By Kim Murphy
A tradition of concern — To some of Moscow’s cynical detectives, their desks heaped with Mafia assassinations and billion-dollar business-fraud cases, the idea of street hypnosis has the whiff of mumbo-jumbo. Not so to many Russians reared on folk tales of vampires, witches “” and, in the modern era, the hidden powers of the mind.
Czarina Alexandra fell famously under the influence of the allegedly hypnotic powers of the “mad monk,” Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, in the early 20th century. The late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had a personal psychic healer.
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