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Halloween Cabbages—Is My True Love Tall and Grand?
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"O, is my true love tall and grand? O, is my sweetheart bonny?"
Mirrors, cakes, apple peels, and chestnuts (see below) have all figured in the Halloween fortune-telling games depicted on early twentieth-century postcards. So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I found this postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle, which suggests that young women could use cabbages (or kales) to foretell what kind of husband–tall and grand? bonny?–they might marry.
In a discussion about Pumpkins and Postcards and Portents–Oh My!, Mikaela Taylor of Middlebury College explains how picking a cabbage from the garden could predict a woman's romantic future: "If the selected cabbage or kale was difficult to unearth, it denoted difficulty in a relationship. Kale with clumps of dirt stuck to the roots signified a rich husband, and the size, shape, and taste of the kale foretold the physical attributes and personality of a future spouse."
Ellen Clapsaddle illustrated a number of other prognosticating postcards like this one. For another example, see Halloween Chestnuts—Uncertainly, Hope, Despair, Happy Ever After.
![Wishing You a Lucky Halloween](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/07/48/40170748.6d60007c.500.jpg?r2)
![May This Be Your Luck on Halloween](https://cdn.ipernity.com/138/85/51/27448551.afe551e0.500.jpg?r2)
![Halloween Apple Peeling to Predict the Future](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/92/45643992.86ecbe6b.500.jpg?r2)
![Halloween Chestnuts—Uncertainly, Hope, Despair, Happy Ever After](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/32/04/42963204.a0f70dba.500.jpg?r2)
Mirrors, cakes, apple peels, and chestnuts (see below) have all figured in the Halloween fortune-telling games depicted on early twentieth-century postcards. So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I found this postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle, which suggests that young women could use cabbages (or kales) to foretell what kind of husband–tall and grand? bonny?–they might marry.
In a discussion about Pumpkins and Postcards and Portents–Oh My!, Mikaela Taylor of Middlebury College explains how picking a cabbage from the garden could predict a woman's romantic future: "If the selected cabbage or kale was difficult to unearth, it denoted difficulty in a relationship. Kale with clumps of dirt stuck to the roots signified a rich husband, and the size, shape, and taste of the kale foretold the physical attributes and personality of a future spouse."
Ellen Clapsaddle illustrated a number of other prognosticating postcards like this one. For another example, see Halloween Chestnuts—Uncertainly, Hope, Despair, Happy Ever After.
![Wishing You a Lucky Halloween](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/07/48/40170748.6d60007c.500.jpg?r2)
![May This Be Your Luck on Halloween](https://cdn.ipernity.com/138/85/51/27448551.afe551e0.500.jpg?r2)
![Halloween Apple Peeling to Predict the Future](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/39/92/45643992.86ecbe6b.500.jpg?r2)
![Halloween Chestnuts—Uncertainly, Hope, Despair, Happy Ever After](https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/32/04/42963204.a0f70dba.500.jpg?r2)
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