Did you know that Hitler and Churchill trusted the predictions of magicians and psychics in the middle of World War II? And that Fidel Castro, Reagan or Mitterrand consulted their favourite witches and shamans more than their ministers? Or that Franco gave importance to magic and the predictions of the divinatory arts every time he had to make an important decision?
Kings, queens, emperors, prime ministers, military personnel... There are many high-ranking personalities who have had augurs, psychics, magicians and witches at their side throughout history. In fact, today some politicians still turn to them to resolve matters related to their office. The presence of magicians such as Merlin or Rasputin in the British or Russian courts, respectively, playing an important role in the decision-making of their respective kings, with supernatural powers, capable of reading hidden signs and predicting the future, are the golden dream of today's leaders. These pages review the influence that these types of characters have had on the highest levels of government since ancient times; we travel to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia or classical Greece and Rome, and in a long journey we return to the very 21st century, especially in Latin America with the cases of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Maduro or Bolsonaro, without forgetting Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin. Not without first discovering the world of spiritualism, the Freemasons or the occult and paranormal war that was also fought in World War II between allies and Nazis or in the middle of the Cold War.