The Sunday globe., 1901-05-12

formation. The spell was worked in
lampadOmancy by the direction taken
by the flame of lamp. The ocult Wis
dom was provided by precious stones
i'm lithomancy. The fight and song
birds provided in il ornithomancy.
Fire told Of events to come in proman-
CIV; cards were the mystic agents in
raphsodomancy; the drawing of lots
did the work In chartomancy, and so
on.
The Greeks always faced to the north
in their incantations; the Romans
south. Omens from the east were con-
sidered lucky: from the west unlucky.
In this dim past also it found the origin
for the belief in a mysterious connec-
tion with natural phenomena and the
affairs of men, and this belief prevails
today. Flashes Of tightening and
eclipses are consldred uncanny in
Scotland; the growing Of cock in the
dark hours before midnight and the
crossing of ones path by hare or rab-
bit are considered ominous in Ireland J
to spill salt at table or to have spell Of
melancholy or gaety are considered
causes Of fear for the future in England,
and so on.
Besides the arts above mentioned,
which are practicable to fortell the fu-
ture, there are others which obtain more
popularity today, and there are many
persons who gain a livelihood and even
riches by them. They are clarivoy-
ance, mesmerisms, chyromancy, astrol-
ogy, alchemy, the magic of the gypsies,
etc. The majority of these people are
ignorant, even of the history Of the arts
they practice. They are almost always
of low breeding and instincts, and their
main strength lies in what Is vulgarly
called "galln and commonly called
"cheek." " They pretend to be able to
tell how fortunes are to be made rapidly,
and yet in no instance have they been
able TO accomplish such a des deratum
for themselves, except by a long term
of work on the superstitiOns of others
nor can they explain, why. Yet thou
sands Of persons considered intelligent
consult these frauds andbelieVe in them.
Some pretend to accomplish these great
results in fortune telling 10y the use of
magic, and talk vot IDLY OF elements"
and essentials The magic used by
these swindlers is Of two kinds, how
ever, white and block. Some claim to
have the secret that made the success
of the ancient Egyptian seers, which
they call white or divine magic. These
fortune teilers abhore black or internal
magic, in which the say the devil
rules the magician. Black magici1ns
claim to have the power, through his
satanic majesty, to bring on storms,
earthquakes, revolutions, riots and
other violent eccentriclties of nature and
men: to be able TO change themselves
to cats or big black dogs, etc. Other
clarivOyants pretend to co. troll the four
elements, earth, air, fire and water, and
give love and good luck, Others
"workr by what they call the astral"
light, the soul Of the world and the pre-
MUM mobile, which is the grand area
mum of transcendental mayis, the tele'
examination of the Hebrews, the Azoth
of the alchemist and the thot of the
gypsies. These use also what they call
the magic triangle of the rheosophs.
Chyromaucy or palmistry has its dis
ciples. They will tell you that your
hand consists or eight mountains, fif-
teen Joints and four principal lines,
4 The line of life crosses the hand hori-
zontally; the lineof fortune lies parallel
anu lledAt1t lllc lllESln3 ellN AAS AiAlNS VI
hsalth intersects both. The line of bus
mess is a short line which Obliquely
cuts the others. If they are narrow,
tortuous, colOrless and feebly marked,
they indicate the opposite. The noun
tains are namsd d afler the planets, and
il YOU Happen to have been born when
a planet was in a favorable position,
and the hump of the planet is large,
you are lucky,
Mesmer has many disciples who prac-
tice the teachings of this famous theO-
rist. They pretend to see through
opaque objects, and to read book or
| letter which is closed or sealed. If all
| they claim 10 do was true, they would
be decidedly dangerous individuals,
They say they possess the sense of
! hearing at the pit Of the stomach, are
I insensible to pain, can see through
: their fingers and knuckles, can send
I their souls on voyage around the
, earth, and do other wonderful things.
, In fact they lain to be able to do every
, thing that "CagliostrO," Dumas great
; hero and pseudo count, could do, Be
sides these there are numerous Others
who make money by swindling their
| fellows by every conceivable contri-
van ee of fortune telling and chariaian-
, ism. So powerful an influence have
these humbugs over some people that
their daily actions are controlled.
Many so called clairvoyants are persons
of immoral character
Washington has its percentage OF
/ this latter class, which The Sunday
Globe will in due time, expose for the
benefit Of the general public aud in the
special inter st Of young girls, who are,
in to many cases, lured to ruin by the
presiding deities of these combination
I assignation houses.