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Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The standard 52-card deck is often augmented with jokers or even with the blank card found in many packaged decks.
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.
The Fortune Teller, 1920 American film directed by Albert Capellani; The Fortune Teller, English title for I kafetzou, 1956 Greek film directed by Alekos Sakellarios; Fortune Teller, 2009 Chinese documentary directed by Xu Tong; The Fortune Tellers, alternate title for Ghost Sweepers, a 2012 South Korean film
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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.
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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 ...
The Ubykh term for a favomancer (pxażayš’) simply means "bean-thrower", and it later became a synonym for all soothsayers and seers in general in that language. [2] In Muslim and Serbian traditions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, favomancy is called bacanje graha 'bean-throwing' or falanje (from Persian fal 'to bode'). The fortune-teller places ...