Fortune-telling
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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
Cartomancy
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Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Practitioners of cartomancy ar
Fortune-telling
…in Europe and the Americas include astromancy, horary astrology, pendulum reading, spirit board reading, tasseography (reading tea leaves in a cup), cartomancy (fortune telling with cards), tarot card reading, crystallomancy (reading of a crystal sphere), and chiromancy (palmistry, reading of the palms). The…
The Fortune Teller (1895) by Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, depicting a cartomancer