More on the story here. A man was charged with fraud, for pretending to practice witchcraft for money, "and that (he) would be able to solve any and all of your problems."
MudkipMaster30
This is an obscure Canadian law. It is on the books here(look for section 365), but it fell out of enforcment for a long time. But a short time ago a bit of legal necromancy was employed when a woman was charged under this law for bilking a man out of money under false witchy pretenses. This effectively proved the legal code vialble for current prosecutions.
The actual legal terminology reads as follows:
Every one who fraudulently
(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or(c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
This is the second time I've read about this law being put to new use in less than a year, so perhaps the zombie law is there to stay.
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