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2. Romani people in fiction - Wikipedia

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   Gypsy Fortune Teller by Taras Shevchenko.. Many fictional depictions of the Roma in literature and art present Romanticized narratives of their supposed mystical powers of fortune telling, and their supposed irascible or passionate temper which is paired with an indomitable love of freedom and a habit of criminality.

3. Fortune-telling - Wikipedia

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   Fortune telling is easily dismissed by critics as magical thinking and superstition. [24] [25] [26] Skeptic Bergen Evans suggested that fortune telling is the result of a "naïve selection of something that have happened from a mass of things that haven't, the clever interpretation of ambiguities, or a brazen announcement of the inevitable."

4. Fortune teller machine - Wikipedia

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   Madame Zita - A richly attired fortune teller in Gypsy style. The electric version was manufactured around 1905, by the Roover Brothers. Grandmothers Predictions (Cleveland Grandma) - William Gent Mfg, c. 1929 – The wise old grandmother passes her hands over the fortune telling cards and stops at the proper fortune. The card falls into the ...

5. Scyphomancy - Wikipedia

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   American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland describes it in his 1891 book Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, in relation to the ritualistic practices of the Roma: . In connection with divination, deceit, and robbery, it may be observed that gypsies in Eastern Europe, as in India, often tell fortunes or answer questions by taking a goblet or glass, tapping it, and pretending to hear a voice in ...

6. Romani Americans - Wikipedia

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   The women do fortune telling and sell cheap goods around the houses. [ 80 ] Ludar : Hailing from North of the Balkans, Hungary, and the Banat , the Ludari, also known as Rudari, Boyash, or Banyash, are a subculture of Romani who arrived during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

7. Fortune telling fraud - Wikipedia

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   Fortune telling fraud, also called the bujo or egg curse scam, is a type of confidence trick, based on a claim of secret or occult information. The basic feature of the scam involves diagnosing the victim (the "mark") with some sort of secret problem that only the grifter can detect or diagnose, and then charging the mark for ineffectual ...

8. Romani folklore - Wikipedia

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   Gypsy Folk Tales by Francis Hindes Groome [1899], at Sacred Texts.com; Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland [1891], at Sacred Texts.com;

9. Romani people - Wikipedia

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   In 1350, Ludolph of Saxony mentioned a similar people with a unique language whom he called Mandapolos, a word possibly derived from the Greek word mantes (meaning prophet or fortune teller). [ 237 ] In the 14th century, Roma are recorded in Venetian territories, including Methoni and Nafplio in the Peloponnese , and Corfu. [ 235 ]