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Prophecies and fortune-telling are never more in demand than at the end of an era when we want to know what the future might bring and how we might manipulate the fates. It is the hour of the prophets and charlatans who, even in our supposedly enlightened times, have lost none of their fascination.

 

Prophets and seers have a long tradition: Long before Freud, the ancient Egyptians interpreted dreams, the Babylonians believed in the correlation between heavenly and worldly events, the Huns foretold the future from the neighing of their horses. Friedrich Kur and Annette von Heinz have collected reports and techniques – from superstition, black magic and second sight to modern quantum theory – and offer a host of interesting information: Why the harmless custom of pouring molten lead into water on New Year's Eve to determine the future would have led you straight to the stake in the Middle Ages. And why Moses' rock-splitting pole might have been an early instance of the divining rod.