Occult Arts Still Illegal In Canyonville


A business owner’s wish to teach astrology resulted in people expressing their fears of satanism at a Canyonville City Council meeting Monday night.

More than half of the council chambers’ 24 available seats were filled with people speaking for or against repealing an ordinance prohibiting the practice of occult arts.

“I don’t think we have had this many people in a very long time,” city administrator Janelle Evans said of the meeting’s attendance.

The ordinance, enacted in 1982, prohibits fortunetelling, astrology, phrenology, palmistry, clairvoyance, mesmerism and spiritualism.

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