Oh, these superstitions! In our time, when we are surrounded by stunning technology, and suddenly believe in some ancient pagan signs? However, there are people who can find something frightening in every gift.
Usually they are not young. But their younger acquaintances and relatives are forced to reckon with prejudice. Here, for example, slippers. The question is: why don’t you give slippers? Below we consider this error on all points.
From the depths of millennia
An echo from ancient times responds today to the question that has arisen in time immemorial: why can not you give slippers? To him people prone to mysticism know more than one answer. Such a person will frown if he is given a beautiful, warm, comfortable slippers from a pure soul. “Do you want my death?” - can hear a completely dumbfounded donor in response to a gift. Especially if the slippers are white. “I saw you, you know where ...”, the phrase is common, and familiar to everyone.
In the Christian tradition, it was customary to put slippers on the deceased. It was believed that in such soft shoes he would easily and silently move through the skies. Slippers were chosen white, with a soft thin sole, because in the sky, unlike the earth, it is always clean. This indispensable attribute of a funeral is known to many. An old man who thinks about death, prepares for it and is afraid of it, can regard the gift as a wish for a speedy death and react violently, inadequately.
Another variant
Other people explain differently why slippers should not be given. For them it is a symbol of separation. They would never bring such a gift to a close and dear person: “What if it comes to his mind to leave his home?”
So it’s better not to risk it and not to tempt fate, they believe, and not to make such surprises, first of all to yourself. After all, at the same time, they are baked about themselves, their beloved, about how they will suffer if they are left by a loved one. To tell you the truth, there is an element of egoism in this. Therefore, it is a pity if in the store they pass by beautiful and comfortable slippers. Meanwhile, on February 23, a lot of women, not really thinking about choosing a gift, buy either toilet water, or shaving foam, or socks, or slippers, and nothing bad happens. It just all depends on our attitude to the gift. What we put in our head will happen. This was even said by the ancient Romans that a person would die the death that he intended for himself. This association refers simply to the question of our perceptions.
How to present slippers?
Even the most superstitious person will not refuse to accept cute slippers if the donor requires them to be bought symbolically. By demanding a ransom for your gift of 10 or 5 kopecks, you immediately remove the negative from the gift. Now this is a fun purchase, even, possibly, with bargaining. Here the question immediately disappears, why slippers should not be gifted. Signs of a malicious nature that carry thoughts of death and separation will cease to act. So it is believed among the people.
Suspicious hint
Now people often do not register marriage, they live just together as one small family: you and me. This is visible freedom for a man who does not feel obligated by something and does not want to have a stamp in his passport yet, because he will more or less firmly tie it to a possible half.
Does it make sense to give him a gift in the form of slippers? How will he take it? He can understand that a woman wants to firmly connect him to the house, that is, encroaches on his freedom of choice. And freedom is valuable to everyone. That's why you can’t give slippers to a man. It may occur to him to free himself from the shackles that a woman seems to be trying to put on him, although this is not at all the case. She wanted to create more comfort and warmth, to give pleasure to a beautiful new thing. This happens only when the relationship is fragile, and for some time this pair itself will break up. At the same time, it is useless when a woman torments herself with various reproaches, including the question: “Why can’t you give slippers? And I did it, and he left my life forever! ” She is tormented by a bad omen, although in fact she met an unreliable person. With him, life would not have improved even with children.
If the relationship is just beginning, then slippers as a gift are highly undesirable. A girl or a boy can understand this as an invitation to live together, and one of them is completely unprepared for this.
Why can not give slippers for the New Year?
If you do not believe in signs, then slippers will be a very good gift, especially if you put something else in them. Indeed, in the West, children hang socks, and Santa Claus puts gifts in them. Slippers in this case are an alternative.
Bright, funny, fluffy slippers, especially with the symbols of the year or beautiful intricate embroidery, can be a lovely gift. It’s not customary to give hygiene items on this merry holiday. This is a personal matter for everyone. Many things belong to this series. For example, towels. And why not give slippers for the New Year? For the same reason as towels. It’s like a hint that a person is messy. And who might like it? And especially festive in these gifts there is nothing if they are selected hastily and somehow. They are nice, but in a purely domestic way, and for the New Year you want something unusual, fabulous. Especially children, girls and women - romantic and dreamy creatures need a gift with imagination.
Who can give slippers to?
Only to a close and dear person. Mom and grandmother will always understand you correctly. In our cold and damp climate, they could already get arthritis, and they would like warm slippers. Their strained legs will rest in warmth and bliss. Dad and grandfather will also be delighted with comfortable slippers. Heated slippers are especially good for older people . Why don’t you give home slippers? You can, if you choose them correctly. Kids, despite the functionality of the gift, can also be happy.
If they depict a beloved hero from a cartoon or a fairy tale, then the saturated colors of slippers will make a girl, for example, a fairy princess. What more could you want? A little man needs purple, dark green, mossy-looking slippers. He will also be delighted with the camouflage pattern.
You can present a set of delicate slippers and a bathrobe to your girlfriend.
The one who constantly works at the computer will be delighted by the weightless, non-impervious, imperceptible toe footwear.
Why not give slippers and a mirror?
We seem to have completely sorted out the slippers. But the mirror is a very special thing. The ancient, in which people of different characters and generations looked, “absorbed” all the positive and negative qualities of these people. It will transfer them to the new owner, and it is not known how it will affect his fate. A new clean mirror does not carry anything neither bad nor good, but it is not worth giving it. The mirror symbolizes the window to the other world, and what will be the look into the unknown is unclear.
In conclusion, it is worth emphasizing that gifts chosen with good intentions have never harmed anyone, and old superstitions should be forgotten and never remembered.