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description - This website shows some example how the animals are used for predictions by fortune tellers and how they use person's name to predict about their future.
connection- According to me i think these stuffs are related to ideology and emotional .These fortune tellers are using people to predict the stuffs and the people who are stressed or suffering from somethings would believe them and would definitely go towards what ever the fortune teller tell them to do so .Moreover this is linked to confirmation bias ,as there is a example of black cat,that black cat is considered as bad luck so once the person comes across it they would only start collecting the negative things happened to them and consider it as true.

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Fortune-telling has been practiced for millennia. Humans have always yearned to know what the future has in store for us. Who doesn't want a glimpse - even if only for a few moments - of the cosmic plan to see if our destiny lies in riches or ruin?
Divination by laughter and cats
Some of the claimed methods for divining the future are simply bizarre. Gelomancy, for example, involves carefully listening to hysterical laughter (and even animal noises) for clues about the future. Those who practiced felidomancy claimed to know the future by observing cats; everyone knows that a black cat crossing your path predicts bad luck, but did you know that sneezing is a cat's way of predicting rain? [ Countdown: 13 Halloween Superstitions & Traditions Explained]

Animal lovers won't be enthusiastic about it, but one popular method of fortune-telling practiced in ancient times called haruspication required someone to cut open a recently butchered animal and pull its intestines onto the ground to see if the bloody entrails formed any symbols that could be interpreted as a portent of things to come.
Numerology, phrenology & palmistry
Many believe that a person's name (or even how many letters are in a name) give important clues to what their future will hold. One form of divination held that bumps on the skull could accurately predict not only a person's personality but indeed their future. This "science" of phrenology was not a weird, fringe belief but instead wildly popular even among well-educated Americans and Europeans in the 1800s.

There are many hundreds of long-discredited (and self-evidently absurd) fortune-telling methods. Many equally unlikely techniques are practiced today, including numerology, reading tea leaves, consulting tarot cards, and examining the lines on a person's palm.
Dream interpretation
For millennia, dreams have universally been considered a fortune-telling tool, and there is a thriving cottage industry of books, DVDs and fortune-tellers who claim to divine your future by interpreting your dreams. For example, dreaming about an attic means that you will renew an important friendship, and dreaming about walnuts indicates that losses and financial ruin are in store. (If you repeatedly dream about eating walnuts in an attic with an important friend while you lose money, you may want to seek therapy.)
The psychology of fortune-telling
Whatever form the fortune-telling takes, the basic process is the same: seeking meaning in random patterns and phenomenon. Some essentially random event is observed in nature (animal sounds are created, dreams are recorded) or caused to happen (tea leaves are stirred, cards are shuffled), and people closely examines the results trying to make meaning or sense of them. The human brain is very good at finding (or creating) meaning even when there is none, such as in random patterns. That's why people see faces and other images in clouds, Rorschach blots, and coffee stains. This phenomenon, called pareidolia, is well known in psychology.
Validity of fortune-telling
Do any of these fortune-telling tools work? Unfortunately not, and it's not a difficult question to test. Fortune-tellers failed to predict the September 11, 2001, attacks, the recent global economic collapse, the 2011 Japanese tsunami and nuclear meltdown, and countless other important world events that would have saved innocent lives if they'd been accurately predicted.

The most obvious problem is that different fortune-telling methods discredit each other (and themselves) by giving inconsistent and contradictory predictions. Not only do answers vary between methods, but they even vary between consultations of the same signs. Two tarot card or tea leaf readings minutes apart with the same person asking the exact same question about the future should come up with the same answer, but they don't.

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Let's say, for example, that someone wants to know if they will move to Paris in the next 10 years, or whether the current president will be re-elected next term. If any of these fortune-telling methods worked, they should all give the same answer; it shouldn't matter whether you ask a psychic, read tarot cards, or sprinkle a handful of flower petals on the ground and look for guidance. The answers should all be the same, since either you will or will not move to Paris, and the president either will or will not be re-elected. Instead, the answers are often no better than chance (which, in these examples, is 50/50 anyway). This is the same reason that a person can consult 10 different psychics and get 10 different answers about the future. If these fortune-telling methods are so fallible and fickle, why use them at all?

It also raises another question: If any of the methods really worked, why would there be so many? Why not stick with a proven, reliable method instead of devising literally hundreds of other fortune-telling tools? If reading tea leaves was scientifically proven to be a more accurate way to predict the future than, say, gazing at crystals or consulting the tarot, then people would naturally use the method that works. Instead, all fortune-telling methods are equally valid (or invalid) because they are all based on the same faulty premise, that reading meaning into random phenomena predicts destiny.

Even many books devoted to fortune-telling admit that the techniques are unreliable; a "Note to the Reader" prefacing "The Complete Book of Fortune" reads, "When seeking to know your Fortune by any method of divination, the results obtained must be regarded as an indication of what may happen, and must not be accepted as conclusive evidence of what will happen."
Free will vs. determinism
Many people who believe in fortune-telling don't realize that if they are right, they have answered one of the fundamental questions in philosophy, that of free will vs. determinism. Most people would prefer to believe that they control their own actions and make their own decisions in life; but anyone's ability to know the future proves them wrong. Either there is "a future" to know (or at least glimpse knowledge of) - and therefore our future is predetermined, or the future is unknowable and uncertain. Logically, you can't control your own destiny if the future is knowable.

One doesn't need to consult a psychic or fortune-teller to come up with a possible, potential vision of something that might or might not happen. Anyone can do that; if you want to know if something good or bad could possibly happen to you - from meeting a tall dark stranger to being killed in a plane crash to winning the lottery - the answer is always yes. If you want to know whether these things will happen to you, the future - as always - remains uncertain.
Benjamin Radford is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and author of six books including "Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries." His website is www.BenjaminRadford.com. Related:

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Fortune-Telling: Fact, Fiction & Fantasy

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Fortune-telling has been practiced for millennia. Humans have always yearned to know what the future has in store for us. Who doesn't want a glimpse - even if only for a few moments - of the cosmic plan to see if our destiny lies in riches or ruin?

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description : This is a video teaching about mind readings,basically showing how patterns can be used for mind reading and according to the pattern selected they make a prediction about the future and make people believe in that.
connection - this belief is linked to paternicity,as we can see that they are using patterns to predict the future and according to picture they would make people believe in them .

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100% accurate: I can predict YOUR future!! (incredible mind reading experiment)

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100% true and accurate!! I will tell you what your future holds for you. This is an incredible mind reading experiment which I will use to predict your future. Just like a fortune teller! I hope you like it.

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description - This is the video showing how fortune telling works and these things can be used to predict future,things such as palm reading ,face reading,tarot cards all these stuffs are used by fortune tellers.
connection - The fortune telling is connected to ideology and and i personally believe these are linked to unexplained as well,because some of the tricks used by fortune tellers are hard to understand and it just look like a trick used by magician.Same this video shows the various stuffs used and then from these stuffs a perfect and correct decision is made which can be true for some people and may be works wrong for some people.

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description - This picture is showing how small children are using fortune telling for their fun and these stuffs are told to them in school and they start believing in these prediction .This activities make their believe strong in fortune telling from childhood it self.One picture card is linked to some of the story or thing and if some one pick that card they can be told about their future based on that card.
connection - I believe that this activity is directly linked to pattern city as these cards are picked and according to the picture or pattern on it,some stuffs are predicted related to future of a person and i believe all these things are linked to ideology some how because according to me all the evidences are used to make the decision

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description - fortune cookies are also used to predict future,as they have some secret message hide inside them and once y9u get that message you would also start thing you future in going in this direction .Fortune cookies are also served on some of the mandarin restaurants as a desserts and given a lucky number in them which are sued by many people to play lotto with that numbers .
connection - This belief is related to confirmation bias and people start taking the information which is true from this stuffs and ignore which does not relate to their believe,similarly people who take these fortune cookies serious ,they start thinking what ever message they got is true and start image the things accordingly.

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Description - this site is basically highlight of history of fortune tellers and shows how fortune telling or predictions are started,Before in the past these fortune tellers were better as now in present many people are just running it as business and making lot of money out from it just by making people fool and prediction the stuff according to situation ,they actually only guess some stuff .here are shown some of the achievements related to future telling as well some of tools used by them .
Connection - I think that the belife behind the fortune telling is pattern city and ideology as the different patte4rns are used for fortune telling and have some ideas related and at end make up one decision.

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Predicting the future has fascinated mankind for years and has been seen throughout history. Fortune telling is done under the belief that the universe has a pattern which one can use as clues to determine fortunes and events about a person's life. There are many different techniques used in fortune telling which have dated back even before recorded history with evidence showing as far back as 4000BC.

Fortune tellers can be found all over the world and different cultures have formed their own practice. Predictive methods include astrology, numerology and using objects such as tea leaves and tarot cards or character analysis such as studying the lines on the palm of the hand. Fortune telling, particularly prophetic dreams, also played an important role in ancient religion and medicine. When fortune tellers come from a religious stance they are known as prophets.

Ancient discoveries of fortune telling

There have been many discoveries that show ancient people using tools to help predict the future. Gegharot in Armenia, for example, has been the site of many artifacts including incense burners and marked animals bones. These bones were used in osteomancy and tossed like dice in order to predict the future.

Fortune telling and Gypsies

Fortune telling has also long been associated with Gypsies - people who have often been outcasts in many different societies and unfortunately, still carry a stigma today. The origin of Gypsies is quite hard to trace though. Some believe they had origins in India, some think they originated in Egypt and others believe Turkey. Scholars, however, have studied their language and dialect and believe that their home was most likely Romania.

Medieval times

Rulers and kings in medieval times would often seek fortune tellers to predict events surrounding their kingdom. Popular methods included reading tea leaves, palms, astrology and consulting tarot cards.

Greek mythology

Fortune telling has also been seen in Greek mythology, particularly when we look at the three goddesses of destiny. The sisters, also known as 'The Fates', would sit at a spinning wheel to try and 'turn out' the destiny of all men and women, as well as the Gods.

Greece also had one of the most famous fortune tellers in history. The Greek oracle at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi was more commonly known as 'The Pythia' rather than a name due to the likelihood that it was actually different priestesses circulated into this role. But whether one or many women, the Oracle of Delphi was famed for her predictions.

Other famous fortune tellers through history

There have been many other famous fortune tellers through the years. The Mayans are perhaps the most famous fortune-telling civilisation, using astrology and mathematics to construct their calendar. This was shown to complete its 'Great Cycle' in December 2012, which is why many believed this could have been their prediction for the end of the world.

Nostradamus was an astrologer in the 1500s and was famous at the time for his predictions. Though he was knowledgeable in the medical field, it was through meditation that he found his gift and started writing his visions down.

Ursula Soonthtel, or more commonly known as Mother Shipton, made a life of fortune-telling. She was said to have predicted the Great Fire of London as well as some aspects of the modern world, including men being able to fly in the air and horseless carriages.

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Predicting the future has fascinated mankind for years and has been seen throughout history. Fortune telling is done under the belief that the universe has a pattern which one can use as clues to determine fortunes and events about a person's life.

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description - This website shows 10 fascinating fortune telling techniques used by fortune tellers in past.These techniques include amnimancy,the long man,Zoomancy,agalmatomancy,tasseography,casting lots.
connection - the belief behind the fortune teller is paternity,ideology and simplicity.As one the technique known as chaomancy,it is linked to simplicit6v as if the wind are not blown normal than people think that some one in family is going ot die or something is family is going to happen.

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In today's society, fortune-telling typically involves tarot cards, palm reading, and horoscopes. These modern practices are tame compared to what went on in the past. Throughout history, people have been just as obsessed with trying to figure out what will happen in the future as they are today.

In ancient times, many different forms of divination were practiced by oracles and soothsayers all over the world. Here are ten techniques to see the future that have long since been forgotten.

10 Amniomancy

When a baby is born, it sometimes has a caul, which is a membrane covering the head. This is rare, only happening to one out of every 80,000 babies born. In ancient times, if a baby was born with a caul, fortune-tellers claimed that it would reveal a lot about the child's future. If the caul was red, it meant that the baby will live a happy life, but if it was blue, the child going to have something horrible happen to them in the future.

In Poland, there was a legend that a child born with a caul over its head would grow up to be a vampire. The only way to prevent this horrible destiny would be to dry out the caul, save it until the child's seventh birthday, and force-feed it to them. Some parents would grind it up into a powder and hide it inside the cake, while others probably made their kids eat their own seven-year-old amniotic membrane like it was beef jerky. Cauls also became a popular superstition during the Victorian era. They were dried up and sold to sailors as a talisman that was supposed to protect someone from drowning.

9 Pyromancy

In ancient Greece, followers of the god Hephaestus believed that they could communicate with him through fire. Similar to a crystal ball, some people would stare into the flames and claim that they could see the future. Pyromancy is fortune-telling with flame, but many seers did more than just stare. The shape of the fire was also considered a sign from the spirits of future good or bad news.

If an object was thrown into a fire, the way it burned would predict the future. If it burned quickly without producing a lot of smoke, that meant that the future would have a good outcome. Conversely, if a fire was difficult to start, it was seen as a very bad omen, predicting a terrible tragedy was about to occur. Today, it only makes sense that certain objects like leaves and paper produce a lot of smoke and that chemical reactions can even produce colors in the flames. However, every reaction of the fire was seen as communication with the gods. An ancient text read, "If the offerings sputter and do not burn, Hephaestus will not cooperate."

8 The Long Man

Cherokee Native Americans would consult a medicine man, or "long man," every time they wanted to know about the future. It wasn't uncommon for an entire family to visit the long man, who would always live near a river. He would cast a spell and ask for a sign about the family's future. If the river continued to flow and nothing happened, it was a sign of long life and prosperity, guaranteed for at least the next seven years. However, if a log or even a tiny leaf began to float down the river, it meant that there would be a death in the family in the near future.[3]

Another technique used by Cherokee medicine men was analyzing the movement of beads. Similar to a Ouija board, the medicine man would claim that the beads moved in between his fingers all on their own. Depending on the behavior of the beads, he could predict whether a woman would say "yes" to a man's proposal to be his wife.

In many cultures, the behavior of animals was taken into account as a sign of the future. In ancient Greece, Alexander the Great took advice from a seer named Aristander. One day, Alexander was about to make an animal sacrifice to the gods in exchange for victory in battle. Suddenly, a large bird swooped over the sacrificial altar and dropped a rock on the king's head. Aristander was there, and he predicted that the omen meant Alexander would win the battle regardless, so there was no need to kill anything else as a sacrifice.[4]

There were specific types of zoomancy, depending on the animal. For example, cats have always been symbols of witchcraft. The study of cats' behavior was called ailuromancy. There is actually some truth to the idea of ailuromancy, since modern scientists know that dogs and cats can predict when an earthquake or hurricane is approaching.

From circus fortune-tellers to wizards, crystal balls have been an iconic way that psychics tell the future. The proper term for this is "scrying," and it can actually be done in any flat, reflective surface. This includes mirrors, water, and crystals.

In the 16th century in England, Queen Elizabeth's advisor, John Dee, was known for using a crystal ball to see the future. He predicted that Elizabeth's sister, Mary, was going to die, and Elizabeth would ascend to the throne. He was thrown into jail for practicing witchcraft. Three years later, his prediction actually came true. Elizabeth immediately removed him from jail and made him her advisor.

Elizabeth wrote a new rule that any divination that John Dee practiced was considered to be "white magic" from God. Dee embraced this and dove deeply into practicing the occult. He drew strange symbols, claiming they were a language taught to him by angels. Today, his crystals and other fortune-telling artifacts are on display at the British Museum in London.

5 Agalmatomancy

In ancient Egypt, giant stone or metal statues were built with the sole purpose of using them in divination rituals to predict the future. This practice is also sometimes referred to as idolomancy, or praying to idols. The major difference is that the automata were big enough to sit in the middle of a town square, while idols were smaller and kept inside the home. Oracles were people who were gifted with the ability to predict the future. They believed that spirits would inhabit these statues, and if they prayed to the automata, the answers to their questions about the future would manifest through their dreams.

In ancient Israel, these idols were called teraphim. They are mentioned in the Bible, when Rachel takes her father's teraph. Some believe that these idols were made in the image of ancestors and were essentially haunted by ghosts that looked after them. Others used the teraphim to seek their fortune, just like the automata.

4 Tasseography

In ancient China and the European Middle Ages, fortune-tellers practiced tasseography, which is the art of reading tea leaves. Drinking a cup of tea made from loose leaves causes small bits of leftovers to sit at the bottom when the liquid is gone. The interpretation of the shape the tea leaves make is almost like a Rorschach test. Depending on what the fortune-teller sees, it can apparently reveal a lot about your future.

For example, if the leaves make the shape of a snake, it means there is someone untrustworthy who will cause issues in the near future . . . but if those same curvy lines are interpreted as " mountains " instead, it foretells a future journey or an obstacle that may be in the way of a goal. If there are multiple shapes that appear in the cup, any leaves that form near the rim of the cup are the immediate future. Anything that settles into the center of the cup is the distant future. By the 18th century, fortune-tellers in Italy were doing similar predictions with coffee.

3 Casting Lots

The basic idea behind casting lots is to get answers to questions about the future utilizing objects that represent straightforward answers, like "yes," "no," and "maybe." The idea has spread throughout multiple cultures. Some examples of the objects used include shells, sticks, paper, or even beans. Sometimes, people would use a pendulum, which was some sort of crystal or object hanging from a string. The direction in which swings will give "yes" or "no" answers.

Versions of this are still used today, with the Magic 8-Ball toy and the paper fortune-teller game made by elementary school children. There is also a superstition that the pendulum technique can be used for predicting the future gender of a child when a woman is pregnant. Eventually, the vast majority of divination would be labeled as " demonic," but Christians would carry on this tradition of casting lots, which they decided to call cleromancy, saying that it was predicting the will of God.

2 Anthropomancy

The Aztecs and the Incas were notorious for human sacrifice, but they weren't always just an offering in order to appease the gods. "Anthropomancy" very literally means "man prophecy." Children and babies were sacrificed for the sake of anthropomancy, or studying the entrails of a dead human being in order to predict the future. The victims had to suffer through a slow death of having their chest cut open and their organs spilled out of their body. The omens that predicted the future were based on how the organs were arranged and how the victims reacted as they died.

This also happened in ancient Mesopotamia and Japan. Similarly, in ancient Greece, they practiced splanchomancy, which is the sacrifice of a young virgin woman as a form of divination. Other societies studied the entrails of animals to predict the future as well.

1 Chaomancy

The ancient Irish tradition of divination used the air, stars, and wind. Today, it is called chaomancy, and it covers most events in nature. During bad winds and storms, the damage done to plants and homes was seen as an omen. Sometimes, leaves would be sitting on the ground with some kind of strange residue on top. This was a particularly bad sign that some kind of illness was about to fall on the family. Some mystics also claimed to hear voices in the wind that would foretell if someone was going to die.[10]

Even when there was no storm, chaomancy was used in the form of observing the shapes of cloud formations, similar to the interpretation of tea leaves, in order to predict the future. Comets and changes in the stars were a huge deal as well, predicting chaos or good fortune, depending on whatever event was happening at the time. In its own way, chaomancy seems to have been a very early form of meteorology, studying how clouds and wind will predict what sort of weather is coming.

Shannon Quinn is a writer and entrepreneur from the Philadelphia area. You can find her on Twitter @ShannQ.

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10 Fascinating Fortune-Telling Techniques From History

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In today's society, fortune-telling typically involves tarot cards, palm reading, and horoscopes. These modern practices are tame compared to what went on in the past. Throughout history, people have been just as obsessed with trying to figure out what will happen in the future as they are today.

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description - this website shows about the game used by children to predicts something related to future or even used by ancient fortune tellers to predict the stuff related to love ,career and more things related to future.
connection - these things are related to pattern city, ideology and some point it is related to perceptions too.In these things different patterns are sued for predicting future related stuffs.

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Description - this video shows about the trick used by fortune teller to predict future.The trick here used is choosing a card and helping them know about their future.They will make decision based on the picture picked by the person.
connection - According to me reason of belief behind this pattern city or ideology as patterns or cards are sued to predict the future and some best ideas from the thought or situation are used to make a final decision about the future.

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CHOOSE A CARD AND REVEAL YOUR FUTURE | fortune telling online

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1. most surprised stuff that i found is how even animal sound are used to predict the future.Even the sound about the wind can also be used by fortune tellers.
2. Real life example that relate to this topic is that once i have been to vacation with my family to city in my province which is known as Jaipur and business of fortune teller is on peak there.One fortune teller read my hand and made a prediction that i would go abroad for studies and as i am here now in India i think his prediction came true.
3. one of my research about the website showing different kind of techniques used by fortune teller is mots interesting for me as this is so amazing how animals sound,wind sound can be sued to predict the future.
4. As i told i would always rem,ember how they used to predict from the sound o wind in omen and from the leaves on the ground and i would also try to relate it to my daily life if ever happen to me.
5. According to me simplicity is most harmful ,as this happened to me many time when i have dream that some is dead and that actually scares me a lot.
6. I would like to tell my family about the techniques or tricks the fortune tellers used to predict which i have found out from my research .