Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

“Let him be whoever he thinks he is,” she said. “That’s all anybody could hope for in this world.”

The Fool jingled miserably across the floor.

with alarming suddenness, nothing happened.

First, she had to find out his name. The old peel-the-apple trick should do that. You just peeled an apple, getting one length of peel, and threw the peel behind you; it’d land in the shape of his name. Millions of girls had tried it and had inevitably been disappointed, unless the loved one was called Scscs.