The Seaside Sybil

The Seaside Sybil is a New York fortune teller written in the 1880s. The system is simple; slips of paper marked from 1 to 100 are consulted to give a very general fortune of the future, especially related to relationships and marriage. This work, like others, follows directly in the wave of the oracle tradition of fortune telling, which includes both simplistic and complex systems. This specific text also includes a variety of jokes, cartoons, and quack medicine ads.