Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) to tell someone's destiny or future, usually by magic vb. (context idiomatic English) to tell someone's destiny or future, usually by magic
Usage examples of "tell fortunes".
Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes, and pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors, and counted the sixpences with anxious eyes long before they were gained.
In my apprentice days, Chade had taught me to read hands, not to tell fortunes, but to tell a man's past.
I wouldnt tell fortunes at all, except its such a perfect way to get into her house.
Apparently his old mum used to tell fortunes pretty accurately, so he has been a believer in that sort of thing all his life.
Supposedly he and his grown-up sons tell fortunes by throwing chicken bones into a calabash bowl.