HISTORY
I always like to present some history of a divination tool when I can, but I’ve found nothing on these tablets, aside from what the author himself said in his book. These ‘magic tablets’ came from the book, Fortune Telling for Fun and Popularity by Paul Showers. He intimated that the origin of these magic tablets was old, but he didn’t say how old, or from what source he obtained them. A cursory search of the website, Internetarchive.org, failed to turn these magic tablets up in any other collections of fortune telling methods. So I turned to one of my favorite sources for getting to the truth of a matter, my trusty yes-and-no stones.
The essential facts I got from my yes-and-no stones session were the following: These ‘magic’ tablets were created sometime in the 1400s by a printer who only wished to produce an entertaining new diversion for his well-heeled clientele. Profit wasn’t a motive; he wasn’t psychically-gifted, or an occultist, or inspired by Spirit to create these tablets, he simply set out to create the Latest Thing to keep his customers happy. Given the potential dangers which printers of the time faced if they printed the wrong thing, keeping the clientele happy is an eminently-reasonable motive. He didn’t consult an occultist in devising these tablets; the concept and design was his own. The yes-and-no stones weren’t much help about Paul Showers’ source for these tablets. They indicated he found out about them from gypsy culture, but beyond that, nada.
For those who are interested in the actual questioning process I used, I’ll include the document below. Perhaps you can find some flaw in my thinking or different way of interpreting the answers I got.