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Fortune Tellers and Their Dupes

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Between March and June of 1857, the Reverend William Harcus, a Congregationalist minister and essayist, published a series of anonymous articles on "Liverpool Life" in the pages of the Liverpool Mercury, describing in those articles a vibrant, robust and (for Harcus) dangerous local marketplace for folk occult practices - conjuration of spirits, astrology, crystal skrying, palmistry, cartomancy and other means of divination - operating in the open, patronized by all social classes, supplied...