1
The historical Fetha preserves severe corporal penalties for apostasy, blasphemy, sorcery, divination, and related acts. These belong to the received medieval penal layer and are recorded here as provenance, not enacted as present House civil penalties.
2
Within the covenantal jurisdiction, apostasy concerns departure from the confessed faith and may result in exclusion from ecclesiastical communion.
3
False accusation of apostasy for political or property advantage is itself a grave wrong.
4
Claims of sorcery shall not substitute for evidence when an ordinary human act, illness, accident, or fraud explains the event.
5
Fraudulent divination used to obtain money may be judged as fraud even where the court does not claim jurisdiction over supernatural questions.
6
Repentance, confession, and restoration belong to the spiritual jurisdiction; present civil punishment, where any, belongs to the governing lawful authority.