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

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

 
 

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