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Reading Tea Leaves
URL: http://www.teausa.com/general/tearead/tearead1.cfm

Description:
Introduction to the art of reading tea leaves to tell fortunes. Includes description of the ritual ("Put a pinch of tealeaves in the cup and pour boiling water over them. ... Drink the contents of the cup leaving tealeaves and a very small amount of liquid." Then swirl the contents of the cup.), and how fortunes are told based on the shape and location of leaves. From the Tea Association of the USA.

Publisher:
The Tea Association of the USA

Extra Keywords
tasseography

LII Database Information:
Record 23479 created by Maria Brandt on 03/06/2007
Last modification on 12/22/2008
Published: 02/26/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23479