Balm yard Biomedical doctor previously consulted Body related ritual Books Cash transaction Charge changed during trial process Clothing, bodily characteristics or age of defendant Defendant autonym for healing Deliberate fraud probably involved Duppies East Indian client East Indian defendant East Indian ghost or duppy Guilty plea Items removed from body Letters to defendant Medicine without license charge discussed Mesmerism, Hypnotism, Spiritualism, Theosophy Notable case Obeah as insult or danger Popular interest or crowds Practice involves harm Previous convictions Religious affiliation stated Report after failed treatment Report because costs too high Report because treatment incomplete Ritual description Successful practitioner Transnational