In Trinidad, 13 percent of East Indian people were accused of practicing obeah. In Jamaica, where there wasn't a high population of East Indian people, there was only 4 percent of the population was accused of obeah. In Jamaica and Trinidad the belief exists that East Indian descendants were obeah practitioners because of their spiritual and religious practices, Hinduism and Islam. In Trinidad and Tobago, those convicted of practicing obeah would serve six months as a maximum punishment. Minimal punishments included 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.