TAIF: The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) has said it has broken a spell that a housemaid in Taif put on the five daughters of the elderly man she was employed to look after. Muhammad Fari', head of the Hai'a's Shihar District branch in Taif, said the maid cast a spell on the women, who live with their husbands and children in other parts of the country, to stop them visiting and increasing her workload. “They would visit with husbands and children during the holidays and it would appear that their numerous demands during those visits led to her putting the spell on them to stop them visiting their father,” Fari' said. “The Hai'a in Shihar stepped in to break the spell and return affairs to their normal course.” Fari' said that foreigners, and particularly women, were responsible for acts of magic in Saudi Arabia. “These practices are foreign to the Saudi society,” he said.
