442 – Divination picture
- Physical description:
- Hand-coloured 19th century print showing a girl and an older woman studying the tea leaves in a tea cup.
- Museum classification:
- Divination, Fortune Telling and Scrying
- Size:
- 280 x 330
- Information:
Although reading tea leaves was very much a 19th and 20th century custom, it has its origins in much older practices. The Romans used wine sediment, and in the Middle East coffee grounds have been used since around the 16th century.
- Resource:
- Picture
- Materials:
- Paper
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
Although reading tea leaves was very much a 19th and 20th century custom, it has its origins in much older practices. The Romans used wine sediment, and in the Middle East coffee grounds have been used since around the 16th century.