Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fortune telling isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people, it’s a survival trade rooted in their culture, shares ...

Tarot has had a long reputation of “woo-woo” and fortune-telling, but over the last few years, it’s blossomed into a modern practice that doesn’t rely on its former stereotypes. Across Philadelphia ...

Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

Whether or not human cultures can persist without divination is debatable, since it seems no culture on record has gone without some form of it (Curry, 2010: 1). Yet divination’s role is highly ...

In 2020, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature a program about the West African nation of Benin and how communities connect to their environment through spirituality and traditional knowledge ...