The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)
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🗓️ 22 August 2013
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are found the witch, my wee bun! |
| 0:04.0 | BAM! |
| 0:05.0 | What does it mean to be a witch exactly in Romania? |
| 0:08.0 | Are these people that we know here as psychics or fortune tellers? |
| 0:11.0 | Are they different from the other? |
| 0:13.0 | I don't know how is a fortune teller in the United States, |
| 0:16.0 | but here generally they are a woman of different ages. |
| 0:21.0 | They can cure some diseases, |
| 0:26.0 | they can bring back your husband or your wife, |
| 0:30.0 | or they can predict your future. |
| 0:34.0 | Who is a typical client for which? |
| 0:37.0 | There are quite a lot of politicians who are going to witches. |
| 0:41.0 | You know that France, President Nicolas Arcosis, |
| 0:44.0 | he went to witches last year, |
| 0:47.0 | and our president in Romania and very important politicians |
| 0:53.0 | from different parties. They are going to witches. |
| 0:56.0 | Some of them they were obliged to recognize they went to witches. |
| 1:01.0 | Some of them it's an off the record information, |
| 1:04.0 | but me being a journalist I know that information. |
| 1:07.0 | Vlad Mixich is a reporter in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. |
| 1:12.0 | He knows a good bit about the witches there. |
| 1:15.0 | Quite a lot of them there are quite rich. |
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