Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards [With 1 Deck of Cards]

In the 1920s, legend has it, a Romany named""Gypsy Rickwood"" published a fortune-telling manual based on ancient techniques. His or her (we no longer know if it was a man or a woman) wisdom is re-published in this book-and-card pack, which helps readers tell their own fortunes. First, a person looks up a question in the short book--what will my home be like? Will I travel extensively? What is my lucky time of year? Then, he or she picks a card and matches its number and symbol with the guidebook's answers. The included deck of cards is not a tarot deck, but rather an ordinary playing deck with four suits and 52 cards. What's striking is that some of the answers seem to be unexpectedly fun and tongue-in-cheek; in response to a query about potential wedding presents the questioner will receive answers that include a garrulous parrot, an umbrella that the questioner will promptly lose and""a number of useless trifles."" Some may take this augury seriously; others may find it mildly amusing as a parlor game.