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There seems to be trouble in paradise - well Salem.
Generally psychics can never see any wrong in a fellow psychic - until there income is threatened then the gloves come off.
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>SALEM - Lawyers have the bar exam. Accountants have the CPA exam.
Should Salem's fortunetellers have to pass a test of their own to prove they're psychic?
City councilors, hoping to crack down on fraudulent fortunetellers, are trying to define exactly how a psychic can become licensed to set up shop in the Witch City. They want candidates to undergo a criminal background check and to either live or run a business in Salem for at least a year.
But many psychics want the city to go a step further - make sure they're actually qualified to predict the future.
"It's become a free-for-all," said Laurie Cabot, the official witch of Salem. "Anyone who says they're psychic can come into the city. We don't even know where they come from. We don't know their qualifications."
For more than three hours this week, city councilors listened to two dozen witches and psychics - many clad in black and wearing pentacles - as they explained the tools of their trade.
"There has to be criteria or you're going to get garbage coming here," Barbara Szafranski, the owner of Angelica of the Angels, predicted. "Everybody here is a legitimate person who's worked for years and years. ... When you do a reading, you hold a person's life right in your hands. We have people come to us who are willing to commit suicide, who won't go to a psychiatrist, so they come to us."
"What are the criteria?" asked a baffled Councilor-at-large Joan Lovely. "Is there schooling?"<
So the "genuine" psychics asked the city to stop all those phonies from coming to town for Halloween and taking there income away.
Of course none of them was psychic enough to see that some of those "phonies" might have been a little peeved at this.
www.townonline.com/northsho...504545030
>Beverly -
The disturbing discovery of raccoon remains gracing the doorsteps of two Salem businesses on Memorial Day Weekend are mere bits and pieces of the real grim stuff going on among those who call themselves witches and psychics in the city of Salem.
With only so many fortunes to tell and only so many palms to read, traditional psychics, occult shop owners and Halloween event organizers are squabbling over a new ordinance that could tighten the rules on who may be eligible for a permit to practice the trade.<
Most notable to me is that none of the proposed standards would in the end actually prove any psychic ability at all.
Of course having lived in Salem I think I could have predicted that.
There seems to be trouble in paradise - well Salem.
Generally psychics can never see any wrong in a fellow psychic - until there income is threatened then the gloves come off.
www.salemnews.com/punews/lo...printstory
>SALEM - Lawyers have the bar exam. Accountants have the CPA exam.
Should Salem's fortunetellers have to pass a test of their own to prove they're psychic?
City councilors, hoping to crack down on fraudulent fortunetellers, are trying to define exactly how a psychic can become licensed to set up shop in the Witch City. They want candidates to undergo a criminal background check and to either live or run a business in Salem for at least a year.
But many psychics want the city to go a step further - make sure they're actually qualified to predict the future.
"It's become a free-for-all," said Laurie Cabot, the official witch of Salem. "Anyone who says they're psychic can come into the city. We don't even know where they come from. We don't know their qualifications."
For more than three hours this week, city councilors listened to two dozen witches and psychics - many clad in black and wearing pentacles - as they explained the tools of their trade.
"There has to be criteria or you're going to get garbage coming here," Barbara Szafranski, the owner of Angelica of the Angels, predicted. "Everybody here is a legitimate person who's worked for years and years. ... When you do a reading, you hold a person's life right in your hands. We have people come to us who are willing to commit suicide, who won't go to a psychiatrist, so they come to us."
"What are the criteria?" asked a baffled Councilor-at-large Joan Lovely. "Is there schooling?"<
So the "genuine" psychics asked the city to stop all those phonies from coming to town for Halloween and taking there income away.
Of course none of them was psychic enough to see that some of those "phonies" might have been a little peeved at this.
www.townonline.com/northsho...504545030
>Beverly -
The disturbing discovery of raccoon remains gracing the doorsteps of two Salem businesses on Memorial Day Weekend are mere bits and pieces of the real grim stuff going on among those who call themselves witches and psychics in the city of Salem.
With only so many fortunes to tell and only so many palms to read, traditional psychics, occult shop owners and Halloween event organizers are squabbling over a new ordinance that could tighten the rules on who may be eligible for a permit to practice the trade.<
Most notable to me is that none of the proposed standards would in the end actually prove any psychic ability at all.
Of course having lived in Salem I think I could have predicted that.
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