Bogus Hocus Pocus

This story's a few weeks old.  Sure instills confidence in the Taiwanese legal system, doesn't it?

Owner of haunted Kaohsiung flat gets refund

A Tainan district court judge ruled Monday [that the buyer of a "haunted" apartment] could return the flat to the [previous] owner, who had to pay back all the money.

The owner told the judge she didn't know the house was haunted . . .

But the owner had guaranteed the house was not haunted.

"Because you guaranteed it," the judge told the owner, "you have to take responsibility."

So without any REAL evidence, a judge in Taiwan invalidated a legal real estate transaction, based upon the fiction that the apartment was "haunted".

Goodness, I'm going to have to give this a try sometime:

The Foreigner:  Your honor, denizens from the spirit world have informed me that the wicked sorcerer Ma Ying-jeou has cast an evil spell upon the land, blighting this year's mango crop.  I demand he be burned at the stake.

Taiwanese Judge:  Okey-dokey.