Witch for hire
The fall of the Soviet Union has meant that a lot of interesting alternative career paths have returned to Russia. The most commonly-noted one is, of course, organized crime. But it appears that some of the more traditional professions are also coming into the modern era quite nicely.
Although she specializes in love magic, she is really a renaissance witch (not the best term, perhaps, considering what happened to witches in those days), and her advertisement in the latest edition of Secret Power offers “business-magic” as well as the more ancient service of removing the evil eye.Charlatans give her business a bad name, she says. Her advice is this: When meeting a magical craftsperson, never explain your problems. They should be able to guess them on their own.
“If only they were punished as they were in England,” she muses about the charlatans.