UNUSUAL METHODS OF TELLING
these.
The top card
placed by
itself
The other
is
on the
fifteen are
left to right in front of
now removed,
face
125
downwards, and
table.
turned up and ranged in order from
The type
among them if it
the diviner.
senting the enquirer, must be
—
card, repreis
not there,
must be gathered up, re-shuffled and cut, and
the preliminary process must be repeated. This goes on
the cards
all
till
the type card appears
The reading
pairs,
triplets,
is
among
the fifteen in the row.
or
—
first by noting any
among them, giving the
given in two ways
quartettes
meaning from the Table given
for the English system.
They should then be consulted in pairs as before, by
taking one card from each end of the row, leaving a fateful
master-card for the
finish.
This card, as in a former experi-
ment, has more force than any of the seven pairs.
When this has been done, the fifteen cards are gathered
together and well shuffled, and then dealt so as to form
The top card from each
heap is then taken and added to the single face-down card
to form the Surprise. Thus we get four packs of four cards
three packs of five cards each.
each.
—
The enquirer now chooses one of the three heaps he
must not touch the Surprise heap and this is read as
apphing to him- or her- self. Of the two remaining heaps,
the left-hand one affects the home and the right-hand one
covers " some one else " closely connected with the
—
enquirer.
Finally there
is
unexpected at the
the Surprise, which represents something
moment by
the enquirer.
Some Italian Methods
The pack of thirty-two cards are well shuffled and cut
The present method is dependent upon the suit
once.