Repetitive gestures, incantations, use of pendulums, gris-gris or protective belts, the “tricks” of healers are revealed little by little through the news items that expose them to broad daylight.
Paul Pogba, world football champion in 2018, of Guinean origin, who inspires younger generations, 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” .
Invoking spirits, soliciting the beyond for pragmatic purposes and for immediate effectiveness has always constituted a nagging temptation, as old as humanity, since Antiquity.
In Egypt, Coptic exorcist priests cast out the demon.
PATRICK CHAPUIS / Le Figaro Magazine
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