Nah, they have all kinds of tricks. The yes and no answers help them to know what stuff is correct.

If it was by appointment she had time to research.

Its kind of like the game 20 questions, if you know what kind of stuff to ask it will look like you know what your talking about.

Nope. Good fortune tellers are experts at the art of "Cold Reading" - the art of throwing a lot of general questions at you as well as suggestions, hints and so on. They are deliberately vague and, even if you only give yes or no answers, can guide the Teller toward a statement about you that will be quite accurate.

If she had geniune information about you without any prior knowledge of you, she could easily get the information from wicked spirit creatures called "demons". The scriptures are against consulting foretellers of the future because these supernatural creatures that provide the information are very evil.

Did you just walk in off the street or did you have a set time to be there ? Who knew you were going ? she may have been just good at what she does

Good answers have already been given (one is tongue-in-cheek, I hope you see.... :-) Fortune tellers watch nonverbals very closely, too, and take cues from dress, jewelry, all sorts of things. For instance, if you usually wear a wedding ring but remove it to fool the fortune teller, there's usually a narrow place on your finger where the ring usually is.

Many are tricksters,and there are also some legitimate channelers and psychics around. I only know my experience with one in particular was very right on and she had absolutely no way of knowing many of the things she told me, including medical things I did not even know until later when I was tested for them. And they were fairly rare things, not just "You have a virus" or "You have something going in your body you need to have checked." She was exact and specific about them, and 100% accurate. --------------------------------------------------- EDIT (comment would not take this for some odd reason): How do you think a total stranger is going to know (when my own doctor doesn't) that I have a disease in one organ (which is a fairly rare disease), and another medical problem that is also fairly rare by "doing research," when all the woman knew was my first name? I was traveling. She did not even know my home city, phone number or anything about me. "Surmise" what you want. This woman has helped over 80 police departments solve crimes, and they are (stupid?) enough to pay her because she gets results, finds bodies, and also describes the people who actually committed the crimes, (Has worked with the FBI also) and she has been doing it professionally now for the past 30+ years. I guess they are all fooled by her.

For sure.