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   to tell her, her fortune, and he got the cards again. She cut the cards again, and when she turned up the next one, it was the Ace of Spades, no he wouldn't tell her the rest of it.
   About three months afterwards this woman died.
   This man, this fortune teller, was a farmer, and it is said, that if he was in his own kitchen he would be able to tell by means of the cards whether the men were idle or not in the fields.
   All he would have to do was cut the cards and turn up the one underneath. He told a lot of fortunes in his time and a lot of them turned out to be the truth.
   Some people would tell him that he couldn't tell fortunes and then he would get the

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tomás de Buitléir