Talk:Molybdomancy

Germany only?
I removed the statement about the tradition being common in "Nordic countries". If this is true for any specific country - Denmark? - please add. Hexmaster (talk) 10:40, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I stumbled on this article.. I never ever heard about this practise in neither Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Germany.. Maybe its only a finnish practise? ANON — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.198.220.236 (talk) 11:06, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Molbydomancy ("Bleigießen") is very popular in Germany during at Slivester/New Year's Eve to tell what'll happen the next year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.96.214.243 (talk) 21:02, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Bleigiessen is also very popular in Switzerland at New Year. 85.6.194.90 (talk) 10:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Background
"The method originates in ancient Greece" what's the deal with Greeks claiming they are the source of every food/dance/music/culture/etc? The "source" given for this statement IS A BLOG. Since when is that a reliable source?

There isn't many sources on this practice. In Turkey it is said that the practice came with Shamanism from from Central Asia but there are no reliable sources on that so I doubt writing that would be much different from saying it came from Greece (I CAN find a ton of blogs that claim it came from Turkic Shamanism though if we started accepting blogs as reliable sources of information).

I also found a news article in a reliable Turkish newspaper (Haberturk) that says the practice is found to exist in Anatolia nearly 2500 years ago BEFORE Greeks started conquering and settling in Anatolia: https://www.haberturk.com/amasya-haberleri/62483611-kursun-dokme-gelenegi-2-bin-500-yillikprof-dr-sevket-donmez-bulunan-parcalar-kursun-dokme

For now I'm replacing "The method originates in ancient Greece" with "The origin of the method is unknown.". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.174.44.70 (talk) 21:02, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Finland, only in New Year
This reads as if this is casual weekend hobby for Finns. Tin available at markets etc.

To make it clear, this is only a tradition exercised at new years eve. I don't recall seeing the ladles and tins being available around the year either. 2001:999:400:23A4:315C:15F1:B706:D957 (talk) 18:14, 3 January 2023 (UTC)