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A. H. Noe

A shadowy figure behind old-school fortune-telling and dream lore, this author is best known for a compact guide to dream interpretation, omens, and popular occult practices. Very little survives about the person, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.

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The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.

The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations.

by A. H. Noe

About the author

Almost all that can be confirmed is bibliographic rather than personal. A. H. Noe is credited as the author of The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller, a late-19th-century work published in New York by H. J. Wehman in 1885 and preserved today by Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page.

The book brings together dream meanings, fortune-telling material, and practical supernatural lore in the style of inexpensive popular manuals that circulated widely at the time. That places A. H. Noe in the world of everyday occult entertainment and household divination rather than in the better-documented circles of famous literary or scholarly writers.

Because reliable biographical records are scarce, details such as the author's full name, life dates, and background are not easy to confirm. For many readers, that uncertainty is part of the appeal: the surviving work feels like a small window into the popular mystical culture of the 1880s.