Spooky Goat day twenty-nine! SPOOKY FORTUNE-TELLING

mossygreen posted a pic said Sun, Oct 30th 2022 at 12:00am ET

SPOOKY FORTUNE-TELLING

My understanding from the greatest Halloween book of all time, Heigh-Ho For Halloween by Elizabeth Hough Sechrist, is that Halloween is a time for fortune-telling. I can’t tell you more than that now, because I have no idea where I put my copy. And I was going to show you my Halloween Tarot by Kipling Smith, but, again, don’t know where it is. I moved a month ago. Unpacking is apparently for other people, not me.

But I DO know where my incomplete Ka-Bala game is, so here’s a picture! Yes, it was 99¢ at Goodwill. Yes, it was originally $4.76 at Children’s Bargain Town U.S.A. No, I don’t know where Children’s Bargain Town U.S.A. was. I want to. It’s base and the box, so it’s probably useable if I print out copies of the little tarot cards and find the right-sized marble. The instructions are available online. The spinning, glowing eye for the top is probably out of my reach. I feel incredibly blessed and grateful that I found it. The part where it was so cheap is just insane icing on the spooky cake. I would have spent more for the box alone.
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https://museumoftalkingboards.com/kabala.html

I recently got something else special I’ve been looking for off-and-on for about 30 years, also incomplete: a Kreskin’s Krystal pendulum kit! And it was half-price at Goodwill, which is, not as insane as the Ka-Bala, is still pretty insane. It was the box, the Lucite base and the booklet. As a bonus, under the plastic insert there was a busted-up planchette, which I honestly find a little frightening! The pendulum part was gone, but, weirdly, a few years back I bought a different pendulum game which had an identical-looking pendulum. I’m guessing it’s bigger because when I put it together the lid doesn’t close, but I’m thinking about blaming the planchette for that.

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mossygreen said Sun, Oct 30th 2022 at 12:10am ET:

It just looks so cool!

This is actually the first time I put it all together.

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  I hadn’t seen this before, had to look it up and found this video.
  
  Lynnerizer said Mon, Oct 31st 2022 at 9:09am ET
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ircon96 said Sun, Oct 30th 2022 at 1:20pm ET:

I don’t have any interesting fortune-telling gear, just a couple of unremarkable tarot decks somewhere, but there’s a lot of info out there about Children’s Bargain Town USA, which has an interesting history & merged with Toys “R” Us in the early 70s. Who knew?

https://toybook.com/backstory-toys-r-us/

https://vanishedchicagoland.blog/2019/10/28/bargain-town-bargain-town-bargain-town-my-memories-of-that-wonderful-toy-store-in-chicago/

http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2008/06/bargain-town-is-now-toys-r-us.html

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sammydog01 said Sun, Oct 30th 2022 at 1:31pm ET:

So cool! How dies the crystal work? I have a similar pendulum but it has magnets.

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Lynnerizer said Mon, Oct 31st 2022 at 8:51am ET:

I was thinking ka-bala was similar to the Ouija board and then when I looked it up it’s described as just that, a glow in the dark Ouija board! The Ouija board was always a favorite of mine, I even bought a new one a few years back. Unfortunately my guy doesn’t share that same interest, he’s actually freaked out by it so I gave it away.
I was given some tarot cards that I stuck in a storage box until I get back home and as soon as I come across them I’d love to give them to someone who actually knows how to use them. They looked old but in excellent condition, they belonged to a woman in her 80’s so who knows how long she had them.

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