“Gild a pen - I'll tell you the whole truth”: how does gypsy hypnosis work?

Gypsies have always been considered a people who are engaged criminal activities, those who are well versed in the psychology of people and are able to manipulate them in order to get benefits.

Certainly, the cultural characteristics of the Roma predispose to such things, but only a small part of the Roma are engaged in criminal activities.

Often crimes are committed with the use of the so-called gypsy hypnosis: the ability to force the victim to voluntarily give valuables.

What is it and how does it work?

How do gypsies hypnotize people?

Gypsy hypnosis - an atypical type of hypnosis, which is used mainly by the Gypsy population.

According to beliefs, this skill is practiced only by women, and it is passed on from generation to generation.

Thanks to him, the gypsy woman plunges the victim in full consciousness into the state in which she not fully aware of what is happening and is not able to critically evaluate their actions and decisions.

Some victims cannot even remember later the details of the conversation, during which they gave the gypsy money and valuables.

If necessary, a woman using hypnosis can help other gypsies. Search for victims in public places: at bus stations, railway stations, bus stops, near major shopping centers, and so on, come to the apartments.

The victim is lured by the offer to tell fortunes, the goods are offered, sometimes they are put on pity (“The children are starving, they urgently need money”). Gypsy during the "treatment" seeks to speak very quickly to increase human disorientationwho is going to pick up valuables.

Everyone who engages in criminal activity always has a clear, elaborate plan of actionwhich allows them to achieve success in most cases.

The victims are far from always random people: In some cases, a group of Gypsies monitors a person for some time, asks his neighbors about him, ascertains his needs, desires, and builds a scheme of actions.

Who can get hooked?

Characteristics of people who more often attract the attention of Roma:

1. Women. Girls are often easier to entice with the offer to guess, they are on average more trusting, open, empathetic, which allows you to put pressure on pity. They are also more likely to be greedy for compliments related to appearance, which allows you to quickly get into trust.

   Due to specific gender socialization, women are more often shy, afraid to give a full-fledged rebuff, less critical, less aggressive, therefore they are more convenient for fraudsters.

   In addition, the things that Roma trade in are usually meant for women: cosmetics, bijouterie, clothes, including nursery, fabrics. In addition, women are more likely than men to be depressed.

2. People in a difficult situation, in a state of depression, severe stress, experiencing the death of a loved one. Those who are in despair are more likely to become victims of fraudsters, since it is more difficult for them to critically evaluate everything that is happening around them. Often they feel apathy, helpless, vulnerable, lonely, easier to disorient them. If, for example, a person became depressed because of parting with his beloved, the gypsy who found out this can tell him that there is a lot of love and a strong family waiting for him, say a lot of compliments. This makes it easy to get into trust. Also, people who have lost a loved one are able to believe fortune-tellers, psychics, if, for example, they start talking about the afterlife.
3. People who are inexperienced and naive, are in unusual circumstances for themselves. Probably one of the reasons why Roma often meet at train stations: after trips, people are often exhausted, they do not know the terrain, feel unusual, and usually carry quite a lot of cash with them. Talking them, so that they laid out what can be used for manipulations, and disorienting is much easier than others.

Also, manipulators tend to look for people who can be described as shy, modest, unable to give a full response, believing in the other world, in fortune-telling, extrasensory perception.

Similar things can be clarified during the conversation (and not always the fortune-teller starts it, another person can do it)

Gypsy Techniques and Techniques

The main techniques and techniques used:

1. Technology attract attention. Fraudsters seek to act in areas with a large number of people: in parks, at train stations, in crowded streets, and so on. Attracting attention is the first step before starting a victim's treatment, and it may look different, depending on the capabilities that fraudsters have and their experience. Most often, they offer people who are interested in, any goods (always at the lowest price and incredibly useful, beautiful, necessary), services (usually fortune telling). Sometimes the victim is asked a simple, everyday question to intercept.
2. Technique of establishing contact. Criminals, starting interaction, to begin with assess how the victim reacts to their actions.

   If there are no reactions to specific effects that promote the establishment of contact between the hypnotist and the victim, the manipulators lose interest in it and are looking for someone more suitable.

   The very essence of establishing a contact is as follows: Roma act unexpectedly, use sound, olfactory stimuli, tend to cause an unconscious positive attitude, deliberately accelerate speech and specifically use facial expressions, gestures, often adjusting them to the behavior of the victim, to cause her unconscious feeling that the manipulator look like her. This leads to the fact that the victim ceases to critically assess what is happening, its reactions are slowed down.



3. Introduction to the state of trance, the technique of narrowing attention. When the victim is prepared, the gypsy acts to reduce the activity of the left, logical hemisphere and strengthen the right. Most often for this purpose various irritants are used, often tactile: strokes, touches. Attention is maintained with the help of voice commands like “Here, look here,” “Look at this island on the life line.” The inner feelings of a person can also be used: if you encourage him to plunge into himself, into his worries, he will be easy to use. The manipulator works slowly, carefully following the reactions of the victim.

It is easy for an experienced hypnotist to understand when a person is sufficiently “prepared”: his pupils are dilated, the look is absent, empty, the pose looks frozen, the skin becomes either reddish or pale, the facial muscles relax.

Breathing and heartbeat can either increase or slow down. AT very deep trance state breathing slows down and becomes deep, as if the victim is sleeping.

Extremely sensitive to hypnosis, people can achieve a state in which they will be observed. phenomena similar to somnambulia (sleepwalking), and fraudsters often use them.

Skillful gypsy able to do so that the victim took them to her home, allowed them to take everything they wanted, and even simulated the necessary reactions to their neighbors and family.

Also Roma often use tricks common in marketing, for example, a technique in which a person is asked a question that represents an imitation of the opportunity to choose.

For example, the question "Will you buy or not" is incorrect in terms of marketing gimmicks.

And the question like “Well, will you buy this blouse or this one?” Is just the same, since it doesn’t imply the option “no, I don’t buy”, as a result, the probability that the purchase (most often useless) will be done, increasing. Similar reception can be combined with mild hypnosis.

How to understand what affects you?

If the person has already been put into a trance state, he cannot understand what is happening.

Therefore, the only way to recognize a hypnotist manipulator is to notice in time the specific behavior and actions at the stage when he tries to attract attention and establish contact.

Features that are worth paying attention to:

1. Quick speech. Gypsy hypnotists speak much faster than most people, which allows them to partially disorient the victim. They seek to capture the maximum of her attention and use any opportunity for this.
2. Assertiveness. Contact with a gypsy woman usually turns out to be sudden, which in itself benefits the scammers. If the conversation is started, it is very difficult to get rid of her, and the tricks used in speech help her to maintain the interest and attention of the victim.

   This works especially well if the victim suffers a lack of self-confidence and is difficult to resist anyone.

3. The pursuit of tactile contact. Divination is suitable for a gypsy hypnotist as well as possible, since it in itself includes a lot of aspects that can speed up a person’s immersion into a trance state, including touch.
4. Offer of services. This may be fortune telling, and trade, and many other options.
5. Abundance of compliments. In order to win over the victim, Gypsies seek to shower her with compliments, often unexpected.

Those who are afraid of falling prey to gypsies, it is important in principle to avoid communicating with them, do not let them draw themselves into conversation.

How to protect yourself?

Basic tips:

1. Avoid contact with Roma, especially those who offer services or products. Do not approach them, do not ask questions, do not show any interest.
2. Clearly identify a goal for yourself if you see a gypsy. Remind yourself where you are going and what you plan to do, and concentrate on this thought so that there is no doubt: you are only interested in your goal and nothing more.
3. Avoid eye and tactile contact. Move away, do not look into your eyes, turn away your head and quickly go where you have planned. If you were tried to grab hold of, for example, your forearm, say loudly, “Remove your hand!”, “Let me go!”, If necessary, you can start screaming and outraged.

   In doing so, also do your best not to look them in the face.

4. Ignore any attempt to attract attention. Do not stop at their shouts and questions, do not turn around.
5. If the dialogue took place, try to knock them off balance with an unexpected verbal statement and leave. Or simply abruptly go away, avoiding looking into your eyes. If necessary, you can say loudly, clearly and as categorically as possible “I have urgent business”, “I am very busy (a), goodbye”.



6. If you come to a major city and are afraid to face fraud, arrange for someone to meet you. It is also useful to pre-write plans, estimate how money will be spent, read information about the station, find out how you can quickly leave it if necessary.

Also important develop critical thinking. Many Gypsies use as a victim of people superstitious, overly gullible, believing in fortune-telling, supernatural forces.

If you look at everything critically enough, you are unlikely to become a victim of fraudsters.

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