| The name given in the book was Victorine Le Normand but the famous fortune teller went under the name of Marie-Anne Adelaide Le Normand. |
| Rapport between teller and listeners is based on trust, interest and on respect for character as well as skills. |
| You go to a fortune teller who decides on a more lucky or more auspicious name and has it engraved on your spoon. |
| Nowadays we just shake our heads in misery and shuffle ahead in line, waiting for the next available teller. |
| He was charming and funny and a great story teller, and he never did a stroke of work. |
| It is horrible practice to have the teller made responsible for reconciling the accounts, how can one check on one's own work? |
