From childhood, it is known that it is better not to commit some actions - to lend in the evening, to clean up until the journey of a loved one is over, to sew clothes on yourself. All this is attributed to bad omens, leading to failure, but after all, every such superstition has a reason.
Sew on yourself: folk signs
As a rule, folk signs associated with any action predict failure in business or misfortune. Mending clothes on oneself is no exception, but, besides bad luck, it also leads to unusual consequences, or rather, to forgetfulness, because grandmothers still say: "Don't wear yourself, you will sew your memory." Moreover, this superstition extends not only to mending holes on things, but also to sewing on buttons, grabbing fabric, if you need to fasten diverging parts with thread.
The reasons for the emergence of this superstition are understandable, because sewing and needlework in Russia was an exclusively female occupation, and in the conditions of house building, no one considered the keepers of the hearth as a bearer of intelligence in the family, controlling all aspects of life and forgetting nothing. Therefore, husbands ugly ascribed unconsciousness to their wives and daughters, if suddenly they were carried away by work and forgot about the cabbage soup left in the oven.
There is one more sign about sewing: it is not recommended to pick up a needle and thread before a long journey, this can bring trouble along the way.
The real danger of sewing on yourself
Most likely, sewing on oneself became a bad omen not because of a woman's mind, but because in the old days there was a high probability of getting an infection or illness. After all, it is inconvenient to mend the clothes worn, so any careless movement can lead to an accidental injection.
It is worth noting that the technologies of past centuries did not allow the manufacture of sewing tools, including needles or sewing machines, with high quality. The metal had microscopic burrs and cracks in which sweat from fingers and dirt accumulated, and bacteria actively multiply in this environment that can cause sepsis or disease, such as tetanus.
Vladimir Mayakovsky's father died of blood poisoning, which developed precisely after an injection with an ordinary awl.
How to learn to bypass a sign
For those who believe that you cannot sew on yourself, you can give a little advice to help. If you really have to darn something without taking off your clothes, you should do the work carefully and slowly, while holding a small piece of thread in your teeth. It is believed that such opposition to omen helps prevent all unpleasant consequences, including memory loss and mental problems. This, of course, can be attributed to grandmother's fairy tales, but for those who try to correctly observe the precepts of our ancestors, it will not be difficult to do this.
