Cartomancy.
Cartomancy is a fine name for fortune-telling by cards. In the middle Ages it was a lucrative profession for whoever chose to rim the risk of being burnt as a witch or wizard, should he or she fall into disfavour with the authorities. Among the clients of the fortune-teller were lords and ladies of the high degree, and princes did not disdain to " cut the cards." As time went on cartomancy was relegated to old crones iu country villages and was patronised by servant girls. Now that palmistry is the fashionable craze, we may confidently expect that the sister art will emerge from obscurity once more. Lady Clare Yere de Yero will be as anxious to know whether a dark man is thinking of her as the scullerymaid when .she steals to the back door to listen to t'"* l predictions of a prophetess who - nkfully receives a pair of old boots it. payment for her services.—Ex-
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Hastings Standard, Issue 34, 5 June 1896, Page 4
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158Cartomancy. Hastings Standard, Issue 34, 5 June 1896, Page 4
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