As I have said, I came to live in the holler 7 years ago,but I had dated my now husband for 3 years before we married. I can't really tell you at what time in our relationship that I was told of the pencil test,but I do remember one night at Granny's house(my husband's Granny is Granny to everyone) his cousin said let's do the pencil test on you!! I had no idea of what this test was...but, I said ok. That is when she broke out the #2 pencil,a needle and some thread. She proceeded to thread the needle and stick the tip of the needle in the eraser of the pencil. Then she said she needed my wrist,she held the pencil over my wrist by the needle and then it began to swing horizontally as in from my wrist to my elbow and she informed me that my first child would be a girl,then it went back and wiggled for a sec than swang horizontal again,she said there's your 2nd girl,then it wiggled again,and decided to swing diagonally this time,yep,you guessed 3rd child a boy...but, it did not stop there it went for more horizontal swing which meant child #4 would be another Girl! So thank the good Lord the pencil decided to stop its voodoo swinging and everyone in the whole family told me that it had predicted accurately all of their children...OK,whatever,I thought. But, over the years I have seen this pencil test done many,many times and I have even started doing it on my own family and friends...which by the way I am 2 for 2 so far on using the pencil test to tell my cousins what they are having. And did I mention my husband and I have 2 girls and a little boy in that order,so far:)
"There was on old woman who lived in a shoe,she had so many children,she didn't know what to do!"
They did the pencil test on me too! All that I remember about it is that it said twins!!!
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