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29 March 2024

"The King of Jinn is calling me”…sorcerer

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A sorcerer who was arrested in Saudi Arabia told police to immediately set him free on orders from the “King of Jinn (spirits).”

The Gulf kingdom’s religious police seized the 54-year-old man from the Kazakhstan city of Turkestan while making magic work for a woman in the western town of Makkah, Sabq newspaper said.

“When they caught the sorcerer, his mobile phone began ringing,” the Arabic language daily said, quoting an official from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

“He told them he was receiving a call from the King of jinn in Nigeria ordering them to release him immediately.”

The paper said police arrested the man pending trial on charges of practicing sorcery, which is strictly banned in the conservative Moslem Kingdom, where penalties for such offences could reach execution.