Vintage tea leaf reading guide. Revised and updated.

How to tell fortunes by tea leaves. with 10 illustrations. Contents: Preface; Introduction to the Art of Divination from Tea Leaves; Ritual & Method of Using the Tea Cup; General Principles to be Observed in Reading the Cup; an Alphabetical List of.

The concept of utilizing tea leaves in order to tell fortunes is a fairly old one, but became extremely popular in fortune telling systems (including those compiling multiple divination methods) in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This particular work is fairly thorough, with about seventy pages just devoted to figures and their meanings- with twenty illustrated examples- and various explanations for the use of divination both generally and solely tea-related. It explicitly recommends the Nelros cup, which is designed especially for fortune telling by the tea leaf method.

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"Examines fortune telling, including a brief history of it, the different methods, famous fortune tellers, and a scientific look at predicting the future"--Provided by publisher.

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A collection of traditional beliefs, popular sayings, and superstitions that can be used as games to determine the future.

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