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  2. 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."

  3. Methods of divination - Wikipedia

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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 ')

  4. Paper fortune teller - Wikipedia

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    An elaborately decorated fortune teller. A fortune teller is a form of origami used in children's games. Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message.

  5. Divination - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Fortune teller (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Fortune Teller, 2008 album by Ira Losco "Fortune Teller" (song), a 1962 song written by Allen Toussaint, covered by many artists "Fortuneteller" (song), a 1962 song written by Dyer and Basil Hurdon "Fortune Teller", a song by Deep Purple from their 1990 album Slaves and Masters "Fortune Teller", a song by Sugar from their 1992 album Copper Blue

  7. Scrying - Wikipedia

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    Scrying, also referred to as "seeing" or "peeping," is a practice rooted in divination and fortune-telling.It involves gazing into a medium, hoping to receive significant messages or visions that could offer personal guidance, prophecy, revelation, or inspiration. [1]

  8. Favomancy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Crystal ball - Wikipedia

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    A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying. Used since Antiquity, crystal balls have had a broad reputation with witchcraft, including modern times with charlatan acts and amusements at circus venues, festivals, etc.