{"id":84649,"date":"2026-07-20T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84649"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:54:41","slug":"russian-fuel-crisis-drives-demand-for-occult-rituals-to-attract-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/russian-fuel-crisis-drives-demand-for-occult-rituals-to-attract-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fuel Crisis Drives Demand for Occult Rituals to \u201cAttract\u201d Gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>United24 Media:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.united24media.com\/thumbs\/1014x676\/e\/96\/00ad45cafa39e3db44680f661030796e.jpg\" alt=\"A street performer points with a giant hand on Tverskaya street in front of the Kremlin during a festival marking the New Year and Christmas in central Moscow on January 2, 2018. Illustrrative photo. (Source: Getty Images)\" width=\"351\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s worsening fuel shortage has triggered growing demand for unconventional services, with fortune tellers, magicians, and practitioners of esoteric rituals increasingly marketing ceremonies they claim can reduce fuel consumption or &#8220;attract&#8221; gasoline to vehicle tanks, according to Ukraine&#8217;s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZRU).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on July 16, the agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/szru.gov.ua\/news-media\/news\/za-podolannya-palyvnoi-kryzy-na-rosii-vzyalysya-chakluny-ta-mahy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> motorists across multiple Russian regions are being forced to wait in lines around the clock to purchase as little as 10 to 20 liters of gasoline.\u00a0According to SZRU, Russian authorities have attempted to contain the crisis through fuel rationing, voucher systems, scheduled distribution, and other restrictions, but shortages persist.\u00a0Against that backdrop, practitioners of occult and mystical services have reportedly begun advertising rituals aimed at helping drivers cope with the scarcity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From United24 Media: Russia&#8217;s worsening fuel shortage has triggered growing demand for unconventional services, with fortune tellers, magicians, and practitioners.<\/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-84649","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\/84649","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=84649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}