Fortune-telling is the spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is tha
Gypsy Fortune-Teller (1841) by Taras Shevchenko
The Fortune Teller, by Enrique Simonet (1899; canvas; Museo de Málaga), depicting a palm reading
Japanese fortune teller using the I Ching, 1914
Storefront psychic fortune teller in Boston
A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural. It is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, fate, magic, amulets, astro
Witch-hunting is commonly motivated by religious superstition;[citation needed] pictured is an imaginative depiction of the Salem Witch Trials