OTTAWA (AFP) – A Canadian woman is to appear in court on Christmas Eve for posing as a witch in order to defraud a grieving Toronto lawyer in a case that invokes a century-old law, police said Thursday.
Vishwantee Persaud was charged under a very rarely used section of Canada's criminal code with allegedly pretending to practice witchcraft to convince a man that she was the embodied spirit of his deceased sister.
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"She claimed to have come from a long line of witches and could read tarot cards, then told him his deceased sister's spirit had returned and inhabited a feminine form close to him -- intimating it was her -- and that she was going to guide him to financial prosperity and business success,"
