if u say how there you go>>>http://www.mehmetefendi.com/eng/pages/tk6.html thats one of common joy of Turkish womenthey like to see their fotune in small coffe cups sometime

MrX, this is the first I have heard of Coffee fortune telling. I'm thinking the ritual didn't spread over to America. Do people still do this today? After the coffee is drunk the cup is placed upside down on its saucer.

yea,some superstitions really good for make easier life and for make good dreams about futureand thats one of best joy of most Turkish women still as a curiousity

so sometime a lil coffe cup can be more usefull then then the many things for to who believe it

and there r some common Turkish superstitions>>>http://www.discoverturkey.com/english/kultursanat/halk-batil.html

Whilst in Turkey i had my fortune told this way, by a wonderful kurdish lady. Most was very true:

I had to drink from a small coffee cup til there was very lil left. Scrape my finger inside of the cup and then put my finger into my mouth (yuck). Then she turned the cup upside onto the sauser.

She told me i would have another child

There would always be a snake following me from behind (very true)

She also told me when i got back to England there would be bad news for me (as if like an iraq bomb) Still waiting for this!

The last think she asked me to do was to look inside the cup and there i saw a perfect shape of a HEART

Well Mrx, thats a really good question, because i'm not usually a superstitious woman at all, but some personal things that the lady said to me and not mentioned in my post were very true indeed.

Oh and just thinking about it now that bad news did come, but not as bad as she made it out to be!

So everyone to their own thinking eh!

Also i think the more older generations are more superstitious then the younger ones.... especially my mother hehehe

Anyway i promised myself not to come here anymore so Allah bless all ...bye bye P.S my spellings terrible lately so forgive me