#apple divination

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Tonight is St. Andrew’s Eve

The advent season in Czech folklore is filled with divination traditions! Tonight I’ll be attempting to pour some wax! Happy den sv. Ondreja/St. Andrew’s Eve!

[kikiscauldron]

Apples have played an important role in the food, games, and fortune telling of Halloween. Apple divination was commonly practiced as a Halloween party game in the Victorian era to see a person’s romantic future. Bobbing for apples was originally a marriage divination: the first person to buy into the apple would be the first person to marry in the upcoming year. While the practices may feel a little out dated in our modern era, they give us a peek into older practices and traditions that celebrated the magic of divination. Can you think of a way you would practice divination with an apple? Would you try one of the methods mentioned here?

[theunrepentables]

The 8th Sense by Cheryl Lynne Bradley | Motivated Savages -

Divinatory essays uncovering wonder, insight, and everyday miracles.

[theunrepentables]

The 8Th Sense: A Book of Common Divination - Kindle edition by Bradley, Cheryl Lynne. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

[joyfullllives]

Today and later tonight is a really good time for divination practices. Especially with the upcoming full moon.

If you want to be really festive, do apple divination.

[morgan-dragonfly-witch]

Apple Divination! * If a girls peels an apple in one long piece at midnight on Halloween, and then tosses the peel over her left shoulder or into a bowl of water, she will be able to read the first initial of her future partner's name in the shape assumed by the discarded peel. * If a girl peels an apple at midnight on Halloween and hangs the peel on a nail by the front door, the initials of the first man to enter will be the same as those of her unknown lover. * If a group of unmarried boys and girls each attach an apple to a string and twirl the apple over a fire, the order in which the apples fall off the string indicates the order in which they will all be married. The owner of the last apple to drop will remain unmarried. * In a group of unmarried boys and girls, each person marks an apple and places it in a large bucket of water, along with unmarked apples. Without using their hands, the teens attempt to take bites out of the apples floating in the water. The teen is fated to marry the person whose apple they bite. Another variation of this custom consists of hanging the apples from strings tied to a tree.

from https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Crafty-Kitchen-WITCH/227772957358344?ref=stream&hc_location=stream