One bowl is filled with clear water, another with wine, a third with vinegar, a fourth is empty.
All are placed in line on table. Each person in turn is blindfolded, turned about three times, and led to table.
A hand is put out and prophecy made by bowl touched.
Water shows happy, peaceful life; wine promises rich, eventful, noble career; vinegar, misery and poverty; an empty bowl is a symbol of bachelor or spinster life.