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#MythologyMonday 🪞🕯️ On Halloween night, Victorian fortune-seekers gazed into mirrors by candlelight, hoping to glimpse the face of a future husband. But folklore offered a darker possibility: instead of a sweetheart, the mirror might reveal a skull, an omen of death. 💀 These old scrying customs blurred the line between courtship, superstition and folk magic. 👻 #FortuneTelling #Victorians #FolkMagic #Scrying #HalloweenFolklore 🎨 vintage Halloween postcard in public domain.

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