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2. 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 ...

3. 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.

4. 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."

5. Romani folklore - Wikipedia

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   Fortune-telling; Gana (Queen of Witches) [12] ... Tarot card reading; Tasseography; Trishul ... Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland ...

6. Tarot card reading - Wikipedia

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   Tarot historian Michael Dummett similarly critiqued occultist uses throughout his various works, remarking that "the history of the esoteric use of Tarot cards is an oscillation between the two poles of vulgar fortune telling and high magic; though the fence between them may have collapsed in places, the story cannot be understood if we fail to ...

7. 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 ...