William Branham's Fortune Tellers
In later versions of his stage persona, William Branham fascinated his listeners with tales of encounters with angels, demons, fortune tellers, and witch doctors. He claimed that every time he encountered a “fortune teller”, they would tell him that the 1909 version of his birth year was an astronomical event, which he used to suggest his spiritual superiority. One or more elements of these stories were the result of an amusement camp in Indiana.
Branham tells the story of a piano rising up and playing the jingle “shave and a haircut, two bits”. This was a familiar sequence for visitors of Indiana’s Camp Chesterfield, which was popular during the height of spiritualism in the United States. Madam Mimi, a fortune teller, included levitation in her stage act, and the jingle played during her levitation presentation. Like Branham’s stage personas, it was later learned that the acts at Camp Chesterfield were fiction, and that the “spiritualists” were preying on gullible audiences.
You can learn this and more on William-branham.org
https://william-branham.org/site/people/madam_mimi
Branham tells the story of a piano rising up and playing the jingle “shave and a haircut, two bits”. This was a familiar sequence for visitors of Indiana’s Camp Chesterfield, which was popular during the height of spiritualism in the United States. Madam Mimi, a fortune teller, included levitation in her stage act, and the jingle played during her levitation presentation. Like Branham’s stage personas, it was later learned that the acts at Camp Chesterfield were fiction, and that the “spiritualists” were preying on gullible audiences.
You can learn this and more on William-branham.org
https://william-branham.org/site/people/madam_mimi