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How to tell fortunes

Chapter 39: HOW TO WORK THE ORACULUM.
By Aaron A. Warford
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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.

NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM;
OR,
BOOK OF FATE.

The Oraculum is gifted with every requisite variety of response to the following questions:

1. Shall I obtain my wish?

2. Shall I have success in my undertakings?

3. Shall I gain or lose in my cause?

4. Shall I have to live in foreign parts?

5. Will the stranger return?

6. Shall I recover my property?

7. Will my friend be true?

8. Shall I have to travel?

9. Does the person love and regard me?

10. Will the marriage be prosperous?

11. What sort of a wife, or husband, shall I have?

12. Will she have a son or daughter?

13. Will the patient recover?

14. Will the prisoner be released?

15. Shall I be lucky or unlucky?

16. What does my dream signify?

HOW TO WORK THE ORACULUM.

Make marks in four lines, one under another, in the following manner, making more or less in each line, according to your fancy:

* * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * * * * * * * *

Then reckon the number of marks in each line, and, if it be odd, mark down one dot; if even, two dots. If there be more than nine marks, reckon the surplus ones over that number only, viz.:

The number of marks in the first line of the foregoing are odd; therefore make one mark, thus*
In the second, even, so make two, thus* *
In the third, odd again, make one mark only*
In the fourth, even again, two marks* *

TO OBTAIN THE ANSWER.

You must refer to The Oraculum, at the top of which you will find a row of dots similar to those you have produced, and a column of figures corresponding with those prefixed to the questions; guide your eye down the column at the top of which you find the dots resembling your own, till you come to the letter on a line with the number of the question you are trying, then refer to the page having that letter at the top, and, on a line with the dots which are similar to your own, you will find your answer.

The following are unlucky days, on which none of the questions should be worked, or any enterprise undertaken: Jan. 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 20, 22; Feb. 6, 17, 28; March 24, 26; April 10, 27, 28; May 7, 8; June 27; July 17, 21; Aug. 20, 22; Sept. 5, 30; Oct 6; Nov. 3, 29; Dec. 6, 10, 15.

⁂ It is not right to try a question twice in one day.