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 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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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.

by Felix Fontaine

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About this book

The Golden Wheel Dream‑book and Fortune‑teller is an exhaustive reference manual for the curious practitioner of divination. Printed in 1862 by Dick & Fitzgerald, the volume opens with a formal title page, an illustration of the eponymous golden wheel, and a detailed contents list that maps out more than a hundred entries, from dream symbols and lucky numbers to palmistry, mole reading, and the use of a divining rod for locating water and ore. The introductory blurb declares the work “the most complete work on fortune‑telling and interpreting dreams ever printed,” and the front matter immediately presents the wheel’s numbered sectors, each paired with a concise interpretation, establishing the book’s practical, step‑by‑step approach.

The tone is that of a mid‑nineteenth‑century scholar‑magician, blending the didactic voice of a professor of astrology with the promotional flair of a Victorian trade catalogue. Engravings accompany the text, and the prose is dense with cataloguing language, offering numbered instructions and exhaustive cross‑references. Readers who enjoy historic occult manuals, antique encyclopaedias of folk science, or any systematic compendium of Victorian‑era superstitions will find the book’s meticulous organization and period‑specific diction both engaging and informative.

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  • Stanley HardingMiddle‑aged Victorian gentleman, dark beard, crisp waistcoat, high‑collared shirt, flat‑brimmed hat

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