VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. — The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking gaze greeting the tourists who shuffled in from the ...

Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Fortune telling, particularly cartomancy in this case, isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people ― it’s a ...

In 2007, a 27-year-old medical student was walking through a shopping mall when a self-described psychic approached her and offered her spiritual help. The student, who was suffering from depression ...

A favorite draw in the cavernous waiting lobby of fun and folksy White Fence Farm fried chicken restaurant in Romeoville, Ill., is an antique fortune-telling machine that, with a drop of a coin, ...