Talk:Fortune-telling

Additional references
A case related to fortune telling, reported in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. HealthyGirl (talk) 14:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

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Too trite
Lots of banal editorializing: "naïve selection of something that have happened from a mass of things that haven't, the clever interpretation of ambiguities, or a brazen announcement of the inevitable." Etc. Unwikipedic, IMHO. Zezen (talk) 10:47, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
 * and this: "Popular media outlets like The New York Times have explained to their American readers that although 5000 years ago, soothsayers were prized advisers to the Assyrians, they lost respect and reverence during the rise of Reason in the 17th and 18th centuries." No reference other than the NYT is given, so "outletS" is unwarranted.  And 'explain' should be "stated" or some such thing.  --2607:FEA8:D5DF:1AF0:91:E984:EBBC:5E49 (talk) 10:28, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

The NYT text should clearly be removed (unless the date is a typo), as there is no evidence at all of Assyrian rulers employing soothsayers 5000 years ago, before the earliest Akkadian texts, and before the earliest rulers in the Assyrian King List.European Prehistorian (talk) 11:18, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Clairvoyant
Article says:
 * Terms for one who claims to see into the future include
 * 1. fortune teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, and prophet;
 * related terms which might include this among other abilities are
 * 2. oracle, augur, and visionary.

(Numbers added for purposes of the present discussion.) I think "clairvoyant" should go in the second list, not the first, as a clairvoyant may claim an ability to communicate with the dead, without predicting the future. Other of the terms on the first list may similarly belong to the second; e.g., perhaps a spaewife may do magic without predicting the future (but I don't know about that). Maybe the simplest solution would be to put all the terms in the second list, e.g. like this:
 * A person who claims to see into the future may be described as a fortune teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, prophet, oracle, augur, or visionary, though each of these terms may describe other extrasensory or supernatural abilities as well.

On the other hand, I suppose e.g. "fortune teller" exclusively describes a person with this specific claimed ability, so that solution may be unnecessarily radical.

Thoughts? Nø (talk) 09:44, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

"Nigerian fortune tellers" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Science
What was earth created 43.245.122.5 (talk) 16:40, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

North Korea Persecutes Fortune-tellers
"The North Pyongan source said that authorities’ efforts against superstition have included campaigns against fortune tellers." - "Sticky rice cake stuck to North Korean colleges sparks crackdown on superstition" at Radio Free Asia

Why not an article on persecutory campaigns against fortune-tellers?

Anyway, thanks for reading, Apisite (talk) 04:11, 7 April 2023 (UTC)