Book recommendations about Russian superstitions

[J P Maher]

Roman "Mass of the Pre-sanctified" likewise. Not really a Mass, since no eucharist nor lights, candles, nor music...
... A eucharistic host from the previous day is consumed by the celebrant...

Looking through legs etc.  My Austrian (Carinthian Slovene) mother-in-law told me about the practice.
The girl had to itls had to first sweep out the kitchen, strip naked and bathe... Then, turning her back to the door, she bent over and between her legs would see the man she was to marry...
jpm

  

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Sounds like how you’re supposed to
be able to see a Leshii (which is not recommended). 
  

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"close one eye, turn around and look between your legs
during Divine Liturgy on Good Friday and
you'll see your one true love"--is this made up or what is the source?
 Holy Friday is the one day in the year when Divine Liturgy is NOT served
in the Orthodox Church, only vespers and matins. 
   
Svetlana Grenier   
  
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Brian Hayden <bkhayden1990 at gmail.com>
wrote: 
Dear SEELANGers, 
   
Does anyone know of any good books about Russian superstitions and folk
beliefs? It's not only the old rural superstitions ( things like "close
one eye, turn around and look between your legs during Divine Liturgy on Good
Friday and you'll see your one true love", etc.), but also the modern ones
that interest me -- lucky bus tickets, never shaking hands across a threshold,
etc. I'd like to read something in Russian, preferably, but English
recommendations are also welcome.  
   
Sincerely,  
   
Brian Hayden   
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