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On-Yomi: テン — Kun-Yomi: つ.ける、つ.く、た.てる、さ.す、とぼ.す、とも.す、ぼち

Elements:

spot, fortune-telling, magic wand, augury, mouth, oven-fire, barbecue

Heisig story:

If you look into the flickering of a fire for a long time and then turn aside, you will see spots before your eyes. Although nobody ever thought of such a thing before - as least as far as know, they didn't - imagine using those spots as a technique for fortune-telling. The old witch sits before her cauldron and watches the spots that show up when she turns to look at you, and from that tells your fortune. Think of it as a kind of spot-check on your future.

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 27-7-2007(226): The FORTUNE TELLER was burned by FLAMES on the spot because she was accused of being a witch.

2) [etpan] 12-6-2008(138): You have to stimulate the G-spot with your magic wand in order to get her on fire. Or you can juste use your mouth…

3) [noushina] 23-11-2012(33): The Fortune Teller stares into an Campfire until she sees SPOTS. She then interprets those spots in the same manner than another fortune teller would look at tea leaves or the bumps on your head.

4) [kaminix] 2-3-2008(14): Alternate meaning of the kanji is mark, or points. Like japanese tests are graded from 0 to 100 depending on how many percent of the questions they got correct. Before I learned any alternate meaning to this I took it as percentage = statistics. Now, wouldn't some pure and concrete statistics be just the thing you need to set that fortune tellers mind on fire? Relate the setting him/her on fire to the entry for anxiety (#163 煩) if it helps. :).

5) [Zarxrax] 29-3-2008(10): "Out damn spot!" Yelled the crazy fortune teller as she leaped into the fire. I guess thats not quite how it happened in Hamlet though, so I got a low mark on my English test.

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