Sorcery

Sorcery. Prosecution for witchcraft, sorcery, etc., or for charging another with any such offences, is abolished by the Witchcraft Act, 1735 (9 Geo. 2, c. 5); but the same Act enacts that persons pretending to use witchcraft, sorcery, etc., shall suffer one year's imprisonment on conviction. Persons using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive the people, are rogues and vagabonds, and to be punished with imprisonment and hard labour, Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4.