俄羅斯'巫醫多過醫生'

俄羅斯'巫醫多過醫生'
Russia has ‘more occult healers than doctors’
13:58 01/11/2010
Russia has ‘more occult healers than doctors’
俄羅斯'神秘學醫治者多過醫生'

There are more occult healers in Russia than professional doctors, a leading Russian psychologist said on Monday.
在俄羅斯巫醫多過專業醫生，一位俄羅斯領先心理學家週一表示。
“According to World Health Organization data, there are some 800,000 sorcerers and wizards in Russia,” Andrei Yurevich from the Russian Academy of Sciences told a RIA Novosti news conference.
“根據世界衛生組織的數據，有約800,000名巫師和術士在俄羅斯，”來自俄羅斯科學院的安德烈Yurevich告訴俄新社的新聞發布會。
“As for professional doctors, there are around 640,000,” he added.
“至於專業醫生，大約有六十四萬名，”他補充。
Russian newspapers are full of ads for all manner of urban witches and wizards, and an Internet search for Magicheskie Uslugi (Magical Services) brings up a vast number of websites offering to satisfy every conceivable human desire - for a price.
俄羅斯報紙滿有廣告，為城市的所有種類男女巫師；和一次互聯網搜索Magicheskie Uslugi（魔法服務），帶來一巨大數目的網站提供，以滿足每一種可想像的人類慾望 - 要俾錢。
A survey carried out by the Levada independent polling agency in August discovered that one fifth of Russians have made use of such services.
一項由列瓦達獨立民調機構在八月進行的調查，發現五分之一的俄羅斯人有使用這樣的服務。
Although the authorities have recently moved to crack down on occult advertising, analysts say the entire industry would simply move underground if outlawed.

However, the law would still allow licensed healers to stay in business.

Since 2008, the Federal Scientific Clinical Center for Traditional Methods of Diagnostics and Healing has been issuing permits to practitioners of what it calls “traditional medicine” - an extremely broad definition that includes both folk medicine and psychic healers.

The late 1980s saw an explosion of belief in the paranormal and the occult in the Soviet Union, with psychic healers Anatoly Kashpirovsky and Allan Chumak drawing audiences of millions.

MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti)

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