We're delighted that an avid reader found a rare copy of our Divination by Punctuation in a remote corner of the world (though in his Dictionary, Samuel Johnson's 3rd definition of "corner" says "every corner is the whole" because a corner implies the utmost limit, the extremities).

The spirit-world.  From McClure's, 1920.

May April 23 be your lucky day.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.

The Mystic Ball by Margaret Sutton, 1934.

As you predicted, I have a collection of vintage card readers.

From Kladderadatsch, 1923.

From Die Bühne, 1929.

"It is unlucky to thank a fortune teller, a magician, or anyone who teaches you anything of the black art."  From the Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, 1903.

Felix Fontaine's Golden Wheel Fortune Teller and Dream Book, 1862.

"The gypsy girl was sorting out the cards.  'Now cross my palm with gold,' she said."  From The Moving House by Pauline Bradford Mackie and illustrated by Howard E. Smith, 1918.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.

"I wonder if his crystal ball is a talisman, too?"  From Cut Adrift by Albany Fonblanque, 1869.

Pictured: In a magical shop at Universal Studios Orlando, we discovered a crystal ball that seems to project holograms of its gazers in all directions.  Here's the snap we captured of the effect as we consulted the mysterious sphere.

Palmistry and scarpology (divination by old boots, as invented by Dr. Garré of Switzerland).  From Die Muskete, 1937.