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Tarot, tarantulas and TikTok: exploring our long obsession with predicting the future

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David Zeitlyn is co-curator of a new exhibition, Oracles , Omens and Answers , which opened at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries last week .

It explores the practices of divination, fortune-telling and predicting the future, throughout history and across the world.

Zeitlyn spoke of a rise in interest in prophesying during the Covid pandemic fuelled by an increase in online tarot reading.

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English

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