CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Story of Josephine | [5] |
| Researching Gypsy Lore | [7] |
| How to Acquire the Art | [9] |
| Cards to be Used | [9] |
| The Consultant Card | [10] |
| The Ancient Oracle | [12] |
| Method A | [17] |
| Modern Use of Fifty-two Cards | [20] |
| Method B | [28] |
| Method C | [28] |
| Method D | [30] |
| Method E | [31] |
| Method F, the Star | [32] |
| Method G, a Shorter Star | [32] |
| Method H | [33] |
| Method I | [33] |
| Method J | [34] |
| Method K | [35] |
| Method L | [37] |
| Method M | [38] |
| The Preferred Oracle, with Thirty-two Cards | [40] |
| Dictionary of Primary Definitions | [42] |
| Dictionary of Secondary Definitions | [49] |
| Groups of Cards | [93] |
| Combinations of Two Cards | [96] |
| A Word of Advice | [101] |
| Special Note | [101] |
| Dealing the Cards by Threes | [102] |
| Dealing the Cards by Fives | [109] |
| Dealing the Cards by Sevens | [111] |
| Dealing by Fifteens | [113] |
| The Twenty-one Card Method | [117] |
| The Way to Tell a Fortune | [122] |
| The Italian Method | [126] |
| The Florence Mode | [131] |
| Past, Present and Future | [133] |
| The Matrimonial Oracle | [136] |
| The Star Method | [140] |
| Shorter Star Method | [142] |
| Wishes | [143] |
| Wish No. I. | [143] |
| Wish No. II. | [144] |
| Wish No. III. | [146] |
| Wish No. IV. | [146] |
| Wish No. V. | [147] |
| Wish No. VI. | [150] |
| Curious Games with Cards | [154] |
| Lovers' Hearts | [154] |
| Love's Lottery | [154] |
| Matrimony | [155] |
| Cupid's Pastime | [155] |
| Wedding Bells | [157] |
| Marriage Questions | [158] |
TELLING FORTUNES BY CARDS
The art of telling fortunes by cards, known professionally as Cartomancy, has been practiced for centuries.
In our day and generation divination by cards is chiefly employed for amusement and pastime, for the entertainment of one's self or one's company, or at church fairs, charity bazars, and the like; but in the days of the ancients it was practiced by prophets and sibyls as a serious business, and so accepted by all, from king to peasant.
Certainly there were some remarkable coincidences, to call them by no other name, in the fulfillment of many cartomantic divinations, of which history maintains a record. To cite but one:
THE STORY OF JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.
Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, while in her native land of Martinique, had been approached by an aged negress, who astonished her through declaring to her: "You will ascend upon the loftiest throne in the world."