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Originally Posted by marshlander

Living in The Fens there are many people with Romani blood round here. One elderly lady crosses my path from time to time. She always begins her chat-up with, "Would you buy off a true Gypsy?" I've bought some lace and bits of "lucky" coloured glass or sprigs of heather if I have some money and she always launches into her fortune-telling speech. She really shouldn't because she is so bad at it. In truth I don't want the heather, beads or lace. I pay her for her skill as an entertainer and storyteller. She has never got anything right that she has decided about me and her predictions contain more u-turns than a Gordon Brown policy. I might smile, but I never laugh at her. How could I when she has such twinkle in her eye

That is such a funny story. Thanks for sharing.

I dont know how much I should say because this didnt happen to me but to an old girlfriend. Her parents are from India. Anita has had some mysterious health issues so she went to an astrologer. He told her about an "accident" we had twenty + years ago and that is what has been haunting her health.

There is NO WAY this astrologer could have ever known about our accident.

The very interesting thing about astrologers in India is that they are considered holy men. This means that they dont really do it for the money but to help people. If you are able to donate money fine, if not that is fine also.