Tea Leaves, Herbs, and Flowers: Fortune Telling the Gypsy Way! (Elements of the Extraordinary) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Gillian Kemp (Author), Mary Kuper (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998 | Age Level: 10 and up | Series: Elements of the Extraordinary

This text provides a guide to gypsy superstitions and their history, allowing the reader to explore the lore of the Romany gypsies.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-9-The proper techniques for brewing tea and preparing the cup (not mug) begin the section on tea-leaf reading. An extensive list of shapes likely to be formed by residual tea leaves is accompanied by possible interpretations that are most applicable to young people. They offer possible insight into one's future career or predict changes in school or classroom, for instance. In this list, British terms like "queue" and "parcel" are frequently used. The second half of the volume is devoted to the "language of flowers," their meaning when given to another, and how some blooms can be used to represent months of the year or hours of the day to deliver a secret message. Bits of Romany superstitions and customs appear throughout. One chapter is devoted to ways to attract a lover, keep one, and even to repel unwanted attention using folk methods. Similar tea-leaf pattern meanings are given in Alvin Schwartz's Telling Fortunes (Lippincott, 1987; o.p.), but flower and color symbolism is hard to find. Sure to please teenage girls, this book should also prove irresistible to fortune-telling fans.
Ann G. Brouse, Big Flats Branch Library,
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 190188192X
• ISBN-13: 978-1901881929
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,137,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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