Some Delaware towns have odd rules tied to Halloween.

Witches or wanna-be-witches be warned: Casting magic spells in Millsboro is illegal under town code.

The town's code contains what might be among the weirdest spooky-season rules aimed at the supernatural. It explicitly bars the exercise or "pretend" exercise of the art of conjuration, fortune-telling, palmistry or "dealing with spirits."

The rules also explicitly bar the practice of "witchcraft" and divination, which Oxford Dictionary defines as seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.

It also bars the inspection of leaves, a form of divination that gives us the common saying of "reading the tea leaves." The law also bars the inspection of crystal balls.

Phrenology, which the dictionary defines as "the

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