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(a) by the exercise of any witchcraft, conjuration, use of charms or other unnatural means,
pretends to discover where or in what manner any property supposed or alleged to
have been stolen or lost may be found or to name or indicate any person as a thief or
perpetrator of any crime or any other act complained of; or
(b) in the pretence of discovering whether or not any other person has committed any
crime or any other act complained of, applies or advises the application or causes to be
applied to such person the “boiling water test”, that is to say, the dipping by such other
person of any of his limbs or portion of his body into boiling water, whether such
dipping is voluntary or compelled, or administers or advises or causes the
administration of, to such other person, with or without his consent, any emetic or
purgative;
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level seven or to imprisonment
for a period not exceeding four years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
[amended by Act 22 of 2001, with effect from the 10th September, 2002]
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Money received as payment or received for practice of witchcraft, shall be
deemed to have been received by fraud, and punishment for such fraud
Any money, animal or other thing received by any person by way of payment or reward for
or in respect of—
(a) any exercise or pretended exercise of so-called witchcraft or of the use of charms; or
(b) advising any person as to any mode or method of bewitching or injuring, by nonnatural means, any other person or property, including animals; or
(c) indicating any person who by non-natural means is supposed to have bewitched or
injured any other person or any property, including animals; or
(d) the performance of any of the acts mentioned in section eight;
shall be deemed to have been obtained by fraud, and the person so receiving such money,
animal or other thing shall be liable to be prosecuted for fraud and to suffer such punishment as
is by law provided for that offence.