Fortune-Telling Methods

noun A person who practices the act of gazing into a crystal ball or other reflective object to see into the future or gain spiritual insight.

• The crystal gazer claimed to have the ability to predict the future through gazing into a crystal ball.
• I heard that crystal gazer at the fair can tell you your fortune for a few bucks.
• That crystal gazer dude is always talking about spirits and stuff, it's kind of weird.
• She was like a crystal gazer, able to see deep into people's emotions and thoughts.

noun the art or practice of foretelling the future by studying the palm of the hand

• Chiromancy, also known as palmistry, is the art of reading a person's character or future from the lines on their palms.
• Have you ever had your palm read? It's like chiromancy, where they tell you about your future based on your hand lines.
• I don't really believe in all that chiromancy stuff, it seems kind of sketchy to me.
• In a way, chiromancy is like trying to predict the future by reading the signs that are right in front of you.

noun the practice of reading a person's character or future from the lines on their buttocks

• Rumpology is a pseudoscience that claims to predict a person's future by reading the lines, moles, and shape of their buttocks.
• I can't believe people actually believe in rumpology as a legitimate way to predict the future.
• Some people think rumpology is just a load of crap.
• In a figurative sense, rumpology can be seen as a way to analyze someone's character based on their actions and behaviors.