Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller (霊媒師, Reibaishi) is an unnamed secondary ally featured in The Mysterious Manor the Widow Kept Expanding: Winchester Mystery House, the fifth episode of The Lives of Eccentrics.
The fortune teller warns Sarah Winchester of the vengeful spirits haunting her and advises her to build a confusing maze-like house to prevent them from entering her home.[1]
Appearance
The fortune teller is an old woman of very short stature with an extremely large head. She has big almond-shaped eyes with small pupils, small pointy nose with a wart beside it, and prominent wrinkles.
She wears a robe with a large scarf that has a pattern of jagged lines. The fortune teller also wears hood-like headgear, from which hang several pom-poms.
Personality
The fortune teller appears to perform her job honestly and dutifully with a certain degree of concern for her clients. When she senses Sarah's suicidal thoughts as she passes by, the fortune teller voices her concerns and told Sarah about the spirits haunting her. She also denies any trickery such as researching her client's background, and maintains that she is free to ignore her advice. While being strangled by the spirit, she is able to keep enough composure to respond to James's call and warn him about an earthquake.
Abilities
Fortune Telling
Being a fortune teller, she is more sensitive to the "other world" than normal people. This makes her able to sense people's thoughts, see ghosts and spirits, as well as predict the future.
History
Winchester Mystery House
The fortune teller first meets Sarah Winchester not too long after the death of her husband. As Sarah is about to board a carriage with James, the fortune teller, sitting in an alleyway, tells her to stop thinking about suicide. The fortune teller explains that she is sensitive to the "other world," and tells Sarah about the vengeful spirits haunting her, denying her the freedom to love, and preventing her from seeing her loved ones in the afterlife. Feeling intimidated, Sarah questions the fortune teller, accusing her of being a con artist. The old woman assures her that her predictions will come true; she tells her that she must build a maze-like house to confuse the spirits, and that she must not show her face to anyone.
Years later, when James, disguised as Sarah, is found by the spirits inside the mansion, he rushes to the phone and calls the fortune teller, begging her for help. The fortune teller tells him that helping him is already beyond her power, as she is also being strangled by the spirits. Nevertheless, she warns him about the house soon being destroyed by an earthquake. Her fate afterward is unknown.
Quotes
Quotes- “If you ever have enough time and the money, you should build a beautiful house at the land where west ends. And you must keep building that house night and day, never stopping.”—Fortune Teller, The Lives of Eccentrics Episode 5: The Mysterious Manor the Widow Kept Expanding: Winchester Mystery House
- “Build a house so labyrinthine that they will only get lost inside! You can't allow any kind of spirit to find you! If they find you, you'll be killed! And from here on out, you can't show anyone your face! No one must remember your face, be they alive or dead!”—Fortune Teller, The Lives of Eccentrics Episode 5: The Mysterious Manor the Widow Kept Expanding: Winchester Mystery House
Gallery
Talking to Sarah Winchester
Being strangled by a vengeful spirit
