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Self-proclaimed soothsayers in Norfolk, Virginia have reason to celebrate as the city has ended its longstanding ban on fortune telling and other forms of clairvoyance. According to a local media report, the prohibition was put into place in 1979 in response to concerns about "rising interest in the occult." Like many communities swept up in the infamous Satanic panic of that era, officials in Norfolk addressed the unfounded hysteria by banning "the practice of palmistry, palm reading, phrenology or clairvoyance, for monetary or other compensation" and made violation of the law a Class 1 misdemeanor.
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