Magick

I’ve always been fascinated with Magic – the mystical kind – since my childhood, thanks to a diet of Disney, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the Wizard of Oz. As fiction writers, we are all playing at “what if” and nothing inspires that topic more than the thought of Magic existing in the world we live in — or the world we write about. Magic has always been intrinsic to life on the English island, from prehistoric times to the current day. Why shouldn’t it play a role in our work?

Fortune Telling

Fortune Tellers Calendar, image, 1822
Illustration by Cruickshank. Sadly only the front cover and title page of this book has survived. c.1822

However, an earlier version of The Universal Fortune Teller: Or; Mrs. Bridget’s – commonly Called the Norwood Gipsey – Golden Treasury Explained, can be found on Google Books.

Dreams:
To dream you see apple trees and eat sweet and ripe apples denotes joy, pleasure and recreation, especially to women and maids, but sour apples signify contension and sedition.
c. 1790

Other Fortune-telling Books

Partridge and Flamstead’s new and well experienced fortune book. Features divination by card drawing, moles, and dreams. c. 1800, Scotland
ATTRIBUTION: National Library of Scotland
License: CC BY 4.0
Universal Fortune Teller

The Universal Fortune Teller, c. 1860. Adds divination by grounds of tea or coffee, palmistry and other charms/ Internet Archive