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Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves

How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup

 

by Cicely Kent

 

This Spiritualist classic by Cicely Kent is still the master work on tasseomancy, or tea-leaf reading. Despite Western culture's fondness for both fortune-telling and tea, reading tea leaves is a dying art; fine-meshed tea strainers and finer-meshed teabags leave nothing to stick to the sides of the cup. But if you're willing to brew your tea loose in the pot, you too can have your breakfast tell you that doom is on the way.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction to the Divination by Tea-Leaves

Chapter 2
Practice and Method of Reading the Cup

Chapter 3
General Theories in Reading the Cup

Chapter 4
Divination by Tea-Leaves as an Amusement and as a More Serious Study

Chapter 5
Some Hints for Diviners. Remarkable Instances of Prophecy by the Tea-Leaves

Chapter 6
Writing in the Tea-Leaves. Some Frequent Symbols

Chapter 7
The "Nelros" Cup. Two Example Readings of Its Signs

A Dictionary of Symbols

Some Combinations of Symbols and Their Meaning

Some Example Cups with Their Interpretations

Concluding Note