Fortune-telling

A woman has her palm read by a fortune-teller

Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. It is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or informal setting.

Fortune-telling Media

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  Gypsy Fortune-Teller (1841) by Taras Shevchenko

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  Chart of the Hand.

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  The screene of fortune here behold, fortune-telling game, ca.1650–1750

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  Romani fortune telling. Facsimile of a woodcut in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster

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  Storefront psychic fortune teller in Boston

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  A fortune-telling storefront on the boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

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