Meaning
A spiritualist or fortune-teller who 'reads' — divines your troubles, your future, and the unseen forces around you, using cards, the Bible, a glass of water, the palm, or spiritual sight. People go to a reader, often at a balm yard, to find out who has 'set' something against them, to recover lost or stolen goods, to be advised on love, work, or a court case, or to have a guard put on them. The reader works in the same world as the obeah man and the balmist.
Examples
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She go a di reader fi find out who tief har money.
She went to the reader to find out who stole her money.
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Di reader tell him fi tek a bush bath.
The reader told him to take an herbal bath.
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People pay di reader fi read dem future.
People pay the reader to read their future.
Origin
From 'read' (to divine) + '-er'; a spiritualist fortune-teller. See [[four-eye]], [[balm-yard]].
How it’s used
A spiritualist/fortune-teller who divines troubles and the future. See [[four-eye]], [[balm-yard]].