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TIL: There is currently an Anti Superstition and Black Magic Act in India passed in 2013. It was mainly passed to reduce scam artists promising cures. However, it also banned carrying out inhumane acts to gain supernatural powers and claiming to be a reincarnated lover to sleep with women.

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