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Many fortune tellers will also give "character readings". These may use numerology, graphology, palmistry (if the subject is present), and astrology. [citation needed] In contemporary Western culture, it appears that women consult fortune tellers more than men. [4] Some women have maintained long relationships with their personal readers.
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Fortune teller machine; Fortune telling fraud; L. Legality of fortune-telling; P. Paper fortune teller This page was last edited on 27 October 2024, at 22:17 ...
The Fortune Teller, by Enrique Simonet (1899; canvas; Museo de Málaga), depicting a palm reading. Pagtatawas by reading melted alum; pallomancy: by pendulums (Greek pallein, ' to sway ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') palmistry/palm reading → see somatomancy (Latin palma, ' palm ')
If a distinction is made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, [citation needed] usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.
Fortune Teller, 2008 album by Ira Losco "Fortune Teller" (song), a 1962 song written by Allen Toussaint, covered by many artists "Fortuneteller" (song), a 1962 song written by Dyer and Basil Hurdon "Fortune Teller", a song by Deep Purple from their 1990 album Slaves and Masters "Fortune Teller", a song by Sugar from their 1992 album Copper Blue
Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy, tassology, or tasseology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments. The terms derive from the French word tasse ( cup ), which in turn derives from the Arabic loan-word into French tassa , and the respective Greek suffixes -graph ...
Literomancy, from the Latin litero-, 'letter' + -mancy, 'divination', is a form of fortune-telling based on written words, or, in the case of Chinese, characters. A fortune-teller of this type is known as a literomancer. simplified Chinese: 测字; traditional Chinese: 測字; pinyin: cèzì)