Do you recognize the customer? I believe the reader is famous Indian mentalist Kuda Bux.

These "weight and fortune" machines used to be found in every store.

Occultists like to claim that the Tarot cards are of mystical, unknown origin, tracing back beyond ancient Egypt. Actually, the reverse is true, because the Tarot deck was invented during the Renaissance to play a specific game, variously called Trionfi, Triumphs or Trumps. Instead, it is the origin of the standard, regular 52 card deck with 4 suits that emerges so far back in the mists of history that it is difficult to trace in detail. It was also used for popular card games during the Renaissance and ever since. [Some readers do insist on using regular playing cards to tell fortunes, for this reason.]

A Brief History

About 1 in 3 Americans Consult Fortune Tellers Regularly!

A Bright Future?
Methods of Divination!

The word psychic was invented by physicist Sir William Crookes in the late 19th Century, and quickly evolved into a meaningless blanket term used to describe anybody supposedly accomplishing a supernatural-seeming feat that the suckers can't figure out.


Prophets in History