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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Sun Jun 15, 2014, 06:48 AM Jun 2014

Reading Coffee Grounds and Tea Leaves

Women would read tea leaves and coffee grounds to find out whom they would marry and what his rank would be.

"I have seen him several times in coffee grounds with a sword by his side; and he was once at the bottom of a tea cup in a coach and six with two footmen behind."

from Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore.

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Reading Coffee Grounds and Tea Leaves (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jun 2014 OP

Very Tricky To Read In Instant Coffee grilled onions Jun 2014 #1

As my grandmother did it intaglio Jun 2014 #2

I suppose one could sit around mooning over tea leaves My Good Babushka Jun 2014 #3

Must be a pain if you just want to whistler162 Jun 2014 #4

Reading coffee grounds is highly unreliable because coffee just can't make up its mind pinboy3niner Jun 2014 #5

grilled onions

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1. Very Tricky To Read In Instant Coffee

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 07:38 AM

Jun 2014

As for the "coach and six and two footmen" you certainly would need a large coffee cup to see all that!"

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2. As my grandmother did it

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 08:00 AM

Jun 2014

The tea should be poured and drunk nearly to the dregs, the cup is then turned three times the saucer placed on top. The whole thing is then inverted so the liquid and some of the leaves are in the saucer. Those leaves remaining in the cup are those that are read.