As I was browsing books written about Soviet-Yiddish writers recently in the National Library of Russia, in St. Petersburg, I serendipitously found a 36-page Yiddish pamphlet called “Seyfer hagoyroles ...

Growing up in Japan, fortune-telling and other kinds of spiritual predictions were a regular part of daily life — many morning shows had some daily horoscope section right after weather forecasts, and ...

Christmas fortune telling is one of the most mysterious and exciting folk traditions that have survived from ancient times to the present day. On Christmas Eve in January, when the night is long and ...

The night of January 13-14, known as Vasiliev Evening or old New Year, has been considered one of the most mysterious and magical periods in Russia since ancient times. This is the time when, ...

SAKURAI, JAPAN—The right scapula of a boar, discovered in an oval-shaped hole with pottery, a wooden object, and other animal bones, suggests that the third-century A.D. shaman queen Himiko and ...