Houston attorney Michael G. 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.” He also alleges in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 16 that he gave her $2,700 in cash in a box on Dec. 6 so she could “cleanse” it and return it to him four hours later, but she has failed to return the money.

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

Busby, of Busby & Associates, seeks a minimum of $1 million in damages, a permanent injunction to prevent Thorn from “fortune telling” in Texas and a permanent injunction to prevent all defendants from “practicing or advertising Psychic abilities” within Texas.

The defendants include Psychic Love Spell Center and World Psychic Solutions, both of Houston; Thorn, also known as Christine Mitchell; and Christine Nicholas, Dillon Nicholas, and Sonny Nicholas.