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Ulrica Arfvidsson is perhaps the most famous fortune-teller in Swedish history. She is mentioned in many contemporary memoirs and diary notes. During the 19th-century, several professional fortune tellers used her fame by claiming to have been her students in the occult.
Dion Fortune (1890–1946), considered one of Great Britain's most famous occultists, [9] founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light; Jeanne Robert Foster (1879–1970), American occultist, Theosophist, and poet; Paul Foster Case (1884–1954), founder of BOTA, adept of the Western mystery tradition, teacher, occult writer
Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with Romani people. [1] During the 19th and 20th century, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching, were also adopted as methods of fortune telling in western popular culture.
Remarkable women of different nations and ages: Mademoiselle Lenormand; the Fortune Teller (John P. Jewett and Company, Boston 1858) The Court of Napoleon by Frank Boott Goodrich (Derby and Jackson, New York 1858) Madame Lenormand, the most famous card reader of all time by Mary K. Greer; Origins of Playing Card Divination by Mary K. Greer
Jeane Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 25, 1997) was one of the best-known American psychics and astrologers of the 20th century, owing to her prediction of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, [1] [2] her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling biography.
Aurea Erfelo, known professionally as Madam Auring (11 March 1940 – 30 October 2020), was a Filipina fortune teller and actress. [1] [2] According to her own account, she was one of "the five most famous women in Asia in the 1990s". [3]
Practitioners of fortune-telling. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. * Fictional fortune tellers (23 P) P. Palmists (12 P) T.
From the late 1660s, La Voisin had become a wealthy and famous fortune teller with clients among the highest aristocracy of France. Among her clients were Olympia Mancini, comtesse de Soissons; Marie Anne Mancini, duchess de Bouillon; Elizabeth, comtesse de Gramont, and François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg.