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Wishbone
The forked breastbone of a bird. In 1455 Johannes Hartlieb wrote of people reading the weather in a goose’s breastbone. By the early 1600s, two people pulled it apart between them, and it had become a wishbone.A goose bone and the weather1455In 1455 Johannes Hartlieb wrote that people read the coming weather from a goose’s breastbone. It is the earliest record in our files of this bone being used to look ahead, long before it was pulled for a wish.Source: Wikipedia, Furcula (citing Hartlieb, 1455) ↗
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