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PREFACE

It is somewhat curious that among the great number of books on occult scienceand all forms of divination which have been published in the English languagethere should be none dealing exclusively with the Tea-cup Reading and the Art ofTelling Fortunes by the Tea-leaves: notwithstanding that it is one of the mostcommon forms of divination practised by the peasants of Scotland and by villagefortune-tellers in all parts of this country. In many of the cheaper handbooksto Fortune-telling by Cards or in other ways only brief references to theTea-cup method are given; but only too evidently by writers who are merelyacquainted with it by hearsay and have not made a study of it for themselves.

This is probably because the Reading of the Tea-cups affords but littleopportunity to the Seer of extracting money from credulous folk; a reason whyit was never adopted by the gypsy soothsayers, who preferred the more obviouslylucrative methods of crossing the palm with gold or silver, or of charging a fee