Catherine Daly

 

Fortune Teller

 

 

 

I made an origami fortuneteller like we used to do in Brownies.  I made it with the page giving the definitions of fortune and fortuneteller in the Webster’s Classic Reference Library Dictionary, New Revised Edition (McGraw Hill Children’s Publishing, 2001).

Then I told some fortunes.  I picked a word from the outside four flaps of the fortuneteller (the same shape is also called a "cootie catcher"), then picked another word from the inside eight flaps of the fortuneteller, then lifted a final flap to reveal the fortune.

I transcribed a few fortunes here.

 

     
 

1.

exchange be
freeway n.
two lanes a
free will n. T
belief that a

will

the killing of
who has killed
adj.
liberate
gain

liberate

fray n. a
or

one’s
zle v. to wear
fatigue frazzled
freak n. a capricious
quality or disposition.

freckle n. one of the small
spots on the skin usually due to

 


2.

fill with fear; to force by
cold; lacking warmth of

force

frequent adj.
after time
co n. a
water-based
not

time

super
ability
human being

whose services
long-term commitments
free-lance
unrestricted international
nations or states
highway with more than
highway.
to choose freely;
choices

 


3.

the enemy,
law
fratricide n.
or sister, one
sister
fraud n. A
for unlawful
fraught adj.
something

law

frequent adj.
after time v.
water-based
not
a

to any
free

free adj.  Not imprisoned, not under
tion; able to choose v. To give free
to; to unlock or disentangle to give
freedom n. The condition
being free; political
lancer n. One
without
one

 


4.

happening often or time
go to a place repeatedly.
on moist plaster
paint.
made, gathered, or
musty, or stale; new.
student in the first year

paint

group.
band
in a room
rigged sailing
smaller than a
destroyer

destroyer

The killing of op
who has killed
adj.
liberate
gain

op

very

frieze
along the
frigate
warship; a
cruiser but large
fright n. Sudden
feeling of alarm
frighten
arousing
frigid