{"id":82167,"date":"2026-04-16T08:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82167"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:33:24","slug":"in-tough-times-russians-are-turning-to-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/in-tough-times-russians-are-turning-to-witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"In Tough Times, Russians Are Turning To Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Reuters<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Self-described witch Natalia Malinovskaya has a new client base: men fighting in eastern Ukraine, who, like a growing number of Russians, are drawn to the supernatural against a backdrop \u200bof conflict and economic uncertainty.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In her darkened apartment in Moscow, Malinovskaya, who says she inherited her powers from her grandmother, offers services \u200cfrom love spells to protection from evil. She has also made frequent appearances on Russian television. Demonstrating how she detects a bad vibe over someone&#8217;s health by wafting a lit match over a glass, she says most people seek help for love problems, including soldiers worried about their partners staying faithful.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776327621\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"In Tough Times, Russians Are Turning To Witchcraft\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters: Self-described witch Natalia Malinovskaya has a new client base: men fighting in eastern Ukraine, who, like a growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82174,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167\/revisions\/82174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}