such prohibitions to cross through something lying on Earth is both a desire not to complicate future births and a warning: pregnant women can not be made wide steps that are harmful in their position.

Why can not pregnant women take pictures?

Why can not pregnant women take pictures? The meaning of this signs is, drawing or photographing a pregnant woman, an artist or a photographer with her captures a still unborn child, thereby creating his “double”, moreover, at a certain moment.
This moment, as our ancestors believe, can stop the development of the fetus at the point at which it is captured, and, therefore, The fetus may freeze. Therefore, so that there is no birth of a dead child or miscarriage, pregnant women cannot be photographed or pose for a portrait.

You can’t take pictures of pregnant women

Why can not be sewn or cut into pregnant women?

In addition, older women said that pregnant women should not be sewn, cut, patch, knit, and generally pick up scissors, knitting needles, knives, needles And other sharp cutting and stitching objects. Especially strict was such a ban on the days when the Christmas time pass, and during the Semitic week. It was believed that the child would be born With a “patch” in the form of a birthmark on the cheek. Or, even worse - his mother thus sews his way into our world.
Sharp objects are a source of increased danger, and the expectant mother, having prevailed or cut, can strongly frighten, experience pain by conveying these feelings and the child. But the baby in the womb perceives the emotions of the mother and reacts to them. Therefore, he can also experience these negative sensations. Therefore, for the sake of the healthy development of the fetus, mother should not pick up anything that could hurt.

Why should pregnant women look at horrors, ugliness?

Why should pregnant women look at horrors, ugliness? For the same reasons, which are given above. The emotional connection between mom and the unborn child allows the baby feel and worry All the emotions that a woman experiences.
Of course, looking at the ugly person or at something terrible, she will only experience the negative, which in turn will be transmitted to the child, reflected not only on his condition, but also on external data.
That is why pregnant women cannot be looked at the horrors, because it is believed that looking at ugliness, the mother thereby condemns to such a child.

Why should pregnant women eat double fruits?

In ancient times, for some reason, twins were considered an unhappy omen. The ancients thought that in this way twins receive one soul and one fate for two. Such a “united” soul was considered diabolical tricks, and they looked at the twins wary.
Therefore, the people appeared as a belief that pregnant women cannot eat paired fruits. After all, eating fused berries, fruits or eggs, in which the yolk is immediately, a pregnant woman thereby increases the possibility of the birth of twins, provoking and tempting fate.
Interestingly, such double products preferred to give to animals so that in this way it increases offspring.

Why should pregnant women pump an empty cradle?

This ban is similar to a ban on photographing. Pregnant women cannot download the future crib of the baby, because it was believed that the expectant mother, swinging the cradle, already represents her child in her, thereby taking his place.
So she does not seem to let her future baby into the cradle.

Why should pregnant women prepare a dowry to the baby?

The origins of such beliefs can be explained as a ban on sewing (after all, in the old days the scolders were not bought in stores, but sewed themselves), and because the prepared clothing already implies that the child is in it, which is believed to be in it an obstacle to the birth of it.
In addition, a pregnant woman does not always feel so well that she can bother about dowry. Therefore, all the worries of the dowry were taken by other members of the family, and the pregnant woman could not do this.

Why can not pregnant women eat stealthily?

Our ancestors believed that a woman on demolitions either embarrassed to her appetite, or for other reasons, often eats secretly from home. Why can not pregnant women eat stealthily? At such a moment she can frighten any noise, movement or even flashed shadow. In addition, hasty absorption of food does not benefit anyone, and even more so pregnant woman.
Remembering the invisible threads that convey the child’s mood, you can understand why pregnant women cannot eat secretly: So that the child is not born with thieves' manners and was not shy. Yes, and such a sign prescribed her husband to encourage the wife’s good appetite, and not to reproach her, thereby forcing him to hide from him in order to eat an extra spoonful of haze.

Why should pregnant women have nodes or ropes on clothes?

In addition, signs were recommended to pregnant women (this was especially true for those who already had fights), mandatory braids. This is explained by the belief simply. Together with a knot tied, mom ties the baby to this light.
Kniting ropes, shaking threads - all this could not be pregnant so that the umbilical cord connecting it with the child would not wrap around his neck and do not strangle in the womb. Interestingly, mystical charming for pregnant women created from yarn or threads never have nodes - So much belief.

Why should pregnant women sit on the threshold?

The ancient people perceived the threshold as a border separating the domestic world from the external, and symbolically kind - from the evil, alien.
Sitting on the line connecting these two worlds, the woman thereby enables the “evil” world to touch her future baby. Previously, there was also a tradition according to which a child who died before his baptism was buried precisely under the threshold. So any person who crosses the threshold, as if “baptizes” the baby.
To avoid such unpleasant analogies, pregnant women cannot be sitting on the doorstep. Another reason not to sit on the threshold is that it is precisely under the threshold that the most often makes lining or damage that a woman can take on. And the most prosaic reason is the uncomfortable pose in which the pregnant woman sits, and the presence of drafts.

Why should pregnant women confess to strangers about the time of childbirth?

Often they do not even talk about this to relatives, preferring them to learn about the birth of a child after he comes to this light.
Such mystery is explained by the fact that you never know how this or that person actually relates to you, does he have anger.
It is concerning that the woman in labor would not be jinxed at this sacred moment, the upcoming date and time of childbirth should not be said to pregnant women. And if possible, they even specially tried to distract the neighbors and acquaintances at this hour, having come up with some kind of assignment, request or occupation.
Moreover, the expectant mother not only hid her pregnancy until the stomach became obvious, but also conducted many rites that close information about her condition for evil forces so that they could not harm her and the baby. So the woman tried to protect herself from the threat of miscarriage.

Why should pregnant women climb the windows?

Neither get into the house through the window, nor to get out of it a pregnant woman can not be according to signs. Firstly, again, based on the prohibition of physical efforts, muscle tension and other physiological causes contraindicated during pregnancy.
And, secondly, according to the existing mystical belief, it was precisely in the window that the dead were taken out before that his ghost could not find the way back to the door.

Why should pregnant women listen to swearing?

Pregnant women should not listen to the swearing so that the baby will not be born, who will have a birthmark on the face - as the sign says. It is based on long -term observations that confirmed such a pattern.
Any noise, sharp sounds, scream, And even more so, the splash of the negativity, which necessarily occurs during a quarrel, affects the condition of a woman and can affect the child in the form of a birthmark or some other flaw.

Why shouldn't pregnant women grab the face?

Pregnant women should not grab the face to avoid the appearance of a birthmark on the face of the future baby.
At the same time, the belief suggests that if in fright the future mother grabs the hand, leg, stomach, etc. - That is precisely to this place she will put a “imprint” to her child. The explanation is all the same - inextricable connection between mom and child.

Why should pregnant women pick up cats?

Cats, as beliefs say, live at once in two worlds - living and dead. And picking up a cat in her hands or playing with her, the expectant mother can thereby purchase both for herself and for the baby ill -wishers from the other world.
In addition, there is a belief that claims that the child in this case is often born “shaggy”. There is another explanation, more justified at the medical level: cats often tolerate toxoplasmosis that can cause disability in the fetus or even its death, therefore, pregnant women cannot be taken in their arms.

Why do pregnant women should not sit on the leg?

It is believed that a pregnant woman cannot be sitting with crossed legs or putting them on one another, because the child will have crooked legs, lameness, different lengths and other violations.
Doctors warn that such poses cause circulatory disorders, leading to swelling or even varicose veins. And for the fetus the problem with maternal blood circulation is noticeable

Why should pregnant women raise their hands up?

For a long time, pregnant women did not hang linen on the ropes for drying. But this sign is not connected with mystical reasons, but with the fact that such a situation can provoke lack of oxygencoming to the baby, i.e. to hypoxia.
And this, in turn, can lead to a miscarriage or premature birth, so pregnant women cannot be done.

Why should pregnant women eat red berries?

As our great -grandmothers said, eating red berries leads to a golden in the baby. And in that case, folk observations coincide with the opinion of doctors. Red berries, as a rule, can be strong allergens.
And the mother’s allergy will negatively affect the condition and development of the fetus, which is why pregnant women cannot eat scarlet berries.

Why should pregnant women baptize a child?

According to the signs, a pregnant woman who has become a godfather often does not thereby doom her godson to an imminent death.
After all, this is how she acquires a child before her own birth, and her baby, born, can “supplant” the second child from the world of the living. Therefore, you can not baptize a pregnant woman.

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