‘The signification of lines and other marks in the hands’, in Old Egyptian Fortune-Teller’s Last Legacy

Supposedly a collection of Egyptian divination techniques, this pamphlet was compiled by an anonymous British writer. Although the guidance is dubious, it includes one sage piece of advice for Harry Potter himself: if you dream that you ‘fight and destroy serpents’, you will achieve ‘victory over enemies’. In addition to palmistry, it explains how to divine the future by interpreting the moles on your body: for example, ‘a mole on the buttock denotes honour to a man and riches to a woman’.