Positive fortune telling enhances men's financial risk taking. by Xiaoyue Tan, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Paul A M van Lange

“…Fortune telling is a widespread phenomenon, yet little is known about the extent to which people are affected by it-including those who consider themselves non-believers. …”
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A Qualitative Study on Fortune-telling as a Psycho-anthropological Phenomenon by Mehmet Şükrü NAR

“…Magic, fortune telling and similar beliefs become ditinctive powers which influence social institutions such as economy and government and shaping socio- cultural structure. …”
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Fal – Fortune Telling from Chalil Juzefovich’s Tefsir (19th Century) by Galina Miškinienė

“…Texts about auspicious and inauspicious days, dreamers and fals (fortune-telling) attract the attention of scholars. …”
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Fal, Kur’ân Falı ve Müfessirlerin Konuya Yaklaşımları by Mehmet Selim Ayday

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A QURAN FORTUNE-TELLING: HĀẔĀ FĀL-İ ḲUR’AN-I ʿAZİ̄Z-İ ĀYĀT by Aytül Çağlar, Zahide Parlar

Subjects: “…fortune-telling…”
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The culture of divination and astrology in the Safavid period, citing the lyric poems of Mohsen Tafsir Tabrizi and the fortune-telling preserved in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul by Parastoo Seyedalmasi, Malekmohammad Farokhzad, Reza Heidari Nouri

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Bir söylem türü olarak kahve falına yönelik bir inceleme: Kahve falı ve ideoloji by Nuray Alagözlü

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Предсказанията на Матей Лансберг в български фрагмент от XIX в. (щрихи към гадателните книги и профетичната литература на Балканите)... by Марияна [Mariiana] Цибранска-Костова [TSibranska-Kostova]

Subjects: “…fortune-telling book…”
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Beliefs in Good and Bad Days among the Tatars in Dobrudja and Among the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars (Preliminary Remarks) by Veneta Yankova

“…By their nature, these are oral and written texts that have a practical purpose and are associated with popular fortune-telling and predictive practices. The scope of permitted or prohibited actions on certain days is indicated, as well as the justification for this with the help of events and personalities from the history of Islam in accordance with what is written in the Holy Quran. …”
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The Social Status of Musician Lulies and Minstrel Kowlies in Persian Proverbs by Hassan Zolfaghari

“…Rumi mentions the attribute of their theft a lot: (Rumi: 1378: 883)Fortune-telling: Fortune-telling was mainly the work of gypsy women. …”
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Interpretation of the 11th–12th Сentury Нoard of Astragalus from Samosdelka Settlement by Taisiia O. Petrovicheva

“…The results of an analysis demonstrate that before the astragalus were buried they could have been used as cue ball game items, amulets, smoothing tools, fortune-telling or game dice. In an 11th – 12th centuries, astragalus were losing their magic role due to the spread of the Muslim religion. …”
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture. Translation into English by Asia A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva

“…A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune-telling calendars, historical treatises, chronicles and commentaries on chronicles, essays on geography and medicine, fiction of old and modern China, as well as entries and comments from the Chinese blogosphere. …”
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Turning metaphor on its head: a “target-to-source transformation” approach in statistics education by Dennis Tay

“…Examples of transformed metaphors include different aspects of regression as sources for creative targets like “arranging a meeting time for friends,” “finding a life partner,” and “fortune-telling.” Analysis of these examples suggests that the approach creates a sense of pedagogical consistency, allows students to exercise creativity, and gives teachers novel insights into their level of understanding. …”
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Social Aspects of the Image of the World in Russian Folklore: Georges Dumézil and the Frog Princess by Vladimir Petrukhin

“…The motif of the royal wedding is also connected with the fairy tale about the frog princess: the three royal sons must marry brides, who will be determined by fortune-telling archery. The arrows of the elder brothers fall into prestigious courts, where the princely/boyar and general/merchant daughters are waiting for them. …”
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Narrative Time and Descriptive Elements in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Abdul Rahman Manif by Fahimeh Yeganeh Dizajvar, Seyed Babak Farzaneh, Leila Ghasemi, Ezzat Mullah Ebrahimi

“…The most obvious foresight is the fortune-telling predictions of the sub-character of the story (Aunt Nusrat), which reveals the fate of the characters in the novel. …”
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Horses in the Early Medieval (10th–13th c.) Religious Rituals of Slavs in Polish Areas—An Archaeozoological, Archaeological and Historical Overview by Daniel Makowiecki, Wojciech Chudziak, Paweł Szczepanik, Maciej Janeczek, Edyta Pasicka

“…Considerations in the article lead to conclusions that horses were used in religious rituals as sacrificial animals, apotropaic deposits, as fortune-telling animals and cosmological figures.…”
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Bird image in the traditional vision of the Mari people (ethnolinguistic aspect): the cuckoo by Kristina Yuzieva

“…It manifests itself not only in fortune telling, but also in a number of omens and superstitions. …”
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Medicine, black magic and supernatural beings: Cultural rituals as a significant threat to slender lorises in India by Smitha D. Gnanaolivu, Marco Campera, K. Anne‐Isola Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, Roopa Satish, Sharath Babu, Mewa Singh

“…Data from 293 interviews revealed that astrologers regularly use live lorises for fortune‐telling or for warding off evil. Slender loris body parts are used to make traditional folk medicine, develop black magic potions that bring people harm, hypnotize people or to thwart evil. …”
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Bone items from burial No. 9 of the cemetery near the Berezovaya Mountain (traceological analysis and the search for analogies) by Usachuk A.N., Kuptsova L.V.

“…The astragalus found in the burial could have been used as a fortune-telling/dice object. The functional purpose of the articular angle of the animal’s scapula has not been determined — no analogies have been found for it, though a possible circle of analogies has been outlined.…”
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The priestly system in Mesopotamia and its impact on the priesthood of ancient Syria النظام الكهنوتي في بلاد الرافدين وأثره في كهنوت سورية القديمة... by Amer Hamzah Al-Gharib عامر حمزة حسين الغريب, Abdul Latif Aid Abbas عبد اللطيف عائد عباس

“…It has been found through research that the fortune-telling in Mesopotamia has developed a lot and directly affected the neighboring peoples, especially ancient Syria, through economic and political factors that have contributed effectively to the transfer of the manifestations of Mesopotamia's civilization, particularly the intellectual and religious cultural aspect.يتناول هذا البحث دراسة النظام الكهنوتي في بلاد الرافدين وأثره في كهنوت شعوب سورية القديمة، ويسلط الضوء على أهمية المنظومة الكهنوتية من خلال المهام والوظائف التي كان يقوم بها الكهنة في بلاد الرافدين، فضلاً عن معالجة احوالهم المعيشية ومكانتهم في المجتمع، كما يبحث في عوامل انتقال ذلك التأثير الى بلاد سورية القديمة التي تلقفته وأدخلت عليه بعض الاضافات بما يتناغم مع بيئتها وخصوصيتها السياسية والاجتماعية واللغوية . …”
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