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 * Added some information the the Trinidad and Tobago section of the article.
 * Compared it to Jamaica
 * Plan on added some more information to the history of it and maybe some editing.
 * Added all the citations that I used.

Obeah Laws In Trinidad Trinidad has similar laws like Jamaica for Obeah as a crime. Trinidad did not have as many cases of people practicing Obeah compared to Jamaica. In Trinidad, there was discrimination of what was a religion practice or what was considered Obeah. The reason for this is the cultural differences of the Blacks and East Indian race living in Trinidad and Tobago (Page 68). These laws containing to obeah was set from the British laws. England ruled many island in the Caribbean included Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

In Trinidad, 13 percent of East Indian people also know as "coolie" made up the population of people being convicted of obeah. In Jamaica, where there wasn't a high population of East Indian people, there was only 4 percent of prosecution for the crimes of obeah. In Jamaica and Trinidad there was more people that believed that the East Indian descendants were know to be affiliated with being an "obeahman" because of their spiritual practices, that are connected to their religion. Some of those religions are Hindu and Muslim. People that were convicted of obeah in Trinidad has serve six months as a maximum punishment. These two countries had other smaller punishments like fines or lashes. Lashes are beatings that the person being convicted of obeah would receive with whips. These lashes would also be reported in how many lashes the person would receive in documents.