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Come on VM, I can't beleave it. It's more traditions than superstitions have you never heard "присядем на дорожку", or "через порог не здороваются"?

...because you will never get married. :) So technically the married people may sit at the table's corner.
About the empty bottles on a table... the matter is that the empty bottle takes a place...

кисель - kisel'
пироги - pirogi, pies
пирожки - pirozhki, little pies