I can't remember right now about what they say about it but it's supposed to bring good luck if you do that. I always wanted to try this but I don't know if it does anything at all. What's the story behind this one?
2006-09-25 18:04:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
usually you get a wishbone around the holidays ( turkey day,x-mas) So you and another person get the wishbone out of the cooked turkey, you wrap your pinky finger around one tip and the other person, the same, on the other tip. You both make a private wish and then with your pinkies wrapped around the wishbone, you pull. The wishbone will snap, the person with the biggest part of the bone will be the one who's wish comes true. Good luck.
2006-09-25 18:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wishbone Good Luck
2016-12-14 19:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by hutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The custom of breaking a V-shaped bone of a fowl to make a wish is at least 2,400 years old. Its origins can be traced back to the Etruscans - an ancient people from the Italian peninsula between the Tiber and Arno rivers - west and south of the Apennines. More....
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Wishing on a Wishbone
If you have been given the part of the chicken which includes the wishbone and have eaten the meat around it, follow this procedure.
1. Take one of the ends of the wishbone and offer the other to the person sitting next to you.
2. Both hold the wishbone by crooking your little finger around it.
3. Now pull together on the ends of the wishbone while each of you makes a wish.
The one who breaks off the larger part of the bone will have the wish fulfilled.
Warning! You must neither speak nor laugh during these proceedings. You must tell no one what your wish was until after it has been fulfilled.
2006-09-25 18:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by Twisted Maggie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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Ahhhh... hassenpfeffer... yummmmmmy!!! A rabbit's foot is lucky; the rabbit wasn't cooked because of his feet, we get the feet because he was cooked, and he sorta "lives on"... kinda like the wishbone in a turkey, we don't roast the bird just to get the wishbone (not usually anyway) lol
2016-04-10 09:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is an ancient myth that if you killed a chicken with your bear hands you would become very powerful. and as everyone knows chickens are very hard to catch. but when they got a punch in on the chicken if it hit the wishbone it would die rightaway because the bone puncured a lung. but it was considered very lucky to hit the exact spot where the bone was.
2006-09-26 02:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by marshall s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because a rabbit's foot is not good luck until it is severed.
2016-03-18 01:27:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didnt bring the fowl good luck, So why should it bring you any
2006-10-01 08:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by ste53 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not to the animal that had its flesh cooked and its bones broke for the wish of a human
2006-09-25 18:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by j918101080 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a myth, the one who has the longer end gets the make a wish
2006-09-25 18:06:29 · answer #9 · answered by joshtexan00 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i have never come across wish bone
what is it can u tell me
2006-09-25 18:27:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋