fortune-telling
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Fortune-telling and mediumship have been around for thousands of years; why would a few apps be what finally does them in?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2021
By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.; and on the 1st of July next, you may expect, "A Prophecy of Things Past; wherein the Art of Fortune-telling is laid open to the meanest capacity."
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
For her mind, following his action, was assigning it to some craze of Cheiromancy—what she would have called Fortune-telling.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Fortune-telling from the lines of the hand or the chance combinations of playing-cards are, in this aspect, on a par with the prophecies of astrologers drawn from the constellations in the heavens.
From Modern Magic by Vere, Maximilian Schele de
Fortune-telling by means of the finger nails was not uncommon.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist