This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jezmina Von Thiele, a fortune teller from Portsmouth ... and that's OK There are definitely scammers out there. Anyone who tells you that ...

I go to them," Adalat, a 56-year-old fortune teller, said during a session on the outskirts of Dushanbe. She swung a string of pearls over some instructions scribbled on a piece of paper ...