Christmas prognostication: apples, lead and shoes

Like the walnut, the apple has a pre-Christian significance that may be the basis for Czech fortune-telling traditions

Guest Writer | 25.12.2011

With the year almost at a close, it's normal to wonder what the new one has in store. While some of us make resolutions, Czech folklore leaves the future to chance, seeing destiny in how a thrown shoe lands, the arrangement of seeds in a sliced apple or in the shapes formed by lead poured into water.

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