The perils of taxing witches

Romania has apparently decided to tax witches, astrologers and fortune-tellers with effect from the beginning of 2011. The new law has produced a rather unusual backlash.

Angry witches are using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government, which is forcing them to pay taxes. Also in the eye of the taxman are fortune tellers, who should have seen it coming.

And President Traian Basescu isn't laughing it off. In a country where superstition is mainstream, the president and his aides wear purple on Thursdays, allegedly to ward off evil spirits.

Witches from Romania's eastern and western regions will descend to the southern plains and the Danube River on Thursday to threaten the government with spells and spirits. Mauve has a high vibration, it makes the wearer superior and wards off evil attacks, according to the esoteric group Violet Flame — which practices on Thursdays.

A dozen witches will head to the Danube to put a hex on the government and hurl mandrake into the river "so evil will befall them," said a witch named Alisia. She identified herself with one name, as is customary among witches.

There's more at the link.

I'll be watching with interest to see whether the witches' measures work. If they do, I think I'll offer some of them free tickets to Washington DC. There are any number of politicians there, on both sides of the aisle, whom I'd love to curse with boils, Biblical plagues and general discombobulation . . .





Peter