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HOW TO TELL FORTUNES
CONTAINING Napoleon's Oraculum, and the Key to Work It
ALSO Tells Fortunes by Cards, LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS, SIGNS AND OMENS.
HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY CARDS.
In telling Fortunes by Cards--as in all games in which they are employed--the Ace ranks highest in value. Then comes the King, followed by the Queen, Knave, Ten, Nine, Eight, and Seven; these being generally the only cards used.
The order, and comparative value of the different suits, is as follows:--First on the list stand "Clubs," as they mostly portend happiness; and--no matter how numerous, or how accompanied--are rarely or never of bad augury. Next come "Hearts," which usually signify joy, liberality, or good temper; "Diamonds," on the contrary, denote delay, quarrels, and annoyance; and "Spades"--the worst suit of all--grief, sickness, and loss of money.
SIGNIFICATION OF THE CARDS.
The individual meaning attached to the thirty-two cards employed is as follows:--
THE EIGHT CLUBS.
THE EIGHT HEARTS.
THE EIGHT DIAMONDS.
N. B.--In order to know whether the Ace, Ten, Nine, Eight and Seven of Diamonds are reversed, it is better to make a small pencil-mark on each, to show which is the top of the card.
THE EIGHT SPADES.
The Court cards of Hearts and Diamonds usually represent persons of fair complexion; Clubs and Spades, the opposite.
SIGNIFICATION OF DIFFERENT CARDS OF THE SAME DENOMINATION.
Any picture-card between two others of equal value--as two tens, two Aces, etc.--denotes that the person represented by that card runs the risk of a prison.
It requires no great efforts to commit these significations to memory, but it must be remembered that they are but what the alphabet is to the printed book: a little attention and practice, however, will soon enable the learner to form these mystic letters into words, and words into phrases; in other language, to assemble these cards together, and read the events, past and to come, their pictured faces pretend to reveal.
There are several ways of doing this; but we will give them all, one after another, so as to afford our readers an ample choice of methods of prying into futurity.
DEALING THE CARDS BY THREES.
Take the pack of thirty-two selected cards , having before fixed upon the one you intend to represent yourself, supposing always you are making the essay on your own behalf. If not, it must represent the person for whom you are acting. In doing this, it is necessary to remember that the card chosen should be according to the complexion of the chooser, King or Queen of Diamonds for a very fair person, ditto of Hearts for one rather darker, Clubs for one darker still, and Spades only for one very dark indeed. The card chosen also loses its signification, and simply becomes the representative of a dark or fair man, or woman, as the case may be.
"You often think of a fair man in uniform."
The next seventh card proves to be the Ace of Clubs; you add:
"You will receive from him some very joyful tidings; he, besides, intends making you a present."
Count the Ace of Clubs as "one," and proceeding to the next seventh card, the Queen of Spades, you resume:
"A widow is endeavoring to injure you on this very account; and" "the annoyance she gives you will oblige you to either take a journey or change your residence; but" "your journey or removal will meet with some obstacle."
On proceeding to count as before, calling the Ten of Diamonds one, you will find the seventh card proves to be the Queen of Hearts herself, the person for whom you are acting, and may therefore safely conclude by saying:
"But this you will overcome of yourself, without needing any one's aid or assistance."
Now take the two cards at either extremity of the half circle, which are, respectively, the Eight of Spades and the Seven of Clubs, unite them, and continue:--
"A sickness, which will lead to your receiving a small sum of money."
Repeat the same maneuver, which brings together the Ace of Clubs and the Ten of Diamonds:--
"Good news, which will make you decide on taking a journey, destined to prove a very happy one, and which will occasion you to receive a sum of money."
The next cards united, being the Seven of Spades and the Seven of Hearts, you say:--
"Tranquility and peace of mind, followed by slight anxiety, quickly succeeded by love and happiness."
Then come the Nine of Clubs and the Knave of Clubs, foretelling: "You will certainly receive money through the exertions of a clever dark young man--Queen of Hearts and King of Diamonds--which comes from a fair man in uniform; this rencounter announces some great happiness in store for you, and complete fulfillment of your wishes. Knave of Diamonds and Nine of Diamonds--Although this happy result may be delayed for a time, through some fair young man, not famed for his delicacy--Eight of Hearts and Ten of Hearts--love, joy, and triumph. The Queen of Spades, who remains alone, is the widow who is endeavoring to injure you, and who finds herself abandoned by all her friends!"
Now gather up the cards you have been using, shuffle and cut them with the left hand, and proceed to make them into three packs by dealing one to the left, one in the middle, and one to the right; a fourth is laid aside to form "a surprise." Then continue to deal the cards to each of the three packs in turn, until their number is exhausted, when it will be found that the left-hand and middle packs contain each five cards, whilst the one on the right hand consists of only four.
Now ask the person consulting you to select one of the three packs. We will suppose this to be the middle one, and that the cards comprising it are, the Knave of Diamonds, the King of Diamonds, the Seven of Spades, the Queen of Spades, and the Seven of Clubs. These, by recollecting our previous instructions regarding the individual and relative signification of the cards, are easily interpreted, as follows:
"The Knave of Clubs--a fair young man, possessed of no delicacy of feeling, who seeks to injure--the King of Diamonds--a fair man in uniform--Seven of Spades--and will succeed in causing him some annoyance--the Queen of Spades--at the instigation of a spiteful woman--Seven of Clubs--but, by means of a small sum of money, matters will be finally easily arranged."
Next take up the left-hand pack, which is "for the house"--the former one having been for the lady herself. Supposing it to consist of the Queen of Hearts, the Knave of Clubs, the Eight of Hearts, the Nine of Diamonds, and the Ace of Clubs, they would read thus:
"Queen of Hearts--the lady whose fortune is being told is, or soon will be, in a house--Knave of Clubs--where she will meet with a dark young man, who--Eight of Hearts--will entreat her assistance to forward his interests with a fair girl--Nine of Diamonds--he having met with delays and disappointment--Ace of Clubs--but a letter will arrive announcing the possession of money, which will remove all difficulties."
The third pack is "for those who did not expect it," and will be composed of four cards, let us say the Ten of Hearts, Nine of Clubs, Eight of Spades, and Ten of Diamonds, signifying:
"The Ten of Hearts--An unexpected piece of good fortune and great happiness--Nine of Clubs--caused by an unlooked-for legacy--Eight of Spades--which joy may perhaps be followed by a slight sickness--Ten of Diamonds--the result of a fatiguing journey."
There now remains on the table only the card intended for the "surprise." This, however, must be left untouched, the other cards gathered up, shuffled, cut, and again laid out in three packs, not forgetting at the first deal to add a card to "the surprise." After the different packs have been duly examined and explained, as before described, they must again be gathered up, shuffled, etc., indeed, the whole operation repeated, after which the three cards forming "the surprise" are examined; and supposing them to be the Seven of Hearts, the Knave of Clubs, and the Queen of Spades, are to be thus interpreted:
"Seven of Hearts--pleasant thoughts and friendly intentions--Knave of Clubs--of a dark young man--relative to a malicious dark woman, or widow, who will cause him much unhappiness."
DEALING THE CARDS BY SEVENS.
DEALING THE CARDS BY FIFTEENS.
After having well shuffled and cut the cards, or, as we have before said, had them cut, deal them out in two packs, containing sixteen cards in each. Desire the person consulting you to choose one of them; lay aside the first card, to form "the surprise;" turn up the other fifteen, and range them in a half-circle before you, going from left to right, placing them in the order in which they come to hand, and taking care to remark whether the one representing the person for whom you are acting be among them. If not, the cards must be all gathered up, shuffled, cut, and dealt as before, and this must be repeated until the missing card makes its appearance in the pack chosen by the person it represents. Now proceed to explain them--first, by interpreting the meaning of any pairs, triplets, or quartettes among them; then by counting them in sevens, going from right to left, and beginning with the card representing the person consulting you; and lastly, by taking the cards at either extremity of the line and pairing them. This being done, gather up the fifteen cards, shuffle, cut, and deal them so as to form three packs of each five cards. From each of these three packs withdraw the topmost card, and place them on the one laid aside to form "the surprise," thus forming four packs of four cards each.
Desire the person for whom you are acting to choose one of these packs, "for herself" or "himself," as the case may be. Turn it up, and spread out the four cards it contains, from left to right, explaining their individual and relative signification. Next proceed in like manner with the pack on your left hand, which will be "for the house;" then the third one, "for those who do not expect it;" and lastly, "the surprise."
"The Knave of Hearts is a gay young bachelor--the Ace of Diamonds--who has written, or will very soon write, a letter--the Queen of Clubs--to a dark woman--Eight of Spades reversed--to make proposals to her, which will not be accepted."
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