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The mystery guild presents : the locke diaries
Published 2016“…Accompanying the central story of Pollux is a deck of fortune-telling cards in the tradition of the tarot that creates an interactive dimension to interpreting the narrative content through card-reading. …”
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Beliefs in Good and Bad Days among the Tatars in Dobrudja and Among the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars (Preliminary Remarks)
Published 2023-10-01“…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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MOTIVASI PENGUNJUNG WIHARA BUDHA PRABHA YOGYAKARTA MELAKUKAN RAMALAN CIAM SI
Published 2014“…Ciam Si a kind of fortune-telling which is based on the 1 to 100 paper poems available in tubes at any time if it is implemented in the temple. which is usually the person concerned should first follow the rules of tradition. …”
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The Social Status of Musician Lulies and Minstrel Kowlies in Persian Proverbs
Published 2021-12-01“…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
Published 2021-10-01“…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
Published 2023-12-01“…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
Published 2023-06-01“…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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A study on depression and cognitive distortion among out-of-wedlock pregnant young women in Malaysia.
Published 2022“…In addition, the levels for the dimensions of depression namely cognitive/affective and somatic/vegetative as well as the dimensions of cognitive distortion namely externalization of self-worth, fortune telling, selective abstraction, dichotomous thinking, magnification, minimization, perfectionism, comparison to others, emotional reasoning, arbitrary inference, and personalization were also obtained. …”
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Social Aspects of the Image of the World in Russian Folklore: Georges Dumézil and the Frog Princess
Published 2023-12-01“…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
Published 2023-02-01“…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
Published 2022-09-01“…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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What can the structure of the palm print tell us?
Published 2015“…Traditionally, it is used as a tool of fortune telling and character indicator. Recent studies criminal identification in different regions. …”
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Comparative study of left and right dermatoglyphic palm pattern prints on individual reflective personality
Published 2015“…In addition, the use of palm prints is presented with an entertainment value of fortune telling and predicting into one’s future, and also in areas of personal identification, and criminology. …”
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Bird image in the traditional vision of the Mari people (ethnolinguistic aspect): the cuckoo
Published 2014-12-01“…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
Published 2022-08-01“…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)
Published 2024-03-01“…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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English ‘Treatises on Physiognomy’ c. 1500 - c. 1780
Published 1997“…Physiognomating was a multi-faceted phenomenon of the <i>longue durée</i>, understood by some as a natural language based on instinct, a magical knowledge based on divine revelation, a branch of natural philosophy, an aspect of medicine, moral philosophy, political science, humoral theory, astrology, fortune-telling, even game-playing. The meanings of some physical features were more or less consistently agreed upon, whilst many were also supported by physiognomical proverbs and adages. …”
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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...
Published 2020-07-01“…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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2D/3D biometric and biomedical image matching using line constraints
Published 2013“…Moreover, an interesting application, fortune telling has been investigated and been proved to be useful. …”
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Pseudo-Psychoanalytical Interpretations of Persian Dream Books
Published 2022-09-01“…It has more to do with astrology, fortune-telling, and prediction rather than therapeutic functions. …”
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