COMM: This is Rodica – the most famous Gypsy witch in Romania.She and her brother Viorel, have come to pay their respects to their deceased mother – the legendary Gypsy witch known as Mother Caterpillar.
Viorel (singing): I’ve come to my mother’s grave thereby/First to talk and then to cry.
Mother Caterpillar was the personal fortuneteller of Elena Ceausescu, the president’s wife in the communist times.Since her death, Mother Caterpillar has been recognised as the most powerful Gypsy witch to have ever lived in Romania.
Viorel (singing): You told the fortune to the ladies/ and you made millions not pennies
COMM: Rodica, Mother Caterpillar’s only daughter has inherited her gift.
COMM: At home, She keeps all the parafanelia of witchcraft on a shrine.
COMM: Rodica is a white witch. Her mission is to fight black magic.
R: With black magic you do evil, with white magic you undo the evil.
COMM: As a white witch Rodica, sees no contradiction between her Orthodox Christian faith and witchcraft.
R: Only the white witches can use the cross in their work. The cross represents our faith in God. Everything we do, we do with faith in God.
R: These are dew drops collected in the morning, and are used for love spells. We say ‘like the flowers blossom, so the love and the happiness of our client should blossom’.
COMM: It’s high-summer in Romania. All over the country, the Gypsy witches are preparing for Midsummer Night. On this night, their love rituals and spells are most powerful. They believe this is a time when the sky opens up and there’s a direct connection between earth and the heavens.In the witches’ calendar, this is the most important night of the year.
COMM This is lose Bucharest – the Capital of Romania. Even modern city dwellers believe and await midsummer night.
COMM: Diana is a 24-year-old fashion designer. She wants to know whether her current boyfriend is the man of her life.
SYNC DIANA: In the past I’ve known what it means to love completely, to the point of sacrifice. I no longer feel that I have that capacity. There’s a problem somewhere.
COMM: Recently, Diana’s mother sought advice from a clairvoyant:
D: She told her that evil spells have been cast upon me, so I can’t love completely, and will never marry. That’s why I want to see the witch.
COMM: With only two days to go before Midsummer Night, Diana’s taken time off from work and made an appointment to see Rodica.
SYNC DIANA: In Romania there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of witches. Every little village has its own witch. We believe in these things. We are orthodox Christian. We believe in the unlimited power of God. If you think about it, what else was Jesus but a magician..
COMM: Diana’s been obsessed with death for years. When she was little, someone made a terrible prediction
DIANA SYNC: In our childhood someone made an astrological chart for me and my brother. Before the age of 30 we both had a death sign in our charts. In his case the prediction came true, and he died. I’ve managed to avoid death for fifteen years, and I hope that I will survive the next five.
COMM: Arriving at Rodica’s home, Diana hopes that she can tell her how many years she’s got left.
DIANA: I’m Diana RODICA: Rodica, nice to meet youDIANA: It’s an honour to meet you.RODICA: You’ve come to have your cards read.
R: Put the money on the cards and make the sign of a cross, Diana. 300,000 is what I charge for the card reading.
COMM: The initial consultation cost the equivalent of US$10.
Rodica uses Tarot readings to diagnose a new client’s problem.
R: You’re involved with a man at the moment. This man is older than you.D: Yes
R: You’re not going to last with this man. It’s not God’s will. There’s another man in your destiny. From far away. You are going to be very happy with him. You are going to have two children by him - a boy and a girl.
R: What’s up?D: I’ve got goose bumps.
COMM: Diana is still concerned about the chart that foretold her death. Rodica dismisses such prediction:
RODICA: You’ve got a long life ahead of you.
R: But nine generations ago, a powerful curse was put upon your family… by a woman on her deathbed. She vowed that every time your family achieved success .. everything would collapse.D: Indeed, this is how it is.
R: If you don’t wear an amulet to protect you from evil, then all the luck that God destined for you will bypass you. D: how can we find this amulet?R: may God give you luck. Come back to me and I’ll make one for you.
COMM Rodica asks Diana to return the next day with coins to make the amulet. She also needs candles, flowers and honey for a special ritual. .
D: She was right in everything she said, she was right about the past, we’ll see about the future.
COMM: Rodica lives with three of her children and her husband. Like all career women, she juggles many balls.
R: A witch’s worst enemy is time. You have to share yourself. You’re not only a witch you’re also a mother, a wife, and a housewife. At night I go and do my rituals. I start at midnight and finish when the cockerel sings. But I have a 7-year old son, and I have to wake up again at 7.00 to get him ready for school… even if I got back at 4.00 in the morning
R: It’s a very tiring life, a very stressful life. All sorts of people come to see you, and you have to sit patiently, listening to everyone of them. and when you can, you try and help them. It’s very hard.
Rodica: Come on, dinner time!
COMM: Mihai, Rodica’s husband is a businessman.
COMM: It was Rodica’s money that helped Mihai build his business. She still actively support him.
M: My wife gives me talismans when I do business deals. They bring me luck.Q: Do they always work?M: Most of the times they do. They work!
COMM: Mihai and Rodica have done well for themselves. Rodica wants to make sure that her children have the best opportunities in life. She wants her son Razvan to learn English so he goes to the American School in Bucharest.
Razvan (in English): This is my poster with my best hero – Harry Potter! Q: Why do you like Harry Potter?Razvan: Because he can do magic!Q: Like your Mum?Razvan: Yes!
COMM: But now witchcraft is under attack in Romania. A law has been passed that bans all witches from advertising on television. And Rodica’s brother, Viorel has taken it upon himself to lead the fight back.
COMM: He is rallying the most important witches in Bucharest to support his campaign against the ban.
Viorel SYNC: In this district, in an area of 10 square kilometres there are over 100 witches.
COMM: On placards outside their homes, the witches claim they can help with anything and everything – from impotence to epilepsy, from financial troubles to love problems. Until recently, the country’s television screens were inundated with such claims. The witches made a fortune.
Viorel V/O: Witchcraft is a very good business here in Romania. It makes tens of millions of dollars.
V: As you see, You can make a good living from witchcraft, and you can earn well.
COMM: Concerned about the popularity of witchcraft, Romania’s Television regulator has banned not only all TV advertising of occult practices but almost any appearances of witches on TV at all.
The witches feel that their ancient craft is under threat.
Ioana: Let’s do something to bring things back to normal. Let’s bring the Television Regularor back down to Earth. They have no right to keep us from showing our gift.
V: They don’t even invite you to talk shows. They talk about drugs, prostitution, underage criminality, but they don’t talk about witchcraft at all. – that’s why I’m starting this campaign.. We must do something about it
V: Are you licensed? B: Yes I am and I pay my taxes…and they’re not even allowing me to put signposts outside my house.
Bracelet: This advertising ban makes me feel like I’m back in communist times.
Maria: I got in touch with them myself to ask them about the ban. They promised to get back to me. I’m still waiting.
COMM: Witches like Maria have already made their fortunes, but the advertising ban undoubtedly will affect newcomers. Viorel fears the future of the trade, is at risk.
COMM: He’s sending the petition he’s been gathering to the Televison Regulator demanding the lifting of the ban.
2ND ACT – 10’
COMM: With television out of bounds, the witches have been reduced to advertising in the papers.
COMM: Georgia is a 22-years-old Public Relations student.She’s looked at various witche’s adverts, before deciding on Rodica. Georgia wants to know whether she’ll get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
Georgia: I’m particularly interested in finding out about the man that I had quite a long relationship with. Is he the man for me? If not, I’m curious to know who will be next, how’s it going to happen and when?
G: I just want to know the essential things - I don’t want her to tell me any details. I don’t want them to get stuck in my head and influence me.
R (reading Georgia’s cards): You’re thinking about a man at the moment.
R: You have doubts about this man in your heart. Just when you think he’s yours, he slips through your fingers.
R: So you’ve come to hear the truth?G: yesR: but you’re not going to get upset about what I tell you?G: no
R: What happens to you is not holy You have evil spells cast upon you. You’re love life has been thwarted by two women. A mother and a daughter. You first picked the card of doubt, and then the second card shows your two enemies. These women are quite close to your family. They swore not to rest until they bring ruin upon you. They took earth that you had trodden on to a witch, and with that earth she undermined your love life. The witch put a spell in an empty walnut shell, and buried it by the head of a dead man. The spell is such that when you meet a man it ensures you will never stay with him, you will have no future with him, and nothing will go well between you. Happiness, you should have none.
R: If you don’t undo these spells, you could meet twenty men and have no happiness or satisfaction with any of them.
COMM: Rodica explains that she’ll need to probe further into the evil spells to be able to help Georgia. This will take time and money.
G: I have to admit, there were a few things that were true in what she said, but I’m a bit disappointed as she didn’t tell me anything about the future. Her explanation was that she can’t see the future because of the evil spells.
COMM: Diana is getting ready for her second meeting with Rodica. She needs nine candles and three coins from a church for the protective amulet that Rodica will make for her.
COMM: She also needs to buy three flowers of different colours and a pot of honey. In Rodica’s hands these everyday objects are supposed to work magic.
COMM: Diana takes her shopping to Rodica’s house.
R: did you bring nine candles?D: yes, but they’ve melted a bit.R: It doesn’t matter.
R: For this curse to be lifted, you must stick with me. I will give you the amulet in nine days time.D: Do I have to come back in nine days?R: Of course. I have to perform three different spells to rid you of this curse. It’s not like you snap your fingers and you perform miracles. This never happens.
COMM: For the magic to work, Diana is told to perform a ritual at home for the next nine days. On the 10th day, she has to return to pick up the amulet that Rodica will make from the church coins.
COMM: With each session, Rodica’s prices go up. The amulet costs the equivalent of £60, ten times more than the initial tarot reading. At least two more rituals are needed and the cost will get higher.
COMM: In the mean time, Viorel is waiting for an answer to his petition from the Television Regulator. None is forthcoming.
COMM: So we went to meet his nemesis. Ralu Filip is the President of The Television Regulator. .
SYNC MR. FILIP: You mustn’t show me limping. Your viewers will say – ‘He is a lame man, therefore he is frustrated and evil and that’s why he doesn’t allow the witches to advertise.’
SYNC FILIP: We were in danger of seeing television in Romania turned into a permanent fortunetelling business.
SYNC FILIP: By banning the witches from advertising we have reduced the number of people who are swindled.
SYNC FILIP: At a certain point, when drafting this bill, some members of our commission lost their courage. They are as superstitious as anyone else in this country. R: But the truth is that we, the Television Regulator only drafted this bill. It was the Parliament that passed the law.
COMM: The new law was passed in order to comply with EU requirements. There’s no going back.
COMM: COMM: Tonight is Midsummer Night. Rodica, her daughter and two helpers are getting ready to leave to perform the ritual.
R: In the past the witches used to fly on a broomstick, nowadays …R: They drive in Audis, they have mobile phones, they no longer fly on brooms.
COMM: The Midsummer Night ritual has to be performed by water. Rodica is now on her way to the lake
R: Tonight I am only allowed to perform love spells. I’m doing this ritual for the many girls who have come to me for help with their love lives.
COMM: Midsummer Night is the night of the love fairies. Through this ritual, Rodica is bringing them offerings to win their favour.
R: Tonight I will make this sacrifice for the fate of Diana and Georgia. May this blood cleanse them of all evil spells.
R: You Serpent, you Dragon don’t reach, don’t screech! Don’t seize their destinies, their love lives and their marriages! You aimed high, and entered their fate. Remove yourself from their fate! Go back to where you came from, and to whoever has sent you! These girls are innocent!
R: You twelve fairies, I am sending you these offerings, on this night, so I get the power to cast away all the Black Magic, all the evil spells.
R: You Evil, go and never come back! Go where the priest doesn’t chant, where the shepherd doesn’t graze his sheep!
R: Receive my offerings, you twelve fairies!
COMM: Georgia has been thinking about Rodica’s predictions. She has decided not to go back.
G: Maybe this method works through self-suggestion for those who are weak or for people who at that moment in their lives, can’t find their own solutions.
G: The fact that she didn’t tell me much, and she talked about possible future payments made me distrustful of any gift that she says she has got.
G: This is a just business.
COMM: But with Diana is a different story . She’s meeting friends to tell them how much her life has changed since she saw Rodica.
D: I have some news to tell you..I went to a witch…A: ohhhhh…
D:. She told me that I’m going to have a long and happy lifeB: This is a good thing. Since she was little Diana always believed that she was going to die young.D: I’m never going to say that again! I’m going to have a long and happy life.
D: She told me that my current relationship doesn’t have a future. He’s not the one that is destined for me. This made me sad because I was hoping that I could build something with that man.
A: Do you trust Rodica?D: Yes I trust Rodica. And I’m going to take you there too, to show you!
Back at home Diana anoints herself with honey. It’s part of Rodica’s prescribed ritual to lift the curse upon her family and to improve her love life.
D: Her predictions seem to come true.
D: I do think we can avoid certain things. Indeed there is a destiny for each of us, but I think we can choose our path. We can either take the long path or the short path.
COMM: Midsummer Night is over, but Rodica continues her nightly work – rituals commissioned and paid for by her thousands of clients.
Evils, go away and don’t come back!May God cure them and give them joy throughout their lives. May God cure them! May there be a cure!
END
Viorel (singing): I’ve come to my mother’s grave thereby/First to talk and then to cry.
Mother Caterpillar was the personal fortuneteller of Elena Ceausescu, the president’s wife in the communist times.Since her death, Mother Caterpillar has been recognised as the most powerful Gypsy witch to have ever lived in Romania.
Viorel (singing): You told the fortune to the ladies/ and you made millions not pennies
COMM: Rodica, Mother Caterpillar’s only daughter has inherited her gift.
COMM: At home, She keeps all the parafanelia of witchcraft on a shrine.
COMM: Rodica is a white witch. Her mission is to fight black magic.
R: With black magic you do evil, with white magic you undo the evil.
COMM: As a white witch Rodica, sees no contradiction between her Orthodox Christian faith and witchcraft.
R: Only the white witches can use the cross in their work. The cross represents our faith in God. Everything we do, we do with faith in God.
R: These are dew drops collected in the morning, and are used for love spells. We say ‘like the flowers blossom, so the love and the happiness of our client should blossom’.
COMM: It’s high-summer in Romania. All over the country, the Gypsy witches are preparing for Midsummer Night. On this night, their love rituals and spells are most powerful. They believe this is a time when the sky opens up and there’s a direct connection between earth and the heavens.In the witches’ calendar, this is the most important night of the year.
COMM This is lose Bucharest – the Capital of Romania. Even modern city dwellers believe and await midsummer night.
COMM: Diana is a 24-year-old fashion designer. She wants to know whether her current boyfriend is the man of her life.
SYNC DIANA: In the past I’ve known what it means to love completely, to the point of sacrifice. I no longer feel that I have that capacity. There’s a problem somewhere.
COMM: Recently, Diana’s mother sought advice from a clairvoyant:
D: She told her that evil spells have been cast upon me, so I can’t love completely, and will never marry. That’s why I want to see the witch.
COMM: With only two days to go before Midsummer Night, Diana’s taken time off from work and made an appointment to see Rodica.
SYNC DIANA: In Romania there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of witches. Every little village has its own witch. We believe in these things. We are orthodox Christian. We believe in the unlimited power of God. If you think about it, what else was Jesus but a magician..
COMM: Diana’s been obsessed with death for years. When she was little, someone made a terrible prediction
DIANA SYNC: In our childhood someone made an astrological chart for me and my brother. Before the age of 30 we both had a death sign in our charts. In his case the prediction came true, and he died. I’ve managed to avoid death for fifteen years, and I hope that I will survive the next five.
COMM: Arriving at Rodica’s home, Diana hopes that she can tell her how many years she’s got left.
DIANA: I’m Diana RODICA: Rodica, nice to meet youDIANA: It’s an honour to meet you.RODICA: You’ve come to have your cards read.
R: Put the money on the cards and make the sign of a cross, Diana. 300,000 is what I charge for the card reading.
COMM: The initial consultation cost the equivalent of US$10.
Rodica uses Tarot readings to diagnose a new client’s problem.
R: You’re involved with a man at the moment. This man is older than you.D: Yes
R: You’re not going to last with this man. It’s not God’s will. There’s another man in your destiny. From far away. You are going to be very happy with him. You are going to have two children by him - a boy and a girl.
R: What’s up?D: I’ve got goose bumps.
COMM: Diana is still concerned about the chart that foretold her death. Rodica dismisses such prediction:
RODICA: You’ve got a long life ahead of you.
R: But nine generations ago, a powerful curse was put upon your family… by a woman on her deathbed. She vowed that every time your family achieved success .. everything would collapse.D: Indeed, this is how it is.
R: If you don’t wear an amulet to protect you from evil, then all the luck that God destined for you will bypass you. D: how can we find this amulet?R: may God give you luck. Come back to me and I’ll make one for you.
COMM Rodica asks Diana to return the next day with coins to make the amulet. She also needs candles, flowers and honey for a special ritual. .
D: She was right in everything she said, she was right about the past, we’ll see about the future.
COMM: Rodica lives with three of her children and her husband. Like all career women, she juggles many balls.
R: A witch’s worst enemy is time. You have to share yourself. You’re not only a witch you’re also a mother, a wife, and a housewife. At night I go and do my rituals. I start at midnight and finish when the cockerel sings. But I have a 7-year old son, and I have to wake up again at 7.00 to get him ready for school… even if I got back at 4.00 in the morning
R: It’s a very tiring life, a very stressful life. All sorts of people come to see you, and you have to sit patiently, listening to everyone of them. and when you can, you try and help them. It’s very hard.
Rodica: Come on, dinner time!
COMM: Mihai, Rodica’s husband is a businessman.
COMM: It was Rodica’s money that helped Mihai build his business. She still actively support him.
M: My wife gives me talismans when I do business deals. They bring me luck.Q: Do they always work?M: Most of the times they do. They work!
COMM: Mihai and Rodica have done well for themselves. Rodica wants to make sure that her children have the best opportunities in life. She wants her son Razvan to learn English so he goes to the American School in Bucharest.
Razvan (in English): This is my poster with my best hero – Harry Potter! Q: Why do you like Harry Potter?Razvan: Because he can do magic!Q: Like your Mum?Razvan: Yes!
COMM: But now witchcraft is under attack in Romania. A law has been passed that bans all witches from advertising on television. And Rodica’s brother, Viorel has taken it upon himself to lead the fight back.
COMM: He is rallying the most important witches in Bucharest to support his campaign against the ban.
Viorel SYNC: In this district, in an area of 10 square kilometres there are over 100 witches.
COMM: On placards outside their homes, the witches claim they can help with anything and everything – from impotence to epilepsy, from financial troubles to love problems. Until recently, the country’s television screens were inundated with such claims. The witches made a fortune.
Viorel V/O: Witchcraft is a very good business here in Romania. It makes tens of millions of dollars.
V: As you see, You can make a good living from witchcraft, and you can earn well.
COMM: Concerned about the popularity of witchcraft, Romania’s Television regulator has banned not only all TV advertising of occult practices but almost any appearances of witches on TV at all.
The witches feel that their ancient craft is under threat.
Ioana: Let’s do something to bring things back to normal. Let’s bring the Television Regularor back down to Earth. They have no right to keep us from showing our gift.
V: They don’t even invite you to talk shows. They talk about drugs, prostitution, underage criminality, but they don’t talk about witchcraft at all. – that’s why I’m starting this campaign.. We must do something about it
V: Are you licensed? B: Yes I am and I pay my taxes…and they’re not even allowing me to put signposts outside my house.
Bracelet: This advertising ban makes me feel like I’m back in communist times.
Maria: I got in touch with them myself to ask them about the ban. They promised to get back to me. I’m still waiting.
COMM: Witches like Maria have already made their fortunes, but the advertising ban undoubtedly will affect newcomers. Viorel fears the future of the trade, is at risk.
COMM: He’s sending the petition he’s been gathering to the Televison Regulator demanding the lifting of the ban.
2ND ACT – 10’
COMM: With television out of bounds, the witches have been reduced to advertising in the papers.
COMM: Georgia is a 22-years-old Public Relations student.She’s looked at various witche’s adverts, before deciding on Rodica. Georgia wants to know whether she’ll get back together with her ex-boyfriend.
Georgia: I’m particularly interested in finding out about the man that I had quite a long relationship with. Is he the man for me? If not, I’m curious to know who will be next, how’s it going to happen and when?
G: I just want to know the essential things - I don’t want her to tell me any details. I don’t want them to get stuck in my head and influence me.
R (reading Georgia’s cards): You’re thinking about a man at the moment.
R: You have doubts about this man in your heart. Just when you think he’s yours, he slips through your fingers.
R: So you’ve come to hear the truth?G: yesR: but you’re not going to get upset about what I tell you?G: no
R: What happens to you is not holy You have evil spells cast upon you. You’re love life has been thwarted by two women. A mother and a daughter. You first picked the card of doubt, and then the second card shows your two enemies. These women are quite close to your family. They swore not to rest until they bring ruin upon you. They took earth that you had trodden on to a witch, and with that earth she undermined your love life. The witch put a spell in an empty walnut shell, and buried it by the head of a dead man. The spell is such that when you meet a man it ensures you will never stay with him, you will have no future with him, and nothing will go well between you. Happiness, you should have none.
R: If you don’t undo these spells, you could meet twenty men and have no happiness or satisfaction with any of them.
COMM: Rodica explains that she’ll need to probe further into the evil spells to be able to help Georgia. This will take time and money.
G: I have to admit, there were a few things that were true in what she said, but I’m a bit disappointed as she didn’t tell me anything about the future. Her explanation was that she can’t see the future because of the evil spells.
COMM: Diana is getting ready for her second meeting with Rodica. She needs nine candles and three coins from a church for the protective amulet that Rodica will make for her.
COMM: She also needs to buy three flowers of different colours and a pot of honey. In Rodica’s hands these everyday objects are supposed to work magic.
COMM: Diana takes her shopping to Rodica’s house.
R: did you bring nine candles?D: yes, but they’ve melted a bit.R: It doesn’t matter.
R: For this curse to be lifted, you must stick with me. I will give you the amulet in nine days time.D: Do I have to come back in nine days?R: Of course. I have to perform three different spells to rid you of this curse. It’s not like you snap your fingers and you perform miracles. This never happens.
COMM: For the magic to work, Diana is told to perform a ritual at home for the next nine days. On the 10th day, she has to return to pick up the amulet that Rodica will make from the church coins.
COMM: With each session, Rodica’s prices go up. The amulet costs the equivalent of £60, ten times more than the initial tarot reading. At least two more rituals are needed and the cost will get higher.
COMM: In the mean time, Viorel is waiting for an answer to his petition from the Television Regulator. None is forthcoming.
COMM: So we went to meet his nemesis. Ralu Filip is the President of The Television Regulator. .
SYNC MR. FILIP: You mustn’t show me limping. Your viewers will say – ‘He is a lame man, therefore he is frustrated and evil and that’s why he doesn’t allow the witches to advertise.’
SYNC FILIP: We were in danger of seeing television in Romania turned into a permanent fortunetelling business.
SYNC FILIP: By banning the witches from advertising we have reduced the number of people who are swindled.
SYNC FILIP: At a certain point, when drafting this bill, some members of our commission lost their courage. They are as superstitious as anyone else in this country. R: But the truth is that we, the Television Regulator only drafted this bill. It was the Parliament that passed the law.
COMM: The new law was passed in order to comply with EU requirements. There’s no going back.
COMM: COMM: Tonight is Midsummer Night. Rodica, her daughter and two helpers are getting ready to leave to perform the ritual.
R: In the past the witches used to fly on a broomstick, nowadays …R: They drive in Audis, they have mobile phones, they no longer fly on brooms.
COMM: The Midsummer Night ritual has to be performed by water. Rodica is now on her way to the lake
R: Tonight I am only allowed to perform love spells. I’m doing this ritual for the many girls who have come to me for help with their love lives.
COMM: Midsummer Night is the night of the love fairies. Through this ritual, Rodica is bringing them offerings to win their favour.
R: Tonight I will make this sacrifice for the fate of Diana and Georgia. May this blood cleanse them of all evil spells.
R: You Serpent, you Dragon don’t reach, don’t screech! Don’t seize their destinies, their love lives and their marriages! You aimed high, and entered their fate. Remove yourself from their fate! Go back to where you came from, and to whoever has sent you! These girls are innocent!
R: You twelve fairies, I am sending you these offerings, on this night, so I get the power to cast away all the Black Magic, all the evil spells.
R: You Evil, go and never come back! Go where the priest doesn’t chant, where the shepherd doesn’t graze his sheep!
R: Receive my offerings, you twelve fairies!
COMM: Georgia has been thinking about Rodica’s predictions. She has decided not to go back.
G: Maybe this method works through self-suggestion for those who are weak or for people who at that moment in their lives, can’t find their own solutions.
G: The fact that she didn’t tell me much, and she talked about possible future payments made me distrustful of any gift that she says she has got.
G: This is a just business.
COMM: But with Diana is a different story . She’s meeting friends to tell them how much her life has changed since she saw Rodica.
D: I have some news to tell you..I went to a witch…A: ohhhhh…
D:. She told me that I’m going to have a long and happy lifeB: This is a good thing. Since she was little Diana always believed that she was going to die young.D: I’m never going to say that again! I’m going to have a long and happy life.
D: She told me that my current relationship doesn’t have a future. He’s not the one that is destined for me. This made me sad because I was hoping that I could build something with that man.
A: Do you trust Rodica?D: Yes I trust Rodica. And I’m going to take you there too, to show you!
Back at home Diana anoints herself with honey. It’s part of Rodica’s prescribed ritual to lift the curse upon her family and to improve her love life.
D: Her predictions seem to come true.
D: I do think we can avoid certain things. Indeed there is a destiny for each of us, but I think we can choose our path. We can either take the long path or the short path.
COMM: Midsummer Night is over, but Rodica continues her nightly work – rituals commissioned and paid for by her thousands of clients.
Evils, go away and don’t come back!May God cure them and give them joy throughout their lives. May God cure them! May there be a cure!
END