Which 1736 English law was repealed in 1951 after centuries of prosecuting people for fortune-telling and claiming supernatural powers?

Britain spent over two centuries treating mediums and spiritualists as criminals under one specific statute. It was finally scrapped in the post-war era, partly thanks to lobbying by Spiritualist churches.

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