How to tell fortunes

Chapter 42: Transcriber’s Notes:

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About This Book

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.

Transcriber’s Notes:

The author of this book is listed in other sources as Aaron A. Warford.

The Table of Contents was created by the transcriber and placed in the public domain.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

p. 36: ives changed to fives (three fives, a)

pp. 36-37: The section entitled NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM; OR, BOOK OF FATE was moved from just preceding the first section entitled LIST OF UNLUCKY DAYS to just preceding the section entitled ORACULUM.

p. 39: cautions changed to cautious (extremely cautious of)