Possible Clues:

• When they are cast by fortune-tellers it's too much for greater Scots to swallow
• Symbols on tiles used in fortune-telling
• New nurse making marks on old tablets
• Occult figures
• Characters in name sure to be misspelled
• Old letters returned by Chinese nurse
• Mystical writings
• Old character set
• The old German characters will finish with French ones, perhaps
• Mystical lettering