CHAPTER V
SOME ARTISTIC STARS
French card-tellers, it is usual to abandon
when
the simple methods used by English tellers
cards; instead they use fanciful figures
arranging the
known as Stars. We will give three of these, with full
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and reading.
general methods of laying-out the
One of the most
diagram.
cards is called the Grand Star, of which we give a
details of their building
the thirty-two cards of the fortuneFours, Fives,
telhng pack are used— the Deuces, Threes,
and Sixes are discarded.
A card to represent the enquirer or consultant is selected.
For
If
this
he
is
purpose
a
fair
all
man, the King
of Hearts
is
chosen as the
This card is called the
or a white-haired man,
card to represent the enquirer.
If a very fair man
significator.
the card for significator is the King of Diamonds.
These
women, the
two suits are used also for very fair and fair
Queen being the significator.
Clubs and Spades represent respectively consultants
who are between dark and fair, and very dark persons.
Kings and Queens are used for the two sexes. If the
for
enquirer be a widower or widow. Spades is the suit
the sign