Shamans, magnetizers, healers, mediums and sorcerers are arousing unprecedented enthusiasm in France. Paul Pogba, world football champion in 2018, of Guinean origin, was accused of having paid a marabout to cast a spell on his ex-teammate Kylian Mbappé.
Remaining unsolved, this affair highlighted an unexpected trend in the country of Descartes and Voltaire. An Ifop survey, carried out in 2022, reveals that in France, “far from being the obscure and marginal phenomenon that one might imagine, belief in the paranormal and the superstitious constitutes a constantly increasing majority phenomenon”