The Fortune Telling Book: Reading Crystal Balls, Tea Leaves, Playing Cards, and Everyday Omens of Love and Luck [Hardcover]

Gillian Kemp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000

Filled with practical advice, gypsy folklore, and both ancient and modern divinations, this lavishly illustrated primer reveals the future to all those who believe and shows how to employ crystal balls, tea leaves, and playing cards to predict the future. Full color.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Following on from her unexpected success with The Good Spell Book, Kemp stays in that novelty/gift book market with an appealing cloth-bound volume decked out with ribbon page marker, "hand-written" special recommendations ("If you don't have a crystal ball, use a bowl of water") and a smattering of floral illustration as a suitably decorative way to encourage divination. While it might not really be possible to locate your future partner with an apple seed, it's fun to experiment along with cartomancy, candle magic, dice, tea leaves and even bay leaf prediction. This is fun, makes an attractive present, and ties in with the surge of interest in all things esoteric and alternative. As astrologer Kemp concludes, "Beautiful and wonderful things do happen, we attract them to us by living in the hope and expectation of them." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Gillian Kemp is a freelance writer and astrologer who first encountered gypsies while growing up in rural Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Her horoscope columns appear regularly in Baby and Your Health magazines, and she is a frequent contributor to cable television. She lives in Buckinghamshire. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316488356
• ISBN-13: 978-0316488358
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than just tarot, July 5, 2003

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Robin M Goffinet (Richmond, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fortune Telling Book: Reading Crystal Balls, Tea Leaves, Playing Cards, and Everyday Omens of Love and Luck (Hardcover)

This handy book gives alot of ways for divining the future. It contains scrying, tea leaves, and using regular playing cards to tell the future. Doesn't go into a lot of detail on everything but is a good place to start if you are a beginner. I love the way the book is fashioned, kind of like a personal diary.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the fortune telling book/ crystal balls, tea leaves,cards, June 1, 2001

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"practicalmagic" (iom, uk United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fortune Telling Book: Reading Crystal Balls, Tea Leaves, Playing Cards, and Everyday Omens of Love and Luck (Hardcover)

another good guide from gillian kemp. with hints of wiccan and romany crafts. this author never fails to impress for the beginner and practitioner.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i loved it, February 1, 2001

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L. Kolosky "prieofmorr" (chisholm, Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fortune Telling Book: Reading Crystal Balls, Tea Leaves, Playing Cards, and Everyday Omens of Love and Luck (Hardcover)

I loved all the different ideas they had in this book for divination. I especially enjoyed the section on divining with cards. I most definetely recommend this one.