Unlike other fortune tellers, Mdm Maly does not need divine possession or advice to do her job. Here is a learnt skill and she mentions that she has had no need to call the boy spirit to help her since his departure almost two decades ago. And like many fortune tellers, Mdm Maly is using her knowledge to help her community as she entertains visitors from faraway provinces. She also reads the fortunes of foreigners who have somehow heard of her powers. So much revered are fortune tellers in Cambodia that many people with travel miles just to seek a consultation , and most will not even venture into anything new without first seeking the advice of these soothsayers.
Fortune telling is definitely deeply entrenched in the fabric of Cambodian life.