Is it as common as people make it sound like? Do y'all go to them? If you do go to them why such hate for the Romani? I hope none of this is offensive I'm just extremely curious about it.

  • Oh yeah, just yesterday I went to my witch for some financial advise. We also touched a bit on the current geopolitical situation and the cards said not to worry. Just a regular Saturday. Now I am off to harvest the garlic. It’s vampire season, wouldn’t want to get bitten.

  • I don’t know anyone that goes to witches, I also don’t hate the roma people.

  • Romania has a big divide between educated and uneducated.

    If you're educated and go to a "witch" you better be prepared be made fun of for years to come.

    The less educated you are, the more common and accepted it is.

    There's a bigger discussion here about culture among ethnic groups, the huge gap in access to education and decent medicine between rural and urban, desperation of the poor and/or sick and the ignorance is bliss factor that comes from the idea that if it's written in the stars, you can't be held accountable.

  • Most people do not go to witches but you can go. Come to Romania and tell us if you find any witches, I have never seen one. I saw more witches in the UK ( the hipster tarot reading kind that view magic as good thoughts that you put in the world)

  • Nah, not common. Never met a “witch” or someone who went to one.

    Sounds like something a witch would say

  • There are some people that go to witches. Sometimes to get your fortune read with regular playing cards or tarot cards. Sometimes to ask the witch to cast a spell on you for health, money, good fortune. Or cast a curse on someone who wronged you. There is no evidence any of this works, and all I know is from hearsay. The more popular witches will charge an absurd amount of money for their services. The Roma witches aren't widely accepted because it's considered a scam, and there is a long complicated history between romanians and roma people that leads to generational racism.

  • Do y'all go to them? If you do go to them why such hate for the Romani?

    quite silly a take

    please refrain from being silly

  • We don't hate the Români at all. If you mean the roma people, it is because of the thefts and violence that happened during the 1990-2010, probably motivated by racial hatred against the Romanian gadjo.

  • Used to be very common like 200 years ago. Nowadays? Its just for stupid, crazy or uneducated people. The most witchcraft you are gonna see on a day to day basis is tarot readings done by teenagers for jiggles during recess.