APPLE PEEL: divination
1714 GAY Shepherd's Week 36. This mellow Pippin, which I pare around, My Shepherd's Name shall flourish on the Ground. I fling th' unbroken Paring o'er my Head, Upon the Grass a perfect L is read.

1755 Connoisseur 20 Feb. I have, many is the time, taken great pains to pare an Apple Whole, and afterwards flung the Peel over my head; and it always falls in the shape of the first letter of his Sirname or Christian name.

1839 Everlasting Fortune-Teller 11–12 [Co. Durham] Take an apple, pare it whole, and take the paring in your right hand, and say … ‘St Simon and St Jude, on you I intrude, By this paring I hold to discover, Without any delay, to ...