Does Tea leaves reading culture exgist in US?

It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Ripon stepped up to the microphone and muttered:

It's uncommon but not unheard of in the U.S. It exists in pagan/wiccan circles, and from the neighborhood psychic who also reads palms (as in the hand, not the plants or handheld computers).

But most people (probably) still associate it with gypsies and carnivals.

Then again, most people in the U.S. don't realize that Lipton teabags are not the only way to prepare tea.

Derek

I read leaves, have for years. Also teach others how to do it. Whether that constitutes a 'leaf reading culture,' I couldn't say.

I read them for fun, nothing more.

Martha

From my experience it is present, but quite rare. As one posted, yes it's in some Pagan or Wiccan circles, though most I know opt for other methods like Tarot or scrying.

I hear it's popular in Scotland and Wales, though I don't know for sure.

-ben

In the good 'ole US of A, we prefer a seldom used and highly misunderstood technique called science.

-- Eschew obfuscation!

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Sure "we" do. When "we" aren't busy battling over creationism, or on the line with the "Psychic Friends Network".

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Watch that attitude. Next thing you're gonna tell us we come from monkeys. Then you're gonna tell us monkeys don't really pick tea leaves. What a world.

Michael

I am from Canada and when my mother passed away last year I found a book in her home on reading tea leaves.

Lovely book and I kept it for myself to learn how to read leaves for fun (not profit..LOL)

I bought a tea leaf reading book a while back and sometimes play with reading leaves with my close friends.

In the good ole US of A, we prefer a little thing we like to call science.

- Eschew obfuscation!

I think you misspelt "television".

HTH, N.

That is true - in the US, we favor the modern. But when an old form is preferred we very practically mask it with a new term. Thus we practice cohabitation rather than fornication. Instead of operas we attend musicals. And rather than reading tea leaves, we engage in econometrics.

I hope this clarifies the issue.

Best wishes,

Rick.

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