Folklore of Fortune Telling, Superstitions, and Avoiding Danger

In the 1990s, paper fortune tellers were all the rage at my school. They were like the low-tech version of a Magic 8 ball, another fortune telling ‘toy’. Ours never looked as fancy as this one, but this is what I mean. Their use in England dates to the 1950s (Opie 2001 [1959], pp. 341–342). […]

The post Folklore of Fortune Telling, Superstitions, and Avoiding Danger appeared first on Icy Sedgwick.