Fortune telling with beans

This kind of combination of beans in Bosnia is called "beans of Hazrat Fatima" and is considered a sign of great happiness, especially when it comes to love. But it should be emphasized that this sort of happiness is reserved only for girls who want to get married.



At the end, when we count all the beans in three lines, we got the number 13 and in the rest, which is called "tehir" or time, there’s a 28 beans which is a sign of the wedding.

This combination, which a certain number of beans (grains) is constituted in three lines, it's not at all beneficial for love relationship, no matther if the client-person is free, or in a relationship, or in a marriage.

At the person who’s out of relationship and free, the combination reveals emotional insecurity, breakdown of the relationship, and a period of loneliness.

If the renewal of the relationship or reconciliation with the partner is desired, the outcome will be extremely unfavorable.

For a married person or the one in the relationship , this combination of beans alerts to the disbelief which in most cases results in a breakdown, or divorce.

If the subject of divination is a job, work, then beans reveal failure, loss of work or an accident that will occur in the workspace.

When it comes to health, this combination reveals how a person has problems with the intestines. Often there is a bad will, and it feels that there is no strength and a good will.



Below the three lines there is the rest of beans, a total of 24 grains, which tells us that the client-person is in a very stressful situation.

Soulmate

One of the best love combination in divination which can show grains of beans.

FALANJE U GRAH


One of the most popular methods of fortune-telling in Bosnia and Herzegovina is certainly divination with beans "falanje u grah" or "throwing beans" (bacanje graha). Among the people there are stories that demised Hazrat Fatima secretly performed divination with beans, hiding it from her father Muhammad. On one occasion while Hazrat Fatima predicted the fate of her friend in the room suddenly entered Mohammed. Hazrat Fatima in shock and rush managed to hide under her dress only half of the beans, which were located in front her, therefore since then it is believed that in every divination lies half truth and half lie. It is interesting that one combination of divination is named after her name – “Hazrat Fatima fal”. It is a combination of 333, which represents happiness, marriage and the fulfillment of whish.







In Bosnia, a person dealing with the divination in the beans is called “faladžija" or "faladžinica" if it is a female person. For divination in the beans fortune teller needs the red patch on which he or she lines up 41 grains of white beans. Before she starts placing the beans on the patch she takes the beans into the right fist , places the fist close to her mouth and recites the prayer: “Rabbi jesir vela tu'asir, rabbi temmim bil-hayr” three times and then blows into her fist three times.

Then she divides the beans into three smaller piles and from each takes the four seeds making a figure of three rows with nine beans pile where each individual pile can have 1, 2, 3 or 4 seed. The left vertical line represents a female person and the right male person. The vertical line in the middle is called the house or heart. In addition, females and males lines are divided into three symbols: the head, arms, legs and the line in the middle is divided on: the cushion, fireplace and doors.
The method of divination in the bean is extremely broad and requires much effort and space for an explanation, however there are several shorter versions of divination which people mostly use to get the answer to a specific question.


The group of 41 beads of white beans the fortune teller arranges three times:
-The first arrangement is for the past and it symbolizes childhood and youth
The second arrangement symbolizes the clients present and the middle of his life
The third arrangement symbolizes the future, and is treated as the most important part of the complete fortune telling. It symbolizes the latter part of someone's life.

A B C
D E F
G H I

TEHIR or TIME

The first row (A,B,C) is called „površina“ or "the surface", and its characteristic is that it can only have an odd sum of numbers 5 or 9 beads, when compared to the second and third row. When there are five beads in the first row (212, 122, 221), and in the bottom that symbolizes time (or their) 5 groups each having four beads (or five hatmi) then that shows speed to the fortune teller, favorable progress of the situation, or as they like to say: „the beans go in your favour!" The first row symbolizes intelligence, thinking patterns, thought processes,. and that's why there is a "male" and "female" head inside and a "pillow".

The second row (D,E,F) represents emotion and the house. It can be said that the second and third row are connected while the first row is separate and independent. The one thing that most people don't know is that only in the second and third row there can be for example a combination of infidelity, loss, moving, tears but also travel, gain, etc.

The third row (G,H,I) is a symbol of the things that are outside or in front of the door. It is a symbol of movement and action which is confirmed by the male and female foot prints (or legs) and the "threshold". The more beads there are on the threshold the more guests in the house or if there is only one bead on the threshold-the news will arrive inside the house, two beads "open door" that is the one whose fortune is foretold will travel or the like.

Tehir or time symbolizes a specific period when a prophecy might come true, for example, if there are five groups that have four beads in the "time" row, that means that the foretold will come about soon, if there are four groups each having four beads then the client has to be patient because the prophecy will not come about soon, etc. Fortune telling of four groups each having four beads is called „hatma“.

Besides this, each fortune teller with beans can foretell for three types of persons- girlfriend, wife, widow or boyfriend, husband, widower. For example, if a married person receives the "Hazrat Fatima fal" it is not interpreted as to the other groups. While to the other groups it foretells marriage, to the married ones it foretells divorce or the like.



111 - problems, divorce, departure

112 - loss of a loved one

121 – love between partners

131 - ''wings'': happiness, cash gain, succes

144 - relationship, marriage

212 -   bismillah fal grah: love date

233 - love joy

242 - meeting, cash gain

224 - travelling

314 -  problems in a marriage or family

323 - love

333 - Hazrat Fatima fal: marriage, luck, succees on work or in love

414 - problems

431 - loss

432 - news

444 - prosperity, succees on work or in love, etc.

In Bosnian way of bean grains fortune telling particular attention is committed to the interpretation of each grain positioning. Direction in which the grain is directed, its horizontal or vertical position, whether one grain is attached to another, or tree or more, is very important data in the process. An example concerning one love couple follows:



1. Woman is burdened with love relationship and displays serious insecurity. She easily gets angry with the man and then she terminates communication with him.
2. Man and woman are together.
3. Man has got similar temper as woman he gets angry easily and than he does not communicate to her.
4. Woman loves man
5. Regardless certain problems in character and communication themselves, as a couple, go along fine.
6. Man is quite introverted; he does not display enough emotions or affection.
7. Woman is indecisive; she often does not know what to do to improve their relationship.
8. Communication seems to be a great problem. They both communicate more with others than with each-other.
9. Man is more oriented towards carrier, income, money.


If this combination of grains appeared in the first cast of beans than analyse is interpreted in the past tense. This, in fact, interprets the relationship of partners in the past. However, if it appears in the second cast than it represents their present, while in the third cast has negative connotation and may indicate problematic love relation.