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 to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

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60045

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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 to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

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A comprehensive Victorian-era guide to fortune-telling, dream interpretation, and divination. This eclectic volume covers palmistry, phrenology, tea leaf reading, and the mysterious Golden Wheel, offering instructions on predicting future events, locating hidden treasures, and mastering social charms for love and courtship.

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Felix Fontaine presents *The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller* as an exhaustive compendium of 19th-century occult practices, social advice, and practical amusements. The work begins with an introduction to the 'Golden Wheel of Fortune,' a medieval tool attributed to figures like Cagliostro, which readers were instructed to use by pricking a number into the wheel to receive prophecies regarding marriage, health, wealth, and friendship. The core of the volume is an extensive alphabetical list of dreams, where every object, animal, or action—from eating figs to seeing an eagle—is assigned a precise omen. Notably, the text often advises that dreams of injury portend good luck, adhering to the principle that such visions go by contrary. Beyond dream interpretation, the book details diverse methods for fortune-telling, including the use of cards, dice, dominoes, tea leaves, and coffee grounds. It also explores physiognomy and palmistry, teaching readers to judge character by facial features, moles, hand lines, and even the shape of the head. Practical sections guide the amateur on locating water, coal, and metals using a divining rod and on preparing love potions to win a sweetheart's affection. The volume further includes etiquette manuals for courtship, instructions for playing games like whist and checkers, and a collection of magic tricks and illusions. Written with a tone of serious instruction mixed with Victorian whimsy, the book serves as both a manual for the mystic and a handbook for social advancement in the mid-1800s. It also features a complete language of flowers, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, and twenty specific ways to tell fortunes on New Year's Eve, rounding out a unique blend of superstition, science, and social guidance.

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