APPLE PIPS, squeezing: divination

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM | Copyright information

APPLE PIPS, squeezing: divination
1844 BARNES Poems in Dorset Dialect 319–20 [fruit-pip kernel] Sometimes shot from between the thumb and fore-finger by young folks after saying ‘Kernel come kernel, hop over my thumb, And tell me which way my truelove will come, East, west, north, or south, Kernel jump into my true love's mouth.’
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