Romania's first registered witch

[John Jackson]

A Romanian woman has become the country's first legally registered witch.

Gabriela Ciucur, 31, from Targu Jiu, persuaded authorities to accept witchcraft as a profession after months of negotiations.

She told local media: "The authorities sent me home and told me it was ridiculous at first. But we finally reached a deal and registered my company as dealing with astrology and connections to the spirit world."

Ciucur said she charges £3 to £6 per "consultation" with clients where she uses witchcraft to, among other things, tell their fortunes, help them get in touch with the spirit world, and examine their star signs for them.

Witchcraft is extremely popular in Romania where many people in rural areas still believe in vampires.

National football chiefs in the country once even considered bringing in a witch to put a spell on an opposing team.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1816079.html


If she issues receipts, shall we send someone for a reading? ;D

[Mojo]

Ciucur said she charges £3 to £6 per "consultation"


Any idea how this compares with average earnings in Romania?

I remember Natasha Demkina's supporters citing the fact that she only charged the equivalent of about $13 for a consultation ("rather less than your average New York consultant, one suspects") as evidence that she wasn't in it for the money. It turned out that in 2002 real doctors in Moscow were only charging about $2 for a consultation, and the number of consultations she was giving would be earning Demkina roughly 40 times an average government worker's salary in Saransk.