The art of recognizing the future. Sibyl. Ivanov S.

In front of you is an extremely popular collection of all kinds of fortune -telling at the end of the 19th century with answers in poems and proverbs, fortune -telling on maps, jokes, games, puzzles and sharad.

The author writes: “Knowledge of the future is so tempting for humans that the desire to satisfy this desire, no matter how much philosophers and so -called prudent people rebelled against that, always existed in people and, probably, will continue to exist. Yes, and the philosophers themselves who cannot solve the tasks of the present are not removed from attempts to clarify the future. ”