Tasseography came with them and became emblematic of their culture, and they would open tea parlours or even travel door-to-door offering tea reading services for Europeans. Romani people emigrated from their home of Rajasthan, Northern India, and lived an itinerant life where their culture spread across Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world. They would drink tea (which was all loose leaf back then, no teabags until 1908!) and then try to identify shapes left behind by the wet tea leaf sediment and divine their meanings. The most popular, and most likely to be true, theory is that tasseography originated in the culture of the Romani people. Other people believe that it was instead a relatively recent invention from Europe, designed to create the impression that it is an ancient act in an attempt to feign legitimacy. Some believe that it began thousands of years ago in ancient China, where they were drinking tea millenniums before anybody else. There’s actually a lot of debate around the origins of the reading of tea leaves and where it came from geographically. So put the kettle on, get cosy, and come along with us on a journey looking into the past – you might even see a little bit into the future, too! It’s a method of divination or fortune-telling that has been used for hundreds (maybe even thousands) of years, whereby tassologists try to interpret meanings from the shapes made by loose tea leaves at the bottom of a cup of tea.Īs the big fans that we are of all things loose leaf tea, we thought it would be interesting to give you an insight into tasseography and hopefully teach you a thing or two that you didn’t know before today!
Ever heard of it? While you might not recognise it from that scientific-sounding name, we bet that you do know what it is: the reading of tea leaves!
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