Fortune Telling With Walnut Shells (1910's)

This Halloween Fortune Telling Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:

Games For Hallowe’en

by Mary E. Blain

• Open English walnuts
• remove meat
• in each half shell fasten short pieces of differently colored Christmas candles
  • each of which is to be named for a member of party
• These nut-shell boats may also be made by pouring melted wax into halves of walnut-shells in which are short strings for wicks.
• after lighting, set afloat in large pan or tub of water

The behavior of these tiny boats reveals future of those for whom they are named.

• If two glide on together, their owners have a similar destiny
• if they glide apart, so will their owners.
• Sometimes candles will huddle together as if talking to one another, while perchance one will be left alone, out in the cold, as it were.
  • Again, two will start off and all the rest will closely follow.
• The one whose candle first goes out is destined to be old bachelor or maid.