SIBU: A 56-year-old man lost cash and valuables to three Chinese women in his haste to stop the predicted death of his daughter.
The three women were said to have accosted him at Sibu Central Market on Feb 28 and told him that they could cure illnesses.
The women led him to the Tua Pek Kong Temple where they told him they could foresee that his daughter would die soon, and advised him on a spiritual process to avert the misfortune.
On their instruction, he withdrew RM10,000 from a bank and gave the money plus RM20,000 worth of valuables to the women who put the money and valuables in a black plastic bag and chanted magic spell over it.
The women then gave him the bag and instructed him to open the bag only on March 17.
When the man opened the bag on March 17, he found two kilogrammes of salt and two bottles of drinking water inside the bag.
Feeling cheated, he lodged a police report yesterday.