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𝖄uletide and New Year’s Eve divination was and still is a practice in Scandinavia, especially in Finland . Probably because it’s one of the times of the year when the veil is as thinnest between the world of the living and the other side.

Today it’s common to practice molybdomancy, and that’s a complicated word I would assume as good as no one that practices it knows it by that name. But it’s to melt lead or tin and let it drop into water and then you try to interpret what you see in the formations it has created that is the answer to your questions is.
It’s essentially like reading in tea or something of that effect and is seen by most like a funny little tradition or game.

An other more daring method is called Årsgång (Year-Walk).
There are thousands of records that describe the tradition or retell stories about it. The core area of ​​divination seems to be in Småland, in southern Sweden, where the tradition is mentioned in writing as early as the 17th century and then in several writings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today it’s probably very rare that anyone attempts it.

Usually it was during specific holidays like, during the Christmas nights, at Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day or New Year - sometimes even at Midsummer - that a person who wanted to get a glimpse of the future could perform the ritual. The person who would preform it would secretly isolated themselves in the dark and abstainfrom food and drink for about 24 hours. At midnight the person would go to one or more parish churches, walk around these counterclockwise, often three or seven times (that is, the magic numbers). When that was done, the person became sensitive to the supernatural powers and found out through visions and hearing what would happen in the village in the coming year. Usually by looking into the key hole of to the church door. It differs from other forms of folk divination, as it was glimpses of the future of the entire settlement, not just of an individual or a family, that were of importance. Those who did this could see processions of corpses, and thus got to know who would die in the area, hear cannon shots or see fires which heralded war and accidents, or hear how scythes hit the fields or how they hit stones, which was a signs of good or bad harvest. In the cabins, people could be seen sitting headless if they were condemned to die during the year, but if they sat with crowns on their heads, they were married instead.

During this walk to and fro the church all sorts of supernatural benevolent beings could try to scare or try to kill the walker. One of them as a ghastly boar with fire and brimstone in its glowing eyes or snout that could carry away the walker or split him in half by running through the person. This boar was called Gloson (The Glowing Sow).

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𝖄uletide and New Year’s Eve divination was and still is a practice in Scandinavia, especially in Finland . Probably because it’s one of the times of the year when the veil is as thinnest between the world of the living and the other side.

Today it’s common to practice molybdomancy, and that’s a complicated word I would assume as good as no one that practices it knows it by that name. But it’s to melt lead or tin and let it drop into water and then you try to interpret what you see in the formations it has created that is the answer to your questions is.
It’s essentially like reading in tea or something of that effect and is seen by most like a funny little tradition or game.

An other more daring method is called Årsgång (Year-Walk).
There are thousands of records that describe the tradition or retell stories about it. The core area of ​​divination seems to be in Småland, in southern Sweden, where the tradition is mentioned in writing as early as the 17th century and then in several writings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Today it’s probably very rare that anyone attempts it.

Usually it was during specific holidays like, during the Christmas nights, at Christmas Day, St. Stephen's Day or New Year - sometimes even at Midsummer - that a person who wanted to get a glimpse of the future could perform the ritual. The person who would preform it would secretly isolated themselves in the dark and abstainfrom food and drink for about 24 hours. At midnight the person would go to one or more parish churches, walk around these counterclockwise, often three or seven times (that is, the magic numbers). When that was done, the person became sensitive to the supernatural powers and found out through visions and hearing what would happen in the village in the coming year. Usually by looking into the key hole of to the church door. It differs from other forms of folk divination, as it was glimpses of the future of the entire settlement, not just of an individual or a family, that were of importance. Those who did this could see processions of corpses, and thus got to know who would die in the area, hear cannon shots or see fires which heralded war and accidents, or hear how scythes hit the fields or how they hit stones, which was a signs of good or bad harvest. In the cabins, people could be seen sitting headless if they were condemned to die during the year, but if they sat with crowns on their heads, they were married instead.

During this walk to and fro the church all sorts of supernatural benevolent beings could try to scare or try to kill the walker. One of them as a ghastly boar with fire and brimstone in its glowing eyes or snout that could carry away the walker or split him in half by running through the person. This boar was called Gloson (The Glowing Sow).

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