Fortunes and Dreams

About this eBook

Author

Cielo, Astra, 1861-1957

Title

Fortunes and dreams : A practical manual of fortune telling, divination and the interpretation of dreams, signs and omens

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Fortune-telling

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54774

Release Date

May 24, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FORTUNES AND DREAMS
2. 2.INTRODUCTION
3. 3.ASTROLOGY — Historical Review — Astrological Readings — The Astrological Guide to Fortune — Character as Told by Astrology — How to Determine the Lucky and Unlucky Days of Any Month. — Unlucky Days for Males — List of Unlucky Days for Females. — The Derivations of the Names of the Months — Derivations of the German and English Days of the Week
4. 4.THE ANCIENT ORACLES — Napoleon’s Oraculum — ORACULUM TABLE — The Answers
5. 5.FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS — The Origin and History of Playing Cards. — Suits and Symbols — Mystic Meaning — The Charm and Power of Cards — What the Cards Signify — Meaning of the Various Cards. — Meaning of the Hearts. — Meaning of the Diamonds. — Meaning of the Clubs. — Meaning of the Spades. — Combinations of Court Cards. — Combinations of Plain Cards. — General Information. — Telling One’s Fortune with Twenty-one Cards — The Italian Method. — The Significance of the Three Packs. — The French System. — Method of Reading. — An English System of Telling the Past, Present and Future. — The Gypsy Method. — Reading the Cards — The Creole Method — Card Oracles.
6. 6.Fortune-telling with Dice and Dominoes
7. 7.THE SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY [A] — Principal Lines of the Palm and Their Meaning — The Shape and Length of the Phalanges — Form of the Hand — Character from the Shape of a Hand and Fingers — The Mountains — A Reading of the Lines and Other Characteristics — The Fate Line — The Girdle of Venus — The Lines of Reputation — The Line of Intuition — The Health Line — The Marriage Lines — Children’s Lines — Small Lines — Lines on the Hand — The Heart Line — The Head Line — The Rascettes
8. 8.THE SCIENCE OF PHRENOLOGY
9. 9.THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY — What Different Eyes Indicate — Reading Character by the Color of the Eyes — Disposition by the Shape of the Nose — Reading Character by the Form of the Lips — Reading Character by the Shape of the Ear
10. 10.FORTUNE-TELLING BY GROUNDS IN A TEACUP
11. 11.DREAMS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION — Do Dreams Foretell the Future? — How Dreams Should be Interpreted — A Dictionary of Dreams
12. 12.THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
13. 13.POPULAR BELIEFS AMONG THE ANCIENTS AS TO THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIOUS STONES — The Language of Precious Stones
14. 14.THE LANGUAGE OF POSTAGE STAMPS
15. 15.THE MEANING OF MOLES
16. 16.WEATHER PROPHECIES FROM AN OLD ALMANAC
17. 17.HOW TO TELL ONE’S AGE
18. 18.HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL
19. 19.MEMORY RHYMES

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