tea leaf reader
Reads steeped leaves
A tea leaf reader is someone who practices tasseography—divination by interpreting patterns in tea leaves left at the bottom of a cup.
The practice involves drinking tea, swirling the remaining leaves, then interpreting the shapes they form to predict the future or reveal insights.
Tea leaf readers appear at fairs, in fortune-telling parlors, and as characters in fiction: The tea leaf reader saw travel in my future.
- fortune tellerOne who predicts futures
- fortune tellingPredicting someone's future
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- cupSmall drinking container
mystic · prediction · occult · old woman · gypsy · mysterious stranger · crystal ball · clairvoyant · seer · prophecy · brew · steep · tea ceremony · dregs · patterns · intuition · parlor · veil
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- folk healersfolk healer, healer, herbalist, herb doctor, wise woman
- pseudoscientistshomeopath, phrenologist, crystal healer, numerologist, reflexologist
tea leaf readerscientist
One who studies nature
empiricist · skeptic · rationalist · data analyst · statistician
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