Did you know that not every 4th year is a leap year? Why is a leap year considered unlucky, and what signs are associated with it?
11. Karin Henriksen from Norway holds the world record for giving birth to the largest number of children on a leap day.
Her daughter Heidi was born on February 29, 1960, son Olav on February 29, 1964, and son Lief-Martin on February 29, 1968.
12. In the traditional Chinese, Jewish and ancient Indian calendars, not a leap day is added to the year, but a whole month. It is called the "intercalary month". It is believed that children born in a leap month are more difficult to raise. In addition, it is considered unlucky to start serious business during a leap year.
The main difference between a leap year is the number of days in February. In a leap year, unlike a normal year, February has twenty-nine days instead of the usual twenty-eight. There are different opinions as to whether a leap year can be called unsuccessful. Superstitious people fear its onset because they associate it with the beginning of a difficult period in life. This year, a person in all matters is accompanied by failures that cannot be avoided. But this is just one opinion.
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Leap years are considered bad for a reason. There is an old legend associated with it that reveals the origin story of this year.
Leap year is associated with the name of the angel Kasyan. The Lord trusted him with his plans and thoughts. But Kasyan could not resist the temptation and went over to the side of the dark forces. He was punished for his betrayal. For three years he was beaten for his anger and cowardice, and in the fourth year he descended to earth and harmed people in every possible way. Our ancestors believed that Kasyan could ruin their harvest and bring disease to their livestock.
It cannot be said unequivocally that a leap year is unlucky. Yes, more accidents are happening all over the world. But this can be explained quite simply: the statistics of accidents increases due to the fact that the leap year is one day longer. This is a logical explanation that is difficult to dispute. The number of months does not change, but one is added per day during which an accident, car accident or death of a person may occur.
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We have come down to many examples related to leap years. The most controversial of them is the sign according to which a marriage entered into this year will not be happy for the young. This superstition appeared for a reason. It has its own story. In ancient times, leap year was called the “Year of Brides.” The girl could choose her betrothed herself and woo him. According to the rules, the groom could not refuse, even if he was in love with another girl. Marriages were not based on mutual love. Because of this, the relationship was not happy and strong. Therefore, a prejudice has arisen that it is undesirable to hold a wedding this year.
In Orthodoxy, this sign is treated with skepticism. The wedding must be held according to the church calendar, to which leap year has nothing to do. This year is not bad for Muslims. There are no superstitions or omens in Islam.
People born in a leap year were perceived ambiguously by our ancestors. Someone believed that the baby had an unhappy fate from childhood. There is an opposite opinion, according to which the child is unique, different from other children. A happy and successful life awaits him; good luck will accompany him in all his endeavors.
People believed that a child whose birthday was on February 29th was endowed with esoteric abilities. He was born for a reason; he has a kind and bright mission on earth: to help his neighbors.
Signs of Fate cannot be ignored. If a person feels that he is endowed with a rare gift, he should use it for good purposes.
There are many prohibitions that affect people's lives. They all boil down to the fact that you shouldn’t make big plans for a leap year. There is a high probability that they will not be implemented. What to avoid:
A leap year, or it is also called the word “leap year,” causes many rumors and superstitions, which mainly boil down to the fact that this year is unhappy and promises only negative events. In this article we will talk about how fair these opinions are.
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The word “leap year” came to us from the Latin language, that is, it is of ancient origin, and its literal translation sounds like “second sixth”.
According to the Julian month, the Earth goes through its circle in 365.25 days, and every year the days shifted by 6 hours. Such an error could easily confuse ancient men, and in order to avoid this, it was decided that after every fourth year another day would be added to the annual circle. Accordingly, this year will include 366 days, and they will be added in the shortest month - February, it will consist of 29 days. To distinguish it, it was called a leapfrog.
In Ancient Rus', in turn, there were many legends about the occurrence of leap seasons, and each of them, even then, was perceived as necessarily unlucky. Legends about the arrival of the new calendar and the leap year in Rus' were also reflected in the Saints. So, February 29 is dedicated to the memory of St. Kasyan, and people call it Kasyan’s Day. Several legends and apocrypha (stories that are not recognized by the church as confirmed and consistent with what we know about God) are dedicated to this day. But it sheds light on the origins of the bad reputation of leapfrogs.
According to this legend, Kasyan appears to the common people not as a man, but as an angel, and a fallen one, who was once seduced by Satan, as a result of which he fell away from God. However, later he realized how wrong he was, repented and prayed to the Creator for mercy. Taking pity on the traitor, God, before accepting him back, assigned His angel to him. The celestial being shackled Kasyan and, by order from above, beat him on the forehead with a metal hammer to bring him to his senses for 3 years, and on the fourth he freed him.
According to the second legend Kasyan is a person, and Kasyanov’s day is the date of his name day. However, according to the legend, that man systematically drank himself to death for three years in a row, but on the fourth he came to his senses, repented, gave up his addiction, turned to repentance and became a saint - he acquired the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the people believed, it was appropriate for him to celebrate his day so rarely - only on February 29.
This legend is dedicated to Saint Kasyan, who travels across the earth, and Nicholas the Wonderworker, well known to Christians. And then they meet a man along the way. He asked them for help because his cart was stuck in the mud. Kasyan responded to this that he was careful not to spoil his clean robe, but Nikolai, not afraid of the dirt, immediately helped. The saints returned to the Kingdom of God, and the Creator noticed that Nicholas’s robe was dirty and asked him what was causing it.
The saint told him what happened on the way. Then the Lord noticed that Kasyan’s clothes were clean and asked the question: were they really traveling together? Kasyan replied that he was afraid to stain his clothes. God realized that Cosmas was being cunning, and arranged it in such a way that his name day is celebrated once every 4 years. And Nikolai’s name day for his meekness is twice in 365 days.
Anyway , whatever it may be, the leap was recognized as bad. Therefore, the superstitious Russian people tried to somehow protect themselves from this day.
As in ancient times, in today's world there are often superstitions and signs that do not best define the leap years of the 21st century. We will list some of them:
This attitude is quite understandable: the appearance of the 29th day in February characterizes the whole year as being different from others, and psychologically sets it apart from others. This can be important for people who are unsure of their abilities. It will be much easier for him, citing this special period, to refuse something new than to expend energy for self-development or starting some kind of business.
For the same reason, it will be easier not to get pregnant, so as not to give birth later, because there is an increased fear that the birth will be difficult, the baby may be born sick. And if not, then suddenly his life will turn out to be joyless or difficult.
Our inventive people see and the threat in the very name of the leap, saying that it “mows down” people, in other words, takes them away, leads to death. Therefore, the holiday is celebrated with caution (or, conversely, on a special scale - you never know who will die...). This is a very common belief that tries to creep into statistics. It is becoming accepted that the mortality rate increases every 4th year. At the same time, these data are in no way confirmed by the statistics themselves.
You can’t pick mushrooms either, much less eat them or sell them to people. No, not so as not to be poisoned, but so that “bad soil” does not bring “anything bad” to a person.
It is believed that the leap year entails natural disasters and all kinds of disasters: drought, floods, fires.
In the last century, as well as in the current one, such calendar periods also caused horror. A list of them can be seen in the image or found on the Internet. Also, the year 2000, the same millennium, in turn was a leap year, opening the whole millennium.
Despite the fact that with the development of technology, information has become more accessible and it is possible to learn more and expand one’s horizons, getting rid of primitive fears, many continue to anxiously await the leap, internally preparing themselves for problems and troubles, and when they come (if they come), it is perceived as doomed: well, it’s a leap year... An extra day in February. Deadly!
There are special calendars that indicate when exactly the leap year occurs. It is enough to look carefully at the table and find (or not find) the current figures there. It is enough to know at least one leap year, after which you can calculate them yourself using elementary arithmetic. Let's say you're interested in leap years in the 21st century. Find the calendar and view it. Having learned that 2016 is a leap year, it is easy to understand that the next year will come in 2020.
If you trust statistics, a very small number of all disasters and troubles occur on leap years. The superstitions that exist today can be interpreted by the fact that people who closely followed the misfortunes and troubles that occurred during leap years gave an exaggerated meaning to what was happening only because of the unflattering reputation of the latter. I would like to wish people who highly trust superstitions about leap years to pay more attention to positive events and changes. And then, perhaps, a list of good and joyful signs will be collected that will restore the reputation of the Leap Years.
We all know that a normal year consists of 365 days, but there is also a leap year, which includes 366 days. It occurs once every four calendar years, and the month of February in such a year includes one more day. But few people wonder why such a year is called a leap year, and today we will tell you about the origin of this name.
As is the case with many other names known today, the origin of “Leap” Year has its origins in Latin. This year has long been called “Bis Sextus”. The Latin translation of this name means “Second Sixth”.
It is worth noting that such a calculation of time was introduced by the Romans, and in the Roman calendar BC, days were not counted in the same way as they do today. The Romans were accustomed to counting days in terms of the number of days remaining until the next month. The Romans inserted an extra day between February 23 and 24. February 24 itself was called “sectus,” which meant “the sixth day before the beginning of March.” In a leap year, when an additional day was inserted between February 23 and 24, February 24 occurred twice, which was called “bis sectus”, as we already noted - the “Second Sixth” day.
It is easy to understand that “Bis sectus” in the Slavic sense can be easily converted into “leap year”, because these names are consonant. However, in the modern Gregorian calendar, an additional day, as is known, is inserted not between February 23 and 24, but after February 28. So, once every four years, we have the opportunity to observe on wall calendars, calendars in our computers and smartphones, the day of February 29th.
Having figured out why a leap year is called that, it is also necessary to take a short excursion into why such a year exists at all and why it was introduced.
We all know that a normal year consists of 365 days, we are used to it, and we do not doubt this statement for a second. However, in reality it is not entirely correct, since each year is equal to 365.4 days, that is, 365 days and 6 hours. Of course, such a calculation of time is very inconvenient, and it certainly leads to certain shifts in people’s perception of the flow of time. That is why scientific astronomers decided to calculate each multiple of four years in the amount of 366 days (using 4 excerpts of 6 hours from other years), and all the rest - 365 days exactly.
Leap year is a cause for concern as many people believe in its unfavorable energy. Perhaps it is just an unreasonable tradition to become depressed every four years. Perhaps this time really is fraught with danger. Scientists, psychics and astrologers have their own opinions on this matter.
Based on pure science, a leap year is just a mathematical adjustment that helps keep time counting correctly. In a leap year, the Earth moves around the Sun at the same speed, along the same trajectory - its movement is identical every year. The only important point is the time spent on one full revolution. In this case, it is not exactly 365 days, but 365 days and 6 hours. It follows that over 4 years the calendar lags behind the real movement of the Earth by a whole day.
This is why the leap year was introduced in the 1st century BC. This was done by order of Julius Caesar. Over 2000 years, without such an innovation, our calendar would have fallen behind by almost a year and a half.
Many hundreds of years of observations allow us to conclude that in leap years the level of harvest falls, the mortality rate of livestock and people increases accompanied by failures. Also, during such periods, incidents that are shrouded in mystery occur more often. One such incident in the 20th century was the sinking of the Titanic, which still raises a lot of questions and provides no answers.
Psychics answer the question of why leap years are dangerous and unlucky. Esoteric teachings say that the dark aura gains strength during this period, acquiring power over the minds of people. At such times, it is better to always carry protective talismans with you and at least once a month carry out rituals to cleanse yourself of negative programs in order to avoid the evil eye, curse or misfortune.
Astrologers based on the eastern calendar, they put forward the theory that each leap year has its own specific characteristics, but there is still a certain tendency for difficulties to arise during this period. To know how to attract good luck at such a time, you need.
Believers need to know that with their superstitions they create difficulties for themselves. A leap year is considered unlucky precisely because people set themselves up this way, turning away from God. They believe not in their own strength and in the power of God, but in what according to the church, simply no.
Disputes on this topic can continue forever, since each side will adhere to its own version. The best option would be to exercise simple caution. It is better not to predict the future, but to live in the present time, trying to come to enlightenment and harmony by doing good deeds, and not by avoiding possible dangers. Believe in yourself, your strengths and don’t forget to push the buttons and
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