In a message dated 9/5/2002 11:07:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Source: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BSChat] what is old legal term for fortune telling? > > > So it was illegal to protect the people from scams? Not because it was > from > the dark side? You would be surprised, or maybe not, what some people > believe were from the devil or witchcraft. > Whitewolf No it was Illegal tpo Dowse or Divine. Protecting the people from scams was the reason it was illegal. Whether it is from "The dark side" or not didn't get into it, although I am sure some thought it witchcraft. Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (<A HREF="http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com">http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com</A>) ~~ "Genealogy is the art of the Living haunting the Dead."