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Periodical: Almanach de la Chance

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Almanach de la Chance, L'.
Other titles: Almanach de la Chance et de la Vie Mysterieuse
1905--1910 Annual
Paris, France.
Language: French.
Publisher: Librairie Française / Hermetique.
Editor: Papus (Gerard Encausse); Professor Donato. Succeeds: Almanach du magiste
1/1, 1905-1910. 64 pp., 1 franc.

In 1910 the title changed to Almanach de la Chance et de la Vie Mysterieuse. This was intended as a sequel to Papus's Almanach du magiste, which ceased in 1899. Professor "Donato" was obviously intended to be taken for the famous stage magnetist Alfred Edouard d'Hont, who had died in 1900, and may have been another stage magician by the name of Leonard-Chaumont (1848?-1927). See the note under La Vie Mysterieuse. Popular occult almanac, with visions, magical calendar, horoscopes, graphology, mesmerism, occult stories, etc., and a daily prognostication of favorable and unfavorable dates. In 1906, notably, it published "le main de fatime, une clef de la kabbale orientale," with a plate, which was said to show Cagliostro's infallible method of determining character through manipulation of numbers. Contributions by Phaneg, A. Savine, et al. Caillet 3557.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Almanach De La Chance 1906
Almanach De La Chance 1910
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Almanach de la Chance was a popular French fortune almanac of the years around 1910, and it sold luck by the year to a mass readership. Its structure is the old one: a month-by-month calendar marking conjunctions, the sun's entry into each sign, the aphelion, the hours of bad influence — and, still printed in 1910, the jours égyptiaques, the medieval calendar of unlucky days. Each sign gets a page. Sagittarius is hot and dry; its objects of luck for the month are listed under vegetables and animals; a column of character words runs beside it — thief, agreeable and sociable, great orator, studious, prudent, just and religious — and beside that a weather forecast promising light frost, passable but cold, and cold rain. Talismans, the tarot, scraps of Kabbalah and initiation, a magnetizer and a clairvoyant advertising their services, and hypnotism as the newest marvel fill out the rest. This is not the learned Hermeticism of the esoteric reviews but its commercial cousin: fortune-telling and charm-lore as an annual purchase.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Astrology | Divination (Tarot, Cartomancy, and Numerology) | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Popular Occultism