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# Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957/1970-09-18

This is the text of the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957, as it was on 18 September 1970, that being the date on which the Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, 1970 was published and came into force.
Act
To provide for the suppression of the practice of witchcraft and similar practices.
(English text signed by the Governor-General.) (Assented to 19th February, 1957.)
as amended by
Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, No. 50 of 1970
Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:—
1. Any person who—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction—
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
2. Where any person in respect of whom an offence referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 1 was committed, is killed, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person was killed in consequence of the commission of such offence.
3. The laws mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the fourth column of that Schedule.
4. This Act shall be called the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957.
Schedule.
Laws Repealed.
| Province or territory. | No. and year of law. | Title or subject of law. | Extent of repeal. |
| Cape of Good Hope. | Act No. 24 of 1886. | The Native Territories’ Penal Code. | Chapter XI. |
| 〃 | Act No. 2 of 1895. | The Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1895. | The whole. |
| Natal. | Law No. 19 of 1891. | Natal Code of Native Law. | Section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Schedule as substituted by Union Proclamation No. 168 of 1932. ​ |
| Transvaal. | Ordinance No. 26 of 1904. | The Crimes Ordinance, 1904. | Sections twenty-nine to thirty-four inclusive. |
| Zululand. | Proclamation No. II of 1887. | Laws and Regulations for the Government of Zululand. | Regulations nine and ten. |
# Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957/Unamended

This is the text of the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957, as it was originally enacted on 22 February 1957.
Act
To provide for the suppression of the practice of witchcraft and similar practices.
(English text signed by the Governor-General.) (Assented to 19th February, 1957.)
Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:—
1. Any person who—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction—
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
2. Where any person in respect of whom an offence referred to in paragraph (a) of section one was committed, is killed it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, that such person was killed in consequence of the commission of such offence.
3. The laws mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the fourth column of that Schedule.
4. This Act shall be called the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957.
Schedule.
Laws Repealed.
| Province or territory. | No. and year of law. | Title or subject of law. | Extent of repeal. |
| Cape of Good Hope. | Act No. 24 of 1886. | The Native Territories’ Penal Code. | Chapter XI. |
| 〃 | Act No. 2 of 1895. | The Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1895. | The whole. |
| Natal. | Law No. 19 of 1891. | Natal Code of Native Law. | Section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Schedule as substituted by Union Proclamation No. 168 of 1932. ​ |
| Transvaal. | Ordinance No. 26 of 1904. | The Crimes Ordinance, 1904. | Sections twenty-nine to thirty-four inclusive. |
| Zululand. | Proclamation No. II of 1887. | Laws and Regulations for the Government of Zululand. | Regulations nine and ten. |
# Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, 1970

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The Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, 1970 (Act No. 50 of 1970) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that amended the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957.
Act
To amend the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957, so as to make it an offence for a person who pretends to exercise supernatural powers, to impute the cause of certain occurrences to another person; and to provide for incidental matters.
Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:―
1. The following section is hereby substituted for section 1 of the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957:
1. Any person who—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction—
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
2. The following section is hereby substituted for section 2 of the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957:
2. Where any person in respect of whom an offence referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 1 was committed, is killed, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person was killed in consequence of the commission of such offence.”.
3. This Act shall be called the Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, 1970.
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# Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957/1997-09-05

This is the text of the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957, as it was on 5 September 1997, that being the date on which the Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997 was published and came into force.
Act
To provide for the suppression of the practice of witchcraft and similar practices.
(English text signed by the Governor-General.) (Assented to 19th February, 1957.)
as amended by
Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, No. 50 of 1970 Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, No. 33 of 1997
Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:—
1. Any person who—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction—
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
2. Where any person in respect of whom an offence referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of section 1 was committed, is killed, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that such person was killed in consequence of the commission of such offence.
3. The laws mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the fourth column of that Schedule.
4. This Act shall be called the Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957.
Schedule.
Laws Repealed.
| Province or territory. | No. and year of law. | Title or subject of law. | Extent of repeal. |
| Cape of Good Hope. | Act No. 24 of 1886. | The Native Territories’ Penal Code. | Chapter XI. |
| 〃 | Act No. 2 of 1895. | The Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1895. | The whole. |
| Natal. | Law No. 19 of 1891. | Natal Code of Native Law. | Section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Schedule as substituted by Union Proclamation No. 168 of 1932. ​ |
| Transvaal. | Ordinance No. 26 of 1904. | The Crimes Ordinance, 1904. | Sections twenty-nine to thirty-four inclusive. |
| Zululand. | Proclamation No. II of 1887. | Laws and Regulations for the Government of Zululand. | Regulations nine and ten. |
# Witchcraft by a Picture

I FIX mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye; My picture drown'd in a transparent tear, When I look lower I espy; Hadst thou the wicked skill By pictures made and marr'd, to kill, How many ways mightst thou perform thy will?
But now I've drunk thy sweet salt tears, And though thou pour more, I'll depart; My picture vanished, vanish all fears That I can be endamaged by that art; Though thou retain of me One picture more, yet that will be, Being in thine own heart, from all malice free.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fox, John (1516-1587)

​FOX, JOHN (1516–1587), martyrologist. [See Foxe.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fox, Henry Stephen

​FOX, HENRY STEPHEN (1791–1846), diplomatist, only son of General Henry Edward Fox [q. v.], by Marianne Clayton, sister of Lady Howard de Walden, was born on 22 Sept. 1791. He was educated at Eton and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 26 Jan. 1809, but soon sought a diplomatic and political career. Deprived by the tory supremacy of any chance of preferment, and inheriting little from his father, Fox spent his time in the fashionable world, where he made himself popular by his wit and charming manners. He was a friend of all the whigs and well known in the clubs. After ​the peace of 1815 he travelled on the continent with Lord Alvanley and Thomas Raikes, and at Rome had a bad attack of fever. When Grey's reform ministry was formed in 1830, Lord Holland pressed the claims of his cousin, who was appointed the first minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary at Buenos Ayres. He was moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1832 and thence to Washington in 1835. The relations between England and the United States were then disturbed by much ill-feeling, and Fox's tact and courteous manners did much to improve them. When Sir Robert Peel came into office in 1841, he sent Lord Ashburton to settle outstanding difficulties, and the success of the Ashburton treaty was in great measure due to Fox, whose services were cordially acknowledged by Ashburton. In December 1843 Fox was superseded, but he continued to reside in Washington, where he died in October 1846.
H. M. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fox, Richard

​FOX, RICHARD (1448?–1528), bishop of Winchester. [See Foxe.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fox, Henry Watson

​FOX, HENRY WATSON (1817–1848), Indian missionary, son of George Townshend Fox of Durham, was born at Westoe in 1817. He was sent to Durham grammar school, and thence to Rugby, where he was in the house of Bonamy Price. A lecture delivered by Price in 1833 and the weekly sermons of Arnold strengthened his early religious impressions. In 1836 he gained one of the university exhibitions, and commenced residence at Wadham College, Oxford, in October of that year. Proceeding B.A. in December 1839, he was ordained deacon in December 1840, and shortly afterwards married Elizabeth, daughter of G. H. James, esq., of Wolverhampton. Early in 1841 the Church Missionary Society appointed him a missionary to the Telugu people, inhabiting the northeastern districts of the Madras presidency. He reached Madras in July 1841 with his colleague, the Rev. R. T. Noble [q. v.] Noble managed a school at Masulipatam for natives of the higher classes, while Fox, as soon as he had mastered the language, preached to the people in Masulipatam and the adjoining district. Ill-health compelled him to reside on the Nilgiri hills from 1843 to October 1844, with the exception of some time spent on a tour among the mission stations of Travancore and Tinnivelly. The illness of his wife, who died a few hours after embarking at Madras, compelled him to visit England in the latter part of 1845. In 1848 he was obliged by his own health finally to return to England. He was able a few months later to accept the appointment of assistant secretary to the Church Missionary Society, but on 14 Oct. 1848, after a severe attack of the malady which had driven him from India, he died in his mother's house at Durham.
Fox's short and interrupted career was made remarkable by his single-minded and intelligent devotion. His last illness was brought on by his exertions in working and preaching for the society when his strength was unequal to the task. His letters and journals show that his work and the spread of missions were with him all-engrossing topics. In 1846 he wrote a little book entitled 'Chapters on Missions in South India,' published a few months before his death, giving a popular account of mission life in India, and of his observations of Hindu religion and manners. Shortly after Fox's death subscriptions were raised by his friends at Rugby and elsewhere, which resulted in the endowment of a Rugby Fox mastership in the Church Mission School, now called the Noble College, at Masulipatam. It was at the same time arranged that an annual sermon should be preached in the school chapel at Rugby in aid of the funds of the endowment. In 1872 the preacher was Fox's son, the Rev. H. E. Fox.
A. J. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fox, John (fl.1676)

1904 Errata appended.
​FOX, JOHN (fl. 1676), nonconformist divine, took the degree of B.A. at Cambridge, as a member of Clare Hall, in 1624 (Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. v. 438). During the Commonwealth he held the vicarage of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. After his ejectment in 1662 he became pastor of a congregation at Nailsworth in the same county. He is the author of two treatises of considerable merit, entitled: 1. 'Time, and the End of Time. Or Two Discourses: The first about Redemption of Time, the second about Consideration of our latter End,' 12mo, London, 1670 (many subsequent editions). It was translated into Welsh by S. Williams, 8vo, yng Ngwrecsam, 1784. 2. 'The Door of Heaven opened and shut. . . . Or, A Discourse [on Matt. xxv. 10] concerning the Absolute Necessity of a timely Preparation for a Happy Eternity,' 12mo, London, 1676 (and again in 1701). He has been ​frequently confounded with John Foxe [q. v.] the ' martyr-maker.'
G. G.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.129 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Woman of the Century/Mary Westbrook Van Deusen

​VAN DEUSEN, Mrs. Mary Westbrook, author and poet, born in Fishkill, N. Y., 13th February, 1829, where her father. Rev. Dr. Cornelius de Puy Westbrook was pastor of the Dutch Church for a quarter of a century. Four years later Dr. Westbrook assumed charge of the Dutch Church in Peekskill, N. Y., where her girlhood days were passed. In 1865 she became the wife of James Lansing Van Deusen. of Rondout, N. Y., where she has ever since lived, sacrificing very largely the pleasures of "dream-life" that she might minister more constantly to husband and children. MARY WESTBROOK VAN DEUSEN. She has published much in prose and verse, pamphlet and book form, mostly through the Freeman Company, of Kingston, N. Y. Her "Rachel Du Mont" was published in 1883, and went through three editions in one year. Her "Christmas Rosary," "Dawn," "Eastertide." and " Merrie Christmas," all in verse, were published in 1884. Her "Mary Magdalene," in verse, and "Easter Joy" were issued in 1886, and a third edition of "Dawn," a second one having been published in 1885. Her "Colonial Dames of America," "Voices of My Heart," a book of poems, and a novel called " Gertrude Willoughby" are her most recent works. The fourth edition of " Rachel Du Mont," with illustrations, was published in Albany, N. Y., in 1890.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Towne Burt

​MARY TOWNE BURT. BURT, Mrs. Mary Towne, temperance reformer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, of English-American parentage. Her father, Thomas Towne, was educated in England for the ministry. After the death of her father, which occurred in her early childhood, her mother removed with her three children to Auburn. N. Y., where Mrs. Hurt received a liberal education, passing through the public schools and the Auburn Young Ladies' Institute. Four vears after leaving school she became the wife of Edward Burt, of Auburn. When the crusade opened, in 1887. Mrs. Burt began her work for temperance, which has continued without intermission, with the exception of seven months spent in the sick reform of her sister, Mrs. Pomeroy. So deeply was she stirred by the crusade that on 24th March, 1874, she addressed a great audience in the Auburn Opera House on temperance. Immediately after that, Mrs. Burt was elected president of the Auburn Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and served for two years. She was a delegate to the first national convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, was one of the secretaries of that body, and in the next national convention, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Was elected assistant recording secretary. In the year 1876. in the Newark, N. J., national convention, she was elected a member of the publishing committee of the "Woman's Temperance Union," the first official organ of the National union. She was afterwards made chairman of that committee and publisher of the paper. During the year 1877 she served as managing editor. At her suggestion the name "Our Union" was given to the paper, a name which it held until its consolidation with the "Signal," of Chicago, when it took the name of the "Union Signal." In Chicago, in 1877, she was elected corresponding secretary of the National Union, which office she held for three years, and during that term of office she opened the first headquarters of the National union in the Bible House, New York City. In 1882 she was elected president of the New York State Union, a position which she still holds. During the year* of her presidency the Stale union has increased from five-thousand to twenty-one-thousand members and from 17910 842 local unions, and in work, membership and organization stands at the head of the forty-lour States of the National union. Mrs. Hurt, with her husband and son. resides in New York. She is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Virginia Spitler Hammond

​MARY VIRGINIA SPITLER HAMMOND. HAMMOND, Mrs. Mary Virginia Spitler, World's Fair Manager, born in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind., 12th March, 1847, where she has always resided. She is a member of the Board of World's Fair Managers of Indiana, a member of the committee on machinery and manufactures, and secretary of the committee on woman's work. Her father, Col. George W. Spitler, was a pioneer settler and prominent citizen of Jasper county, and during his life held many positions of trust and honor. The rudiments of her education were obtained in the common schools in her native town. She attended the seminary in Crawfordsville, Ind., under the superintendency of Miss Catherine Merrill, and then spent a year near the early home of her father and mother, in Virginia. She next became a student in St. Mary's Academy, near South Bend, Ind., then under the charge of Mother Angela. She was graduated in that institution with the highest honors of her class. Her husband, Hon. Edwin P. Hammond, was in the Union service during the Civil War, before its close becoming Lieutenant Colonel and Commandant of the 87th Indiana Volunteers. He is an ex-judge of the supreme court of his State and is now serving his third term as judge of the thirtieth circuit. Their family consists of five children, four daughters and a son. She is a typical representative of the intelligent cultured Hoosier wife and matron. Her heart is always open for charitable work and deeds of benevolence. She takes great interest in the work of the World's Fair. Her acquaintance with general literature is broad.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Ware

​WARE, Mrs. Mary, poet, born in Monroe county, Tenn., 11th April, 1828. Her maiden name was Mary Harris, a name that has long been prominent in southern literature. Her early youth was spent amid the beautiful scenery of east Tennessee, and to the charm of her surroundings was added the intellectual companionship of a brother, Edmund K. Harris, whose poetic gifts were of an order that gave promise of a brilliant future, and the loving instruction of a father, who was not only eminent as a lawyer, but possessed discriminating literary taste. MARY WARE. Just as she reached womanhood, her parents moved to Shelby county, Ala., to which State her brother had preceded them, and he had already begun a successful literary career, when his sudden death in Mobile threw a shadow across the life of the sister. Her verses have more than sustained the merit they early promised. They have been published by all the leading magazines and periodicals of the South, many of which belonged to ante-bellum days. "The South" published in New York City contained her contributions for twenty years. In 1863 she became the wife of Horace Ware, who was born in Lynn, Mass., but reared in the South and widely known as a pioneer in the development of the iron industries of Alabama. Mr. Ware died in July, 1890, and Mrs. Ware has since resided in Birmingham, Ala., where her home circle is brightened by the presence of four nieces, children of a surviving brother. Besides poetry she has written some ​intonating Indian legends, and a few romances further show her varied gift.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Traffarn Whitney

​WHITNEY, Mrs. Mary Traffarn, minister, born in Boonville. N. Y., 28th February, 1852. Her maiden name was Mary Louise Traffarn. Her father was a descendant of an old Huguenot family, and from that ancestry she inherited their love of truth and force of moral conviction. She received the rudiments of her education in the Whitestown Seminary, the Utica Academy, and the Clinton Industrial Institute, being graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1872. Her especial ​fondness was for the mathematical, scientific and logical branches of study. The next year she became the wife of Rev. Herbert Whitney and became an active assistant in his work, pursuing such lines of study as a busy life would permit, and teaching several terms with him in the old academy in Webster. N. Y. In 1881 she was graduated from the Chicago Kindergarten Training School, and taught that valuable system for two years.
MARY TRAFFARN WHITNEY. She had preached and lectured occasionally up to 1885, when she was asked to take charge of a church in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, which she did, finding in the ministry the real work of her life. At present she has charge of the First Unitarian Church in West Somerville. Mass. She is an ideal homemaker, rinding the highest uses for her learning in its devotion to the problem how to make the happiest and most helpful home for her husband and her four boys. The trend of her ministry is in the direction of the practical and spiritual, rather than the theoretic. As a lecturer on reform subjects she has won popularity, and in all philanthropic work and the great social problems of the day she takes a deep interest. Earnestly desirous of the advancement of women, she has felt that she might do most to promote that advancement by practically demonstrating in her own work that woman has a place in the ministry. In accord with this thought, her aim has been to do her best and most faithful work in whatever place was open to her. The motive of her ministry has been to add something to the helpful forces of the world. The secret of her success is hard work, making no account of difficulties. The methods and means of her progress may be described as a habit of learning from experience and from passing events, taking great lessons for life from humble sources.