Morijana the Fortune Teller

Transylvania, Anno Domini 1652. Courageous and cunning Morijana the Fortune Teller earns her living as a peddler, selling haberdashery. Follow her into a nocturnal adventure and beyond, facing ­dangerous rituals, encounters with lusty beasts and deadly creatures. Share her wishes and desires, her ­curiosity, pain and fear.

Life is a struggle for a middle-aged gypsy widow in the ­Baroque era. Morijana’s clan roams the forested hills of Siebenbürgen, a ­remote and rural part of the multiethnic and multi­lingual ­Habsburg empire. When she arrives at Bájnoky Castle to read from her cards to the eccentric squire, she couldn’t know that everything she ever took for granted in her life would change.

Moral disclaimer: This crypto-feminist novel plays its game not only with folklore and historic detail. It is adult fiction in the very sense, featuring deviant sex, arcane practices and fractured genre stereotypes. Readers under the age of 18 please refrain, for your own good!

Book details and order options

Morijana the Fortune Teller

A zesty historical novel, richly illustrated
The Morijana series. Book 1
144 pages
1st ed. in double volume 2022
2nd ed. 2024
3rd ed. 2026 (1st ed. as standalone publication)

Hardcover (full colour)

ISBN 979-8419889637
ASIN B09VJTKQ74 (click to order)

Soft-cover (black and white)

ISBN‎ 979-8419849495
ASIN B09V265GKY (click to order)

E-book

ASIN ‏B09TWM5KNB (click to order)

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Illustration gallery

All illustrations were carefully crafted without the aid of AI. In the hardcover edition you'll find them and many more printed in full colour and full size. The photographs were taken by Marion Terenko 2018 in Transylvania, the computer artwork was made by Joern Bach in 2022.

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