How to tell fortunes

Chapter 37: ST. AGNES’ DAY

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The manual presents practical methods for divination using playing cards and other traditional omens, giving suit hierarchies, individual card meanings including reversed positions, and rules for reading combinations and spreads. It also compiles lists of auspicious and unlucky days, weather and household omens, and specialized devices such as a numbered oraculum and marriage lotteries. Instructions include examples of interpreting multiple-card patterns and cautions about positional changes, offering a concise how-to guide for amateur readers seeking systematic approaches to prognostication.

ST. AGNES’ DAY

(Charm to know who your husband shall be.)

Falls on the 21st of January: you must prepare yourself by a twenty-four hours’ fast, touching nothing but pure spring water, beginning at midnight on the 20th, to the same again on the 21st; then go to bed, and mind you sleep by yourself, and do not mention what you are trying to any one, or it will break the spell; go to rest on your left side, and repeat these lines three times:

St. Agnes, be a friend to me,

In the gift I ask of thee;

Let me this night my husband see—

and you will dream of your future spouse: if you see more than one in your dream, you will wed two or three times, but if you sleep and dream not, you will never marry.