For Hexed Or Vexed, A Store Casts Its Spell

It's a curious sight all right: As customers mill about the crowded shop, its floors creaking, a serene woman in plush purple sweats walks among them, tracing circles in the air with a smoldering bundle of dried sage.

Stranger still is that no one save the UPS man, who is delivering packages and needs her signature, seems fazed by what manager Marcia Finnegan is doing. Or by the flutelike wail wafting down the stairs. Or by the query of a young man who, studying an array of potions and powders, asks: "How much is your Prosperity Bath?"

What becomes clear, through the herbal fog, is that the unusual is commonplace at Harry's Occult Shop, a onetime pharmacy in the 1200 block of South Street that specializes in remedies of a more mystical nature. Full Story

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