WISHES

Admit it!
You have made a wish on the
turkey wishbone.


Ever wonder where this tradition came from?
Probably not til this moment---but now that you have,
I'm going to share my research with you.
The Etruscans
(they lived in Italy 800 years BC) thought that
chickens had some powers of divination. When the hen died
they saved the clavicle, dried it and would
rub on it and make wishes.
The Romans brought the tradition when they
conquered England, and the
English colonists brought the tradition to America.
The term "get a lucky break"
originally applied to the person
winning the
"wishbone tug of war".

I even did some research on how to always win this
"tug of war".
The theory is that
you don't tug on the wishbone.
Just hold it firmly and
this will cause the OTHER person to do the tugging.
If they tug,
it will cause the wishbone to break at its
weakest point and you will
always win.
So, I decided to try out this theory...

As you can see, there were no winners
at our house this year,
but no one came away disappointed either.