An earlier Cecil County law required fortune-tellers to be property-owners and long-time residents, which kept out itinerant gypsies.

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Because technical analysts read stock charts and look for patterns in closing prices, sophisticates like to portray them as no more than cheap fortune-tellers reading tea leaves.

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In his story, sorcerers and fortune-tellers had to walk backwards since their heads had been twisted 180 degrees, unable to see what is ahead because they tried, through forbidden means, to look ahead to the future in life.

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Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before the sun goes down and the big breaks come.

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