Translation for "fortune telling" to german
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What he most vigorously did combat, however, were the superstitious notions of the simple folk: witches and fortune-telling cards, the wearing of amulets, the evil eye, exorcisms, hocus-pocus at full moon, and all the other acts they performed – it was really quite depressing to see how such heathenish customs had still not been uprooted a good thousand years after the firm establishment of the Christian religion!
Was er aber aufs entschiedenste bekämpfte, waren die abergläubischen Vorstellungen des einfachen Volkes: Hexerei und Kartenlesen, Amulettgetrage, böser Blick, Beschwörungen, Vollmondhokuspokus und was sie sonst noch alles trieben – es war ja tief deprimierend zu sehen, dass solche heidnischen Gebräuche nach über tausendjähriger fester Installation der christlichen Religion immer noch nicht ausgerottet waren!
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