There's a story from Hanover Pennsylvania that's making some occult and pagan news.
So here's what we know, the owner of a store called serpent's key which does Tower readings sells crystals and the whole nine yards of that life, is suing Pennsylvania because the state still has an antiquated tarot card reading statute on their books from 1861 which says that doing tarot cards for profit is fraudulent and illegal.
This is the language from the statute:
§ 7104. Fortune telling. (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree if he pretends for gain or lucre, to tell fortunes or predict future events, by cards, tokens, the inspection of the head or hands of any person, or by the age of anyone, or by consulting the movements of the heavenly bodies, or in any other manner, or for gain or lucre, pretends to effect any purpose by spells, charms, necromancy, or incantation, or advises the taking or administering of what are commonly called love powders or potions, or prepares the same to be taken or administered, or publishes by card, circular, sign, newspaper or other means that he can predict future events, or for gain or lucre, pretends to enable anyone to get or to recover stolen property, or to tell where lost property is, or to stop bad luck, or to give good luck, or to put bad luck on a person or animal, or to stop or injure the business or health of a person or shorten his life, or to give success in business, enterprise, speculation, and games of chance, or to win the affection of a person, or to make one person marry another, or to induce a person to make or alter a will, or to tell where money or other property is hidden, or to tell where to dig for treasure, or to make a person to dispose of property in favor of another. (b) Advertising as evidence.--Any publication contrary to this section may be given in evidence to sustain the indictment. (c) Competency of witnesses.--Any person whose fortune may have been told shall be a competent witness against the person charged with violating this section.
The Serpent's Key has generated a lot of support and it's suit because the owner not only says it's wrong but says she has not being fraudulent but instead truly gives tarot card readings and they are real.
She's the real thing, she says...
It will be interesting to see what the avenue in court would be, whether it's religious freedom or is she going to ask the court to agree that she is not pretending to do future telling.
There have been a lot of articles about this store you can research them and find them it will be a case to watch as well for the legal world because of the unique elements.
And it all started because of the police officer supposedly and reportedly threatening that she could be arrested if she did fraudulent tarot card readings for profit.
As some comments have asked that surprising that she didn't see that coming..
