Romanian Witches Have to Pay Taxes and Could Pay Fines for Wrong Predictions
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The Romanian government has proposed a new bill under which people who practice witchcraft can be fined or even imprisoned if their predictions do not come true. The bill will also mandate witches to keep […]
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Interesting. I suppose it’s the company I keep, but my first impulse was to question Romania’s laws about religious freedom. If they’re just talking about divinatory practices, that’s a bit different. A few years ago Philadelphia enacted a decades-old state law that bans fortune telling for profit (specifically, “for gain or lucre”, tres archaic), and shut down people who worked as psychics, astrologers and Tarot-card readers. Really peeved my friend in Lancaster who occasionally read Tarot at Renn Faire.
I don’t know, even if you think such people are all charlatans, I don’t think they take advantage of the poor and disaffected nearly as much as casinos and prosperity gospel preachers. I certainly doubt it will do much to curb the world-wide recession, as it is.
Lots of places have banned it but I wonder if it’s just prejudice against gypsies.