Witchcraft Act, 1925 🇰🇪
Kenya
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
Witchcraft Act, 1925
Act 23 of 1925
- Commenced on 12 November 1925
- [This is the version of this document from 12 November 1925.]
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Witchcraft Act.2. Person pretending to exercise witchcraft, etc.
Any person who holds himself out as a witchdoctor able to cause fear, annoyance or injury to another in mind, person or property, or who pretends to exercise any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery or enchantment calculated to cause such fear, annoyance or injury, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.3. Witch-doctor supplying advice or article for witchcraft with intent to injure
Any person, professing a knowledge of so-called witchcraft or the use of charms, who advises any person applying to him how to bewitch or injure persons, animals or other property, or who supplies any person with any article…Read the Full Legislation on judy.legal
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