Magicians and mentalists: when you're hired for a party, in addition to your regular act, you can tell fortunes for guests to bring in additional revenue.

Many professionals have been doing this for years... and making big money at it. Now you can, too, but only if you have a card reading system that looks and sounds legitimate.

Hugh Morris, a prolific author in the 1930's, wrote this rare text on the subject of using playing cards to tell fortunes. If you're a student of the art already, this combines aspects of the Romani and Krahma methods into an entirely believable method that your spectators will enjoy.

Note that it does require a slight modification to the standard, 52-card deck. This you do one time in advance, and then you'll always be prepared to give fortune-telling readings to your eager public.

This St. Vitus Press revised edition, the first since the original 1936 first printing, corrects several glaring printing errors that made it virtually impossible to use the system as originally published. Perhaps that's why the original edition is so hard to locate (some of his books sell for $200 each on the secondhand market).

Now this book reads just as the original author intended and gives new life to this interesting work.

CONTENTS

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Fortune Telling by Cards
• 52 or 32 Cards?
• Meanings of the 52 Cards
• Meanings of Card Combinations
• Combinations of Mixed Cards
• Meanings of Cards in a 32-Card Deck
• Additional Meanings of the Cards
• Laying Out the Cards (52-Card Deck)
• Layout 1
• Layout 2
• Layout 3 (The Star)
• Layout 4 (Two Months in Advance)
• Layout 5
• 32-Card Layout
• Reading the Past, Present and Future
• The Past
• The Present
• The Future
• Recommended Titles

Be the life of the party! Delve into the past, present and future for fun or profit with this book and a deck of playing cards.

"Aside from the monetary advantages of cartomancy, there is also an innate enjoyment that comes from telling fortunes—simply for fun—at parties and gatherings. You’ll find this to be an effective means to break the ice and become known to the guests, as well as a great way to get your business cards in circulation!" (T. A. Whitney, from the Foreword)

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