Fortune Telling by Cards
by P. R. S. Foli

This is a great book to get started on 'reading somebody from the cards'. It is also a great source for stories to go along with your magic tricks. It explains what each card signifies and even has a chapter on the history of cards. The bulk of the book is devoted to the various methods of reading cards, the French method, the Italien method, the Master method or Etteilla's Method.

123 pages.

15. CHAPTER I: How we got our pack of cards
21. CHAPTERII: What the individual cards signify
27. CHAPTER III: The selected pack of thirty-two cards
30. CHAPTER IV: The signification of quartettes, triplets, and pairs
35. CHAPTER V: What the cards can tell of the past, the present, and the future
39. CHAPTER VI: Your fortune in twenty-one cards
45. CHAPTER VII: Combination of sevens
53. CHAPTER VIII: Another method with thirty-two cards
57. CHAPTER IX: A french method
61. CHAPTER X: The grand star
65. CHAPTER XI: Important questions. Fortune-telling games
71. CHAPTER XII: How they tell fortunes in Italy
76. CHAPTER XIII: The master method. The Chart and its Explanation
89. CHAPTER XIV: The master method. Significations of cards used
98. CHAPTER XV: A combination of nines
102. CHAPTER XVI: Your heart's desire. Six ways of trying a wish
107. CHAPTER XVII: Rhyming fortune-teller
114. CHAPTER XVIII: The tarots: their origin and history
117. CHAPTER XIX: Etteilla's method of using the tarots