Fortune Telling

Is prophecy just another name for fortune-telling? ❋ Howard Books (2007)

Lighted by muted stained-glass lamps and scented candles and separated from its back room by velvet drapes that dropped in heavy folds behind strings of hanging beads, Miss Annabelle’s ofisa, as she referred to her fortune-telling shop, was small and squarish, with a table and wicker chairs on a maroon Oriental rug in the middle of the floor. ❋ Jerome Preisler (2010)

Her so-called fortune-telling is nothing more than business advice. ❋ Patrick F. McManus (2010)

A mother-daughter fortune-telling team persuaded at least three people to give them their life savings because the money was "cursed" and needed cleansing, then fled with the cash before being caught in Arizona, authorities said Thursday. ❋ Chicago Sun-Times (2010)

The fortune-telling aspect of our brains allows us to navigate our world successfully; we continuously create a model of the world around us, and then make guesses about what will probably happen next. ❋ Michael Taft (2012)

"If I get close for two years in a row, I'm going to give up this job and open up a fortune-telling business, 1-800-CALL-SERGIO," Mr. Marchionne said during his keynote speech at the Automotive News World Congress Wednesday. ❋ Jeff Bennett (2012)

Combine that with fortune-telling and there is no way way to figure out what is going on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

According to the folks at Food & Think, the Irish thought that kale had magical, fortune-telling properties (bitter tasting kale = bitter spouse.) ❋ Washington Post Editors (2010)

He was briefly enrolled in a Catholic seminary before he set off for Europe as a traveling artist who did portraits and cartoons of tourists and performed fortune-telling on the side. ❋ T. Rees Shapiro (2010)

A mother-daughter fortune-telling team persuaded at least three people to give them their life savings because the money was "cursed" and needed cleansing, then fled ... ❋ Chicago Sun-Times (2010)

There is a gun from 1896 to shoot at a bullseye-ringing bell; an old-school arm-wrestling gaming machine; and Jumbo, the fortune-telling elephant, who bestows your fortune from a book after you drop in a penny. ❋ Marshall Heyman (2011)

The films came together around things like AA Bronson's use of mirrors in his artwork, his interest in scrying and fortune-telling, his John Dee-like countenance; [Lady] Jaye and Genesis [P-Orridge]'s fascination with the pandrogyne, their physical dynamic and relationship, their surgeries, and an amazing staircase in their Ridgewood apartment building that could visually be made to unwind like an enormous DNA strand. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

A mother-daughter fortune-telling team persuaded at least three people to give them their life savings because the money was cursed and needed cleansing, then fled ... ❋ Chicago Sun-Times (2010)

fortune telling works with Horoscopes, [palmistry], dream [interpretation], [card] reading ❋ Knowingportal (2020)