According to the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 67% of female citizens of Russia regularly seek the services of sorcerers, while the proportion of believers among citizens is 93%. Sometimes, under the guise of providing witchcraft services, fraudsters deceive and steal large sums of money from gullible people.
Psychiatry considers regular visits to sorcerers, psychics, or astrologers as a disorder of mental adaptation – a magifrenic syndrome.