Old photograph of a wedding on the East Coast of Scotland. In the old days most Scots married locally, young people learned from an early age how to foretell who their marriage partner would be or what he or she would be like. For example, by paring an apple so that the skin comes off in one length. As the clock strikes twelve, it was swung round the head and thrown over the left shoulder. When it landed it would form the first letter of the name of the future spouse. Also, two nuts were burnt in a fire, if they burnt quietly all would be well, if they exploded and burst, true love would be hard to find.
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