Oct 26, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min · 14 segments
Grab your apples, your candles, and your hand mirror because this week Donna is digging into the old-school Halloween fortune-telling traditions people swore could reveal who you’d marry, whether…
All right.
Like saw wind and all of that.
I could not find anything.
And I just don't know if my brain is not brain in, which is, I mean, accurate, but I could not find it.
But I know I touched on a little bit of this, but I didn't go in depth because it was just kind of a footnote in the whole history of, But we are going to talk more about the fortune telling side of Halloween's history.
So picture it.
It's Halloween night, but there's no 12 foot Home Depot skeleton causing jealousy in that neighborhood.
No kids ringing your doorbell and you have to pretend that you're not there because you didn't buy the food.
Instead, you're a young, unmarried woman.
And sometime before midnight, somebody hands you a candle.
An apple and a mirror.
And apparently you're supposed to go into a dark room alone.
And this is not Bloody Mary.
Lord knows I did that and I fucked that one up with Queen Elizabeth.
Yes.
But this one didn't bat an eye.
Okay.
You know what? Neither did you when I messed up Paula and Gertrude.
Oh, I did.
Yeah.
Oh, I did.
I'm the one who alerted you when you said, I just don't understand why they're calling her a different name.
All right.
Like saw wind and all of that.
I could not find anything.
And I just don't know if my brain is not brain in, which is, I mean, accurate, but I could not find it.
But I know I touched on a little bit of this, but I didn't go in depth because it was just kind of a footnote in the whole history of, But we are going to talk more about the fortune telling side of Halloween's history.
So picture it.
It's Halloween night, but there's no 12 foot Home Depot skeleton causing jealousy in that neighborhood.
No kids ringing your doorbell and you have to pretend that you're not there because you didn't buy the food.
Instead, you're a young, unmarried woman.
And sometime before midnight, somebody hands you a candle.
An apple and a mirror.
And apparently you're supposed to go into a dark room alone.
And this is not Bloody Mary.
Lord knows I did that and I fucked that one up with Queen Elizabeth.
Yes.
But this one didn't bat an eye.
Okay.
You know what? Neither did you when I messed up Paula and Gertrude.
Oh, I did.
Yeah.
Oh, I did.
I'm the one who alerted you when you said, I just don't understand why they're calling her a different name.
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