ETA: Retracted…
Not in Massachusetts (Gov. Mike Dukakis sponsored a bill to repeal the witchcraft laws).
Tons of politcal corruption here, but NO witchcraft!
Maharashtra(a state of India) revised and replaced its olden law recently
it prohibit claims to perform black magic and accusing a person of practising black magic.
here are its 12 clauses
- Assault, forced ingestion of urine or stool, forced sexual acts, branding etc. on the pretext of exorcising ghosts from an allegedly possessed person.
- Claiming to make miracles and defrauding or terrorising people.
- Carrying out or encouraging acts which endanger life or cause grievous injury in order to gain supernatural blessing.
- Carrying out or encouraging inhuman acts or human sacrifice in quest of some bounty or reward.
- Creating the impression that a person has supernatural powers and compelling people to follow his/her orders.
- Accusing a person of practising black magic or being an incarnation of saitan, blaming him/her of causing diseases or misfortune, and harassing the person.
- Accusing a person of practising black magic, parading him/her naked and hindering the person’s activities.
- Claiming to invoke ghosts, creating the impression of possession, preventing the person from seeking medical treatment, and compelling him/her to inhuman acts.
- Preventing a person from seeking medical advice in case of dog, snake, or scorpion bite, and compelling him/her to take magic remedies.
- Claiming to perform surgery by fingers (psychic surgery) and claiming to change the sex of an unborn foetus.
- Claiming to be related to a person from a previous incarnation and coaxing them to sexual acts, and claiming to have supernatural power to cure an impotent woman and having sexual relation with the woman.
- Claiming a mentally challenged person to be having supernatural powers and using such a person for personal gain.
Let’s not forget the SDMB law about resurrecting zombies.
It’s a big, big deal in Cameroon.
The practice of Obeah is still illegal in much of the Anglophone Caribbean.
Ach, but by a zombie