She is clairvoyant and holds many seances, talks to spirits, does readings with her three-legged table, and reads tarot cards, which are!
             all attributed to magical realism. Allende also makes each character seem to overlook the strange occurrences and trances that Clara evokes. To them all of these weird people and prophecies are a part of the norm and simply ignored, as in many other magical realism-based fictions. Clara's visions were always accurate, in fact, she could even forecast earthquakes. Clara is constantly surrounded by a flock of other claiming-to-be clairvoyants and healers, such as the three Mora sisters, and countless Theosophists, Rosicrucians, telepathists, acupuncturists, and rainmakers, w
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