Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany Gypsies — John Shaqi
Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany GypsiesAli, Mohammed
Religion
Telling fortunes by cards : $b a symposium of the several ancient and modern methods as practiced by Arab seers and sibyls and the Romany Gypsies
Ali, Mohammed
Card games; Fortune-telling; Fortune-telling by cards
Riches; display; pomp; ostentation; vain show; pageantry; luxury;
sumptuousness; assurance; steadiness; confidence; certitude;
affirmation; security; hardihood; self-reliance; liberty; frankness;
candor; openness; plain-dealing; freedom.
Another signification of this card is a _parley_ or _conference_, and
is expressed by some of the subjoined synonyms:
Discourse; conversation; talk; communication; colloquy; dissertation;
deliberation; discussion; speech; pronunciation; grammar; dictionary;
tongue; idiom; jargon; slang; exchange; commerce; trade; traffic; to
speak; to confer; to converse; to tattle.
QUEEN OF CLUBS--_Reversed._ As a representative of an individual, this
card, reversed, denotes a lady whose complexion is brunette, with dark
hair and black eyes, but not dark enough to be represented by a
_spade_. She will be a woman of warm passions, of fine personal
appearance, given to coquetry and dependent more upon her natural
charms than education or intellectual training for conquests in her
flirtations.
The general signification of this card, reversed, however, is
_ignorance_ in contradistinction to its attributes when in natural
position, and therefore can be interpreted as:
Boorishness; unskillfulness; want of experience; untutored;
impertinent.
JACK OF CLUBS--_Upright._ As a representative of an individual, this
card denotes a young man of middling dark complexion, kind, gentle and
docile by nature, sedate and domestic in his habits, and studious
through inclination. He is a warm friend and faithful admirer.
Coming out in the oracle of a young lady, this card is the
representative of her lover, without respect to his color or other
qualifications, denoting simply the person indicated.
The primary signification of this card, divested of its representative
character, is a _scholar_ or lover of knowledge, while its secondary
attributes are expressed in the synonyms:
Study; instruction; application; meditation; reflection; labor; toil;
work; occupation; apprentice; student; disciple; pupil; master.
Another signification of this card, governed according to its
surroundings in the oracle, is _prodigality_, whence are derived
synonyms as follows:
Profusion; superfluity; luxury; largess; bounty; sumptuousness;
magnificence; liberality; benefits; generosity; charity; benevolence;
a crowd; a multitude; depredation; dilapidation; pillage; dissipation.
JACK OF CLUBS--_Reversed._ As a representative of an individual, this
card designates a bachelor, a shade darker, and of a more determined
character than the young man above described. It may likewise
represent that same young man in a state of anger or on a sick bed.
Its especial signification, however, is _delirium_, whence we have as
secondary attributes or synonyms:
Frenzy; aberration of mind; wandering of the brain; unseated reason;
fury; rage; fever; enthusiasm; imbecility; imprudence; distraction;
apathy; delirium tremens; intoxication; brain fever.
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