Greek Coffee Story

Coffee divination in Greece

Greece is a country that likes divination and fortune-telling, and their curiosity about "fate" has contributed to the development of philosophy, astrology, numerology and astronomy. The Greeks believed that everyone's luck was different every day, sometimes good luck, sometimes bad luck, so it also derived some special divination methods to predict the future, plus the Greek people, the history of drinking coffee is quite early, so over time, coffee divination appeared. In addition, there is a saying that because the Turks are a more hospitable and warm people, they all entertain visitors warmly, and in order to keep the guests for a while after they have had enough to drink and eat, they invented the divination of coffee after dinner, taking the opportunity to gossip and gossip, and from then on, the art of divination predicted good and bad luck with coffee residue.

The method of coffee divination: general coffee can not be used for divination, because coffee divination is mainly after drinking coffee, with the remaining residue, shape or pattern to predict good or bad luck, so only Greek coffee or Turkish coffee can be used for divination. The principle of coffee divination is to watch the patterns formed by the residue after drinking coffee to predict things, similar to the Rosa ink stain test in psychology. This kind of divination can be carried out by yourself, or you can find a coffee diviner who specializes in divination for yourself. In Greece or Turkey, coffee diviners who specialize in answering questions are often found in coffee shops.