Free the Witches
After Salem Massachusetts liberalized its licensing standards, the number of self-proclaimed witches, angels, clairvoyants and healers soared:
“It’s like little ants running all over the place, trying to get buck,” grumbled Ms. Szafranski, 75, who quit her job a as an accountant in 1991 to open Angelica of the Angels, a store that sells angel figurines and crystals and provides psychic readings. She says she has lost business since the licensing change.
“Many of them are not trained,” she said of her rivals. “They don’t understand that when you do a reading you hold a person’s life in your hands.”
Article here. HT to Tyler Cowen.
Licensing witches? What’s the world coming to?
Ms. Szafranski, a psychic in Massachusetts, lost business after relaxation of regulations requiring the licensure of witches. If she was truly a psychic, shouldn’t she have seen that coming?
Unbelievable.
That is crazy. It sounds like something you would see on Saturday Night Live or one of the Monty Python skits.
I can’t think of anything worse than being tended to by an untrained witch. LOL 🙂
Devon’s comment is right on the mark. She should have seen it coming!
A suggestion to the witch licensing board: Implement the James Randi Challenge as your criteria for obtaining a license.
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html