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<h1>TEA-CUP READING AND FORTUNE-TELLING BY TEA LEAVES</h1>
<h4>By A Highland Seer</h4>
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<h2>PREFACE</h2>
<p>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 have not made a study of it for themselves.</p>
<p>This is probably because the Reading of the Tea-cups affords but little
opportunity to the Seer of extracting money from credulous folk; a reason why
it was never adopted by the gypsy soothsayers, who preferred the more obviously
lucrative methods of crossing the palm with gold or silver, or of charging a fee
for manipulating a pack of playing-cards.</p>
<p>Reading the Cup is essentially a domestic form of Fortune-telling to be
practised at home, and with success by anyone who will take the trouble to
master the simple rules laid down in these pages: and it is in the hope that it
will provide a basis for much innocent and inexpensive amusement and recreation
round the tea-table at home, as well as for a more serious study of an
interesting subject, that this little guide-book to the science is confidently
offered to the public.</p>
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