Query

[faustus]

What are those folded paper things called - four little connected pyramids which you move with the tips of your fingers, and having counted out answers to questions you open a flap to reveal the consequences?

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

We called them fortune tellers. This seems to be the stock name in the UK but see here: http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~as0bgr/coot/about.htm Apparently they have a completely different name in the US.