Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tea-Cup Reading, and the Art of Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by 'A Highland Seer' This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEA-CUP READING *** Produced by Ruth Hart, ruthhart@twilightoracle.com Transcriber's In Chapter V, I changed the spelling of "collecton" note: 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. 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.