After a months-long investigation by police in a small Ontario town, a Canadian woman who sold herself as a psychic has been charged with witchcraft.
This
weekend police in Milton, a small town in Ontario, arrested 32-year-old
Dorie Stevenson who was running a psychic business out of her basement.
She was charged with extortion, fraud over $5,000 [$3,813 USD], and witchcraft/fortune telling. If you’re thinking, whoa, Canada has witchcraft laws? Well, the answer would be yes, but they’re probably not exactly what you think.
It's covered under section 365
in the Criminal Code under the title “pretending to practice
witchcraft.” It focuses on anyone who “fraudulently” gets paid to tell
fortunes, “pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft,
sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration,” or using their “skill in or
knowledge of an occult or crafty science” to find where lost things are.
A Canadian Woman Was Just Arrested and Charged with Witchcraft - VICE
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