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Herbal Divination
Divination ivina o t to Determine ete
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Number um e of f Children hi re
To discover the total number of children you will have in
your lifetime, perform this old Scottish method of divination:
Go alone into a field of oats at the witching hour on Halloween.
With your eyes tightly closed or your vision obscured by
a blindfold, spin yourself three times around in a clockwise
fashion and then reach out and randomly pull three stalks of
oats. After doing this, open your eyes and count the number
of grains there are upon the third stalk. This will tell you the
number of children that you will father or give birth to.
According to W. Grant Stewart’s 19 th -century book, Highlanders
of Scotland, “It may be observed, that it is essential to a
female’s good name that her stalk should have the top-grain
attached to it.” Should the top of the stalk be missing, this is
taken as a sign that the woman will lose her virginity prior to
her wedding day.
Acorn c r rn n Divination i i iio
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If you desire to know what fate has in store
for you and your fiancée, perform the following
divination on a night of the full moon:
Take two acorns and mark your initials upon
one, and your fiancée’s initials upon the other.
Place the acorns three inches apart from each
other in a cauldron filled with water and then carefully observe
their movements.
If they drift towards each other, this is a sure sign that a
wedding is in the offing. However, if they drift away from each
other, this indicates that you and your fiancée shall part company
before your wedding bells ring. If the acorns remain stationary,
repeat the divination again at a later time.
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