No 158: Strange Story 1 - No more wizards in Russia (unless they get a license

IMAGINE this situation. Two men come up to you claiming to be wizards. They say that if you give them all your money, they will take it away and then use their skills in magic to triple the value of your cash. So if you gave them, for example, US$35,000, they would convert it into US$105,000.


Would you give them your money?

Well, as this story reports, and in the video below, such an event recently happened in Moscow.



It appears that similar situations have led the Russian parliament to make a law to control the "country's flourishing industry of self-styled wizards and psychic healers by banning advertising and requiring them to acquire licenses".

This makes me wonder: what do you have to do to get a license to be a wizard?

Maybe some kind of competition...