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Police officers in the Maldives have a coconut. It had Arabic writing on it. It was a "sura" (a verse from the Koran) and local people worried about it. They said it was full of black magic and that someone was it to try and the results of an election. Police the coconut to a local police station because it was a "suspicious fruit". They the small fruit might how people in Saturday's national election. People on the island of Guraidhoo black magic can stop voters from voting, or make them vote for someone else. The police a "ruqyah" (a good magician), who the coconut was a fake and no black magic.

A police official said: "It like it was a joke. Just a prank, so that people will aware, understand the message, and not do it again." The Huffington Post website that black magic can have a big effect on life in the Maldives. In July, a school to let a voting box into the building. Teachers were it would make students ill. In 2012, Abdulla bin Mohamed Ibrahim, a religious leader in the Maldives, the government to make black magic illegal. He said it was a sin to practice black magic. He said it a lot of problems for many families and that it was time to something about it. Mr Ibrahim black magic has a major social issue in his country.