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  • Prison time for Miami ‘fortune teller’ who took $3M from woman to lift ‘family curse’ (#FloridaWoman)

    12/13/2022 12:05:56 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 26 replies
    Local10.com ^ | December 8, 2022 | WPLG Local10.com
    MIAMI – Did she see this coming? A federal judge sentenced a so-called psychic and fortune teller from Miami who prosecutors say swindled more than $3 million out of a woman by claiming she needed the money to break a family curse. Fifty-one-year-old Samantha Stevens was sentenced to spend 30 months in prison on fraud and money laundering charges, officials said Thursday. According to prosecutors, Stevens met the victim in 2012, gained her trust and convinced her that a curse had been placed on her family. Stevens claimed she needed to “perform rituals on large sums of money in order...
  • How 'Bewitched' Helped Salem Embrace Its Grim Past

    03/31/2016 6:11:46 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 50 replies
    Smithsonian mag ^ | October 29, 2015 | Danny Lewis
    How did Salem, Massachusetts become a Halloween destination? For centuries, the New England town avoided any association with its infamous Puritan ancestors, who executed 19 people under suspicion of practicing witchcraft. The surprising answer, author Stacy Schiff writes for The New York Times, has a lot to do with the sitcom "Bewitched." These days, Salem is rife with kitschy witches and Halloween attractions. But before the late 20th century, town citizens rarely acknowledged the Puritan trials. When playwright Arthur Miller visited Salem to research "The Crucible" in 1952, locals refused to help him. "You couldn't get anyone to say anything...