Like the Etruscans, the Romans believed in all sorts of fortune tellers, developed their own very funky, artistic traditions, and wrote with this thing called an alphabet, which they had gotten from the ancient Greeks.
The family was desperate to find a cure and after consulting with fortune tellers and mediums who claimed to be able to speak to the dead, Zarina Alexandra found the cure that she had been looking for.
When Nadir was young, his father was told by a fortune teller that his son was destined for greatness, that one day he would not just be a king, but a king of kings.
So, for listeners at home, Larry has just pulled out what looks like a child's origami paper fortune teller thing of the type you might find in a typical British playground.
Leonarda refused to work as she came to terms with the loss of her children and the devastating belief that the fortune teller had put her under some sort of curse.
I mean, it seems like they spent much of their days consulting, uh, you know, uh, uh, fortune tellers, astronomers, astrologers to determine courses of action.