Tasseography
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Tasseography (tasseomancy, tassology) is the posh word for a group of divination/fortune-telling methods that involve "reading" patterns in coffee grounds, tea leaves or wine sediments left in a cup after emptying it.
Like other types of fortune-telling, when it "works", it "works" mostly by cold reading (or hot reading, if the fortune-teller is unscrupulous enough and the stakes are high enough).
[edit] See also
- Chiromancy, a.k.a. palm reading, another method of choice of the stereotypical Gypsy fortune-tellers