In Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia, Lindquist researched how magical healers use their trade to both help and swindle suffering citizens. Many healers receive their large number of followers due to their charismatic personalities. Lindquist defined charisma as a “social phenomenology of desire: the emergence of acceptance, admiration and trust that one individual comes to project on another (Lindquist 114). Max Weber defined charisma as “a certain quality of individual personality by virtue of which he is…treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least…exceptional powers or qualities (qtd. In Lindquist 114). A charismatic healer gives hope to suffering clients who have tried multiple solutions and seen
