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Christmastide Divination

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OriginalChristmastide Divination, a painting by Konstantin Makovsky showing a Russian folk alectryomancy during Eastern Orthodox Christmastide to foretell a marriage for young women in the near future.
Reason
It turned out a high-res version of this does exist, although the brightness and contrast asked to be adjusted (somewhat arbitrarily, the original is linked in the source).
Articles in which this image appears
Christmastide Divination, Alectryomancy
FP category for this image
Paintings
Creator
Konstantin Makovsky
  • Support as nominatorBrandmeistertalk 14:23, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support – Intriguing. But the target article is rather stubby (125 words). Perhaps pic could be added to the more extensive Alectryomancy, which describes the practice more fully. Sca (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 14:53, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]