Witches win as law rejected

ROMANIAN lawmakers have voted against a bill aiming to counter the pernicious effects of witchcraft, a text which had angered many fortune-tellers and clairvoyants.

“I am very disappointed, the bill was meant to prevent people from being deceived by so-called witches,” said Liberal-Democrat MP Alin Popoviciu, who initiated the bill, under the text, fortune-tellers and clairvoyants were to be licensed, pay taxes and set up professional associations.

“The bill angered many witches, who threatened to cast a spell in order to make it fail. It seems they have succeeded,” Popoviciu added.