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Marie Anne Lenormand (1772–1843), French fortune-teller favoured by Joséphine de Beauharnais; Eliphas Lévi (1810–1875), French occult writer and ceremonial magician [9] Guido von List (1848–1919), Austrian writer and mystic; Arthur Machen (1863–1947), member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
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."
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.
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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.
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.
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843), also known as Marie Anne Le Normand, [1] was a French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era.
Marie Castello (May 25, 1915 [1] – June 27, 2008), who was known as Madam Marie, was an American fortune teller and psychic reader who worked on the Asbury Park, New Jersey, boardwalk from 1932 [1] until 2008. [2] Madam Marie was the longest running tenant on the Asbury Park boardwalk. [2]