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A fortune-teller conducting a palm reading, with lines and mounts marked out on the person's left palm Gold stamped front cover of The Psychonomy of the Hand. Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. [1]
Each tarot card had the fortune it predicted printed on the back. The game also had the twelve astrological signs marked along the track; these could be used to generate a simple horoscope . In the center of the rocking board, the " Eye of Zohar " was mounted; this plastic eyeball would spin as the board was agitated by the players.
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The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them, yet which are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. [1]
As philosopher and tarot historian Sir Michael Dummett noted, "it was only in the 1780s, when the practice of fortune-telling with regular playing cards had been well established for at least two decades, that anyone began to use the tarot pack for cartomancy." [233] Tontine: a form of life insurance developed by Lorenzo De Tonti in 1653.
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