Assertion: obeah's slave | /r/CapableOf | pretend to supernatural power
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text: A 1788 law enacted in Jamaica, so as "to prevent the many mischiefs that may hereafter arise from the wicked art of negroes going under the appellation of obeah men and women, pretending to have communication with the devil and other evil spirits, whereby the weak and superstitious are deluded into a belief of their having full power to exempt them … from any evils that might otherwise happen," stipulated the death penalty for "any slave who shall pretend to any supernatural power.