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Version of section 365 from 2003-01-01 to 2018-12-12:


Marginal note:Pretending to practise witchcraft, etc.

 Every one who fraudulently

  • (a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,

  • (b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or

  • (c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,

is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 323

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