Visiting a fortune teller has been a common practice across various cultures for centuries. The allure of peeking into the future or gaining insight into life’s uncertainties is powerful. This ...

Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Popular because we white people love the idea of dark-haired babes with seductive smokey eyes who can give us access to ...

The Burmese fortune teller held my palm gently. I felt his papery skin while, with his free hand, he ran his fingers across a haphazard column of numbers scrawled on a scrap of paper. A brown lyongi ...

The practice of using birthdays in divination and astrology dates back to ancient civilizations. The Greeks, Romans, Chinese and many other cultures believed that the alignment of the stars and ...

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