Hi everyone!

So this is not necessary a folktale but more of just an account.  I don’t really know of, or, can’t remember, any folktales that I may have been told, recently, however I did have a random experience that prompted my aunt to tell me a story about an incident when she was younger.

Recently, I was in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria waiting for a friend and a strange woman approached me.  She apologized for disturbing me, but that she had to because she sensed a lot of positive energy emanating from me.  Apparently she is a psychic of some sort and felt the need to come talk to me.  This psychic told me she sees that I worry a lot, about many different things.  More specifically, she told me she sees a lot of good things for me this year and that i should stop worrying. The psychic went in to detail about how this year I will make a lot of strides in my field of interest or in any sort of business i was trying to get into, that i worry about my love life too much and that i keep a wall between myself and other people due to past relationships, and that i need to be more open to the new people in my life.  I repeated all of this to my aunt, and i was somewhat torn whether i believed anything this woman said.  On one hand, speaking of businesses and work is very general, but on the other hand, she seemed completely dead on about how i am with love and how aloof i am in regards to other people.

My aunt told me that i should believe in such things because this psychic didn’t have to come up to me and say anything, and also because she knew nothing about me yet was spot on.  When my aunt was in her 20’s she and her best friend decided for fun to go and see a psychic.  The woman they saw practiced santeria.  As soon as my aunt walked in, the woman told her she had a man sitting on her shoulder.   She said this man was sitting there with the intent to tell my aunt something.  He was trying so hard to tell her something but that my aunt just wasn’t open to it and that’s why she couldn’t hear anything.  Now, at this time, my aunt had been suffering from neck and shoulder pains for quite some time, but of course this is not something the psychic would have known.  A short time after this, my Nana started having a number of health issues that could have been prevented had she been monitored more.  My aunt firmly believes that the man sitting on her shoulder was our Grandaddy, who passed away some years before this. She believes he was trying to warn her to look closer, or to pay more attention to our Nana.  For this reason, she told me that when anything like this happens, that I should lend it some credibility because you never know what might happen.