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id: 26339
author: Clara
title: Cupology: How to Be Entertaining
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  Houses_ of _smoke, news_ and _ Confusion is shown by the various objects in crooked and wavy lines, with those tiny _crosses_, many little cares, and yet the _tree_ shades the _house_.


id: 6964
author: Kent, Cicely
title: Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup
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  LEEK.--This implies that you are anxious to come to the root of some matter of which at present you have only an inkling; with good signs around, you may expect to come to a satisfactory understanding. If the consultant has a lucky number, and this appears with good signs, it promises much success.


id: 42008
author: Ali, Mohammed
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  Telling Fortunes by Cards A Symposium of the Several Ancient and Modern Methods as Practiced by Arab Seers and Sibyls and the Romany Gypsies

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  The third packet of cards, the Future, we will suppose to contain the eight of clubs, ten of clubs, seven of diamonds, ten of hearts, seven of clubs, nine of hearts, ace of diamonds, jack of spades, seven of hearts, and the nine of clubs, which would read thus: In the first place, the large number of small cards foretells success in enterprises, although the presence of three sevens predicts an illness. When used as the _conversation_ card, its synonyms are: Talk; words; matter; tattle; desultory remarks; seasonable language; pleasant gossip; table talk; anecdote.


id: 47200
title: Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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  For _haunts of men_, where'er they be, Awake your deepest sympathy. MARY HOWITT. When blue-eyed day Has yielded up her regency, and _night_, Exceeding beautiful, resumes her right As solemn watchman.


id: 55082
author: Anonymous
title: Everybody's Book of Luck
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  Always take the hand as a whole, for frequently some point in the formation striking you as bad may be strongly counterbalanced by other good signs. On the morning of the day--the happy day--if she should be awakened by the singing or chirping of a bird, even of a sparrow, or by swallows sweeping past her lattice at dawn, she may accept these as signs of great good luck.


id: 58465
author: Leland, Charles Godfrey
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title:
  Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales

summary:
  [9] Civilized people who read about Red Indian sorcerers and gypsy witches very promptly conclude that they are mere humbugs or lunatics--they do not realize how these people, who pass half their lives in wild places watching waving grass and falling waters, and listening to the brook until its cadence speaks in real song, believe in their inspirations, and feel that there is the same mystical feeling and presence in all things that live and move and murmur as well as in themselves. Heathens though they be, many gypsies have a superstitious belief in the efficacy of the sacramental bread and wine, and there are many instances of their stealing them for magical purposes.


