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Felix Fontaine

Best known for a popular 19th-century dream book and fortune-telling guide, this elusive writer is remembered more through the long life of the work than through surviving biographical detail. The book blended dream interpretation, omens, and games of chance for a broad popular audience.

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The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller Being the most complete work on fortune-telling and interpreting dreams ever printed, containing an alphabetical list of dreams, with their interpretation, and the lucky numbers they signify. Also explaining how to tell fortunes by the mysterious golden wheel, with cards, dice, and dominoes. How to tell future events by the lines of the hands, by moles on the body, by the face, nails of the fingers, hair and shape of the head. How to find where to dig for water, coal, and all kinds of metals, by means of the celebrated divining or luck rod. How to tell the temper and disposition of anybody, how to tell fortunes with tea leaves and coffee grounds, signs of the Moon's age, lucky and unlucky days, together with charms to make your sweetheart love you, and to make a lover pop the question, with twenty ways of telling fortunes on New Year's eve, and a complete language and signification of the flowers.

by Felix Fontaine

About the author

Very little firmly documented biographical information about this author appears to survive in the sources I could confirm. Felix Fontaine is credited with The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller, a work that was published in the 19th century and continued to circulate in later editions.

The book belongs to the tradition of practical occult and household fortune-telling manuals that mixed dream meanings, signs, lucky numbers, and similar popular amusements. Its repeated reprints suggest it reached readers well beyond its original moment.

Because reliable personal details are scarce, it is safest to remember Felix Fontaine chiefly as the name attached to a durable piece of popular esoteric publishing rather than as a well-documented literary figure.