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Title: Tea-Cup Reading, and the Art of Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves

Author: 'A Highland Seer'

Release Date: April 24, 2006 [EBook #18241]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note: In Chapter V, I changed the spelling of
"collecton" to "collection", in the Interpretation of Fig. 6, I changed
"biry" to "bird", and in the Interpretation of Fig. 10, I changed
"letteres" to "letters." All other spelling is unchanged.

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TEA-CUP READING AND FORTUNE-TELLING BY TEA LEAVES

By A Highland Seer

With Ten Illustrations

NEW YORK

GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY

_PRINTED IN U. S. A._

CONTENTS

Preface 11
I. Introduction to the Art of Divination from
Tea-Leaves 13
II. Ritual and Method of Using the Teacup 25
III. General Principles To Be Observed in Reading
the Cup 29
IV. An Alphabetical List of Symbols with Their
Significations 39
V. Specimen Cups, with Interpretations 57
VI. Omens 66

ILLUSTRATIONS

Fig. 1 61
Fig. 2 63
Fig. 3 65
Fig. 4 67
Fig. 5 69
Fig. 6 71
Fig. 7 73
Fig. 8 75
Fig. 9 77
Fig. 10 79

PREFACE

It is somewhat curious that among the great number of books on occult
science and all forms of divination which have been published in the
English language there should be none dealing exclusively with the
Tea-cup Reading and the Art of Telling Fortunes by the Tea-leaves:
notwithstanding that it is one of the most common forms of divination
practised by the peasants of Scotland and by village fortune-tellers
in all parts of this country. In many of the cheaper handbooks to
Fortune-telling by Cards or in other ways only brief references to the
Tea-cup method are given; but only too evidently by writers who are
merely acquainted with it by hearsay and ha