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  What it means

  “Saint Andrew foretells happiness and a quick marriage.” On Saint Andrew’s Eve, young women performed rituals to divine whether they would soon find a husband.

  Vocabulary

  • wróżyć — to foretell, to divine
  • szczęście — happiness, luck
  • zamęście — marriage (for a woman), getting married

  Grammar note

  'Wróży' is third-person singular present of 'wróżyć'. 'Zamęście' is an archaic/folk noun derived from 'mąż' (husband).

  Cultural context

  Andrzejki fortune-telling rituals included pouring molten wax through a key into water and reading the shapes, or pulling straws to predict the future.

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