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The chapter discusses the importance of fortune-telling as a strategy in dealing with an unknown future and everyday, widespread form of information retrieval from antiquity to the present day.

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  1. University of Muenster, Münster, Germany

    Ulrike Ludwig

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  1. Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Heike Paul

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Ludwig, U. (2019). Divination. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_16

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