Moll Pitcher (born Mary Diamond; c. 1736 – April 9, 1813) was a clairvoyant and fortune-teller from Lynn, Massachusetts.
It is said that soon after her marriage she was known as a fortune-teller, a reader of tea leaves, with a clientele that continued to increase in importance for the next 50 years that she lived.
Her predictions concerned "love affairs, legacies, discovery of crime, successful lottery tickets, and the more common contingencies of life."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), also a native of Massachusetts, wrote a 900-line poem about her entitled simply Moll Pitcher.
[3] The poem is not complimentary, describing her as a witch engaged in sinful work: She stood upon a bare tall craig Which overlooked her rugged cot - A wasted, gray, and meagre hag, In featured evil as her lot.
[4] Her grave was unmarked until 1887, when a tombstone with the following epitaph (from Whittier's poem) was erected in her memory: Even she, our own weird heroine, Sole Pythoness of ancient Lynn, Sleeps calmly where the living laid her; And the wide realm of sorcery, Left, by its latest mistress, free,