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diff --git a/18241-h/18241-h.htm b/18241-h/18241-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0d99d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/18241-h/18241-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1853 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> +<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea +Leaves, by A Highland Seer</title> +<style type="text/css"> + body {margin-top:100px; + margin-left:10%; + margin-right:10%; + text-align:justify} + hr { width: 100%; + height: 5px; } + a:link {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + link {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + a:visited {color:blue; + text-decoration:none} + a:hover {color:red} + pre {font-size: 75%;} +</style> +</head> +<body> + + +<pre> + +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 + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<center> +<table width="90%" border=0 cellpadding=10> + <tr> + <td width="25%" valign="top"> + Transcriber's note: + </td> + <td> + 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. + </td> + </tr> +</table> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<hr noshade> +<center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<h1>TEA-CUP READING AND FORTUNE-TELLING BY TEA LEAVES</h1> +<br> +<h4>By A Highland Seer</h4> +<h4>With Ten Illustrations</h4> +<br> +<br> +<br> +NEW YORK <br> +GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY<p><i>PRINTED IN U. S. A.</i><br> +<br> +</p> +</center> + + +<center> +<h3>CONTENTS</h3> + +<table> +<tr><td align="right"> </td><td><a href="#0">Preface</a></td><td align="right"> 11</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">I. </td><td><a href="#1">Introduction to the Art of Divination from Tea-Leaves</a></td><td align="right"> 13</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">II. </td><td><a href="#2">Ritual and Method of Using the Teacup</a></td><td align="right"> 25</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">III. </td><td><a href="#3">General Principles To Be Observed in Reading the Cup</a></td><td align="right"> 29</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">IV. </td><td><a href="#4">An Alphabetical List of Symbols with Their Significations</a></td><td align="right"> 39</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">V. </td><td><a href="#5">Specimen Cups, with Interpretations</a></td><td align="right"> 57</td></tr> +<tr><td align="right">VI. </td><td><a href="#6">Omens</a></td><td align="right"> 66</td></tr> +</table> +<br> +<br> +<h3>ILLUSTRATIONS</h3> +<table> +<tr><td><a href="#1i">Fig. 1</a></td><td align="right"> 61</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#2i">Fig. 2</a></td><td align="right"> 63</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#3i">Fig. 3</a></td><td align="right"> 65</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#4i">Fig. 4</a></td><td align="right"> 67</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#5i">Fig. 5</a></td><td align="right"> 69</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#6i">Fig. 6</a></td><td align="right"> 71</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#7i">Fig. 7</a></td><td align="right"> 73</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#8i">Fig. 8</a></td><td align="right"> 75</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#9i">Fig. 9</a></td><td align="right"> 77</td></tr> +<tr><td><a href="#10i">Fig. 10</a></td><td align="right"> 79</td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br> +<a name="0"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>PREFACE</p> + +<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> + +<a name="1"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER I</p> +<p>INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF DIVINATION FROM TEA-LEAVES</p> + +<p>It seems highly probable that at no previous period of the world's history +have there been so many persons as there are at the present moment anxious to +ascertain in advance, if that be humanly possible, a knowledge of at least 'what +a day may bring forth.' The incidence of the greatest of all wars, which has +resulted in sparse news of those from whom they are separated, and produces a +state of uncertainty as to what the future holds in store for each of the +inhabitants of the British Empire, is, of course, responsible for this increase +in a perfectly sane and natural curiosity; with its inevitable result, a desire +to employ any form of divination in the hope that some light may haply be cast +upon the darkness and obscurity of the future.</p> + +<p>It is unfortunately the case, as records of the police-courts have recently +shown, that the creation of this demand for foreknowledge of coming events or +for information as to the well-being of distant relatives and friends has +resulted in the abundant supply of the want by scores of pretended +'Fortune-tellers' and diviners of the Future; who, trading upon the credulity +and anxieties of their unfortunate fellow-countrywomen, seek to make a living at +their expense.</p> + +<p>Now it is an axiom, which centuries of experience have shown to be as sound +as those of Euclid himself, that the moment the taint of money enters into the +business of reading the Future the accuracy and credit of the Fortune told +disappears. The Fortune-teller no longer possesses the singleness of mind or +purpose necessary to a clear reading of the symbols he or she consults. The +amount of the fee is the first consideration, and this alone is sufficient to +obscure the mental vision and to bias the judgment. This applies to the very +highest and most conscientious of Fortune-tellers—persons really adept at +foreseeing the future when no taint of monetary reward intervenes. The greater +number, however, of so-called Fortune-tellers are but charlatans, with the +merest smattering of partly-assimilated knowledge of some form of divination or +'character-reading'; whether by the cards, coins, dice, dominoes, hands, +crystal, or in any other pretended way. With these, the taint of the money they +hope to receive clouds such mind or intuition as they may possess, and it +follows that their judgments and prognostications have precisely the same value +as the nostrums of the quack medicine-vendor. They are very different from the +Highlander who, coming to the door of his cottage or bothie at dawn, regards +steadfastly the signs and omens he notes in the appearance of the sky, the +actions of animals, the flight of birds, and so forth, and derives there from a +foresight into the coming events of the opening day. They differ also from the +'spae-wife,' who, manipulating the cup from which she has taken her morning +draught of tea, looks at the various forms and shapes the leaves and dregs have +taken, and deduces thence such simple horary prognostications as the name of the +person from whom 'postie' will presently bring up the glen a letter or a parcel +or a remittance of money; or as to whether she is likely to go a journey, or to +hear news from across the sea, or to obtain a good price for the hose she has +knitted or for the chickens or eggs she is sending to the store-keeper. Here the +taint of a money-payment is altogether absent; and no Highland 'spae-wife' or +seer would dream of taking a fee for looking into the future on behalf of +another person.</p> + +<p>It follows, therefore, that provided he or she is equipped with the requisite +knowledge and some skill and intuition, the persons most fitted to tell +correctly their own fortune are themselves; because they cannot pay themselves +for their own prognostications, and the absence of a monetary taint consequently +leaves the judgment unbiased. Undoubtedly one of the simplest, most inexpensive +and, as the experience of nearly three centuries has proved, most reliable forms +of divination within its own proper limits, is that of reading fortunes in +tea-cups. Although it cannot be of the greatest antiquity, seeing that tea was +not introduced into Britain until the middle of the seventeenth century, and for +many years thereafter was too rare and costly to be used by the great bulk of +the population, the practice of reading the tea-leaves doubtless descends from +the somewhat similar form of divination known to the Greeks as "<font face="Times New Roman"><em>κοταβος</em></font>" by +which fortune in love was discovered by the particular splash made by wine +thrown out of a cup into a metal basin. A few spae-wives still practise this +method by throwing out the tea-leaves into the saucer, but the reading of the +symbols as they are originally formed in the cup is undoubtedly the better +method.</p> + +<p>Any person after a study of this book and by carefully following the +principles here laid down may with practice quickly learn to read the horary +fortunes that the tea-leaves foretell. It should be distinctly understood, +however, that tea-cup fortunes are only horary, or dealing with the events of +the hour or the succeeding twenty-four hours at furthest. The immediately +forthcoming events are those which cast their shadows, so to speak, within the +circle of the cup. In this way the tea-leaves may be consulted once a day, and +many of the minor happenings of life foreseen with considerable accuracy, +according to the skill in discerning the symbols and the intuition required to +interpret them which may be possessed by the seer. Adepts like the Highland +peasant-women can and do foretell events that subsequently occur, and that with +remarkable accuracy. Practice and the acquirement of a knowledge of the +signification of the various symbols is all that is necessary in order to become +proficient and to tell one's fortune and that of one's friends with skill and +judgment.</p> + +<p>There is, of course, a scientific reason for all forms of divination +practised without hope or promise of reward. Each person carries in himself his +own Destiny. Events do not happen to people by chance, but are invariably the +result of some past cause. For instance, in the last years a man becomes a +soldier who had never intended to pursue a military career. This does not happen +to him by chance, but because of the prior occurrence of la European war in +which his country was engaged. The outbreak of war is similarly the result of +other causes, none of which happened by chance, but were founded by still +remoter occurrences. It is the same with the Future. That which a person does +today as a result of something that happened in the past, will in its turn +prove the cause of something that will happen at some future date. The mere act +of doing something today sets in motion forces that in process of time will +inevitably bring about some entirely unforeseen event.</p> + +<p>This event is not decreed by Fate or Providence, but by the person who by the +committal of some act unconsciously compels the occurrence of some future event +which he does not foresee. In other words, a man decrees his own destiny and +shapes his own ends by his actions, whether Providence rough-hew them or not. +Now this being so, it follows that he carries his destiny with him, and the more +powerful his mind and intellect the more clearly is this seen to be the case. +Therefore it is possible for a person's mind, formed as the result of past +events over which he had no control, to foresee by an effort what will occur in +the future as the result of acts deliberately done. Since it is given to but +few, and that not often of intention, to see actually what is about to happen in +a vision or by means of what is called the 'second sight,' some machinery must +be provided in the form of symbols from which an interpretation of the future +can be made. It matters little what the method or nature of the symbols chosen +is—dice or dominoes, cards or tea-leaves. What matters is that the person +shaking the dice, shuffling the dominoes, cutting the cards or turning the +tea-cup, is by these very acts transferring from his mind where they lie hidden +even from himself the shadows of coming events which by his own actions in the +past he has already predetermined shall occur in the future. It only remains for +someone to read and interpret these symbols correctly in order to ascertain +something of what is likely to happen; and it is here that singleness of purpose +and freedom from ulterior motives are necessary in order to avoid error and to +form a true and clear judgment.</p> + +<p>This is the serious and scientific explanation of the little-understood and +less-comprehended action of various forms of divination having for their object +the throwing of a little light upon the occult. Of all these forms perhaps +divination by tea-leaves is the simplest, truest, and most easily learned. Even +if the student is disinclined to attach much importance to what he sees in the +cup, the reading of the tea-leaves forms a sufficiently innocent and amusing +recreation for the breakfast- or tea-table; and the man who finds a lucky sign +such as an anchor or a tree in his cup, or the maiden who discovers a pair of +heart-shaped groups of leaves in conjunction with a ring, will be suffering no +harm in thus deriving encouragement for the future, even should they attach no +importance to their occurrence, but merely treat them as an occasion for +harmless mirth and badinage.</p> + +<p>Whether, however, the tea-leaves be consulted seriously or in mere sport and +love of amusement, the methods set forth in succeeding chapters should be +carefully followed, and the significations of the pictures and symbols formed in +the cup scrupulously accepted as correct, for reasons which are explained in a +subsequent chapter.</p> + +<a name="2"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER II </p> +<p>RITUAL AND METHOD OF USING THE TEA-CUP </p> + +<p>The best kind of tea to use if tea-cup reading is to be followed is +undoubtedly China tea, the original tea imported into this country and still the +best for all purposes. Indian tea and the cheaper mixtures contain so much dust +and so many fragments of twigs and stems as often to be quite useless for the +purposes of divination, as they will not combine to form pictures, or symbols +clearly to be discerned.</p> + +<p>The best shape of cup to employ is one with a wide opening at the top and a +bottom not too small. Cups with almost perpendicular sides are very difficult to +read, as the symbols cannot be seen properly, and the same may be said of small +cups. A plain-surfaced breakfast-cup is perhaps the best to use; and the +interior should be white and have no pattern printed upon it, as this confuses +the clearness of the picture presented by the leaves, as does any fluting or +eccentricity of shape.</p> + +<p>The ritual to be observed is very simple. The tea-drinker should drink the +contents of his or her cup so as to leave only about half a teaspoonful of the +beverage remaining. He should next take the cup by the handle in his left hand, +rim upwards, and turn it three times from left to right in one fairly rapid +swinging movement. He should then very slowly and carefully invert it over the +saucer and leave it there for a minute, so as to permit of all moisture draining +away.</p> + +<p>If he approaches the oracle at all seriously he should during the whole of +these proceedings concentrate his mind upon his future Destiny, and 'will' that +the symbols forming under the guidance of his hand and arm (which in their turn +are, of course, directed by his brain) shall correctly represent what is +destined to happen to him in the future.</p> + +<p>If, however, he or she is not in such deadly earnest, but merely indulging in +a harmless pastime, such an effort of concentration need not be made. The +'willing' is, of course, akin to 'wishing' when cutting the cards in another +time-honoured form of fortune-telling.</p> + +<p>The cup to be read should be held in the hand and turned about in order to +read the symbols without disturbing them, which will not happen if the moisture +has been properly drained away. The handle of the cup represents the consultant +and is akin to the 'house' in divination by the cards. By this fixed point +judgment is made as to events approaching the 'house' of the consultant, +journeys away from home, messages or visitors to be expected, relative distance, +and so forth. The advantage of employing a cup instead of a saucer is here +apparent.</p> + +<p>'The bottom of the cup represents the remoter future foretold; the side +events not so far distant; and matters symbolised near the rim those that may be +expected to occur quickly. The nearer the symbols approach the handle in all +three cases the nearer to fulfilment will be the events prognosticated. </p> +<p>If this simple ritual has been correctly carried out the tea-leaves, whether +many or few, will be found distributed about the bottom and sides of the cup. +The fortune may be equally well told whether there are many leaves or few; but +of course there must be some, and therefore the tea should not have been made in +a pot provided with one of the patent arrangements that stop the leaves from +issuing from the spout when the beverage is poured into the cups. There is +nothing to beat one of the plain old-fashioned earthenware teapots, whether for +the purpose of preparing a palatable beverage or for that of providing the means +of telling a fortune.</p> + +<a name="3"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER III </p> +<p>GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO BE OBSERVED IN READING THE CUP </p> + +<p>The interior of the tea-cup when it is ready to be consulted will exhibit the +leaves scattered apparently in a fortuitous and accidental manner, but really in +accordance with the muscular action of the left arm as controlled by the mind at +whose bidding it has worked. These scattered leaves will form lines and circles +of dots or small leaves and dust combined with stems, and groups of leaves in +larger or smaller patches: apparently in meaningless confusion.</p> + +<p>Careful notice should now be taken of all the shapes and figures formed +inside the cup. These should be viewed front different positions, so that their +meaning becomes clear. It is not very easy at first to see what the shapes +really are, but after looking at them carefully they become plainer. The +different shapes and figures in the cup must be taken together in a general +reading. Bad indications will be balanced by good ones; some good ones will be +strengthened by others, and so on.</p> + +<p>It is now the business of the seer—whether the consultant or some adept to +whom he has handed the cup to be read—to find some fairly close resemblance +between the groups formed by the leaves and various natural or artificial +objects. This part of the performance resembles the looking for 'pictures in the +fire' as practised by children in nurseries and school-rooms and occasionally by +people of a larger growth. Actual representations of such things as trees, +animals, birds, anchors, crowns, coffins, flowers, and so forth may by the +exercise of the powers of observation and imagination be discerned, as well as +squares, triangles, and crosses. Each of these possesses, as a symbol, some +fortunate or unfortunate signification. Such signs may be either large or small, +and their relative importance must be judged according to their size. Supposing +the symbol observed should be that indicating the receipt of a legacy, for +instance: if small it would mean that the inheritance would be but trifling, if +large that it would be substantial, while if leaves grouped to form a +resemblance to a coronet accompany the sign for a legacy, a title would probably +descend upon the consultant at the same time. The meaning of all the symbols of +this nature likely to be formed by the fortuitous arrangement of leaves in a +tea-cup is fully set forth in the concluding chapter; and it is unnecessary +therefore to enlarge upon this branch of the subject.</p> + +<p>There are, however, several points of a more general character that must be +considered before it is possible to form an accurate judgment of the fortune +displayed. For instance, isolated leaves or groups of a few leaves or stems +frequently form letters of the alphabet or numbers. These letters and numbers +possess meanings which must be sought in conjunction with other signs. If near a +letter L is seen a small square or oblong leaf, or if a number of very small +dots form such a square or oblong, it indicates that a letter or parcel will be +received from somebody whose surname (not Christian name) begins with an L. If +the combined symbol appears near the handle and near the rim of the cup, the +letter is close at hand; if in the bottom there will be delay in its receipt. If +the sign of a letter is accompanied by the appearance of a bird flying towards +the 'house' it means a telegraphic despatch: if flying away from the house the +consultant will have to send the telegram. Birds flying always indicate news of +some sort.</p> + +<p>Again, the dust in the tea and the smaller leaves and stems frequently form +lines of dots. These are significant of a journey, and their extent and +direction shows its length and the point of the compass towards which it will +extend: the handle for this purpose being considered as due south. If the +consultant is at home and lines lead from the handle right round the cup and +back to the handle, it shows that he will return; if they end before getting +back to the handle, and especially if a resemblance to a house appears where the +journey line ends, it betokens removal to some other place. If the consultant be +away from home, lines leading to the handle show a return home, and if free from +crosses or other symbols of delay that the return will be speedy: otherwise it +will be postponed. The occurrence of a numeral may indicate the number of days, +or if in connection with a number of small dots grouped around the sign of a +letter, a present or a legacy, the amount of the remittance in the former, the +number of presents to be expected, or the amount of the legacy coming. Dots +surrounding a symbol always indicate money coming in some form or other, +according to the nature of the symbol.</p> + +<p>It will be seen that to read a fortune in the tea-cup with any real approach +to accuracy and a serious attempt to derive a genuine forecast from the cup the +seer must not be in a hurry. He or she must not only study the general +appearance of the horoscope displayed before him, and decide upon the +resemblance of the groups of leaves to natural or artificial objects, each of +which possesses a separate significance, but must also balance the bad and good, +the lucky and unlucky symbols, and strike an average. For instance, a large +bouquet of flowers, which is a fortunate sign, would outweigh in importance one +or two minute crosses, which in this case would merely signify some small delay +in the realisation of success; whereas one large cross in a prominent position +would be a warning of disaster that would be little, if at all, mitigated by the +presence of small isolated flowers, however lucky individually these may be. +This is on the same principle as that by which astrologers judge a horoscope, +when, after computing the aspects of the planets towards each other, the Sun and +Moon, the Ascendant, Mid-heaven, and the significator of the Native, they +balance the good aspects against the bad, the strong against the weak, the +Benefics against the Malefics, and so strike an average. In a similar way the +lucky and unlucky, signs in a tea-cup must be balanced one against the other and +an average struck: and in this connection it may be pointed out that symbols +which stand out clearly and distinctly by themselves are of more importance than +those with difficulty to be discerned amid cloudlike masses of shapeless leaves. +When these clouds obscure or surround a lucky sign they weaken its force, and +vice versa. In tea-cup reading, however, the fortune told must be regarded +chiefly as of a horary character, not, as with an astrological horoscope, that +of a whole life; and where it is merely indulged in as a light amusement to +while away a few minutes after a meal such nicety of judgment is not called for. +The seer will just glance at the cup, note the sign for a letter from someone, +or that for a journey to the seaside or the proximity of a gift, or an offer of +marriage, and pass on to another cup.</p> + +<p>It should be observed that some cups when examined will present no features +of interest, or will be so clouded and muddled that no clear meaning is to be +read in them. In such a case the seer should waste no time over them. Either the +consultant has not concentrated his or her attention upon the business in hand +when turning the cup, or his destiny is so obscured by the indecision of his +mind or the vagueness of his ideas that it is unable to manifest itself by +symbols. Persons who consult the tea-leaves too frequently often find this +muddled state of things to supervene. Probably once a week will be often enough +to look into the future, although there is something to be said for the Highland +custom of examining the leaves of the morning cup of tea in order to obtain +some insight into the events the day may be expected to bring forth. To 'look in +the cup' three or four times a day, as some silly folk do, is simply to ask for +contradictory manifestations and consequent bewilderment, and is symptomatic of +the idle, empty, bemused minds that prompt to such ill-advised conduct.</p> + +<p>Of course the tea-cup may be employed solely for the purpose of asking what +is known to astrologers as 'a horary question', such, for instance, as 'Shall I +hear from my lover in France, and when?' In this case the attention of the +consultant when turning the cup must be concentrated solely on this single +point, and the seer will regard the shapes taken by the tea-leaves solely in +this connection in order to give a definite and satisfactory answer. An example +of this class of horary question is included among the illustrations (Fig. 10).</p> + +<a name="4"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER IV </p> +<p>AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SYMBOLS WITH THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS </p> + +<p>A question that will very naturally occur to persons of an enquiring turn of +mind in regard to the figures and symbols seen in the tea-cup is: Why should +one symbol necessarily signify one thing and not something quite different?</p> + +<p>The answer, of course, is that the meanings given to the symbols are purely +arbitrary, and that there is no scientific reason why one should signify one +thing and not another. There is no real reason why the ace of clubs, for +instance, should not be considered the 'House Card' instead of the nine of +hearts, or why the double four in dominoes should signify an invitation instead +of a wedding, like the double three.</p> + +<p>It is obviously necessary, however, in attempting to read the future by means +of any kind of symbols, whether pips, dots, numbers or anything else, to fix +beforehand upon some definite meaning to be attributed to each separate symbol +and to hold fast to this meaning in all events. In the case of tea-leaves, where +the symbols are not mere 'conventional signs' or numbers but actual figures like +the pictures seen in the fire or those envisaged in dreams, there is no doubt +that the signification of most of them is the result of empyrical experience. +Generations of spae-wives have found that the recurrence of a certain figure in +the cup has corresponded with the occurrence of a certain event in the future +lives of the various persons who have consulted them: and this empyrical +knowledge has been handed down from seer to seer until a sufficient deposit of +tradition has been formed from which it has been found possible to compile a +detailed list of the most important symbols and to attach to each a traditional +meaning. These significations have been collected by the writer—in a desultory +manner—over a long period of years chiefly from spae-wives in both Highland and +Lowland Scotland, but also in Cornwall, on Dartmoor, in Middle England, in +Gloucestershire and Northumberland. Occasionally it has been found that a +different meaning is attributed to a symbol by one seer from that given it by +another. In such cases an alternative signification might, of course, have been +given here, but as the essence of all such significations is that they shall be +stable and unvarying, the writer has fixed upon whichever meaning has been most +widely attributed to the symbol or appears to have the best authority for its +adoption, so that the element of doubt may be excluded.</p> + +<p>Although included in their alphabetical order in the list which follows, +there are certain figures and symbols which are of so common occurrence and bear +such definite interpretation that it is advisable to refer to them here in +detail. Certain symbols are invariably signs of approaching good-fortune: +certain others of threatened ill-luck. Among the former may be mentioned +triangles, stars, trefoil or clover-leaves, anchors, trees, garlands and +flowers, bridges or arches, and crowns. Among the latter, coffins, clouds, +crosses, serpents, rats and mice and some wild beasts, hour-glasses, umbrellas, +church-steeples, swords and guns, ravens, owls, and monkeys are all ominous +symbols.</p> + +<p>SYMBOLS AND SIGNIFICATIONS </p> + +<p>ABBEY, future ease and freedom from worry.</p> + +<p>ACORN, improvement in health, continued health, strength, and good fortune.</p> + +<p>AIRCRAFT, unsuccessful projects.</p> + +<p>ANCHOR, a lucky sign; success in business and constancy in love; if cloudy, the reverse must be read.</p> + +<p>ANGEL, good news, especially good fortune in love.</p> + +<p>APES, secret enemies.</p> + +<p>APPLES, long life; gain by commerce.</p> + +<p>APPLE-TREE, change for the better.</p> + +<p>ARCH, a journey abroad.</p> + +<p>ARROW, a disagreeable letter from the direction in which it comes.</p> + +<p>ASS, misfortune overcome by patience; or a legacy.</p> + +<p>AXE, difficulties overcome.</p> + +<p>BADGER, long life and prosperity as a bachelor.</p> + +<p>BASKET, an addition to the family.</p> + +<p>BAT, fruitless journeys or tasks.</p> + +<p>BEAR, a long period of travel.</p> + +<p>BEASTS, other than those mentioned, foretell misfortune.</p> + +<p>BIRDS, a lucky sign; good news if flying, if at rest a fortunate journey.</p> + +<p>BOAT, a friend will visit the consultant.</p> + +<p>BOUQUET, one of the luckiest of symbols; staunch friends, success, a happy marriage.</p> + +<p>BRIDGE, a favourable journey.</p> + +<p>BUILDING, a removal.</p> + +<p>BULL, slander by some enemy.</p> + +<p>BUSH, an invitation into society.</p> + +<p>BUTTERFLY, success and pleasure.</p> + +<p>CAMEL, a burden to be patiently borne.</p> + +<p>CANNON, good fortune.</p> + +<p>CAR (MOTOR), and CARRIAGE, approaching wealth, visits from friends.</p> + +<p>CART, fluctuations of fortune.</p> + +<p>CASTLE, unexpected fortune or a legacy.</p> + +<p>CAT, difficulties caused by treachery.</p> + +<p>CATHEDRAL, great prosperity.</p> + +<p>CATTLE, prosperity.</p> + +<p>CHAIN, an early marriage; if broken, trouble in store.</p> + +<p>CHAIR, an addition to the family.</p> + +<p>CHURCH, a legacy.</p> + +<p>CIRCLES, money or presents. They mean that the person whose fortune is read may expect money or presents.</p> + +<p>CLOUDS, serious trouble; if surrounded by dots, financial success.</p> + +<p>CLOVER, a very lucky sign; happiness and prosperity. At the top of the cup, +it will come quickly. As it nears the bottom, it will mean more or less +distant.</p> + +<p>COCK, much prosperity.</p> + +<p>COFFIN, long sickness or sign of death of a near relation or great friend.</p> + +<p>COMET, misfortune and trouble.</p> + +<p>COMPASSES, a sign of travelling as a profession.</p> + +<p>COW, a prosperous sign.</p> + +<p>CROSS, a sign of trouble and delay or even death.</p> + +<p>CROWN, success and honour.</p> + +<p>CROWN AND CROSS, signifies good fortune resulting from death.</p> + +<p>DAGGER, favours from friends.</p> + +<p>DEER, quarrels, disputes; failure in trade.</p> + +<p>DOG, a favourable sign; faithful friends, if at top of cup; in middle of +cup, they are untrustworthy; at the bottom means secret enemies.</p> + +<p>DONKEY, a legacy long awaited.</p> + +<p>DOVE, a lucky symbol; progress in prosperity and affection.</p> + +<p>DRAGON, great and sudden changes.</p> + +<p>DUCK, increase of wealth by trade.</p> + +<p>EAGLE, honour and riches through change of residence.</p> + +<p>ELEPHANT, a lucky sign; good health.</p> + +<p>FALCON, a persistent enemy.</p> + +<p>FERRET, active enemies.</p> + +<p>FISH, good news from abroad; if surrounded by dots, emigration.</p> + +<p>FLAG, danger from wounds inflicted by an enemy.</p> + +<p>FLEUR-DE-LYS, same as LILY (q.v.).</p> + +<p>FLOWERS, good fortune, success; a happy marriage.</p> + +<p>FOX, treachery by a trusted friend.</p> + +<p>FROG, success in love and commerce.</p> + +<p>GALLOWS, a sign of good luck.</p> + +<p>GOAT, a sign of enemies, and of misfortune to a sailor.</p> + +<p>GOOSE, happiness; a successful venture.</p> + +<p>GRASSHOPPER, a great friend will become a soldier.</p> + +<p>GREYHOUND, a good fortune by strenuous exertion.</p> + +<p>GUN, a sign of discord and slander.</p> + +<p>HAMMER, triumph over adversity.</p> + +<p>HAND, to be read in conjunction with neighbouring symbols and according to what it points.</p> + +<p>HARE, a sign of a long journey, or the return of an absent friend. Also of a +speedy and fortunate marriage to those who are single.</p> + +<p>HARP, marriage, success in love.</p> + +<p>HAT, success in life.</p> + +<p>HAWK, an enemy.</p> + +<p>HEART, pleasures to come; if surrounded by dots, through money; if +accompanied by a ring, through marriage.</p> + +<p>HEAVENLY BODIES, SUN, MOON AND STARS, signifies happiness and success.</p> + +<p>HEN, increase of riches or an addition to the family.</p> + +<p>HORSE, desires fulfilled through a prosperous journey.</p> + +<p>HORSE-SHOE, a lucky journey or success in marriage and choosing a partner.</p> + +<p>HOUR-GLASS, imminent peril. </p> +<p>HOUSE, success in business.</p> + +<p>HUMAN FIGURES must be judged according to what they appear to be doing. They +are generally good and denote love and marriage.</p> + +<p>INTERROGATION (mark of), doubt or disappointment.</p> + +<p>IVY, honour and happiness through faithful friends.</p> + +<p>JACKAL, a sly animal who need not be feared. A mischief maker of no account.</p> + +<p>JOCKEY, successful speculation.</p> + +<p>JUG, good health.</p> + +<p>KANGAROO, a rival in business or love.</p> + +<p>KETTLE, death.</p> + +<p>KEY, money, increasing trade, and a good husband or wife.</p> + +<p>KITE, a sign of lengthy voyaging and travel leading to honour and dignity.</p> + +<p>KNIFE, a warning of disaster through quarrels and enmity.</p> + +<p>LADDER, a sign of travel.</p> + +<p>LEOPARD, a sign of emigration with subsequent success.</p> + +<p>LETTERS, shown by square or oblong tea-leaves, signifies news. Initials near +will show surnames of writers; if accompanied by dots they will contain money; +if unclouded, good; but if fixed about by clouds, bad news or loss of money.</p> + +<p>LILY, at top of cup, health and happiness; a virtuous wife; at bottom, anger +and strife.</p> + +<p>LINES indicate journeys and their direction, read in conjunction with other +signs of travel; wavy lines denote troublesome journeys or losses therein.</p> + +<p>LION, greatness through powerful friends.</p> + +<p>LYNX, danger of divorce or break off of an engagement.</p> + +<p>MAN, a visitor arriving. If the arm is held out, he brings a present. If +figure is very clear, he is dark; if indistinct, he is of light complexion.</p> + +<p>MERMAID, misfortune, especially to seafaring persons.</p> + +<p>MITRE, a sign of honour to a clergyman or through religious agency.</p> + +<p>MONKEY, the consultant will be deceived in love.</p> + +<p>MOON (as a crescent), prosperity and fortune.</p> + +<p>MOUNTAIN, powerful friends; many mountains, equally powerful enemies.</p> + +<p>MOUSE, danger of poverty through theft or swindling.</p> + +<p>MUSHROOM, sudden separation of lovers after a quarrel.</p> + +<p>NOSEGAY, the same as BOUQUET (q.v.).</p> + +<p>NUMBERS depends on symbols in conjunction with them.</p> + +<p>OAK, very lucky; long life, good health, profitable business, and a happy +marriage.</p> + +<p>OBLONG FIGURES, family or business squabbles.</p> + +<p>OWL, an evil omen, indicative of sickness, poverty, disgrace, a warning +against commencing any new enterprise. If the consultant be in love he or she +will be deceived.</p> + +<p>PALM-TREE, good luck; success in any undertaking. A sign of children to a +wife and of a speedy marriage to a maid.</p> + +<p>PARROT, a sign of emigration for a lengthy period.</p> + +<p>PEACOCK, denotes success and the acquisition of property; also a happy +marriage.</p> + +<p>PEAR, great wealth and improved social position; success in business, and to +a woman a wealthy husband.</p> + +<p>PEDESTRIAN, good news; an important appointment.</p> + +<p>PHEASANT, a legacy.</p> + +<p>PIG, good and bad luck mixed: a faithful lover but envious friends.</p> + +<p>PIGEONS, important news if flying; if at rest, domestic bliss and wealth +acquired in trade.</p> + +<p>PINE-TREE, continuous happiness.</p> + +<p>PISTOL, disaster.</p> + +<p>RABBIT, fair success in a city or large town.</p> + +<p>RAT, treacherous servants; losses through enemies.</p> + +<p>RAVEN, death for the aged; disappointment in love, divorce, failure in +business, and trouble generally.</p> + +<p>RAZOR, lovers' quarrels and separation.</p> + +<p>REPTILE, quarrels.</p> + +<p>RIDER, good news from overseas regarding financial prospects.</p> + +<p>RIFLE, a sign of discord and strife.</p> + +<p>RING, a ring means marriage; and if a letter can be found near it, this is +the initial of the future spouse. If clouds are near the ring, an unhappy +marriage; if all is clear about it, the contrary. A ring right at the bottom +means the wedding will not take place.</p> + +<p>ROSE, a lucky sign betokening good fortune and happiness.</p> + +<p>SAW, trouble brought about by strangers.</p> + +<p>SCALES, a lawsuit.</p> + +<p>SCEPTRE, a sign of honour from royalty.</p> + +<p>SCISSORS, quarrels; illness; separation of lovers.</p> + +<p>SERPENT, spiteful enemies; bad luck; illness.</p> + +<p>SHARK, danger of death.</p> + +<p>SHEEP, success, prosperity.</p> + +<p>SHIP, a successful journey.</p> + +<p>SNAKES are a sign of bad omen. Great caution is needed to ward off misfortune.</p> + +<p>SPIDER, a sign of money coming to the consultant.</p> + +<p>SQUARES, comfort and peace.</p> + +<p>STAR, a lucky sign; if surrounded by dots foretells great wealth and honours.</p> + +<p>STEEPLE, bad luck.</p> + +<p>STRAIGHT LINE, a journey, very pleasant.</p> + +<p>STRAIGHT LINES are an indication of peace, happiness, and long life.</p> + +<p>SWALLOW, a journey with a pleasant ending.</p> + +<p>SWAN, good luck and a happy marriage.</p> + +<p>SWORD, dispute, quarrels between lovers; a broken sword, victory of an enemy.</p> + +<p>TIMBER, logs of timber indicate business success.</p> + +<p>TOAD, deceit and unexpected enemies.</p> + +<p>TREES, a lucky sign; a sure indication of prosperity and happiness; +surrounded by dots, a fortune in the country.</p> + +<p>TRIANGLES, always a sign of good luck and unexpected legacies.</p> + +<p>TRIDENT, success and honours in the Navy.</p> + +<p>TWISTED FIGURES, disturbances and vexation; grievances if there are many such figures.</p> + +<p>UMBRELLA, annoyance and trouble.</p> + +<p>UNICORN, scandal.</p> + +<p>VULTURE, bitter foes.</p> + +<p>WAGON, a sign of approaching poverty.</p> + +<p>WAVY LINES, if long and waved, denote losses and vexations. The importance of +the lines depends upon the number of them and if heavy or light.</p> + +<p>WHEEL, an inheritance about to fall in.</p> + +<p>WINDMILL, success in a venturous enterprise.</p> + +<p>WOLF, beware of jealous intrigues.</p> + +<p>WOMAN, pleasure and happiness; if accompanied by dots, wealth or children. +Several women indicate scandal.</p> + +<p>WOOD, a speedy marriage.</p> + +<p>WORMS indicate secret foes.</p> + +<p>YACHT, pleasure and happiness.</p> + +<p>YEW-TREE indicates the death of an aged person who will leave his possessions +to the consultant.</p> + +<p>ZEBRA, travel and adventure in foreign lands.</p> + +<a name="5"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER V</p> + +<p>A COLLECTION OF SPECIMEN CUPS, WITH INTERPRETATIONS</p> + +<p>The succeeding ten figures are copied from actual tea-cups that have been at +different times subjected to the proper ritual by various consultants and duly +interpreted by seers. They are selected out of a larger number as being +representative of many different classes of horoscope, and they should afford +students practical instruction in what symbols to look for, and how to discern +them clearly as they turn the cup about and about in their hands.</p> + +<p>By reference to the interpretations provided upon the pages facing the +illustrations he will be able to ascertain the principles upon which to form a +judgment of the cup generally; and this, once he has mastered the method, he +will be able to supplement, by consulting the alphabetical list of symbols and +their significations in the previous chapter, and in this way will speedily +attain proficiency in reading any tea-cup presented for his consideration.</p> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS</p> + +<a name="1i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG.1</p> +</center> +<p>This is a fortunate horoscope. If cup has been turned by a man it shows that +he will gain success, honour, and wealth in the profession of a naval officer. +If by a woman then her luck is bound up with that of a sailor or marine.</p> + +<p>The pistols on the sides show the profession of arms, and the naval gun in +the bottom of the cup accompanied by a trident the branch to which he belongs. +The on one side and the tree on the other are two of the best signs of +promotion, rewards, and prosperity. The house near the pistol pointing towards +the handle of the cup indicates the acquisition of property, but as neither tree +nor house are surrounded by dots this will be a town, not a country, residence. +The repetition of the initial 'L' may show the name of the admiral, ship, or +battle in which the officer will win renown. The triangles confirm the other +signs of good fortune.</p> + +<center><p><img src="images/teacup01.png" height="456" width="404" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 1]"></p> +<p>FIG.1</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Two pistols on sides. <br> +A cannon in conjunction with a trident in centre. <br> +A pear.<br> +A tree.</p> +<p>on sides.<br> +A house.<br> +A pair of compasses near the rim.<br> +Several small triangles scattered about. Initial letters 'L' (twice), 'N,' and 'V' (twice).</p> + +<a name="2i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 2</p> +</center> + +<p>There is nothing very significant in this tea-cup. The wavy lines denote a +troublesome journey leading to some small amount of luck in connection with a +person or place whose name begins with the initial 'E.' The hour-glass near the +rim and the place from which the journey starts denotes that it will be +undertaken in order to avoid some imminent peril. The numeral '4' conjoined with +the sign of a parcel shows that one may be expected in that number of days.</p> + + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup02.png" height="456" width="409" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 2]"></p> +<p>FIG.2</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Wavy lines.<br> +Initial 'E' in conjunction with Horse-shoe.<br> +Hour-glass near rim.<br> +Parcel in conjunction with numeral '4.'</p> + +<a name="3i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 3</p> +</center> + +<p>This shows, by means of the crescent moon on the side, prosperity and fortune +as the result of a journey denoted by the lines. The number of triangles in conjunction +with the initial 'H' indicates the name commences with that letter, +and, being near the rim, at no great distance of time. The bird flying towards +and near the handle, accompanied by a triangle and a long envelope, denotes good +news from an official source. The flag gives warning of some danger from an +enemy.</p> + +<center><p><img src="images/teacup03.png" height="456" width="404" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 3]"></p> +<p>FIG. 3</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Crescent moon.<br> +Bird flying.<br> +Triangles.<br> +Flag.<br> +Initial 'A' in conjunction with sign of letter in official envelope.<br> +Other initials, 'H' and two 'L's.'</p> + +<a name="4i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 4</p> +</center> + +<p>The consultant is about to journey eastward to some large building or +institution, shown by the figure at the end of the straight line of dots. There +is some confusion in his or her affairs caused by too much indulgence in +pleasure and gaiety, denoted by the butterfly involved in obscure groups of +tea-leaves near the handle. The tree and the fleur-de-lys (or lily) in the +bottom of the cup are, however, signs of eventual success, probably through the +assistance of some person whose name begins with an 'N.'</p> + +<center><p><img src="images/teacup04.png" height="445" width="401" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 4]"></p> +<p>FIG. 4</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Large tree in bottom of cup.<br> +Fleur-de-lys (or lily).<br> +Butterfly on side approaching handle.<br> +Line of dots leading east to Building.<br> +Initials 'N' and 'C.'</p> + +<a name="5i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG.5</p> +</center> + +<p>A letter is approaching the consultant containing a considerable sum of +money, as it is surrounded by dots. The future, shown by the bottom of the cup, +is not clear, and betokens adversities; but the presence of the hammer there +denotes triumph over these, a sign confirmed by the hat on the side. The +consultant will be annoyed by somebody whose name begins with 'J,' and assisted +by one bearing the initial 'Y.'</p> + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup05.png" height="448" width="388" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 5]"></p> +<p>FIG. 5</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Hammer in centre of bottom.<br> +A letter approaching the house, accompanied by<br> +Dots,<br> +Hat,<br> +Initials 'Y' and 'J' (accompanied by small cross).</p> + +<a name="6i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 6</p> +</center> + +<p>A letter containing good news, shown by bird flying and the triangle, may be +expected immediately. If from a lover it shows that he is constant and +prosperous, owing to the anchor on the side. The large tree on the side +indicates happiness and prosperity. A letter will be received from someone whose +initial is 'L.' In the bottom of the cup there are signs of minor vexations or +delays in connection with someone whose name begins with 'C.'</p> + +<center><p><img src="images/teacup06.png" height="463" width="411" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 6]"></p> +<p>FIG. 6</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Large tree on side.<br> +Anchor on side.<br> +Bird flying high towards handle.<br> +Small +cross in bottom.<br> +Letter sign close to handle.<br> +Triangle.<br> +Initial 'L' with letter sign.<br> +Other initials, 'C' and 'H.'</p> + +<a name="7i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 7</p> +</center> + +<p>The two horse-shoes indicate a lucky journey to some large residence in a +north-easterly direction, the tree surmounting which denotes that happiness and +fortune will be found there and that (as it is surrounded by dots) it is +situated in the country. The sitting hen in the bottom of the cup, surmounted by +a triangle (to see which properly the illustration must be turned round) is +indicative of increased wealth by an unexpected legacy. A letter from someone +whose name begins with 'T' will contain a remittance of money, but it may not +arrive for some little time.</p> + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup07.png" height="456" width="414" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 7]"></p> +<p>FIG.7</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Large horse-shoe, edge of bottom, in conjunction with smaller horse-shoe. +<br> +Line of dots leading E.N.E. to<br> +Large building surmounted by<br> +Tree, overlapping rim.<br> +Flowers.<br> +Small triangles.<br> +Initial 'T' with letter and money signs.</p> + +<a name="8i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG.8</p> +</center> + +<p>This tea-cup appears to give warning by the flag in conjunction with a rifle +and the letter 'V' that some friend of the consultant will be wounded in +battle, and as there is a coffin in the bottom of the cup that the wounds will +be fatal. On the other side, however, a sceptre, surrounded by signs of honours, +seems to indicate that 'V' will be recognized by his sovereign and a decoration +bestowed upon him for bravery in battle, shown by the initial 'K' accompanied by +a letter-sign, and by the astrological sign of Mars, intervening between these +and the sceptre.</p> + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup08.png" height="459" width="399" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 8]"></p> +<p>FIG. 8</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Coffin in bottom, in conjunction with 'V.'<br> +Flag in conjunction with rifle on side. <br> +Sceptre on side.<br> +Large initial 'K' with letter sign near sceptre.<br> +Astrological sign of Mars between them.<br> +Initial 'V' near flag and rifle.</p> + +<a name="9i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 9</p> +</center> + +<p>If the consultant be single this cup will, by means of the hare on the side, +tell him that he will speedily be married. The figure of a lady holding out an +ivy-leaf is a sign that his sweetheart will prove true and constant, and the +heart in conjunction with a ring and the initial 'A' still further points to +marriage with a person whose name begins with that letter. The flower, triangle, +and butterfly are all signs of prosperity, pleasure and happiness.</p> + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup09.png" height="456" width="401" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 9]"></p> +<p>FIG.9</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Hare sitting on side.<br> +Butterfly near rim.<br> +Heart and +ring. <br> +Large flower on edge of bottom.<br> +Figure of woman holding ivy-leaf in +bottom.<br> +Triangle.<br> +Initials 'A' and small 'C' with dots.</p> + +<a name="10i"></a> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<p>INTERPRETATION</p> +<p>FIG. 10</p> +</center> + +<p>This is typical of the cup being too often consulted by some people. It is +almost void of meaning, the only symbols indicating a short journey, although +the flower near the rim denotes good luck, and the fact that the bottom is clear +that nothing very important is about to happen to the consultant.</p> + +<center> +<p><img src="images/teacup10.png" height="451" width="401" border="0" alt="[Illustration: FIGURE 10]"></p> +<p>FIG. 10</p> +<p><i>Principal Symbols</i>:—</p></center> + +<p>Line of dots leading W.S.W to <br> +Flower.<br> +Two letters near rim</p> + +<a name="6"></a> +<br> +<br> +<p>CHAPTER VI</p> + +<p>OMENS</p> + +<p>How have omens been regarded in the past? An appeal to anciency is usually a +safeguard for a basis. It is found that most of the earliest records are now +subsisting. See official guide to the British Museum. Babylonian and Assyrian +antiquities, table case H. Nineveh Gallery, the following appears:</p> + +<p>"By means of omen tablets the Babylonian and Assyrian priests from time +immemorial predicted events which they believed would happen in the near or in +the remote future. They deduced these omens from the appearance and actions of +animals, birds, fish, and reptiles; from the appearance of the entrails of +sacrificial victims; from the appearance and condition of human and animal +offspring at birth; from the state and condition of various members of the human +body."</p> + +<p>In India, where the records of the early ages of civilization go back +hundreds of years, omens are considered of great importance.</p> + +<p>Later, in Greece, the home of the greatest and highest culture and +civilization, we find, too, omens regarded very seriously, while to-day there +are vast numbers of persons of intellect, the world over, who place reliance +upon omens.</p> + +<p>That there is some good ground for belief in some omens seems indisputable. +Whether this has arisen as the result of experience, by the following of some +particular event close upon the heels of signs observed, or whether it has been +an intuitive science, in which provision has been used to afford an +interpretation, is not quite clear. It seems idle to attempt to dismiss the +whole thing as mere superstition, wild guessing, or abject credulity, as some +try to do, with astrology and alchemy also, and other occult sciences; the fact +remains that omens have, in numberless instances, given good warnings.</p> + +<p>To say that these are just coincidences is to beg the question. For the +universe is governed by law. Things happen because they must, not because they +may. There is no such thing as accident or coincidence. We may not be able to +see the steps and the connections. But they are there all the same.</p> + +<p>In years gone by many signs were deduced from the symptoms of sick men; the +events or actions of a man's life; dreams and visions; the appearance of a man's +shadow; from fire, flame, light, or smoke; the state and condition of cities and +their streets, of fields, marshes, rivers, and lands. From the appearances of +the stars and planets, of eclipses, meteors, shooting stars, the direction of +winds, the form of clouds, thunder and lightning and other weather incidents, +they were able to forecast happenings. A number of tablets are devoted to these +prophecies.</p> + +<p>It is conceivable that many of these omens should have found their way into +Greece, and it is not unreasonable to believe that India may have derived her +knowledge of omens from Babylonia; or it may have been the other way about. The +greatest of scholars are divided in their opinions as to which really is the +earlier civilization.</p> + +<p>The point to be made here is that in all parts of the world—in quarters where +we may be certain that no trace of Grecian, Indian, or Babylonian science or +civilization has appeared—there are to be found systems of prophecies by omens.</p> + +<p>It may be accounted for in two ways. One that in all races as they grow up, +so to speak, there is the same course of evolution of ideas and superstition +which to many appears childish. The other explanation seems to be the more +reasonable one, if we believe, as we are forced to do, that omens do +foretell—that all peoples, all races, accumulate a record, oral or otherwise, of +things which have happened more or less connected with things which seemed to +indicate them. In course of time this knowledge appears to consolidate. It gets +generally accepted as true. And then it is handed on from generation to +generation. Often with the passage of years it gets twisted and a new meaning +taken out of it altogether different from the original.</p> + +<p>It would be difficult to attempt to classify omens. Many books have been +written on the subject and more yet to be written of the beliefs of the various +races. The best that can be offered here is a selection from one or other of the +varied sources. In Greece sneezing was a good omen and was considered a proof of +the truth of what was said at the moment by the sneezer.</p> + +<p>A tingling in the hand denoted the near handling of money, a ringing in the +ears that news will soon be received. The number of sneezes then became a sign +for more definite results. The hand which tingled, either right or left, +indicated whether it were to be paid or received. The particular ear affected +was held to indicate good or evil news. Other involuntary movements of the body +were also considered of prime importance.</p> + +<p>Many omens are derived from the observation of various substances dropped +into a bowl of water. In Babylon oil was used. To-day in various countries +melted lead, wax, or the white of an egg, is used. From the shapes which +result, the trade or occupation of a future husband, the luck for the year, and +so on, are deduced in the folk practices of modern Europe. Finns use stearine +and melted lead, Magyars lead, Russians wax, Danes lead and egg, and the +northern counties of England egg, wax and oil.</p> + +<p>Bird omens were the subject of very serious study in Greece. It has been +thought that this was because in the early mythology of Greece some of their +gods and goddesses were believed to have been birds. Birds, therefore, were +particularly sacred, and their appearances and movements were of profound +significance. The principal birds for signs were the raven, the crow, the heron, +wren, dove, woodpecker, and kingfisher, and all the birds of prey, such as the +hawk, eagle, or vulture, which the ancients classed together (W. R. Halliday, +"Greek Divination"). Many curious instances, which were fulfilled, of bird omens +are related in "The Other World," by Rev. F. Lee. A number of families have +traditions about the appearance of a white bird in particular.</p> + +<p>"In the ancient family of Ferrers, of Chartley Park, in Staffordshire, a herd +of wild cattle is preserved. A tradition arose in the time of Henry III. that +the birth of a parti-coloured calf is a sure omen of death, within the same +year, to a member of the Lord Ferrers family. By a noticeable coincidence, a +calf of this description has been born whenever a death has happened of late +years in this noble family." (<i>Staffordshire Chronicle</i>, July, 1835). The falling +of a picture or a statue or bust of the individual is usually regarded as an +evil omen. Many cases are cited where this has been soon followed by the death +of the person.</p> + +<p>It would be easy to multiply instances of this sort: of personal omen or +warning. The history and traditions of our great families are saturated with it. +The predictions and omens relating to certain well known families, and others, +recur at once; and from these it may be inferred that beneath the more popular +beliefs there is enough fire and truth to justify the smoke that is produced, +and to reward some of the faith that is placed in the modern dreambooks and the +books of fate and the interpretations of omens.</p> + + +<p>OMENS</p> + +<p>ACORN.—Falling from the oak tree on anyone, is a sign of good fortune to the +person it strikes.</p> + +<p>BAT.—To see one in day time means long journey.</p> + +<p>BIRTHDAYS.—<br> + "Monday's child is fair of face, <br> + Tuesday's child is full of +grace, <br> + Wednesday's child is full of woe, <br> + Thursday's child has far to go, +<br> + Friday's child is loving and giving, <br> + Saturday's child works hard for its living; +<br> + But a child that's born on the Sabbath-day <br> + Is handsome and wise and loving and +gay."</p> + +<p>BUTTERFLY.—In your room means great pleasure and success, but you must not +catch it, or the luck will change.</p> + +<p>CANDLE.—A spark on the wick of a candle means a letter for the one who first +sees it. A big glow like a parcel means money coming to you.</p> + +<p>CAT.—Black cat to come to your house means difficulties caused by treachery. +Drive it away and avoid trouble.</p> + +<p>CHAIN.—If your chain breaks while on you means disappointments or a broken +engagement of marriage.</p> + +<p>CLOTHES.—To put on clothes the wrong way out is a sign of good luck; but you +must not alter them, or the luck will change.</p> + +<p>CLOVER.—To find a four-leaf clover means luck to you, happiness and +prosperity.</p> + +<p>COW.—Coming in your yard or garden a very prosperous sign.</p> + +<p>CRICKETS.—A lucky omen. It foretells money coming to you. They should not be +disturbed.</p> + +<p>DOG.—Coming to your house, means faithful friends and a favourable sign.</p> + +<p>DEATH-WATCH.—A clicking in the wall by this little insect is regarded as +evil, but it does not necessarily mean a death; possibly only some sickness.</p> + +<p>EARS.—You are being talked about if your ear tingles. Some say, "right for +spite, left for love." Others reverse this omen. If you think of the person, +friend, or acquaintance who is likely to be talking of you, and mention the name +aloud, the tingling will cease if you say the right one.</p> + +<p>FLAG.—If it falls from the staff, while flying it means danger from wounds +inflicted by an enemy.</p> + +<p>FRUIT STONES OR PIPS.—Think of a wish first, and then count your stones or +pips. If the number is even, the omen is good. If odd, the reverse is the case.</p> + +<p>GRASSHOPPER in the house means some great friend or distinguished person will +visit you.</p> + +<p>HORSESHOE.—To find one means it will bring you luck.</p> + +<p>KNIVES crossed are a bad omen. If a knife or fork or scissors falls to the +ground and sticks in the floor you will have a visitor.</p> + +<p>LADYBIRDS betoken visitors.</p> + +<p>LOOKING GLASS.—To break means it will bring you ill luck.</p> + +<p>MAGPIES.—One, bad luck; two, good luck; three, a wedding; four, a birth.</p> + +<p>MARRIAGE.—A maid should not wear colours; a widow never white. Happy omens +for brides are sunshine and a cat sneezing.</p> + +<p>MAY.—"Marry in May, and you'll rue the day."</p> + +<p>NEW MOON on a Monday signifies good luck and good weather. The new moon seen +for the first time over the right shoulder offers the chance for a wish to come +true.</p> + +<p>NIGHTINGALE.—Lucky for lovers if heard before the cuckoo.</p> + +<p>OWLS are evil omens. Continuous hooting of owls in your trees is said to be +one of ill-health.</p> + +<p>PIGS.—To meet a sow coming towards you is good; but if she turns away, the +luck flies.</p> + +<p>RABBITS.—A rabbit running across your path is said to be unlucky.</p> + +<p>RAT.—A rat running in front of you means treacherous servants and losses +through enemies.</p> + +<p>RAVEN.—To see one, means death to the aged or trouble generally.</p> + +<p>SALT spilled means a quarrel. This may be avoided by throwing a pinch over +the left shoulder.</p> + +<p>SCISSORS.—If they fall and stick in the floor it means quarrels, illness, +separation of lovers.</p> + +<p>SERPENT OR SNAKE.—If it crosses your path, means spiteful enemies, bad luck. +Kill it and your luck will be reversed.</p> + +<p>SHOES.—The right shoe is the best one to put on first.</p> + +<p>SHOOTING STARS.—If you wish, while the star is still moving, your wish will +come true.</p> + +<p>SINGING before breakfast, you'll cry before night.</p> + +<p>SPIDERS.—The little red spider is the money spider, and means good fortune +coming to you. It must not be disturbed. Long-legged spiders are also +forerunners of good fortune.</p> + +<p>TOWEL.—To wipe your hands on a towel at the same time with another, means +you are to quarrel with him or her in the near future.</p> + +<p>WHEEL.—The wheel coming off any vehicle you are riding in means you are to +inherit some fortune, a good omen.</p> + +<p>WASHING HANDS.—If you wash your hands in the water just used by another, a +quarrel may be expected, unless you first make the sign of the cross over the +water.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Tea-Cup Reading, and the Art of +Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by 'A Highland Seer' + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEA-CUP READING *** + +***** This file should be named 18241-h.htm or 18241-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/2/4/18241/ + +Produced by Ruth Hart, ruthhart@twilightoracle.com + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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