The Ancient Art Of Possum Bone Casting

I have spent some time exploring ancient forms of divination. It made me realize one can use just about anything, from bones to rocks, or even animal intestines… anything that may be handy at the time!

A few years back a friend of mine moved from Maine to New Orleans. We are connected on Facebook, so I decided to contact her to see how she liked living in New Orleans, and what she was doing for work. Much to my surprise she said, “I’m doing bone readings in the French Quarter of the city.” Well, that certainly peaked my interest.

I have since began studying the art of bone casting. As with anything, I found lots of ideas and several different opinions on the matter. Using my own intuition, I settled on learning to read possum bones. They are said to be the real deal, but I have never seen a possum in the state of Maine (even though I’m sure possum is here.)

So, the hunt was on to get me some authentic possum bones to work with. I thought this would be easy; something one might find easily online? I mean, you can find almost everything to buy on the Internet these days. Well, it turns out that to get the real deal, it is not really that easy.

In my research, I found the best way to get hold of some possum bones is to get a possum and cook it! Yeah. Then you pick out the bones yourself. Reason being, who could be sure if the bones sent by mail order were real possum or last night’s dinner of chicken? Not that there is anything wrong with reading any kind of bones for divination.

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