In February, a 20-year-old mother accused of sorcery was burned alive in a village market.
Sorcery-related killings will now be treated as murder and the death penalty will be applicable, local media said.
There would be no strained effort to correlate past collapses or any statistical sorcery.
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No one can match his prowess based on his unique balance of science, skill and sorcery.
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Cyd is obsessed with an online videogame, a multiplayer sword-and-sorcery adventure similar to World of Warcraft.
He suggested courts be established to deal with sorcery allegations, as an alternative to villagers dispensing justice.
This is not the first sorcery case in Saudi Arabia to spark outrage from human rights groups.
In the deeply conservative kingdom, sorcery, witchcraft and blasphemy are all offenses that can be punishable by death.
The game was Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, meant to be a World of Warcraft style sword and sorcery MMO.
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Sorcery has traditionally been countered by sorcery, but responses to sorcery allegations have become increasingly violent in recent years.
But if so, it is a magic that comes through dedication, not sorcery.
In September, a Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina after being convicted on 'sorcery' charges.
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Along the way, he also came to love magic not spells and sorcery, but the tricks and illusions of puzzlers and prestidigitators.
In 2008, Lebanese TV host Ali Hussain Sibat was arrested on charges of sorcery while in Saudi Arabia on a religious pilgrimage.
Now she was involved in a clan battle, a highland clearance by witch accusation, where the Chisholms accused their Maclean tenants of sorcery.
Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar was executed Monday for having "committed the practice of witchcraft and sorcery, " according to an Interior Ministry statement.
Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother, had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before.
We see what he sees and, by the sorcery of paint, as he sees with a consciousness both outward and inward, alive in a moment forever.
The repeal of the 1971 Sorcery Act, which acknowledged the accusation of sorcery as a plausible defence in murder cases, came after a series of brutal public killings.
Kristy had refused to admit to sorcery and witchcraft and his punishments, in a "deliverance" ceremony, became more horrendous until he admitted to being a sorcerer.
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More sorcery than science, it was never practiced here until now.
The killers allegedly believed that their victims practiced sorcery and that they had been extorting money as well as demanding sex from poor villagers for their supernatural services.
Local Christian bishop David Piso told the National that sorcery-related killings were a growing problem, and urged the government "to come up with a law to stop such practice".
"It is reprehensible that women, the old and the weak in our society should be targeted for alleged sorcery or wrongs that they actually have nothing to do with, " O'Neill said.
In other recent sorcery-related killings, police arrested 29 people in July last year accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea's jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors.
The Wicked Witch, Elphaba (originally played by the excellent Idina Menzel), turns out to be good, while Glinda the Good Witch (originally played by Kristen Chenoweth) is exposed as a smug, ambitious, manipulative bitch, with little talent for sorcery.
The London-based Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat quoted a source in the country's religious police who said authorities searched Nassar's home and found books on sorcery, a number of talismans and glass bottles filled with liquids supposedly used for the purposes of magic.
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