Fortune-Telling 53
seed is, as matter of course, the one which determines the character of the fortune.
Pick a dandelion top that has gone to seed. Say, “Does my mother want me?” and blow the white top with all your might. If all the seeds fly away, your mother wants you right off. If they do not, keep on blowing. The number of blows it takes to clear the dandelion head indicates in how many hours your mother wants you.
“There was Grandmother Collins, she used to tell fortins,” said the old man I was interviewing. “I recollect about one girl that went to her. She said that girl ’d have three beaux, and that she'd marry the poorest one of the three. It all come out just as she’d said. The girl had three beaux, and she took and married the worst one of the lot. Oh, she got a miserable poor man for a husband. There’d be some nights she’d sleep out in the cornfield, she was so afraid of him.
“There was some gypsies used to come through here, and one of ’em was an Injun woman. She was married to one o’ the men. She said she was full-blooded Injun. She was a very pretty
