CARD FORTUNE TELLING
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Divination by Obstacles
Have
the pack of thirty-two cards well shuffled
and
Pick out the type card representing the
cut once only.
enquirer and hold the rest of the pack face downwards
in
The type card
your hand.
is
placed in the centre of
the table, the top card from the pack
is
turned over and
placed above the type card, the second card being similarly
The
placed below.
now
placed on the left and the
The fifth card is placed upon
covering it.
The Diviner now discards
third
is
fourth card on the right.
the type card,
eight cards altogether, and, that being done, adds another
same order as before
and upon the type card.
Discard eight more cards and place the final five cards
as before, one by one, upon the heaps. Read each heap
in turn, begiiming with the one from above the type card,
and only looking out for pairs and triplets, suit colour,
and whether the four high cards (the Ace here being
counted with the Court cards, as this method is older
card to each of the
five in the
above, below,
left, right,
than the one
last described)
dominatequirer,
—the
or the four low cards pre-
latter being the personal efforts of the en-
and the Court cards being the help or
interference
of other people.
Divination by Pairs and Triplets
This method
is
not so old as some of the others but
is
very pretty and effective, besides being rehable.
The pack of thirty-two cards must be well shuffled
and cut into three with the left hand, these being arranged
as
before explained,
taking the original centre section
newly arranged pack. The prepared
cards are now held in the left hand and the three top cards
are turned up. If they contain two or three cards of the
for the
bottom
of the