Romanian witches could face jail if predictions don't come true

[woo me with science]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/romanian-witches-may-face-jail-if-predictions-dont-come-true/1

Romanian witches could face jail if predictions don't come true
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY

Romanian witches, who began being taxed for their trade last week, could face a worse fate if lawmakers pass a proposed bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don't come true.

Superstition, the Associated Press notes, is a serious matter in the land of Dracula, and at least one witch argues that practitioners shouldn't be blamed for the failure of their tools.
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(The bill) would also require witches to have a permit, to provide their customers with receipts and bar them from practicing near schools and churches, the AP says.

In January, the government changed labor laws to officially recognize the centuries-old practice of witchcraft as a taxable profession, prompting angry witches to dump poisonous mandrake into the Danube River in an attempt to put a hex on them.

[RandomThoughts]

1. The witch label is the poison

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8cDmi7-U8

[gratuitous]

2. A word to the wise Christine O'Donnell

Don't go to Romania.

[The Magistrate]

3. It Would Be Nice, Ma'am, To Apply This To Our Televangelists, Particularly 'Prosperity Gospel' Types

[theHandpuppet]

4. Or those who are raking in millions with their "rapture" predictions

Too bad we can't hold them to their claims.