Every person has a knife in their everyday life. It has been used for various purposes for thousands of years. It helps a person in everyday life, hunting and fishing, at work, in self-defense, etc. Signs about knives affect many aspects of their use.
People are accustomed to listening to what the experience of their ancestors tells them, contained in sayings, tales, signs and legends. Some of them are still known, while others are rarely remembered or used. If there is this cutting object in the house, a person should know everything about it.
Energy of a knife
A knife in the house is one of the things that human rumor bestows with exclusively negative characteristics. This is more due to the fact that in ancient times the dagger was primarily a weapon intended for both protection and killing. Over time, with the advent of decorative daggers, this item began to receive much less attention as a source of negative energy.
Its energy has a negative value, regardless of the use of the item. It is for this reason that all signs about knives come down to preventing trouble or misfortune.
From time immemorial, any cutting object in the house was primarily a weapon and only then a kitchen utensil. He washed himself with the blood of animals or opponents, and at the same time helped a person in everyday life. It is for this reason that the subject received the reputation of a two-faced liar.
Old people often use the saying “It’s not the knife, it’s the owner.” He, like a sponge, absorbs the energy of his owner. If a person has bad thoughts and intentions, then such an object will carry them too. This saying also referred to murders committed with knives. After all, an object strikes only in a person’s hand.
The most famous signs
There are a number of signs about a knife that are constantly heard.
Even the most non-superstitious people remember the signs associated with the fact that a knife should not lie openly on the table or that the blade should not be inserted into the tabletop. They come from the life experiences of entire generations. People were guided by them for a reason. Signs personified warnings against troubles and misfortunes. Signs associated with dangerous objects were created based on the desire to protect oneself and loved ones from possible troubles or misfortunes.
You can't eat from a knife
The main superstition about knives is that you can't eat with them. Most likely, the sign appeared because eating food from it is not safe and can cause great harm to health.
Another variation of the belief says that a person will become evil if he eats from a blade. This also has a logical basis. They were usually eaten by those people who lived in the field and could not use a fork while eating. These were:
- military;
- hunters;
- robbers, etc.
Since these people were not of the kindest disposition, the sign warned of the danger of resemblance to these subjects. Still, you shouldn’t eat like this, it can lead to injury.
The knife should not lie on the table
Another equally widespread belief is the prohibition of leaving a knife on the table.
This is due to the high probability of being injured by it due to negligence. But our ancestors interpreted this a little differently. There was a belief that a knife left unattended would attract danger and misfortune to residents.
A similar sign recommends not leaving the knife in this position on the table overnight. In the past, people believed that such an oversight contributed to the pranks of the brownie, who could injure or stab a person with a sharp object. In fact, our ancestors talked about the danger of getting hurt in the dark.
In addition to popular wisdom that it should be placed with the blade down, there is also an opinion that it is not advisable to point the blade at a person. This attracts disagreements, disputes and enmity. This is especially true for lovers and people with whom you do business. If a person constantly puts a knife down, pointing the blade at his interlocutor, then their relationship will soon deteriorate.
If you fell
The sign of dropping a knife to unexpected guests is also often used. This belief exists not only among the Slavic peoples, but also in Japan, Germany and England.
This sign also has its own explanation. If the hostess is busy in the kitchen and in a hurry drops something, then this means that she is in a hurry before the guests arrive.
If an object falls, then you need to take a closer look at exactly how it landed:
- The tip stuck into the floor - a man with bad thoughts and intentions will come to the threshold. See who comes to visit over the next 24 hours. This person does not always show his true colors. This could be a relative, friend, neighbor or just a stranger. It's worth watching out for.
- Fell on its side and sharply and points to a person, means that a guest will come to the house for whom he is waiting.
- He fell on his side and pointed at the window - the family was spared by adversity. These are the tricks of ill-wishers or simply evil fate. You should be wary of repeated attempts to harm your household.
- If you injured a person in a fall, then he needs to be more careful with his secrets. You should not trust unreliable people, otherwise soon everyone will know about them.
In China, they believe that a fallen dagger is a sign of trouble that has bypassed the house. And in African countries, someone who has fallen with the point downwards is a warning about the death of a loved one, but if he hits the floor with the handle, then there is no need to worry.
Two knives on the table
You cannot keep two knives on the table. This can be a sign of a quarrel in the family and even divorce. The same is said about crossed blades. If two knives are lying nearby and their blades are crossed, you need to wait for bad news.
Little-known signs
There are also a number of little-known beliefs that are still used in society. They also concern the use of a knife in everyday life.
If it's broken
Popular beliefs about a broken knife predict misfortune for the family. Relatives of a person whose hands have broken a blade or its handle may be in serious danger.
A broken knife should not be left in the house. It's better to throw it away in a place where people don't go. This could be the far side of a park or an abandoned house. A broken thing should not just be thrown away, but a prayer should be read over it before doing so. You can use “Our Father” or any other famous one. Some practicing magicians are recommended in such situations to pay off the negativity by throwing a coin after the breakdown with the words “Paid!”
If found
Since the knife is the personification of violence and everything bad, such a find does not bode well. If the item was found on the street, it is recommended to simply pass by. If you want to throw it away, you need to do it with protected hands. Someone else's knife will not bring good to the house; on the contrary, it can quarrel between household members.
But if someone else’s blade ends up in the house and no one knows about the history of its appearance, then in most cases damage occurs. You need to get rid of such an item immediately by throwing it away in an uninhabited place. It is also recommended to carry out a ritual of sedum cleaning the room after this.
Depending on the type of damage, the knife can be thrown in completely different places:
- under the pillow - damage to dementia or headaches;
- under the door - to poverty;
- stuck in the door frame - to death;
- under the window - for discord in the family.
If this happens, you can punish the ill-wisher by throwing a dagger into the fire and reading the “Our Father” 3 times. Under no circumstances should a knife be handled with bare hands.
If it was stolen
Even if the knife was not used in occultism and rituals, it absorbs the energy of the people who held it in their hands and used it. Even a dagger hanging on the wall, used only as decoration, contains the energy of the house and all its residents. This is why a cutting object can be stolen.
If a knife goes missing and is not found for a long time, then people in the old days considered it a very bad symbol. Especially if after some period of time he was there. Such a piece of kitchen utensil must be thrown away without pity.
You need to throw it under a dry tree, and if possible, then into a full-flowing river with the words “Go all dashing things to your owner!” It’s better to do this at sunset, completely alone and not tell anyone about it. If an ill-wisher finds out about what happened, he will again steal knives for his dirty deeds.
You can't put a knife under your pillow
In parallel with the recommendation not to leave a knife on the table at night, there was also a ban on storing it under the pillow. According to popular belief, such an object under the pillow brings bad dreams, or even deprives a person of the opportunity to see them.
Conclusion
Everyone has at least one knife at home. It's hard to imagine your life without him. It is for this reason that it is recommended to listen to the wisdom of our ancestors, which has come down to us in the form of various legends.
Since most of the signs were based on basic rules of personal safety, edged weapons necessarily figured in them. It was also customary to charm an object when going on a hunt or war. Such a dagger not only obeyed its owner, but protected him from death.
To understand the key folk signs, you need to understand what a knife is as such. This is a tool (in the kitchen), a weapon (while hunting), a witchcraft instrument (during magical rituals).
It is obvious that the knife is popular. And the main role here is played by the shape of the product and the material of manufacture:
- The handle is in contact with the human body, absorbing his thoughts, emotions, intentions. The formed energy message passes into the blade, which, due to its sharpness, enhances the potential of any action. Chop vegetables, kill an animal, draw a protective circle - all this is achievable without a knife, but the effect will be noticeably worse.
- Natural material has its own biofield. If the handle of a knife is wooden or bone, and the blade is metal, then the product develops its own aura. Plastic in this sense is weak and “empty”.
These properties of the knife explain its active “participation” in folk superstitions. The product receives energy from a person, develops its own personality and acquires the ability to warn or harm depending on the situation.
Find a knife - what do folk signs say?
Knowledgeable people have always advised to avoid random finds. It's no secret that along with some things you can pick up negativity. And folk signs say unequivocally:
- take a knife lying on the road with its tip facing someone walking - to death;
- pick up an unknown knife from the ground - be stabbed to death by evil people;
- finding a rusty knife means parting with your loved one.
The “foundlings” have an unenviable reputation. Nevertheless, it is deserved: the knife is often used in rituals during which damage, illnesses, and curses are transferred to it. The same object can contain a devil or a demon. Sometimes a knife is deliberately plotted to cause harm to a specific person - in this case, the weapon is planted in the house, under the threshold, in personal belongings. Finding someone else's knife in your home is a clear sign of negative magical influence. It is recommended to immediately throw away the product, and then carry out energy cleansing (of yourself and the room).
Sometimes you really like a knife you find on the street. But you should not succumb to its “charm”: some conspiracies act in such a way as to attract random victims and not allow them to pass by. At a minimum, instead of a raised knife, you need to leave an odd number of coins, a valuable item, a good treat - to buy your way out of trouble. Although it is better not to take risks if a knife is found lying at a crossroads, in a ravine, in a cave, or stuck into a stump, into a wall, into the ground - such a weapon was definitely left there for a reason.
Folk signs about a knife as a gift
Traditionally, a knife is not given as a gift. It is believed that such a gift:
- will attract all sorts of troubles and conflicts to the new owner;
- “cuts” the bonds of friendship between the recipient and the giver.
From the point of view of magic, such folk signs are more than justified. Why? There are two main reasons, and each can play a role in a certain situation:
- It is not customary to refuse gifts, which means you can use a knife to cast a negative spell and literally hand it into the hands of the recipient. “In addition” to the gift, the person will receive something bad - troubles in love, financial difficulties, illness.
- The owner of the knife is the one who bought it. And the product may not like the sudden change of owner. In the best case, the gifted item will be lost (“it will go looking for the real owner”), in the worst case, it will start to do harm (it will constantly become dull, cut its hands, attract negativity).
In return for a knife received as a gift, folk wisdom recommends giving at least a small coin. This will facilitate the conclusion of a kind of purchase and sale agreement, which will remove the potential negative to the maximum. But if the role of the giver is an enemy or an unpleasant person, it is better to ignore the norms of decency and by any means refuse the knife. An obvious magical “underlying” is more difficult to neutralize, i.e. a coin can weaken the influence of damage, but it is not able to completely eliminate its effect.
In any case, it is recommended to clean the gifted knife before you start using it. It is necessary to hold the product in salt, warm it over a fire, bury it in the ground or rinse under running water. All this will remove at least part of the unnecessary energy programs.
Folk signs about a knife that has become unusable
Since a knife is an extraordinary object, its breakage is also considered not the most common incident. Popular superstitions say:
- a knife breaks when its owner is exposed to too much negativity;
- the knife quickly rusts if the person using it has health problems;
- the knife constantly becomes dull in cases where a person’s capabilities are blocked at the witchcraft level (someone performs rituals to close paths);
- the knife accidentally breaks before a major quarrel or separation from loved ones.
Since the “death” of a knife indicates a certain amount of negativity that has manifested itself, it is recommended to carry out cleanings. It is also unacceptable to simply throw away the product: it must be buried under a tree (preferably oak), after saying a few farewell words. Such a “funeral” will not cause offense to the knife and will not provoke additional troubles for the person.
Signs about a knife in everyday life - in the kitchen and on the table
Since people mostly “communicate” with knives while cooking or eating food, the most relevant folk signs remain superstitions relating to this area. Among them the most common:
- Eating from a knife means becoming angry (sharp tongue).
- Playing with a knife means conflicts in the house.
- The knife fell from the table - a man will soon come to the house. If the sound of the fall was loud and clearly distinguishable, then the guest is someone familiar.
- The knife not only fell, but also stuck its tip into the floor - leading to a serious quarrel. If this happened during the process of slicing bread, then he would be dead.
- The knife fell with its blade in the direction of the person who dropped it - to an unpleasant conversation.
- Pointing a knife at someone means causing the person to become ill.
- Cutting bread with not one, but two different knives means misunderstanding in the family.
- Leaving a knife stuck in bread on the table means financial problems and hunger.
- Not removing the knife from the table at night means inviting trouble for yourself. Basically they say that the brownie will cut himself, get offended and begin to harm his careless owners. But there is also a version that evil spirits will play with a forgotten knife, and the devil will be able to stab the owner of the house with it.
- Putting knives crossed on the table means trouble. Crossing a knife with a fork or spoon means death.
- Sharpening a knife for a pregnant woman means harming the unborn child.
- Holding a knife in your hand and cursing it means offending the product and incurring its wrath. Don't be surprised by sudden cuts - this is a kind of revenge.
The knife should be taken seriously, as it easily catches and conveys negativity. But if they are “friendly” with the product, then, on the contrary, it will help the owner and protect him from troubles.
Signs about knives as amulets
Some simple rituals based on folk superstitions about the knife as a protector have survived to this day:
- Sticking a knife into the frame of the front door or into the wall means protecting yourself from evil spirits and evil people. Additionally, it is recommended to read the plot: “The knife is sharp, my tongue is cunning, it weaves and weaves, it diverts and drives away the enemy, it confuses their paths, it twists paths for them, so that they don’t come to me, so that they don’t harm me.”
- Put a knife under your pillow to protect yourself from any troubles. Such an amulet is placed in the cradle of an unbaptized baby, in the bed of a pregnant woman or newlyweds. Be sure to make a reservation: “From troubles and misfortunes, from blasphemy and sums, from black sorcerers and unclean witches.” It was especially advised to keep a knife under the pillow during funeral rites so that the deceased would not cling to the person.
- Godparents should step over the knife when leaving the house for christening - to protect the child from evil spirits.
- Draw a circle around yourself with a knife - protect yourself from werewolves, ghosts, witches and other evil forces.
- Cross all the windows and doors of the house with a knife, and then stick it into the threshold - protect your home from the machinations of evil spirits and black magicians.
- Sticking a knife into the ground means protecting yourself from thunderstorms. And if you throw a weapon into a tornado at an intersection, you can injure the devil.
- Stick a knife into the wall of an empty barn - make a talisman for livestock against wild animals. At the same time they said: “The bear shouldn’t eat fresh meat from this knife, don’t tear our cow, don’t hurt our cattle.” Only then were the animals brought into the barn.
- Straining the milk through a knife means protecting the cow from the witch who is spoiling it. The witch, in order to harm the animal, thrusts a knife into a post, tree or plow.
- Sticking a knife into the bottom of the table during a feast will “protect” food from overly hungry guests (they will eat less food than usual).
The most powerful ritual was considered to be stabbing a knife into the ground. This technique was used in any unclear situations. For example, if a person suddenly met mermaids in the forest, he drew a circle around himself, inserted a knife into the ground - and the evil spirits did not notice him. In a similar way they escaped from wolves, goblin, hail, storms, witches, etc.
Ideally, each person should have their own knife. Then any folk signs will be more accurate for him, and the protection will be as complete as possible. It’s not for nothing that the Russian proverb says: “A knife is a comrade on the road.” This weapon is suitable for work not only in the material, but also in the subtle world.
There are different signs: good, bad and neutral. And finding a knife is not good. The reason lies in the object itself, which brings pain and evil, containing some negative energy. It may carry the energy of the previous owner or the damage inherent in it. By choosing such an item, a person takes it all upon himself.
It is believed that if this knife caused harm to health or took someone’s life, then this will pass on to its new owner. He may be tormented by nightmares and groundless remorse. Also, this find can cause discord in the family, constant scandals and a series of unpleasant events in life.
Of course, different nations have their own views on such finds. For example, in European culture there are the following signs:
- A knife with rust - to separation, parting with a loved one.
- A sharp, well-sharpened knife means worries in the future and life’s difficulties.
- A sharp knife with a broken end means dreams will not come true, plans will not come true.
- Finding a knife on the street means material losses, quarrels or trouble.
What should I do?
The best advice would be to never raise the knife if you find such a find and just pass by. Whatever the value of a knife - be it an ordinary kitchen knife or an obviously old and expensive one - it can contain negative energy, damage, the evil eye or a curse. And you can only protect yourself from it by ignoring the find.
Threw a knife
A knife thrown to a person carries a very great danger. This item could have been used in the past in various occult rites, conspiracies, and black magic rituals.
A knife used in Voodoo rituals and those where someone's blood is used and shed is especially dangerous. Finding such a knife is an extremely bad omen; it will not lead to anything good.
How to get rid of harm
If you like the knife you find and want to keep it, then you should perform some ceremonies or rituals with it. This will allow him to be cleansed of the negative energy that he stores within himself. Of course, someone will say that they do not believe in objects and the found knife cannot harm them.
But even in this case, cleaning the item will be the right step. The process is simple, it won’t take much time, but it will give you confidence that everything will be fine in the future.
Whether to believe it or not is everyone's business. But it is still necessary to exercise some caution with such things.
People will accept many more “feminine” ones than male ones. Firstly, it is obvious that women are more superstitious than men. Secondly, the basic kitchen utensils have not changed in essence for centuries, and the kitchen is the territory of ladies who know exactly where salt and sugar are spilled, spoons and forks fall on plates. But the most confident leader in terms of the number of signs associated with it, undoubtedly, is the knife.
Why does the knife fall?
In general, a fallen thing is a sign of an approaching guest. Our grandmothers used to say when they dropped something: “Someone is in a hurry or someone without an arm is holding it.” The word knife itself denotes a masculine object. Therefore, the knife fell - wait for the man. It is also important to consider how he fell. A cutting - an unexpected guest will turn out to be a familiar and pleasant person. Blade down - the guest will be unfamiliar, perhaps coming with evil intentions. To avoid this visit, you need to pick up the fallen knife and, knocking it on the table three times, say: “Stay at home, don’t come to us.” While waiting for a good guest, you don’t need to do anything, you just have to raise the knife.
Eat with a knife
It was believed that if a person prefers to eat from a knife, he will be angry and irritable. People around him do not like such people and avoid communicating with him. Once you get rid of this habit, your relationships with loved ones will begin to improve.
Superstitions
I would like to note that not only superstitions are associated with the knife; it is an assistant in carrying out some rituals. For example, they use a knife to cut the “fetters” of small children. When the child takes his first steps, you need to symbolically run a knife between the baby’s legs, as if cutting the ropes that prevented him from walking when he was smaller.
In the old days, it was considered bad luck to sleep while a dead person was being taken out of the house somewhere nearby to be buried. It was believed that a sleeping baby might not wake up. Only a knife that was placed under the child’s pillow could protect him from this. Now they do this in villages too.
Knife - hint
The knife requires attention and care. It is worth not only periodically sharpening the knife, but also polishing it. This item needs to be handled with care and attention. If it begins to rust, this is a hint to the owner or hostess that it is worth paying attention to their health.
Under no circumstances should you keep it at home.
There have always been many legends, signs and prejudices associated with edged weapons. This is no wonder, in the form of cutlery, kitchen utensils, hunting skinner - the knife has been with us since ancient times to this day.
The word “knife” could not be uttered at sea, but the knife itself was often stuck into the mast of a deep-sea fishing vessel for good luck.
If two knives or a knife and fork intersect on the table, this means failure or a quarrel, unless you immediately put them in different directions.
If the knife falls to the floor, it means the arrival of a male guest.
It is not good to toast bread on the tip of a knife, or to twist the knife on the table.
However, the latter was used in some places as fortune telling to find out whether the husband or wife of the fortune teller would have dark or light skin.
This required a table knife with a white handle, it was spun on the table and watched as it stopped.
If the tip is towards the fortuneteller, then the skin of the future wife or husband is light, and if the handle is dark.
The most common current superstition surrounding knives is that because a knife is sharp, it can cut friendships or love when given as a gift.
When this happens, the knife should not be accepted except in exchange for something else.
Even today, the recipient of such a gift usually gives a small coin in return to prevent a subsequent quarrel or misfortune.
A knife is a talisman along with other sharp and cutting objects made of iron (scissors, needle, axe, scythe, sickle).
They carried the knife with them, placed it under themselves, under a pillow or at the bottom of a cradle to protect an unbaptized baby, a woman during the prenatal and postpartum period, and the bride and groom during the wedding ceremony. To protect against witches, wolves, whirlwinds, and hail, they stuck a knife into the ground, wall or threshold, drew a magic circle around themselves with a knife, and crossed windows and doors with a knife.
The Belarusians of the Gomel region put a knife in the cradle of a boy so that he would become a carpenter, and a comb for a girl so that she could spin. In the Zhitomir region, during a funeral, a knife or scissors was placed in the cradle “so that death would not approach” the child. In Polesie, a mother placed a knife under herself while breastfeeding her child. In Ukraine, godparents, going to church to baptize a child, stepped over a Knife placed at the threshold or on the threshold so that an unclean spirit could not approach the child. Seeing mermaids in the forest or field, Ukrainians drew a circle on the ground with a knife and lay face down on the ground in it, believing that the mermaids would not touch them.
The use of knives in funeral rituals is archaic. Knives and sickles are found in ancient Russian burials: they were stuck into a fireplace or into an urn, and during inhumation - into the bottom of the grave. In Macedonia, they placed a knife under the head of the deceased to prevent him from turning into a vampire. In Voronezh province. They placed a knife under the table on which the deceased was laid so that the body did not decompose.
The Eastern and Western Slavs believed that a knife thrown into a whirlwind would wound the devil, and blood would remain on it. Ukrainians used a knife blessed for Easter for this.
In Volyn province. in order to disperse the thundercloud, they used a knife, blessed along with Easter dishes, to cross the approaching thundercloud three times and pray for the souls of the dead without repentance, and then the knife was stabbed into the ground. According to the beliefs of the Oryol province. If you jump into a whirlwind and stick a knife into the ground, you will kill the devil. The Belarusians stuck a knife into the place where the child fell.
In Vyatka region. releasing the cow from the barn, they hammered a knife into the threshold with a stone and said: “Just as a bear doesn’t eat meat from this knife, so don’t eat our Little Mottled One,” after which they passed the cow through the knife.
In the Rivne region, in order to protect the cattle, they got up before sunrise, undressed, took a Knife or a scythe under their left hand, ran around the barn three times and stuck the Knife into the wall. In Belarus, if a cow disappeared, they stuck a knife into the threshold, into the wall or into the lintel above the door so that the animals would not touch the cattle.
In Belarus and Ukraine, in order to harm the witch who took milk from cows, they filtered the milk through a knife, sickle or needles. For example, in the Chernigov region. if the cow was milked with blood, then the milk was poured onto a knife placed under the strainer on the milk pan - with this “you cut the witch’s tongue.”
At the same time, in the tales the Knife is described as one of the weapons of witches who take milk: the witch sticks the Knife into a plow, post or tree - and milk flows along the tip of the knife, and in the neighboring herd a cow begins to roar, which is left with an empty udder. Ukrainians of the Ovruch region said that when a witch wants milk, she goes to her barn, hammers a Knife into the plow and substitutes the milk milk, the milk just runs in a stream from the Knife.
In Russian tales, the sorcerer jumps or somersaults over a Knife or 12 knives stuck into the ground with the blades facing up to turn into a wolf, and the witch in the same way turns into a dog or pig. Then the werewolf returns and jumps over the same knives on the other side, but if during this time someone takes out the knives, then he will remain a beast.
In Russian fortune-telling, the girl sets the table for her betrothed, and places two cutlery with knives and forks on the tablecloth; when the betrothed comes and sits down at the table, the girl must tear the tablecloth off the table; if she doesn’t make it in time, then her betrothed will kill her (Kostroma province).
Handling the Knife was regulated by many rules and prohibitions:
According to the beliefs of the Eastern Slavs, if the Knife lies on the table with the blade up, there will be a quarrel;
You can't eat with a knife - you'll be angry.
You can’t play with a knife - there will be a quarrel; If you find a knife on the road, you cannot take it, otherwise you will die from the knife (Russian).
You can’t run a knife through milk or sour cream - this will cause the cow’s milk to be bloody (woodland).
You cannot cut bread into milk with a knife, but you can only crumble it with your hands, otherwise the cows' udders will crack (Ukrainian and Polish).
Do not leave the knife on the table overnight - the evil one will kill you;
You cannot give a knife or a needle to avoid a quarrel (Russian-Ukrainian).
During funerals in Belarus, they tried to do without knives, so as not to accidentally injure the soul of the deceased.
In Rivne and Volyn regions. During a wedding, a youth meeting or a big holiday, a knife was stuck into the table from below. so that guests eat less.
In Poland, at Christmas time, they wondered with the Knife about the future harvest: they put the Knife between the grain bread and the wheat pie and left it on the table until the New Year; if the Knife rusts on the bread side, then wheat will not be produced, and if on the pie side, then wheat.
“The knife is dull - the owner is stupid, the tablecloth is black - the hostess is stupid”
Russian folk sign. Although the tablecloth doesn’t seem to be relevant, it’s also correct about it
“The master is stupid - the knife is dull”
Variant of the above sign
"Losing a knife means losing your life"
Scandinavian proverb
“You don’t take out a knife in a shootout”
American proverb, perfectly logical
“He who has a knife gets meat”
Hunting. I completely agree with the meaning
“What kind of knives are the same owner”
Exactly!
“Only a coward goes without a knife”
An ancient Russian proverb with a not very clear meaning at first glance. Well, our brave Russian ancestors had slightly different concepts of courage and cowardice than modern office plankton
“They don’t scare you with a knife, if you get it, hit it!”
Still, it shouldn’t be taken completely literally. If the enemy saw the knife, got scared and ran, what then, conscientiously chase him and bring the matter to its logical end? This is also impossible, this would already exceed the limits of necessary defense. Rather, the proverb should be understood as follows: do not take out a knife if you do not have the psychological determination to use it against a person
“If you come across a knife on the road with the edge against the path, do not pick it up - it will lead to death.”
Russian folk sign. Another option, even more categorical: if you find a knife, don’t pick it up, a dashing person will kill you. By the way, my work partner actually once found a knife with a prisoner’s work while fishing. And soon after that, he was completely unreasonably attacked by two drug addicts in his own entrance. He was into boxing and scattered them without any problems. And already at home I discovered a wound on my chest from a sharp point. He was lucky, he was hit in the rib. But the sign could really come true!
“No one can be trusted, neither man, nor woman, nor beast. But you can always rely on the blade in your hand. Trust only him!”
Conan is a barbarian. A great line from a good movie!
"A knife is on the way, comrade"
Russian proverb
“Don’t eat from a knife - you’ll be evil”
Russian sign
"A dagger is good for those who have it"
Abdul, the white sun of the desert. Modern classic.
“Don’t play with a knife - it will lead to a quarrel”
Russian sign. Once as a child, I threw a knife at a door frame, and achieved a good percentage of sticks. Unfortunately, my parents were not very happy with my success. And then at school the head teacher took this knife away from me for the same thing.
“A knife fell from the table - a man will come, a spoon or fork - a woman”
Russian sign
“The knife fell and stuck in the floor - to a quarrel”
Yeah, and from the previous sign you even know who the quarrel will be with. Get the knife out of the floor immediately and don’t hide it far away. So simple, just in case...
“Don’t leave the knife on the table at night - the brownie will cut himself”
Options: “don’t leave the knife on the table at night - evil spirits will play” and even worse, “don’t leave the knife on the table at night - the evil one will come and kill the owner.” One way or another, all options are bad
“The more a knife rusts, the better it cuts.”
In the last century it was absolutely true. Now it’s a little outdated, today’s stainless steels can be very good
“The lost knife has a gold handle”
Udmurt proverb
“There is no point in taking a knife where an ax is placed”
Russian proverb
“Even if you need a sword once in your life, you should always wear it.”
Japanese proverb
“A knife cannot be given as a gift”
An ancient sign. Interestingly, it is used by both Russians and even the British. This is despite the fact that in ancient times it was extremely unlikely for peoples living so far away to adopt each other’s signs! One of two things: either this rule was discovered independently, or it is so ancient that it appeared at a time when our white race was one. From the point of view of the native religion of our ancestors - paganism, every object has a soul. And a knife, one of the oldest and most important tools, cannot but have it! The knife must know who its real owner is. When giving as a gift, he may misunderstand the situation, and this is not good. You can get around the problem if you sell the knife, at least for one penny
“When holding a knife in your hand, you cannot think badly about it - you will be offended”
Also an ancient pagan sign. So I once made a homemade product for myself - a small portable knife for the countryside. It turned out to be a bit bulky, and it turned out to be problematic to make a good scabbard for it. But I found that it is wonderfully convenient for peeling potatoes. I decided to temporarily place him in the kitchen. Well, I’m sitting there, peeling potatoes with it, and thinking, “Well, it’s probably just going to be a kitchen item, it’s not really good for anything else.” Immediately the hand fell away and the blade struck his finger. And just like that, evenly tangentially for two centimeters, it cut off the top layer of skin, and surprisingly it was not very deep, less than even half a millimeter in depth. It doesn't hurt and there's no blood. Never in my life have I cut myself so strangely! That’s how my knife made me understand that it can actually do a lot of things, and it’s unlikely to be satisfied with a kitchen existence. Polite, tactful, without unnecessary rudeness, but strictly and unambiguously.
“The way to protect yourself from evil spirits is to draw a circle around yourself with a knife.”
I don’t know how it works, I haven’t tried it, the devil has never seemed to me. And it’s not clear whether to draw a circle in the air or to cut a circle directly in the linoleum. But if anything happens, I’ll keep it in mind!
“Two crossed knives on the table - unlucky”
There is also a more severe option - a knife lying crossed with a spoon or fork means death
“You cannot cut bread with two different knives - it will lead to a quarrel”
Sign
“You can’t leave a knife stuck in bread - it means hunger.”
Russian sign. To be honest, a loaf of bread with a knife sticking out of it really looks somehow obscene and disrespectful to bread to me. I don’t know, some purely intuitive, subconscious feeling arises. Of course, I am a Slav, and the genetic memory was passed on to me from my ancestors that this should not be done. And so to think, whoever does not respect bread really has every chance of ending up hungry.
“Sticking a knife into a wall is protection from evil forces”
This sign is used by many peoples; in different versions it is required to stick the knife not into the wall, but into the door, the back of the table, or somewhere else. Well, evil forces also appear in different versions. The meaning of the sign is of course clear: a man with a knife is not some kind of mug, he is not to be trifled with.
“In some areas of Scandinavia there was a custom - a festival of knives. Unmarried girls stood in a row, and each had an empty sheath on her belt. The guys came up, and each could insert his own knife into the sheath of the girl he liked. A week later we met again, and if the girl came with this knife, it meant she liked the groom. After which the guy went into the girl’s house, stood against the wall and threw this knife at the opposite wall. If the knife stuck, the matchmaking took place"
I respect the ancients! A very beautiful custom indeed. Everything is simple, and at the same time symbolic and understandable without unnecessary words.
Don't eat from a knife - you'll be angry.
The belief is associated with the mystical perception of the knife as a talisman against evil spirits. Therefore, it must be treated with respect. The everyday side of the issue is much simpler: if a person eats from a knife, he can injure his tongue or lips. Here you will inevitably become evil.
The word “knife” was not spoken by those at sea, but if it is stuck into the mast, according to popular belief, good luck in catching fish is guaranteed.
In Japan, all objects that can cut - be it a sword, a knife, a garden pruner, or a chisel, in Japanese are summarized by the concept of “hamono”, literally meaning “a thing with a blade” - bring good luck, while at the same time giving a turn to everything bad , it can also be knives, scissors and other objects united by this concept.
The use of knives in funeral rituals is archaic. Knives and sickles are found in ancient Russian burials: they were stuck into a fireplace or into an urn, and during inhumation - into the bottom of the grave. In Macedonia, they placed a knife under the head of the deceased to prevent him from turning into a vampire. In Voronezh province. they placed a knife under the table on which the deceased was laid so that the body did not decompose
The Belarusians of the Gomel region put a knife in the cradle of a boy so that he would become a carpenter, and a comb for a girl so that she could spin.
In the Zhitomir region, during a funeral, a knife or scissors was placed in the cradle “so that death would not approach” the child.
In Polesie, a mother placed a knife under herself while breastfeeding her child.
In Ukraine, godparents, going to church to baptize a child, stepped over a knife placed at the threshold or on the threshold so that an unclean spirit could not approach the child.
Seeing mermaids in the forest or field, Ukrainians drew a circle on the ground with a knife and lay face down on the ground in it, believing that the mermaids would not touch them.
The Eastern and Western Slavs believed that a knife thrown into a whirlwind would wound the devil, and blood would remain on it. Ukrainians used a knife blessed for Easter for this.
A special magical meaning was attributed to a knife stuck in the ground. To protect themselves from hail, the Southern Slavs stuck knives, scythes, axes or badnyak firebrands into the ground.
The knife is involved in many magical and ritual actions; for example, the legendary werewolves turned into wild animals by jumping over a knife stuck in a tree stump.
Witches allegedly used a knife to spoil cows. To do this, a knife with a rope tied to it was stuck in the desired cowshed, and a spell was pronounced, after which the rope was lowered into the milk pan, and milk was milked from the cow. After this, the cow could only be eaten; it no longer gave milk.
American Indians drilled a hole at the tip of a knife - an eye. I saw the knife with this eye - and never cut its owner.
The knife also had phallic symbolism: in Slavonia, a bride who did not want to have children bought a folding knife in a shop without haggling and kept it folded with her during the wedding.
In Poland, at Christmas time, they used a knife to tell fortunes about the future harvest: they put the knife between the grain bread and the wheat pie and left it on the table until the New Year; if the Knife rusts on the bread side, then wheat will not be produced, and if on the pie side, then wheat.
If you leave a sharp knife on the windowsill on the night of the full moon, it will become dull by morning.
In Lincolnshire it was considered bad luck to sharpen a knife after sunset or leave it on the table overnight. In the first case, a robber or enemy will enter the house, in the second, some domestic animal will die at night, and a knife will be needed to skin the carcass.
In the Volyn province, in order to disperse a thundercloud, with a knife, blessed along with Easter dishes, they baptized the approaching thundercloud three times and prayed for the souls of the dead without repentance, and then the Knife was planted in the ground. According to the beliefs of the Oryol province, if you jump into a whirlwind and stick a Knife into the ground, you will kill the devil.
The Belarusians stuck a knife into the place where the child fell.
In the Vyatka region, when releasing a cow from a barn, they hammered the Knife into the threshold with a stone and said: “Just as the bear doesn’t eat meat from this knife, so don’t eat our Little Pestrukhonka,” after which the cow was transferred through the Knife.
In the Rivne region, in order to protect the cattle, they got up before sunrise, undressed, took a Knife or a scythe under their left hand, ran around the barn three times and stuck the Knife into the wall.
In Belarus, if a cow disappeared, then they stuck a knife into the threshold, into the wall or into
the lintel above the doors so that the animals do not touch the cattle.
In Belarusian Polesie, if a cattle got lost in the forest, the owner turned to the healer with a request to “locate” it. The healer went into the forest, found a tree covered with green leaves more than others, raised the Knife he had brought up and read a conspiracy in which he asked God and St. Yuri "detect" the cattle. Having pronounced the last word of the conspiracy, the healer drove the Knife into the tree and returned home.
The next day, before sunrise, he again went into the forest and took the Knife out of the tree. If it remained clean, this meant that the animal had not died and would not leave the place where it was when it was “spotted”, and also that it was protected from wolves.
In Belarus and Ukraine, in order to harm the witch who took milk from cows, they filtered the milk through a knife, sickle or needles. For example, in the Chernigov region, if a cow was milked with blood, then the milk was poured onto a knife placed under a strainer on a milk tray - with this “you cut the witch’s tongue.”
The knife does not cut its own handle.
Persian proverb.
A wound from a knife heals, a wound from a tongue does not.
Armenian proverb.
Many words hurt more than swords.
(Fear not the knife, but the tongue)
English proverb.
The knife skinned the cow and broke on the tail.
Digor proverb.
You can't cut bread without a knife.
Folk art.
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How many dishes, so many knives.
The word is not a knife, but it leads to a knife.
A word hurts worse than a knife.
The best surgeon is the one who holds the knife tightly.
Three things in the world are dangerous: a knife in the hands of a child, power in the hands of a fool, and flattery in the mouth of a sycophant.
A dull knife draws a line.
He who has no sheep has a dull knife.
People don’t even have a knife to cut, and they don’t even have an awl to shave.
People even shave an awl, but our knives are numb.
A stingy person's knife can be dull.
Even with a knife, I don’t want it.
Even drink, even eat, even cut with a knife, even just scrape, but go away.
What you don't eat, don't cut with a knife.
What the knife doesn't know about yams.
A man without will is like a knife without steel.
As a raging man holds a knife in his hand, so does the evil one have power.
What kind of forge (i.e. forging, work), so is the knife.
May you hang around on the knife!
A sword is more expensive than a scabbard.
There is a chip on the knife, stubble on the hedgehog.
It would be good to use this knife to put an old man on the stove (stupid).
It's like giving a madman a knife.
Our language is a sword, it has no sheath, it is terrible because it is always naked, repeating words while rhyming them does not mean being a poet.
The tongue is sharper than a knife.
Rogue man, sell your whip; Hedgehog man, sell your knife!
He swings a knife at the bug.
In words he asks for mercy, but he carries a knife behind his boot.
There are jokes on your lips, and a knife behind your back.
You can even ride and gallop on this knife.
You can't even use this knife on horseback (without a saddle).
Not all cooks carry long knives (and there are also robbers).
Don’t break the loaf, but use a knife to cut and eat.
Do not leave the knife on the table at night - the evil one will kill you.
Don’t indulge sadness - it stabs you under the heart, and you stab it under your nose.
Don't rush to the knife - you'll be stabbed to death.
Don't sharpen your knife until you've caught the ram.
It's not good to rush at a louse with a knife.
Neither a goose nor a ram, not a knife, not lying on a platter, everyone ate it (the breast).
Neither baked, nor boiled, never on a platter, not crushed with a knife, but all sorts of food (breasts).
It is needed like the hilt of a kitchen knife.
Images and knives are not given, but exchanged.
You can’t achieve honor with desire alone, and you can’t scrape off dishonor with a knife.
He's been sharpening his knife on me for a long time.
He cuts me with a dull knife.
He sharpens the knife for himself. He twisted the whip on himself.
The sharpness of a knife is useless for its handle, the speed of a horse is useless for its hooves.
From a word to a knife.
From a word to a knife. The word is not a knife, but it leads to a knife.
I am glad to the lady that there is honey on the knife, lick it and you will be circumcised.
The boyar's son was relieved: behold the knife, behold the stake, behold the gallows.
Hang out with him, and keep a knife in your bosom!
He sharpens the knife himself, but says: don’t worry.
Your dull knife is better than your neighbor's sharp one.
