Twenty-four hundred years ago, because roosters heralded the sunrise and hens squawked before laying an egg, the Etruscans thought they were soothsayers.
Because the sacred fowl’s collarbone resembled a human groin, it was believed to have special powers and was called a wishbone.
The Romans introduced the custom of two people pulling on the wishbone to see whom luck favored.
The winner was said to have gotten “a lucky break.”
