Prediction Collection

St Swithin / Dudley / Maxims
SAINT SWITHIN or SWITHUN Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastic, Bishop of Winchester, associated with a prediction of rain for 40 days

Gypsy & Crystal Ball
A Gypsy fortune teller gazes deeply into a crystal ball. Other tools of divination are nearby, the drained teacup for reading the tea leaves, and a pack of cards for the tarot

Discovering Atlantis
Discovery of Atlantis and other Submerged Civilisations Date: Circa 1950

Future War / Zukunstkrieg
ZUKUNSTKRIEG A German prediction of the next war - their airborne divisions attack an armoured French fortress Date: 1894

Egyptian Fortune Teller
Egyptian street fortune teller has two women engrossed in his soothsaying

Miss Modern magazine fortune teller
Front cover of Miss Modern magazine for November 1931, featuring a young gipsy fortune teller with a crystal ball (and the free gipsy ring, found FREE inside the magazine!). Date: 1931

San Francisco, California, USA - Chinatown, Fortune Teller. Date: 1904

Palmistry. Planetary and zodiacal diagram of the left hand. Engraving

Reading the Tea Leaves, Mazawattee Tea Co, London
Advert, Reading the Tea Leaves, Mazawattee Tea Co, London Date: 1894

Advert, Reading the Tea Leaves, Mazawattee Tea Co, London Date: 1894

Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage over the Orient, imaginary representation Date: 1843

The Pocket Marconigraph
Predicting the mobile phone - man stranded at sea sends a message on his Pocket Marconigraph Date: 1914

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

A German custom where walnut shells are floated in a bowl of water, either the walnut comes together or drawn to the side, according to their movements it brings good luck or ill-luck. Date: 1908

ISAIAH AND HEZEKIAH
Isaiah foresees that king Hezekiah of Israel will die of his sickness, but when he repents God relents and instructs Isaiah to make a more favourable prediction Date: circa 700 BC

Millennium predictions
Those who support Antichrist will get their comeuppance early in the 20th century when the Angel of the First Vial pours liquid death on them Date: 1891

Comic postcard, Woman at the seaside, being swept off her feet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women at a fairground, near the fortune tellers tent Date: 20th century

Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola
Christopher Columbus firing the cannon for the Taino chieftain or cacique Guacanagar??x on Hispaniola 4, Columbus attacking the Native American army on Hispaniola 5

Music sheet for The Gipsy with words and music by Billy Reid. A glamorous gipsy fortune teller gazes into a crystal ball where a couple are locked in a romantic embrace. Date: 1940s

Cartoon, Fortune teller visit. 1923

Svetovid, Slavic deity of war and sun, depicted as a four-faced god with a horn of abundance and bow in a temple. A priest predicts the future by observing the behavior of a white horse

Racegoer with gipsy, Ascot racecourse, Berkshire
Racegoer with gipsy fortune teller, a regular fixture at Ascot racecourse, Berkshire. She is reading his palm, and also has bunches of lavender to sell. Date: 1922

Is the futre war-ship to be aeroplane or balloon?
Arists prediction from 1907 of what a future war might look like, in this case aerial battle-ships - not, as it turns out

RAIN TO ORDER
A farmer directs the rain- making airship to where he wants his crops watered Date: 1926

Nostradamus magic mirror, c. 1570
Nostradamus is commanded by Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France, to predict the future of the French royals : he does so, using a magic mirror in which figures seem to appear. Date: circa 1570

Fortune teller in Greenwich Park, south east London 1843
A fortune teller speaks to a young couple in Greenwich Park, south east London. Date: 1843

Fortune Tellers Caravan - Romany Rose. Date: circa 1930s

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm II in civilian dress, WW1
Cartoon, The Last Uniform of All, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II in civilian dress, looking forward to his change from uniform after a peace treaty is signed at the end of the First World War

Romantic couple imagine their wedding day, 1913
Two minds but a single thought : a courting couple gaze into a blazing log fire, and imagine their wedding day. 1913

The Young Fortune Tellers, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, depicting Lord Henry John Spencer (1770-1795), later a British diplomat and politician, and Lady Charlotte Spencer (later Charlotte Nares)

The Seven Seals of the Book - Revelation 5. circa 1688

Caravaggio (1573-1610). Italian painter. The Fortune Teller. 1596-1597. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France

Jesus predicts that Peter will betray him three times. Codex
Jesus predicts that Peter will betray him three times. Illuminated pages of the Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and a fortune teller, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm goes to consult a fortune teller to find out when the war will end. Date: 1916

Hanoi, Vietnam - A blind street fortune-teller predicting future fortunes... Date: circa 1910s

Priests consulting the omens in Classical Rome

The Crystal by Arild Rosenkrantz
A staring woman looks into the future with her crystal ball

The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast
Scene from The Apocalypse, depicting The Scarlet Woman and the Great Beast

The Fortune Teller by J. R. Skelton
Four girls sit by the fire in their nightwear as one of them predicts the future - perhaps who they will marry - by consulting some playing cards. Date: 1914

Warfare in the future - as predicted in 1932
An impression of what warfare might look like in 2032, as predicted by The Modern Boy magazine in 1932. It suggests that invading troops might attack via a shell

A Prophecy by Harold Earnshaw
Cartoon by Harold Earnshaw depicting three types of courtship - stone age man dragging a woman, a civilised marriage during the First World War (when this cartoon was drawn) and then, in the future

The Vision of St John - Revelation 10. circa 1688

The Salutation of the Blessed Virgin - Luke 1. circa 1688

The seven golden candlesticks - Revelation 1. circa 1688

The ruin of Babylon - Revelation 18. circa 1688

The Last Judgement - Matthew 25. circa 1688

The Heaven Opened - Revelation 4. circa 1688

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