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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
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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."
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.
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.
The more a fortune-teller could correctly predict the fate of clients, the better his reputation and credibility, and this would attract more clients wishing to know their results ahead of time. Sometimes a famous fortune-teller would sit at home, with a long line of clients out the door asking for a prediction. [41]