Evidence indicates that forms of fortune-telling were practiced in ancient China, Egypt, Chaldea, and Babylonia as long ago as 4000 bce. Prophetic dreams and oracular utterances played an important part in ancient religion and medicine. Western fortune tellers typically attempt predictions on matters such as future romantic, financial, and childbearing prospects. Many fortune tellers will also give "character readings". These may use numerology, graphology, palmistry (if the subject is present), and astrology... although. One of my favourites is, Gabriel Nostradamus relates a weird Victorian superstition. If you sneezed on a Saturday night once the lamp was lit, “you will during the incoming week see a stranger you never saw before”
