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Felix Fontaine

Best known for a richly detailed dream and fortune-telling manual first published in 1862, this elusive writer captures the era’s fascination with omens, symbols, and everyday superstition. Very little is firmly documented about the person behind the book, which only adds to the work’s old-world mystery.

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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

Felix Fontaine is credited as the author of The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller, a popular 19th-century guide to dream interpretation and divination. The book was published in 1862 in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald and brings together dream meanings, lucky numbers, fortune-telling methods, charms, and other pieces of practical folklore.

Because reliable biographical information about Fontaine is scarce, it is safest to view the author mainly through this surviving work. Modern editions and digital archives have helped keep the book in circulation, and it remains of interest to readers curious about Victorian-era beliefs, popular mysticism, and the long tradition of dream books.

What stands out most is the book’s mix of entertainment and instruction. It offers a lively window into a time when dream symbols, cards, tea leaves, and lucky days were treated not just as amusements, but as tools for making sense of love, money, health, and the future.