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+ | '''Chinese Fortune Sticks''' was a Western name for the ancient [[China|Chinese]] method of [[divination]] known as {{wplink|kau cim}}. It is considered the oldest known method of fortune-telling, at least by [[human]]s, and involved wooden sticks that told the user's daily fortune. Containers of Chinese Fortune Sticks, consisting of seventy-eight sticks each, were sold at [[Zonko's Joke Shop]], from at least the [[1990s]].<ref name="WWHP">{{WWHP}}</ref> |
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Chinese Fortune Sticks was a Western name for the ancient Chinese method of divination known as kau cim. It is considered the oldest known method of fortune-telling, at least by humans, and involved wooden sticks that told the user's daily fortune. Containers of Chinese Fortune Sticks, consisting of seventy-eight sticks each, were sold at Zonko's Joke Shop, from at least the 1990s.[1]
Appearances
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (First appearance)
Notes and references
| Divination | ||
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| Professors: Percival Rackham · Mudiwa Onai · Sybill Trelawney · Firenze | ||
| Known Seers: Calchas · Cassandra Vablatsky · Cassandra Trelawney · Gellert Grindelwald · Inigo Imago · Johan Hoffman · Liz Tuttle's mother · Mopsus · Professor Mopsus · Susie Sooth · Tycho Dodonus · Unidentified Canadian Seer · Unidentified female Seer · Unidentified male Seer | ||
| Textbooks: The Dream Oracle · Unfogging the Future | ||
| Methods: Astrology · Bibliomancy · Capnomancy · Cartomancy · Catoptromancy · Crystal-gazing · Crystal ball · Dream interpretation · Fire-omens · Heptomology · Horoscope · Ichthyomancy · Lithomancy · Myomancy · Ornithomancy · Orrery · Ovomancy · Palmistry · Personal chart · Phyllomancy · Prophecy · Rune stone · Scrying mirror · Tarot cards · Tessomancy · Xylomancy | ||
| Divination at Hogwarts: Divination (class) · Divination Classroom · Divination staircase · Sybill Trelawney's office · Classroom Eleven · Xylomancy (class) | ||