One tradition that has been passed down through the generations is coffee fortune-telling.

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Prospective customer, be reassured: Sally possesses a fortune-telling licence from the government of Cecil County, Maryland.

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In the first installment, services including games, fortune-telling and money-saving coupons are scheduled to be released from early July.

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Although they have branched out into other occupations, their distinctive trades, as in Europe, include scrap-metal dealing, car repair and fortune-telling.

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Not that such swindles do not happen: some fortune-telling gypsies, for example, use psychological manipulation to predict disaster unless their clients give them large amounts of money.

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In a 1985 case, California's highest court overturned a local ban on fortune-telling businesses, declaring that they were protected under the free-speech provisions of the American constitution.

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The Year of the Snake is forecast to be challenging for Hong Kong after the city drew number 95, one of the most inauspicious fortune-telling sticks, at a temple ceremony on Monday.

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He imagined this fortune-telling woman at first as frumpy and middle-aged, but, when she came to give Suzie a lift to school one morning, Menna looked like a child, not much older than Jamie.

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So the timing of this fortune-telling is suspect.

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Fortune-telling is intensely controversial among the American Roma.

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Many places have tried to proscribe fortune-telling altogether.

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