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fortune-telling

practice of predicting information about a person's life
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fortune-telling

Summary

fortune-telling ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (436 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fortune-telling's subclass of is recorded as ritual[2].
  • fortune-telling's has use is recorded as divination[3].
  • fortune-telling's Commons category is recorded as Fortune-telling[4].
  • fortune-telling's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f4lp[5].
  • fortune-telling's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Divination[6].
  • fortune-telling's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Q107104412[7].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Dictionnaire Infernal[8].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[9].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[10].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • fortune-telling's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • fortune-telling's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000052101[15].
  • fortune-telling's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/fortune-telling[16].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as Barnum effect[17].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as confirmation bias[18].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as astrology[19].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as horary astrology[20].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as pendulum[21].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as ouija[22].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as tasseography[23].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as cartomancy[24].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as tarot card reading[25].
  • fortune-telling's uses is recorded as crystal gazing[26].

Why It Matters

fortune-telling ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (436 views/month).[1] fortune-telling has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] fortune-telling is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Iamblichus

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  25. [26] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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