reporter: pawla says she's relieved.olfar dovbush has promised her neighbor's envy will disappear. faith and superstition are as inseparable as smoke and air in the carpathians. recently, molfars have been conjuring on behalf of their entire country, ukraine, which is waging war against separatists in the east. magdalena recites a spell for protection. ms. mochiovksi: just as smoke leaves fire, so shall the enemy leave our borders, today and for all time. reporter: we head on by horse-drawn cart to a town high up in the mountains to see another celebrated molfarka. this woman is 72, but people still come to her. she doesn't want to tell our fortune today, but does show us how it's done. >> you need bread. it's put three times into water, and you count from nine to one. if everything's fine, the bread will float. if not, it sinks. reporter: but we've come during fasting season, and it's forbidden to practice magic right now. the woman says that politicians also have their fortunes told, but she's careful around them. poli