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A paper fortune teller may be constructed by the steps shown in the illustration below: [1] [2] The corners of a sheet of paper are folded up to meet the opposite sides and (if the paper is not already square) the top is cut off, making a square sheet with diagonal creases.
The fortune-teller places 41 white beans onto a flat surface, dividing them into smaller groups using a complex set of rules. The resulting number of beans in each group is then interpreted as a favorable or unfavorable sign for the different aspects of life represented by each of the groups.
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 ...
Action toys include birds or butterflies with flapping wings, beaks that peck, and frogs that hop, [1] as well as popular traditional models like the fortune teller. Paper poppers or bangers are models that make a noise when flicked down hard. Some action origami is designed to accompany a story whilst it is built.
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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."
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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 ')