21st Century Occultism - A new wave of commercial witchcraft is sweeping across Russia.
The press is replete with advertisements from magicians, witches and fortune tellers who promise to solve any problems: remove or spoil damage, make a person rich, or even return a lover. Who are the sorcerers? Are people gifted with supernatural powers insane or, on the contrary, clever and cynical liars? Why do people pay them two billion dollars a year?
Pour water out of all containers and leave the apartment immediately! Or, on the contrary, lie on the couch and listen to hours of mantras on the phone. Ekaterina Larionova performed such extravagant rituals at the direction of psychics to help a relative in trouble.
“Every day he called me: we need to do this, do this, we need to do this. And every day I waited for him to tell the reason and how to eliminate it. Then I gave 64 thousand, then off we go. He calls - I run, take loans, send money,”says Ekaterina Larionova from Omsk. As if bewitched, she sent more than a million rubles to pseudo-healers in two months! But no help was received …
And actress Marina Shtoda, on the contrary, does not spare the money spent on magical services. With the help of a fortune teller, the girl wanted to push her beloved, but indecisive man, to the wedding. The unlucky witch was wrong. And, ironically, luckily.
“She guessed that nothing would happen, that she had to run away at all, that the relationship was going nowhere and he would not make me an offer. And in the end, he made me an offer the next day after I went to this fortune-teller here. This is actually a ring,”says Marina Shtoda.
There are dozens of ads from fortune tellers and sorcerers, even in reputable publications. The Vesti correspondent went to one of the modern magicians. Basement of a residential building not far from the Garden Ring. In an inconspicuous office, the witch's assistant announces the first price tag for magical services. “For a thousand rubles, she will only give you a consultation. This is a common procedure, “she says.
Legend has it that I just can't get along with the girls. In a dark room filled with icons, candles, and esoteric paraphernalia, she is sitting - the witch Tatyana. “If you want to get one hundred percent result, you need to do 2-3 rituals. Taken together, this is a complex job. The cost of these works is at least 20 thousand rubles, maximum - 150 “, - says the fortune-teller.
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The witch assures: these funds will be used to buy candles, for 18 thousand rubles - four liters of water from under the deceased and many other non-trivial means. And my girlfriend, according to the sorceress, I will meet by the end of the month.
A real magician will never take money in advance, Nikas Safronov is sure. According to the famous artist, magicians exist not only in fairy tales. Nikas himself was friends for a long time with the so-called master of white magic, Yuri Longo. “I've seen Longo treat people. And people believed him. He did it with his herbs, set fire to some. And it worked,”says Safronov.
Half of the population of our country believes: magic works! This is evidenced by numerous opinion polls. Moreover, every fifth Russian admits that at least once in his life he turned to the services of fortune-tellers and psychics.
“People have such a contradictory consciousness. They go to church and at the same time go to psychics. They are afraid to go to psychologists and psychotherapists. Here we see remnants of an archaic, pagan consciousness, says Natalya Zorkaya, a leading researcher in the department of socio-political research at the Levada Center.
Every year, according to experts, Russians spend more than two billion dollars on occult and mystical services!