Romania’s Senate has rejected a proposed law that would have taxed witches and fortune tellers.

And the politician who pushed the plan said his colleagues caved because many of them feared being cursed.

Senator Alin Popoviciu of Romania’s ruling Democratic Liberal Party drafted the legislation that also would have forced the country’s thousands of witches and fortune tellers to produce receipts and would have held them responsible for wrong predictions.

Members of human rights organizations and religious groups said they are discontent with the new Law of Cults, which renders the process of recognizing the status of cult more difficult, and they intend to take legal action to settle the situation.