Sorcerers had a field day during the 2013 presidential poll, as jyotishis have during our elections, with one of the contestants, Abdulla Yameen, suspected to have been a firm believer in sorcery. He kept a ‘charm circle’ around him, and his presidential order to uproot trees in a town square was believed to have been on the suspicion that the rival party had cast a spell on them to make him ill.
Yameen was even caught in a video discussing with a Lankan national Asela Wickramasinghe on how to cast a spell on his rival Mohammed Nasheed so as to make him go "temporarily crazy" or take his life. In the end, he decides against murder, saying, "but Asela, human life is so precious, so precious." The video, that came out in 2016 after Asela complained that he had not been paid for his services, has since been banned in the Maldives. READ MORE from The Week
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