Queens slay victim was tarot card reader shot dead by customer who called her ‘witch’: sources

New York Post ^ | May 5, 2022 | Khristina Narizhnaya, Joe Marino, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[Jamestown1630]

The people I met were actually Roma. I got interested after that encounter, and learned myself up on gypsies. (Some advice was not to wear jewelry if you go to see them, because they might have it off of you before you know it :-)

I think a lot of them mainly wanted to hook you on their ‘services’, and keep you coming back. I’m sure the ‘gratuity’ went up the longer you were ‘hooked’.

I’ve run into them three times - that first time, another time when friends were keeping horses at a stable they ran, and then when I went to the courthouse to apply for my marriage license. People were lined-up to get married when I was there, and one beautiful little couple who were obviously Romani were all turned out in their wedding-best - the girl looking like a wedding cake, huge veil, tiered lace and everything; boy with a huge boutonniere. Those kids didn’t look any older than a young 15, but happy as clams.

Many of them have assimilated into our culture - it’s been decades since I saw an identifiable one anywhere around here. (What we have now are signs all over advertising in Spanish ‘se lee las cartas y los manos’. The signs are posted on telephone poles at intersections...)

https://www.voanews.com/a/for-roma-life-in-us-has-challenges-119394819/163156.html

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think Tarot - or what it originally came from - was really meant to ‘tell fortunes’. It’s more a system of philosophy, a ‘picture’ of principles. (At root, astrology is probably the same.)