But Marafioti isn’t your usual immigrant; she is also Gypsy, a race of people still ... And they see you as a thief and a fortune-teller. Even educated people? At a writers’ conference three ...

Put a coin (or, in later years, a dollar bill) in the slot, and the life-size figure in the glass-fronted booth nodded and ... machines featured female gypsy fortune tellers dressed in appropriate ...

The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a ...

Host Scott Simon speaks with antique arcade machine collector John Papa about the Gypsy — a fortune-telling machine that is said to be worth millions of dollars. Gypsy currently resides at the ...

Representatives from Gypsy families all over the nation flocked ... arrangement in the shape of an open palm, a symbol of her fortune-telling prowess that is central to the Gypsies’ orthodox ...

The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a ...

“The three-block rule is pretty standard. Fortune-telling is probably the main income-generating function within the Gypsy community.” In Newport Beach, two families have taken the rare step ...