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** There's also Negi's UnluckyChildhoodFriend, Anya, who was tasked to be a fortune teller in London to complete her training. Negima Neo (the alternate manga) says she's bullseye accurate.

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** There's also Negi's UnluckyChildhoodFriend, Anya, who was tasked to be a fortune teller in London to complete her training. Negima Neo ''NegimaNeo'' (the alternate manga) says she's bullseye accurate.
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* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You'' episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". the gang meets a [[{{Romani}} Gypsy]] fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.

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* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You'' episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". the The gang meets a [[{{Romani}} Gypsy]] fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.
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* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You'' episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". the gang meets a Gypsy ({{Romani}}) fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.

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* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You'' episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". the gang meets a Gypsy ({{Romani}}) [[{{Romani}} Gypsy]] fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.
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* ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You'' episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". the gang meets a Gypsy ({{Romani}}) fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.
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* Seena from ''{{Lufia}}: The Legend Returns'' is a teenaged traveling fortune teller with a ChronicHeroSyndrome. Basically, she will make a fortune of alomst anything positive, and then drag her partner with her to achieve it. [[spoiler: Or just make it happens, as she's under a disguise of Erim the Sinistral of Death, she has a power to make what she has predicted becoming true.]]

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* Seena from ''{{Lufia}}: The Legend Returns'' is a teenaged traveling fortune teller with a ChronicHeroSyndrome. Basically, she will make a fortune of alomst anything positive, and then drag her partner with her to achieve it. [[spoiler: Or just make it happens, as she's under a disguise of Erim the Sinistral of Death, she has a power to make what whatever she has predicted becoming true.]]
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* Seena from ''{{Lufia}}: The Legend Returns'' is a teenaged traveling fortune teller with a ChronicHeroSyndrome. Basically, she will make a fortune of alomst anything positive, and then drag her partner with her to achieve it. [[spoiler: Or just make it happens, as she's under a disguise of Erim the Sinistral of Death, she has a power to make what she has predicted becoming true.]]
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* In the ''The Velvet Circle'' adventure of the ''Second Stormbringer Companion'', the elderly fortuneteller Kakata has a horse drawn wagon and conducts a séance with startling results.

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* In the ''The "The Velvet Circle'' Circle" adventure of the ''Second Stormbringer Companion'', the elderly fortuneteller Kakata has a horse drawn wagon and conducts a séance with startling results.
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* [[http://s1.subirimagenes.com/otros/464978qu-mala-es-la-gente.jpg This Strip]] from ''{{Quino}}''.
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* ''{{Carnivale}}'' has Apollonia, a catatonic Gypsy fortune-teller who operates through her daughter, Sofie. Sofie reads the [[TarotMotifs Tarot]] and has occasional premonitions (sometimes prompted by her mother, as with the flashbacks to [[spoiler: Justin raping Apollonia to conceive Sofie]], sometimes [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone plot-related visions]] unique to her own [[DarkMessiah destiny]]).

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* ''{{Carnivale}}'' has Apollonia, a catatonic Gypsy fortune-teller who operates through her daughter, Sofie. Sofie reads the [[TarotMotifs Tarot]] {{Tarot|Motifs}} and has occasional premonitions (sometimes prompted by her mother, as with the flashbacks to [[spoiler: Justin raping Apollonia to conceive Sofie]], sometimes [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone plot-related visions]] unique to her own [[DarkMessiah destiny]]).



** The Vistani FortuneTeller has been later developped as a stock character of the setting.

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** The Vistani FortuneTeller has been later developped developed as a stock character of the setting.



* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]].

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* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 ''KingsQuestV'' that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]].



* The fortune teller Aunt Wu from the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Fortuneteller." Her prophecies are accurate, though mainly because they're [[SelfFulfillingProphecy self fulfilling prophecies]].

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* The fortune teller Aunt Wu from the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Fortuneteller." Her prophecies are accurate, though mainly because they're [[SelfFulfillingProphecy self {{self fulfilling prophecies]].prophec|y}}ies.
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** Agatha subs in for a fortune-teller at one point. What little we hear of it is [[NoodleImplements as confusing as it is amusing]].

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** Agatha subs in for poses as a fortune-teller at one point. What little we hear of it is [[NoodleImplements as confusing as it is amusing]].
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** Agatha subs in for a fortune-teller at one point. What little we hear of it is [[NoodleImplements as confusing as it is amusing]].
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* In ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'', each of the five magicians / Rangers had a magical speciality out of costume. This was Urara's, complete with crystal ball.
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*** Notably, most conversations with her is an exercise in frustration because she "forgets to turn her precog off", and answers questions before they're asked.

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*** Notably, most conversations with her is are an exercise in frustration because she "forgets to turn her precog off", and answers questions before they're asked.asked. She insists people ask them anyway, as it gives her a headache if they don't complete the mini time-loop.

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* In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Herbie rampages through a Gypsy camp. A Gypsy fortune teller tells a client horrified into paralysis, that "Darkness is about to fall on you." The next instant, Herbie hits the tent, collapsing it.

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* In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, ''HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'', Herbie rampages through a Gypsy camp. A Gypsy fortune teller tells a client horrified into paralysis, that "Darkness is about to fall on you." The next instant, Herbie hits the tent, collapsing it.



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* The Matchmaker NPC from ''TheSims 2 Nightlife'' dresses like a gypsy, carries and obsessively polishes a crystal ball, and if paid will summon another sim for a blind date with yours-- the more you pay, the more likely the other sim will have compatible traits and interests.
* ''RuneScape'' has a fortune-teller in Varrock who greets your character with the "cross my palm with silver" line, whereupon your character confusedly points out that money is gold.
* The fortunetelling sisters in Harapa in ''GoldenSunDarkDawn''. The elder sees the immediate future by looking into a bowl of water, charges 5 coins per vision, and generally remains positive and helpful. The younger offers Matthew a free reading from her CrystalBall... [[FaintingSeer and immediately regrets it]].

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*Meena from ''DragonQuestIV'', who uses a deck of Tarot cards in battle. She is also TheMedic.
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* In ''{{Clannad}}'', Ryou Fujibayashi practices fortune telling (using playing cards) as a hobby. Most of the time, she's not too accurate, but she takes comfort from this, explaining that it would feel constricting if the future was set in stone. In the visual novel, she can get a deck of actual tarot cards, at which point she suddenly becomes more accurate...
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* Two versions turn up in ''The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure'': Nanny Noah, a little old lady who reads Nigel's palm and tea leaves, and "Mystic Morgan", an innkeeper who's dressed up as a gypsy to offer crystal-ball predictions at the May Day Fayre.
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* Shakespeare uses the three witches to prophesy in "MacBeth"
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* In Herbie Goes to Montecarlo, Herbie rampages through a Gypsy camp. A Gypsy fortune teller tells a client horrified into paralysis, that "Darkness is about to fall on you." The next instant, Herbie hits the tent, collapsing it.

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* In Herbie Goes to Montecarlo, Monte Carlo, Herbie rampages through a Gypsy camp. A Gypsy fortune teller tells a client horrified into paralysis, that "Darkness is about to fall on you." The next instant, Herbie hits the tent, collapsing it.
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* In Herbie Goes to Montecarlo, Herbie rampages through a Gypsy camp. A Gypsy fortune teller tells a client horrified into paralysis, that "Darkness is about to fall on you." The next instant, Herbie hits the tent, collapsing it.
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* In TheDivineComedy, fortune tellers are shown to be among the worst sinners. They are sent to the eighth circle of {{Hell}}, which is for Frauds. As with the other sinners they are punished with [[IronicHell a form of irony]]. For the sin of trying to see the future they are forced to walk around with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is in front of them.

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* The side character codenamed Gypsy at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy in the WhateleyUniverse. Once she gets her confidence in a DealWithTheDevil she even dresses the part. She really is one of a long line of fortune tellers, complete with an ancestral Tarot deck which is magical and apparently alive. Her predictions turn out to be scarily accurate.



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* The one in ''BrokenSaints'' also happens to be a HeroicAlbino (sort of), and a rather straightforward talker as well.



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* The side character codenamed Gypsy at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy in the WhateleyUniverse. Once she gets her confidence in a DealWithTheDevil she even dresses the part. She really is one of a long line of fortune tellers, complete with an ancestral Tarot deck which is magical and apparently alive. Her predictions turn out to be scarily accurate.



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* The one in ''BrokenSaints'' also happens to be a HeroicAlbino (sort of), and a rather straightforward talker as well.
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* [[{{Charmed}} Phoebe]] once went to a gypsy fortune teller to find out why she has not been getting premonitions.
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* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]]. The fact that the cat used to be Mordak's brother (and had enslaved/tortured Alexander for ''years'' almost makes this bit [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line twice]]).

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* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]]. The fact that the cat used to be Mordak's brother (and had enslaved/tortured Alexander for ''years'' almost makes this bit [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line twice]]).
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* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]]...the cat [[BalefulPolymorph used to be the wizard]] who enslaved Alex in the first place.

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* And the one Graham visits in KingsQuest 5 that gives him an update on what Mordak is doing - including [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel having the shrunken Alexander tied down and threatening to feed him to the cat]]...cat]]. The fact that the cat [[BalefulPolymorph used to be Mordak's brother (and had enslaved/tortured Alexander for ''years'' almost makes this bit [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the wizard]] who enslaved Alex in the first place.line twice]]).
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* CortoMaltese's mother was one of these, and so is his friend and ally Golden Mouth.
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* {{xxxholic}} has a chapter where Yuuko demonstrates the difference between "popular" fortune telling and "real" fortune telling. The fake uses information sheets, leading questions, simple common sense, and has no sense of the supernatural (she didn't notice Mokona at all, or of Watanuki's real problems). The real fortune teller notices Mokona right off the bat, proving her supernatural sense, and only asks Watanuki his name for the sake of conversation easier before using a sand dish and her own sensing powers to pinpoint his problems exactly.
* In Fushigiboshi, the princesses seek out a fortune-teller so that they can get a reading on the resident Bad Boy. Said fortune-teller milks it for all she can, despite not being a fraud.

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* {{xxxholic}} ''{{xxxholic}}'' has a chapter where Yuuko demonstrates the difference between "popular" fortune telling and "real" fortune telling. The fake uses information sheets, leading questions, simple common sense, and has no sense of the supernatural (she didn't notice Mokona at all, or of Watanuki's real problems). The real fortune teller notices Mokona right off the bat, proving her supernatural sense, and only asks Watanuki his name for the sake of conversation easier before using a sand dish and her own sensing powers to pinpoint his problems exactly.
* In Fushigiboshi, ''Fushigiboshi'', the princesses seek out a fortune-teller so that they can get a reading on the resident Bad Boy. Said fortune-teller milks it for all she can, despite not being a fraud.



* From both the theme park ride and the movie based on it, Disney's ''The Haunted Mansion'' features Madam Leota, the disembodied head of a gypsy medium who helps connect the living with the dead. In the ride, her seance circle is what helps the mansion's ghosts "materialize". In the film, she not only provides the hero with vital clues, she serves as his much needed moral support.
* In PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Tia Dalma is introduced as a sangoma of some renown, able to sense people's destinies and tell the future by casting crab claws.

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* From both the theme park ride and the movie based on it, Disney's ''The ''Film/{{The Haunted Mansion'' Mansion}}'' features Madam Leota, the disembodied head of a gypsy medium who helps connect the living with the dead. In the ride, her seance circle is what helps the mansion's ghosts "materialize". In the film, she not only provides the hero with vital clues, she serves as his much needed moral support.
* In PiratesOfTheCaribbean: ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Chest'', Tia Dalma is introduced as a sangoma of some renown, able to sense people's destinies and tell the future by casting crab claws.
* Death of a carnival fortune teller sets out the rampage in ''TheFunhouse''.



* Brian Jacques's ''Redwall'' series uses this frequently. Examples include Nightshade from ''Outcast of Redwall'', Groddil from ''Lord Brocktree'', and Polleekin from ''Martin the Warrior''. One subversion of this is in ''The Long Patrol'', where Midge Manycoats poses as a fortune teller to gain access to the enemy camp.

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* Brian Jacques's ''Redwall'' ''{{Redwall}}'' series uses this frequently. Examples include Nightshade from ''Outcast of Redwall'', Groddil from ''Lord Brocktree'', and Polleekin from ''Martin the Warrior''. One subversion of this is in ''The Long Patrol'', where Midge Manycoats poses as a fortune teller to gain access to the enemy camp.



*In the adventure "The Velvet Circle" in the 2nd Stormbringer Companion, the elderly fortuneteller Kakata has a horse drawn wagon and conducts a séance with startling results.

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*In the ''The Velvet Circle'' adventure "The Velvet Circle" in of the 2nd ''Second Stormbringer Companion, Companion'', the elderly fortuneteller Kakata has a horse drawn wagon and conducts a séance with startling results.



* There's one in ''LegendOfMana''... a fruit lady, who wears fruit on her head, sits in a giant fruit, and tells the future by spinning around the fruit. SoYeah.

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* There's one in ''LegendOfMana''... a fruit lady, who wears fruit on her head, sits in a giant fruit, and tells the future by spinning around the fruit. SoYeah.So yeah.



* There's a [[http://tinyurl.com/38qxg2 mechanical one of these]] in ''Phantasmagoria''.

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* There's a [[http://tinyurl.com/38qxg2 mechanical one of these]] in ''Phantasmagoria''.''{{Phantasmagoria}}''.



* {{Persona 2}} has an Egyptian-themed Fortune Teller that can have "Dragon Fortunes" that gives you random battle variables (More gold dropped, or encourage rate increases), and a Love Fortune that lets you answer questions for random bonuses with characters that can be hooked up with. It's outright stated that she used to be notorious for being very bad at it until [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of rumors changed it]]

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* {{Persona 2}} ''{{Persona 2}}'' has an Egyptian-themed Fortune Teller that can have "Dragon Fortunes" that gives you random battle variables (More gold dropped, or encourage rate increases), and a Love Fortune that lets you answer questions for random bonuses with characters that can be hooked up with. It's outright stated that she used to be notorious for being very bad at it until [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of rumors changed it]]



* The fortune teller Aunt Wu from the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Fortuneteller." Her prophecies are accurate, though mainly because they're SelfFulfillingProphecies,

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* The fortune teller Aunt Wu from the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Fortuneteller." Her prophecies are accurate, though mainly because they're SelfFulfillingProphecies,[[SelfFulfillingProphecy self fulfilling prophecies]].

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