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Should you find your way up to Salem, Mass., this Halloween season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up - and the odds that that he or she has a felony record are down. That, for those of you who were too drowned in multimedia Harry Potter to notice, is the news from the real town where some estimate every tenth person is a witch...
...June, the Salem town council eased its rules on fortune tellers - or, to be more specific, those locals who are engaged in "the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, sticks, dice, coffee grounds, crystal gazing or other such reading, or through mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, or by any such similar thing...
...fact, the new regulatory changes are an indication of growth in the witchcraft industry. In 1998, the last time the town addressed the issue, it had legislated a quota allowing only one professional fortune-teller per 10,000 Salem residents. That amounted to roughly three psychics, although another nine or so were grandfathered in. The city council also licensed some psychic stores, which were allowed to subcontract to five fortune-telling workers apiece...
...coming in hazy. "I can't describe what textile it is, but large stitching." And?more good news?2015 will mean a lot more skin. "Josh, have you ever been to Brazil? It's beautiful. Women go topless on the beach. People will be O.K. with it." When a psychic predicts a future where women will be topless, you don't question his inability to envision your name correctly...
...Scottish seaside course. When the British Open was last contested at Carnoustie in 1999, the world's top players muttered and clutched their heads like traumatized veterans. In a book about 21st century warfare published in 2002, Scottish author Gordon Lang coined the term Carnoustie Effect to describe the "psychic shock experienced on collision with reality by those whose expectations are founded on false assumptions...