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Read Ebook: The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed containing an alphabetical list of dreams with their interpretation and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how by Fontaine Felix
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Ebook has 1956 lines and 110635 words, and 40 pages
Shift Charm 93
Signs from the Moon's age 137
Sign of a Sneeze 128
Sign of Visitors 126
Sign when your Ear tingles 128
" " " Nose itches 128
" " you wet your Apron 133
Spider Omen 127
Star Augury 129
Strange Bed 128
Straw Sign 126
String Token 128
Table to find Lucky Numbers 9
Tea or Coffee-Grounds, Fortune-telling by 121
Telling Fortunes by Dominoes and Dice 100
The Divining-rod, to tell where to dig for Water and Metals 134
Thirty Physiological Significations 142
To find out whom one is to have for a Husband 99
To know if a Woman with Child will have a Girl or a Boy 129
To know the Temper and Disposition of every one 138
To prepare a Love Potion 124
What a Prick in the Finger signifies 130
What a Spider-web foretells 130
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, BY DICK & FITZGERALD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
FONTAINE'S
GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK,
AND
FORTUNE-TELLER.
THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
This singular wheel was much consulted in the middle ages, and is said to have been used by Cagliostro to aid him in his divinations. I have selected it from an old Latin manuscript on Astrology, and translated it into English for the benefit of those of my readers who cannot read the former language. SEE FRONTISPIECE.
THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE SHOWS:
HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE GOLDEN WHEEL.
The person whose fortune is to be told, must place the wheel of Fortune face downward, prick into a number , then refer for an explanation, which stands at the corresponding number as that you pricked into.
WHAT ARE DREAMS?
I offer you in this work, my dear reader, all that can be collected in reference to dreams. Notwithstanding the proverbial saying, "All dreams are lies," we frequently see the realization of them, and by them we are informed of more or less interesting events which afterward happen to us. A prudent and enlightened man will therefore examine carefully his dreams to know which he ought to interpret, neglecting those which are extravagant because of too exalted an imagination or of a disturbed digestion.
In consulting this book with attention, in seeking in it for the explanation of your dreams, and calculating the causes which have produced them, you will rarely depart from the truth, because you will be following the rules of a wise combination, which will prevent you from falling into an illusory if not fatal error.
FOREKNOWLEDGE, OR INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS.
In the Holy Scriptures God says, that he "will pour his Spirit on all flesh, that the young men and maidens shall prophesy, the old men shall see visions, and the young men dream dreams." Both sacred and profane history are full of so many examples of the fulfilment of dreams, that he must be very skeptical and but little versed in natural science who would refuse to have faith in them.
Hippocrates says that when the body is asleep the soul is awake, and transports itself everywhere, where the body would be able to go, that it knows and sees all that the body could know or see were it awake; that it touches all the body could touch, in a word, that it performs all the actions that the body of a sleeping man could do were he awake.
There are five kinds of dreams, differently named according to their different qualities. The first is dream, the second vision, the third oracle, the fourth revery, and the fifth apparition.
A dream is that which, while we are asleep, shows us the truth hidden under certain figures, as when Joseph interpreted to king Pharaoh the dream concerning the seven lean kine that devoured the seven fat ones; the dream of the seven full ears of corn, etc.
A vision is simply a dream happening when the body is awake instead of sleeping, as Vespasian when he saw the surgeon who had extracted Nero's tooth.
The oracle is a revelation, or information given us by some angel or other celestial spirit who does God's bidding. The angel appearing to Joseph the husband of the Virgin, and to the wise men, are examples of this.
Revery occurs when the passions are so vehement that they destroy the mental equilibrium for a time. Then what one thinks of during the day he will dream of at night, as a lover who has been thinking during the day of his beloved one will continue to do so at night while he is sleeping. Sometimes when one fears to meet a person, he will dream at night that he has met him; having fasted during the day, he will dream of eating, or, having been thirsty, of drinking. Avarice will make the miser dream of his gold, and speak of it when sleeping, as he would not do when awake.
Apparition is named Phantom by the Greeks, and is only that nocturnal vision sometimes presented to children and weak-minded persons, who imagine they see objects presented to intimidate or pain them.
Of these five kinds of dreams, the three first have an appearance of truth, but the last two are absolutely false.
It is to be remarked, with regard to all dreams, that those of which only parts are remembered, signify nothing at all; that those that memory retains are good and true; that they ought to occur about day-break, or at least after midnight, because until that time the senses and the body are occupied in the labor of digestion, and the mind disturbed by the remembrance of dinner, can dream of nothing reasonable. Nevertheless Artemidorus says, that a sober, temperate, and tranquil man can dream at any hour of the night, or even during the day, and that the fulfilment of such dreams will be certain.
Some authors divide dreams into three kinds, namely, dreams of natural objects, of animals, and of celestial objects. The natural things are those by which physicians judge of the temperament; dreams of animals show the passions and cares that the mind has felt during the day; those of celestial objects are the intimations of divine things, as for example, the statue that the king of Babylon saw when asleep, which is so well explained by the prophet Daniel.
There are few persons who have the gift of dreaming that which will be fulfilled, fewer still who know how to interpret them, because it is necessary to observe many things not generally known.
There are two principal kinds of dreams, the speculative or contemplative, and the allegorical or significative. To these one ought to pay attention, the speculative happening in the fulfilment as it occurred in dreams, for example: A prisoner in a small prison at Paris dreamed that a cord was being attached to his neck to hang him, that after it was done a stranger appeared with a sword who severed the cord and delivered him from death; this was fulfilled the next day, for the judge having pronounced his sentence, and given him to the hangman, he was delivered by unknown persons employed by his friends. Allegorical dreams on the contrary never happen as one has dreamed. Thus, to dream of an angel, signifies revelation or good news, but to see a serpent which tries to bite one signifies troubles arising from the envy of others.
Speculative dreams are soon fulfilled, allegorical ones not so quickly; a day or two often intervening between the dream and its completion.
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