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Kelley, Katrina - Look to the Stars, Your Hands or Your Teacup?, Oct. 12, 2016

 File — Box: 17
Identifier: 1

Paper description

A look at the various means people have used during the centuries to find out their future including astrology, palmistry, tea leaves and even reading the entrails of dead animals. Are these people honest or are they stringing gullible people along? The author reviews the history of fortune-telling, inspired by her visit as a child to the 1933-1934 World’s Fair in Chicago, where a fortune teller read her palm. Katrina told us about the hurdy gurdy lady, tarot cards, reading dead animal entrails, blood-letting, phrenology, Ouija boards, palmistry, witchcraft, reading tea leaves and coffee grounds, astrology and psychics. One favorite of the audience was the witch who advised that to acquire wealth one should tie some twigs and sprinkle them with oil and twenty dollar bills and chant “Money in my door I need a little more".

Dates

  • Creation: Oct. 12, 2016

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The Winnetka Fortnightly records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III). Meeting minutes and members' biographies are restricted; consult Curator of Modern Manuscripts for information.

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Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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