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cosmic system. Each card contains the image of a Hindu deity and some cards contain images of Buddha or Virgin Mary with Infant Jesus. When a patron sits before the fortune teller, the latter opens the cage and lets the parrot out. He instructs the parrot to pick a card for the patron. The parrot walks over to the cards, picks one from the stack or the spread with its beak and gives it to the astrologer. It then walks back inside its cage. The astrologer opens the card and based on the image tells the fortune of the patron.
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A parrot astrologer/fortune teller typically sits beneath a tree to call or by the side of the road where people congregate. He has a cage which contains one or two trained parrots. The tarot like cards are either spread out or stacked in front of him. They are 27 in number representing the Indian
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219:"Art of parrot predictions on verge of extinction"
48:traditionally practiced in the Indian states of
33:Hindus and their Prayers (p.65, May 1865, XXII)
194:. London: Wesleyan Mission House: 65. May 1865
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16:Divination by means of parrot picking cards
287:Community-based tourism in the Asia-Pacific
92:. A variant is also practiced in Pakistan.
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60:. It involves using mainly
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284:Hatton, Michael J (1999).
188:Wesleyan Juvenile Offering
184:"Hindus and their Prayers"
121:A patron seeks her fortune
916:Culture of Andhra Pradesh
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253:Naidu Ratnala, Thulaja.
42:Parakeet fortune-telling
560:Cowrie-shell divination
76:Fortune telling process
72:-like fortune cards.
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911:Culture of Tamil Nadu
66:Alexandrine parakeets
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926:Birds of South India
255:"Parrot astrologers"
25:A parakeet in action
58:Indian Singaporeans
906:Indian astrologers
629:Tarot card reading
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297:978-0-9682334-2-9
265:on 1 January 2012
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705:Omphalomancy
634:Tasseography
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415:Ornithomancy
324:. Retrieved
320:the original
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267:. Retrieved
263:the original
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233:. Retrieved
229:the original
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196:. Retrieved
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86:Little India
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710:Oracle bone
683:Somatomancy
652:Gastromancy
605:Runic magic
600:Rhabdomancy
476:Aspidomancy
430:Bibliomancy
390:Ailuromancy
383:Theriomancy
326:23 December
316:Daily Times
269:23 December
235:23 December
62:rose-ringed
891:Aviculture
880:Categories
849:Revelation
812:Numerology
775:Apparition
657:Mediumship
644:Necromancy
555:Cartomancy
537:Cleromancy
527:Hydromancy
517:Capnomancy
496:Oculomancy
410:Myrmomancy
372:divination
369:Methods of
198:1 December
170:References
88:along the
50:Tamil Nadu
822:Isopsephy
780:Astrology
770:Apophenia
725:Rumpology
720:Podomancy
715:Palmistry
565:Favomancy
550:Belomancy
522:Aeromancy
512:Pyromancy
505:Elemental
46:astrology
844:Prophecy
817:Gematria
795:Geomancy
700:Haruspex
674:Taghairm
595:Opon Ifá
405:Myomancy
153:See also
854:Ecstasy
834:Onmyodo
801:I Ching
746:African
570:Kumalak
491:Dowsing
468:Scrying
443:Falnama
96:Gallery
56:and by
859:Vision
839:Oracle
762:Sikidy
662:SĂ©ance
617:Sortes
611:Sikidy
575:Mengdu
458:Virgil
400:Augury
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756:NggĂ m
739:Other
590:Opele
448:Homer
438:Bible
420:NggĂ m
70:Tarot
829:Omen
328:2011
292:ISBN
271:2011
237:2011
200:2015
192:XXII
64:and
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751:Ifá
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