Peter Edge doth schreibble :
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> If your question is 'what if magic worked', you might well
> create different changes to criminal procedure than if your
> question was 'what if the working of magic was fully recognised'.
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And thus my question, appended to the end of
my Anna Göldi post :
If sorcery were to be re-instated as a going
concern here in the States, would it perhaps
follow that the old Witchcraft Statutes would
be brought back into play, along with the
re-admission of "spectral evidence" into court
proceedings?
And might the claim to have killed someone by
magical means then carry the same weight in the
eyes of the law as a smoking gun?
And is anyone else shuddering at the thought of
what could result?
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem
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