GOLDEN WHEEL DREAM-BOOK, AND FORTUNE-TELLER. THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE. This singular wheel was much consulted in the middle ages, and is said to have been used by Cagliostro to aid him in his divinations. I have selected it from an old Latin manuscript on Astrology, and translated it into English for the benefit of those of my readers who cannot read the former language. SEE FRONTISPIECE. THE GOLDEN WHEEL OF FORTUNE SHOWS: I. _Whether you shall obtain the favor of the person you desire?_ II. _If the querent shall meet with the preferment he wisheth for?_ III. _Whether a sick person will recover?_ IV. _If the said sickness will be long or short?_ V. _Shall your expectation or wish succeed?_ VI. _If it is good for you to marry, or otherwise?_ VII. _Whether the friendship of a certain person will prove advantageous or not?_ VIII. _Whether a person shall be rich or poor? etc., etc._ HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE GOLDEN WHEEL. The person whose fortune is to be told, must place the wheel of Fortune face downward, prick into a number (it is better to do it with their eyes shut), then refer for an explanation, which stands at the corresponding number as that you pricked into. (See Frontispiece.) _The following observations answer for either sex, the party, therefore, trying this wheel, must alter wife for husband, or just as the answers may suit either party._ 1. If this number is fixed upon, it assures the person that you will marry an homely person, but rich. 2. Whatever your intentions are, for the present, decline them. Those absent will return. 3. Shows loss of friends; bad success at law; loss of money; unfaithfulness in love. 4. If your desires are extravagant, they will not be granted; but mind how you make use of your fortune. 5. Very good fortune; sudden prosperity; great respect from high personages; a letter bringing important news. 6. Look well to those who owe you money, if ever so little, a letter of abuse may be expected. 7. Your lover will act constant and true toward you. 8. A friend has crossed the sea, and will bring home riches, by which you will be much benefited. 9. A loving partner; success in your undertakings; a large and prosperous family. 10. Your husband will not have a great fortune, but with your assistance he is likely to live in middling circumstances. 11. A very sudden journey, with a pleasant fellow-traveller, and the result of the journey will be generally beneficial to your family. 12. You may regain that which you have lost with great perseverance and trouble. 13. A letter of importance will arrive, announcing the death of a relative for whom you have no very great respect, but who has left you a legacy. 14. By venturing carefully, you will gain doubly, though you will suffer great privation.