Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, published in 1881 in London under the pen name A Highland Seer, is a classic public domain handbook of tasseography, listing the traditional symbol meanings read into tea leaf patterns. Its strength is that it is the primary text itself, an original statement of the tradition's own vocabulary of symbols. Its limit is that it is an anonymous popular handbook rather than a scholarly or historical study, so a claim about tasseography's actual origins or spread needs separate historical sources.
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Citation
AuthorA Highland Seer
PublisherLondon
Publication Year1881
URLhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18241
Source Typeprimary-text
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: an anonymous popular handbook, the primary text itself for the tradition's own vocabulary though not a scholarly or historical study. NotesClassic public-domain tasseography handbook with an alphabetical list of tea-leaf symbols.
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London, Cities This source names London directly: "by Tea Leaves, published in 1881 in London under the pen name A Highland Seer, is a classic public domain handbook of tasseography, listing the traditional symbol meanings read into tea leaf patterns."
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