WISHBONE
YES NO eHow Culture & Society Legends & Folklore Folklore How to Make a Wish on a Wishbone How to Make a Wish on a Wishbone By Donna Tinus , eHow Contributor , last updated August 12, 2014 15 Tweet Share Pin 35 Found This Helpful The proper way to pull a wishbone. Making a wish on a wishbone dates back 2,400 years to the Etruscans in Italy , according to Charles Panati, author of the book, "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things." They believed the cock and hen were soothsayers who could predict the future and practiced a tradition called the "hen oracle," which was similar to the Ouija board, but with a hen and grains of corn. When one of these sacred birds were killed, the collarbone was dried and the Etruscans stroked it to make a wish. There were only a few sacred fowl collarbones to go around, thus starting the pract...