Houston attorney Michael Busby Jr. paid a Houston “fortune teller” $30 for a tarot card reading on Dec. 4 and $500 for a “ritual to reunite husband and wife.” And in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 16, he alleges he gave the woman $2,700 in a box on Dec. 6 so she could “cleanse” it and return it to him four hours later, but she failed to return the cash.

In fact, Busby, whose firm does bankruptcy and family law, alleges in the petition that the woman, Melena Thorn, by and through her in-laws Sonny and Christine Nicholas, has “stated no monies were ever placed in said box.”