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
His Tables are a kind of Poetical Logarithms, which being divided into several Squares, and all inscribed with so many incoherent Words, appear to the Eye somewhat like a Fortune-telling Screen.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Fortune-telling not know the name!' cried the boy, seeming to be rather relieved by this default on the part of the hollow down by the flare.
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
Fortune-telling practiced in Great Britain and in the United States, 234.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
Fortune-telling, dreams, forewarnings, and prophecies are similarly treated.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf