There are plenty of ways to tell the future.

Tea leaves, tarot, palm reading, and most of these can be performed in a slick 15 minutes,

easily scheduled back-to-back under the neon glow of a beach boardwalk fortune-telling booth.

But sometimes, peering into tomorrow, takes a little more patience,

especially if you're working with onions.

That's right, onions.

It's called cromiancy,

and variants of this divinatory form have been practiced for centuries.

But unlike a Zoltar machine,

the answer is only come as quickly as an onion can grow.

Let's say that you're stuck in a love triangle

and trying to figure out which sweetheart is the keeper

and which one to let go.

Simply carve your suitors' names into two different onions, set them aside, and wait.

The first to sprout reveals the partner that you are meant to be with.

Or how about this one?

In Germany, there's a New Year's Eve tradition in which 12 slices of onions are arranged

in a sort of onion-based calendar and then sprinkled with salt.

The salt causes the onions to sweat, the amount of which per slice indicating the rainfall

to expect in the corresponding month.

If there's one thing that we humans hate, it's not knowing what comes next, which is why,

throughout history, we've come up with some pretty creative workarounds, and sometimes when

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