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In 1942, the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border was opened, and people from Petrich and more distant places began to come to Vanga. Everyone wanted to hear about himself, his and his family's future. The sick also came in the hope that Vanga would be able to cure them.
Once, several soldiers of the 2nd quartermaster regiment of the Bulgarian army came to her. Among them was one swarthy 23-year-old soldier named Dimitar Gushcherov, from the village of Kryndzhilitsa. It turns out that he dreamed of personally talking with Wanga, to find out the future, which did not bode well for him. The villains killed and robbed his merchant brother near the village of Sklava. Three children were left orphans, whose mother was ill with tuberculosis.
Dimitar was stomping around in the yard, not daring to enter. Suddenly Vanga came out of the house and called him by name: “I know why you came. You want to know the names of your brother's killers, maybe I'll give them to you, but you have to promise me that you won't take revenge. You will live and become a witness to their crimes - in court.
Vanga did not allow anyone to take revenge. She firmly believes that a person should strive to do only good, since evil deeds, including revenge, never go unpunished. And the punishment is always very cruel, and if it does not strike the avenger himself, then it will certainly become a curse for his descendants. She was often asked why this was happening so unfairly, and she always answered: “To make it hurt more!”
Another incident comes to mind. A few years ago, a peasant came to Vanga. 13 children were born in his family, but all died young, the last, the thirteenth, died at the age of twelve. The doctors believed that the mother, without knowing it herself, infected the children, even in the womb, with tuberculosis, but Vanga had a different explanation. Vanga reminded her guest that as a young man he was foolishly embarrassed by the late pregnancy of his already elderly mother. And once even severely offended her. He regretted, of course, but too late: both she and the child died. So it happened a long time ago that a person managed to forget, but did not “forget” Wang, she immediately understood why nature is so ruthless to the offspring of this unfortunate one. Vanga not only reminded him of what happened many years ago,
but she also told a number of such details that no one knew, and after that she added: “You must know that the cause of your trouble is not in your wife. One must always be kind so as not to suffer a lifetime.
But back to the meeting with the young soldier. Then, in Strumica, in 1942, Dimitar Gushcherov was so struck by what Vanga said that he did not remember how he left her house. Dimitar could not understand how she knew his name, how she guessed what was tormenting his soul. Then he came to Vanga several more times, and they talked for a long time in a small room.
In mid-April, Vanga told her sister that Dimitar was wooing her and soon the two of them would leave to live in Petrich.
There were no brothers with them at that time. Basil served as a soldier in Dupnitsa, and Tome was taken to work in Germany.
On April 22, in the morning, a painted carriage stopped in front of Vanga's house. Excited, Dimitar jumped to the ground. The stroller was filled with fragrant herbs and flowers, decorated with bright colorful rugs. The news quickly spread throughout the district, and neighbors began to come from everywhere, just acquaintances, to say goodbye to Vanga. Some even reproached her for leaving her native land. Vanga did not listen to them, since she did not say goodbye to her homeland, but to difficult memories, poverty and a joyless orphan life. Their future was also not completely clear, but they hoped that joyful days awaited the young family.
The bride's dowry was purely symbolic: Vanga threw a red woolen scarf over her shoulders, knitted by herself, and, as a remembrance of her parents' house, she took a copper bowler hat and a copper can. That was all her luggage. Lyubka sat down beside them, looked back at their miserable house for the last time...
A large rusty lock was hung on the gate, and no one knew when it would open now.
Swaying quietly, the carriage headed towards Petrich, the three future relatives were silent, experiencing farewell to Strumica.
We arrived in Petrich in the evening of the same day, stopped at 10 Opolchencheskaya Street. We went out in front of a rickety little house, which could not even be called residential. The shattered roof could collapse at any moment. In front of the house was a large untidy yard. From the windows of neighboring houses dozens of eyes followed them with curiosity, the glory of Vanga the soothsayer reached this city. Someone went out into the street, some aunt began to be surprised loudly: how can a blind woman be a mistress and, in general, what kind of worker is she ... But Vanga did not pay any attention to these words.
We entered a dark, long and dirty corridor. On both sides there was a small room. One of them later became a bedroom, and in the other Vanga received her many visitors.
“Behind there was another room, added later,” Lyubka recalls, “in which the flooring was made of boards, a mattress lay on it, and woolen bags filled with corn straw served as pillows. Baba Magdalena, the 70-year-old mother of her future husband, three children of her murdered son, and two more children from another son, and their mother with tuberculosis, slept on this “bed”. The filth and poverty are depressing.”
This is how Vanga exchanged one life filled with poverty and deprivation for another, no less impoverished and difficult.
On May 10, 1942, Vanga married Dimitar and began to take charge of her new home. It was very difficult for the young woman. Grandmother Magdalena, with the frankness inherent in ordinary people, did not approve of the choice of her son and at the very first moment of the meeting said: “Is this your fate?” She probably hoped that her son would lead her to a house where, in addition to five children, in the corner lay a dying, strong, healthy rural girl, who would take care of all the housework, since grandma Magdalena was no longer able to do it.
Vanga silently swallowed the insult and very soon showed what she was capable of. She was not afraid of any evil slander, or poverty, or any difficulties whatsoever, since she had not only a strong character, but also considerable experience in the struggle for life, an experience acquired, one might say, from birth.
Day and night, together with Lyubka, they washed, cleaned, painted, repaired, and soon the house shone with cleanliness. In those war years, it was simply impossible to create at least some comfort, but Vanga, with her inherent ingenuity, created amazing things out of nothing. A feature that is very typical of Vanga's style, which always tries to make everything around it "beautiful and pleasing to the eye."
Vanga forbade the inhabitants of the roundabout villages to trade in their yard, they cleaned it out, put things in order. Throughout the yard and house one could feel the firm hand of a skilled housewife.
The family lived in exactly the same way as other families of that wartime, but this did not last long. Rumors about Vanga's visionary talent dispersed like circles in water from a thrown stone, and again a human river flowed to Vanga's house. The husband was very unhappy with this development. He believed that after marriage, Vanga would stop his predictions and would only deal with home and family affairs, following the example of all married women. Deeply respecting Vanga, he felt embarrassed, as he was not able to support his family himself. Vanga loved and appreciated him both as a person and as a spouse, but she believed that her calling - to serve people - was much stronger than family attachments, and even her personal life should be dedicated to others. In addition, her amazing gift haunted her, requiring constant self-expression.
A variety of people walked and walked towards her: both civilians, and military men, and the sick, and the languishing, in each of their eyes shone hope for help.
In those years, many Bulgarian youths fought against the fascist yoke in partisan detachments. Their relatives and friends often came to Vanga in the hope of hearing something about the children. Partisan Asen Iskarov said to his mother: “Don't be afraid! Go to Vanga more often, and she will tell you everything about me.
Such visits did not remain a secret even for the police. Two policemen, Dimitar Sugurov and Boris Nazarov, came to Vanga almost daily, threatened her, demanded to tell what she was talking about with relatives of “enemies of the authorities”. But Wang was silent. Then the police came up with something else: they began to force her to work out the “labor service”, from which the blind Vanga had previously been released.
The question of the attitude of the Church towards the soothsayer Vanga still worries society. Who was she? From whom did you receive your gift? Before […]
The question of the attitude of the Church towards the soothsayer Vanga still worries society. Who was she? From whom did you receive your gift?
Until now, there are people who call Vanga a “saint”, a “soothsayer”, “clairvoyant”, comparing her with the blessed Matrona of Moscow and not understanding why the church recognized Vanga as a witch. People ask: “Why? Isn't she a church girl? I went to church; built a temple - it was the dream of her life", "What did this woman do wrong, helping so many people?" etc. She said: “Go and be baptized!” – as if she had never been a stranger to the Church. Hence the difficulties arise. On the one hand, she clearly declared that she belonged to the Church, and on the other hand, everything she did was completely contrary to the dogma of the Church. And this is another clear evidence that it is becoming increasingly difficult for modern man to distinguish between spirits and adhere to the true teachings of Christ. This is the fruit of an atheistic upbringing and Christian illiteracy.
Vanga and Church
Sometimes false information appears in the media that the Bulgarian Orthodox Church canonized Vanga as a saint. This statement is not true. Here is the official response to the Superstition.net website, received from Bulgaria.
Vanga - a new "saint" for the Russian viewer? In Russia, there is a high interest in Vanga. In the spring of 2011, a film about her was released on NTV - with a rating comparable to the ratings of football matches. Now on Channel One in prime time, that is, at the most convenient time for viewing, the series “Vangelia”, dedicated to the Bulgarian soothsayer, has been running for the second week. At the same time, the main character in the film looks almost like a saint: kind, meek, hardworking, sincerely pious.
In connection with the show on Channel One of the series "Vangelia", many people began to contact the editors of the Pravoslavie.Ru portal with questions about whether Vanga was an Orthodox Christian. The following materials clearly demonstrate that the Bulgarian soothsayer was in fact a sorceress and psychic, whose source of “inspiration” was demonic forces.
When Vladyka arrived a few days later and entered the old woman's room, he held in his hands a reliquary cross with a particle of the Holy Cross of the Lord. There were a lot of people in the room, Vanga was sitting in the back, broadcasting something and could not hear that another person quietly entered the door. At any rate, she couldn't have known who it was. Suddenly she broke off and in a changed - low, hoarse - voice with an effort she said: “Someone came in here. Let him immediately throw THIS on the floor!” "What is it"?" - the stunned people around asked Vanga. And then she broke into a frantic cry: “THIS! He is holding IT in his hands! THIS prevents me from speaking! Because of this, I can't see anything! I don't want THAT in my house!" yelled the old woman, kicking her legs and swaying.
Brief biography of Vanga (1911-1996)
Vangelia Pandeva Guscherova (1911-1996), better known as Vanga, was born on January 31, 1911 in Strumnitsa (now Macedonia) into a poor peasant family. Vanga was only 3 years old when, in 1914, at the birth of her second child, her mother Paraskeva died. After the end of the First World War, around 1919, her father Pande Surchev married a second time, to Tanka Georgieva, who becomes Vanga's stepmother. From Tanke he had three more children (Vasil, Tome and Lyubka). At the birth of his fourth child in 1928, Tanka, his second wife, also died.
When Vanga was 12 years old, in 1923, an event happened to her that changed her whole future life. When she, along with her two cousins, was returning to the village from the field, a hurricane of terrible force lifted her into the air and carried her far into the field. We found it, littered with branches and sprinkled with sand. Because of the sand that got into her eyes, she undergoes three unsuccessful eye surgeries, as a result of which Vanga completely loses her sight.
At the age of 14, Vanga was sent to the city of Zemun (Serbia) to the House of the Blind, where she spends three years of her life and studies the Broglie alphabet, music, and begins to play the piano well. The girl is taught to knit, cook, sew. At the age of 18, she is proposed to by a blind man named Dimitar, who also lives in the House of the Blind. His parents are rich, and the girl can expect a secure future. Vanga agrees, but at this time she receives news from her father about the death of her stepmother Tanka, the father calls her daughter home, as her help is needed to care for her young brothers and sister. The wedding with Dimitar is upset, and Vanga returns to his father, actively getting involved in everyday chores.
Knowing how to knit beautifully, Vanga takes orders at home, is engaged in weaving. But the money earned is not enough for a decent life, and the family lives in poverty.
Vanga's unusual abilities began to appear in April 1941, when she was 30 years old. She was visited by "a tall, fair-haired, mysterious rider of divine beauty" who told her that he would be by her side and help her make predictions about the dead and the living. Soon after that, “another voice began to be heard from her lips, which called with amazing accuracy the places and events, the names of the mobilized men who would return alive, or with whom some kind of misfortune would happen ...”. Since that time, Vanga began to fall into a trance frequently, receive more and more visitors, find lost people and things, and talk to the "dead".
In 1940, Vanga's father died at the age of 54. In May 1942, Vanga marries, at the categorical command of the "forces", Dimitar Gushterov (despite the fact that he was then engaged to another woman). Vanga's family life was unhappy, she had no children, and 5 years after the wedding, her husband Dimitar fell seriously ill (in 1947), began to drink very heavily and died in April 1962 at 42 years of age.
In 1982, at the age of 71, Vanga moved to the Rupite area, surrounded by respect and great recognition from many people. Vanga receives visitors almost until her death, at the age of 85 (she died of cancer on August 11, 1996). More than 15,000 people came to her funeral, including senior officials (presidents, ambassadors, diplomats, the entire cabinet of ministers, deputies and journalists). Such, in general terms, is the life of the world-famous soothsayer.
The appearance of the "gift"
In her youth, when Vanga became blind, according to her, John Chrysostom appeared before her, who said that she would become the first fortuneteller (strange, because St. John Chrysostom always spoke of fortune tellers as servants of the evil one). And much later, she became the owner of an unusual "gift". Many people came to her every day. She could tell a person's past. Discover details that even loved ones did not know. Often she made predictions and predictions. People left strongly impressed.
Vanga's visions began with her communication with a certain "horseman". Here is how the niece describes one of these visions from the words of Vanga: “... He (the rider) was tall, Russian and divinely handsome. Dressed like an ancient warrior, in armor that glittered in the moonlight. His horse wagged its white tail and dug the ground with its hooves. He stopped in front of the gates of Vanga's house, jumped off his horse and entered a dark room. Such a radiance emanated from him that it became light inside, as if during the day. He turned to Vanga and spoke in a low voice: “Soon the world will turn upside down and many people will die. In this place you will stand and prophesy to the dead and the living. Don't be afraid! I will be next to you and I will say what you have to convey to them! Who was this rider who appeared to Vanga?
The source of Vanga's "gift"
According to relatives and those who knew Vanga, she spoke about the voices that dictated the prophecies. Holy Scripture and the holy fathers speak of two sources of the gift of divination: from God and from demonic powers. There is no third. Who gave Vanga information about the invisible world? Where did this astonishing awareness come from? This answer can be found in the book of Krasimira Stoyanova, Vanga's niece.
K. Stoyanova gives various details about how Vanga communicated with the other world, with "spirits":
Question: Do you talk to spirits?
Vanga: Many and very different come. Some I can't understand. Not those who now come and are near me, I understand. One comes, knocks on my door and says: “This door is bad, change it!”
Question: Do you remember anything after being in a trance?
Vanga: Not. I don't remember almost anything. After the trance, I feel very bad all day.
Question: Godmother, why don't you remember what is said during a trance?
Vanga: When they want to speak through me, I, as a spirit, leave my body and stand aside, and they enter me and speak, and I do not hear anything.
It is enough to look at the forces with which Vanga communicated to understand that they are dark.
As Stoyanova wrote, according to Vanga herself, the creatures that communicate with her have some kind of hierarchy, because there are “bosses” who rarely come, only when they need to report some extraordinary events or big cataclysms. Then Vanga's face becomes pale, she faints and a voice begins to be heard from her mouth that has nothing to do with her voice. He is very strong and has a completely different timbre. The words and sentences that come out of her mouth have nothing to do with the words that Vanga uses in his usual speech. It is as if some kind of alien mind, some kind of alien consciousness, inhabits her in order to inform through her lips about events fatal to people. Vanga called these creatures "great strength" or "great spirit."
The description of the creatures that Vanga communicates with very clearly reveals to us the world of the heavenly spirits of evil, just as it was described in the Holy Scriptures and by the Holy Fathers: the dark forces have a hierarchy; a person cannot control his mental and bodily activities; The "forces" arbitrarily come into contact with Vanga, completely disregarding her desires.
Other demons who gave Vanga predictions about the past and future of her visitors appeared under the guise of their dead relatives. Vanga admitted: “When a person stands in front of me, all the deceased relatives gather around him. They themselves ask me questions and willingly answer mine. What I hear from them is what I pass on to the living.” The appearance of fallen spirits under the guise of dead people has been known since ancient biblical times. The Word of God emphatically forbids such fellowship: Turn not to those who call up the dead (Lev. 19:31).
In addition to the spirits that appeared to Vanga under the guise of "small forces" and "large forces", as well as deceased relatives, she communicated with another type of inhabitants of the other world. She called them the inhabitants of the "planet Vamphim" (no comment).
In K. Stoyanova's story about Vanga's contacts with the dead, there is an episode where she made contact with the long-dead clairvoyant theosophist Helena Blavatsky. And when Svyatoslav Roerich visited Vanga, she told him: “Your father was not just an artist, but also an inspired prophet. All his paintings are insights, predictions. As is known, Bishops' Council of 2000 excommunicated ardent fighter against Christianity N. Roerich(the founder of the occult teaching "Agni Yoga") and E. Blavatsky(founder of the Theosophical Society) from the Church.
In addition, Vanga spoke very well of Juna Davitashvili, approved of the activities of psychics, communicated personally with many of them, and was actively involved in healing herself. As for the methods of its treatment, no textbook of magic would disdain to describe them. Here is a brief retelling of one of the many cases in Vanga's practice and her recommendations. A certain man, having lost his mind, grabbed an ax and rushed at his relatives, when the brothers tied him up and brought him to Vanga, she advised him to do the following: “Buy a new clay pot, fill it with water from the river, scooping against the current, and this water three times water the patient. Then throw the pot back to break it and don't look back!" We do not see a word about repentance and church life that could heal the soul of the sick! Healings performed by Orthodox saints have always aimed, first of all, at spiritual healing; healing the flesh at the cost of defeating the spirit is the lot of occult healers of all stripes.
In her work, Vanga often used sugar, which allowed her to see the past and future of a person. A person who came to her for advice brought with him two or three pieces of sugar, which before that had to lie under his pillow for several days. Taking these pieces in her hands, Vanga told the man about his past and future. Fortune telling with the help of a magic crystal has been known since ancient times. For Vanga, sugar was an accessible kind of crystal that everyone could bring (sugar has a crystalline structure).
All the above facts and evidence show that Vanga's "phenomenon" fits perfectly into the classical framework of experiences of communication with fallen spirits. The inhabitants of the other world revealed to Vanga the present and past of people.
Vanga herself did not realize that she was communicating with the world of fallen spirits. Many of its visitors did not understand this either. A strict spiritual life and many years of ascetic experience save us from being seduced by fallen spirits. Such an attitude teaches spiritual sobriety and protects from pernicious delusion. St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), speaking about fallen spirits, says that because of their sinfulness, people are closer to them than to the Angels of God. And therefore, when a person is not spiritually prepared, instead of angels, demons appear to him, which, in turn, leads to severe spiritual temptation. Vanga had neither the experience of Christian spiritual life, nor the knowledge that could help her in a critical assessment of incomprehensible phenomena that suddenly powerfully invaded her life. The house in which Vanga lived, in her opinion, was built on the site of an ancient pagan temple. There is evidence that many people, coming to this place, felt oppressed.
Yes, Vanga was engaged in divination and some of her predictions came true, but from the point of view of biblical teaching, this fact in itself does not yet prove the spiritual purity of the source of predictions, for example, in the Bible we read about a maid possessed by “... a prophetic spirit, which through divination delivered great income for their masters” (Acts 16:16). We emphasize that the spirit of divination left the woman after the command of St. Paul, uttered by him in the name of Jesus Christ: “Paul, being indignant, turned and said to the spirit: In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her. And [the spirit] went out at the same hour” (Acts 16:18). Given Vanga's sympathy for the occult and extrasensory perception, we can conclude that the same forces that feed the occult and magic acted at the basis of her spiritual phenomenon, and therefore, if Vanga had been in the place of that New Testament maid, she would have suffered the same fate.
Once, accidentally finding herself not far from the cross, which had a particle of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, Vanga demanded that it be removed from her, since she could not prophesy. It is known that if Orthodox prayers were read next to Vanga, she also lost her gift.
Church of Vanga
Vanga built a church in Rupita in the name of St. Paraskeva of Bulgaria. But not everything is so simple here either. The built temple violates all church canons. Architecture and painting belong to the famous artist Svetlin Rusev, who is a great admirer of Nicholas Roerich, which was very evident during the construction of the church. The altar and wall paintings were so inconsistent with the ideas of the Orthodox faith that some even called for the destruction of the building. The temple was nicknamed "Masonic".
Vanga herself called the construction of the church a "sacrifice". The foundation stone of the church was laid on August 20, 1992 by the then Nevrokosky Metropolitan Pimen, but it should be noted that in that year a split occurred in the Bulgarian Church, and Metropolitan Pimen was one of the organizers of this split. The construction of the church was carried out by the Vanga Foundation. In 1994, the altar of the temple was consecrated by the canonical Metropolitan Nathanael of Nevrokop, but despite this, schismatics and members of the Vanga Foundation immediately began to dispose of it. Currently, this temple has been turned into a tourist center. Interestingly, opposite the image of the Savior, there is a portrait of Vanga herself, made using the “pseudo-icon” technique, which also caused a sharp rejection of the clergy, who call such faces semi-occult.
About the "holiness" of Vanga
Today, fellow countrymen of the great clairvoyant demand that the Church canonize Vanga as a saint. People come to her grave in Rupita, as if to a saint, with prayers and requests. Their argument for the “holiness” of Vanga is the words of Stoyanova: “Vanga was chosen by Heaven. My aunt was a believing, modest woman. She observed the canons, prayed, attended church with joy. And always called for faith in God! As for the priests, they did not officially recognize her, but even the metropolitans came to her to talk about business. And she spoke the truth, even the hard-hitting.” Vanga herself, in her statements, spoke of a good attitude towards the Church and sometimes even baptized children. But Vanga did not convert anyone to Orthodoxy!
It must be emphasized that true Orthodox holiness is fundamentally different from the phenomena that we see in Vanga. Christian holiness is manifested with a full and clear consciousness of spiritual experiences, there is no violence against the will of man. The grace of God transforms a person not after natural disasters and hurricanes or after the appearance of horsemen, but after conscious Christian asceticism and observance of God's commandments. It usually takes many years of purification before the spiritual fruits begin to visibly manifest. We need moral efforts and, as Seraphim of Sarov says, the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Vanga is far from these conditions, how many misconceptions she has regarding the Christian faith. It is noteworthy that Vanga falls into a trance and does not remember anything after it. She has an alien voice with which she speaks, and this shows that another being inhabits her, which she herself admitted. At the moment of such an introduction, she (“the saint”) began to growl. This is not holiness, but obsession, the opposite of holiness. A person in this state does not communicate with the Holy Spirit, with the Lord, but with dark forces.
As far as the performance of miracles is concerned, miracles may not necessarily be manifestations of holiness. As we know from the lives of the saints, not all saints performed miracles. Conversely, there are many cases of miracle-working with an obvious lack of holiness (sorcerers, fortune-tellers, modern psychics with frankly abnormal lives, some fans of Eastern religions, etc.), which is a clear indication that these supernatural "miracles" are the work of fallen spirits.
Many people who are far from the Church and have naive ideas about dark forces (and their human servants) are deceived by the fact that Vanga often talks about God, about light, faith, Christ, love, wisdom. Vanga uses the word "Christianity" only as a screen. Under the guise of Christianity, they preach non-Christian ideas and practice non-Christian activities.
What is common between Vanga and the blessed Matrona of Moscow? Blindness? So Homer was blind. Vanga was openly engaged in witchcraft, spoke about the special gift that she had after a strong hurricane, took money for the reception (not personally, but through the fund). It was a well-established and well-established business, on which a lot of people profited - the whole environment of the Bulgarian sorceress. Blessed Matrona lay paralyzed, humbly carried her cross and prayed to God for the people who asked her about it.
There is no easy way to God and never has been. That is why the Lord speaks of the narrow path. He does not promise everyone who wants to enter the Kingdom of God that they will enter it. He says that the Kingdom of God is taken by force. Modern man does not want to make any effort and does not force himself to do anything. He wants everything to become by magic. He wants to drive in his car to the Kingdom of Heaven, where God himself will meet him, pat him on the shoulder and tell him that everything is fine, you are beautiful, nothing is required of you. But it's not.
Material prepared by Sergey SHULYAK
Used Books:
1. Hieromonk Vissarion (Zaographsky). "VANGA - A PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WITCH"
2. Hieromonk Job (Gumerov). How does the Church feel about the "clairvoyant" Vanga?
3. Pitanov V.Yu. Vanga: who pulled the string?
4. Hieromonk Vissarion: “There is no easy way to God”
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The gift of a soothsayer in a young Bulgarian woman, Vangelia Pandeva Gushterova, nee Dimitrova, later named Vanga, actively manifested itself during the Second World War. The villagers turned to a blind neighbor who allegedly saw through walls and time. They asked to find the missing husbands. And Vanga named the places where the wanted people could be alive or buried.
Who is Vanga?
The fame of the miraculous abilities of Vangelia spread throughout the cities of Bulgaria. In 1942, Tsar Boris III came to her and asked to see his future. And she saw... And what she saw came true...
How did a simple illiterate woman acquire an extraordinary ability to look into the past and look into the future? Scientists from different countries are still trying to unravel this phenomenon.
Getting an appointment with a seer and healer is not so easy. Ordinary people had to wait more than a year. Only eminent figures were let in without a queue.
Vanga herself chose who should be accepted first. The path to her home for all foreigners began from the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia.
Then from Sofia it was necessary to drive over 180 kilometers by bus or by car to the Bulgarian town of Petrich, in which Vanga had her house.
Then from Petrich along a country road after 7 kilometers it was possible to get to the village of Rupite, where in recent years Vanga also lived in her house.
Rupite is not an easy place. It can be called witchcraft. It is located at the foot of the Kozhukh volcano, which has long since died out. Centuries ago, red-hot magma flowed to the surface of the earth, gases escaped.
It is said that these gases still hover imperceptibly in the air. If you inhale them, then all sorts of illusory visions may arise. Allegedly, this breath of the earth saturated Vanga, helped to guess the future and the past.
In a small house in Rupita, the fortune teller received visitors. Up to a hundred people a day. 5-10 minutes for each. And only for eminent made an exception.
She did not refuse anyone, although there were cases, she drove away the negligent. The fortuneteller slept for 4-5 hours a day.
Most remained satisfied with her advice and predictions. Many said that they were relieved, as if various ailments had left them, that after meeting with the village healer, renewal was taking place inside.
Vanga's house in the town of Petrich
How did Vanga go blind?
Vangelia was born into a poor peasant family in the village of Strumitsa, which at that time was part of the Ottoman Empire. The girl was born seven months old, and her parents feared for her life.
They did not give her a name, they waited for her to get stronger. She received the name Vangelia (Greek for good news) from a passing woman who, according to tradition, was stopped by her father and mother in the street and asked to name their daughter.
Vanga's childhood was difficult. The mother soon died, and the father was taken into the army, the First World War began. After returning from the front, his father married, but lived in poverty.
Vanga grew up mobile, invented all sorts of games, most often pretended to be a doctor, sometimes blindfolded, she easily found hidden things and thus surprised everyone.
When Vangelia was 12 years old, she walked with the girls on the outskirts of the village. Suddenly the wind picked up, it blew with such force that it uprooted the trees. It was a tornado.
A stream of hot air caught the girl and lifted her into the air. She was found late in the evening in a field among a pile of stones, sand and branches. They took it home. She complained about her eyes - they were covered with sand.
Washing didn't help. Her eyes hurt, she could barely see.
Local doctors were unable to help her, and there was no money to go to the capital. The girl was completely blind.
She was sent to a home for the blind, where she learned the relief-dotted tactile alphabet of the blind Frenchman Louis Braille, by the way, the son of a shoemaker, and mastered many different worldly wisdom.
Met a blind guy and they even wanted to get married. But... After some time, her father, who was hired as a shepherd, took her from the house of the blind.
During childbirth, his wife died, and Vanga had to do housework, raise younger brothers and sister, and had to forget about a happy marriage.
Blindness and prophecy
Blindness really endowed Vanga with a special gift - to keenly sense the environment. One day, when she was 16 years old, a sheep disappeared from her father's flock. Alien animal.
My father had no money to pay for the lost sheep. And then Vanga told him that the sheep should be looked for from a neighbor, she called his name.
The father was very surprised, but he found the sheep exactly where Vanga indicated. His father died in 1940, and the blind Vanga became the head of the family.
When German troops entered the territory of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Vanga changed, she turned into a devout prophetess and spoke about the men who went to the front, called those who were destined to return or fall on the battlefield.
Vanga became for the locals not only a soothsayer, healer, but also almost a goddess.
Later it was said that Wehrmacht officers visited her incognito. What did they want to hear from her?
They say that allegedly in 1943, Adolf Hitler himself, the Fuhrer of great Germany, visited her. And allegedly she told him: "Leave Russia alone! You will lose this war!"
The Fuhrer left her very dissatisfied. Apparently, he did not like the prediction of the Bulgarian prophetess. But he did not take revenge on her.
Vanga nevertheless married a soldier Dimitar Gushcherov, and although God did not give them his children, they had an adopted son and daughter.
Vanga with her husband Dimitar
What is the secret of Vanga's phenomenality?
Vanga is a unique person in his own way. She did not read anything in her life, she was hardly able to think about her abilities, especially to analyze, train her hearing, her feelings.
However, a critical moment occurred in her life, and human nature somehow revived in her, spoke in her own language, which is different from what we all understand. She became clairvoyant.
She never guessed that another I was hidden in her. The well-known Russian researcher of the human psyche, Yuri Gorny, for example, was sure that Vanga was helped by the ubiquitous employees of the Bulgarian authorities.
Allegedly, the maids in the hotels questioned the guests and passed the information on to Vanga, the taxi drivers questioned the visitors and also signaled further. Could this happen in practice?
It is doubtful - the flow to the healer was too great. It was not easy to figure out who was going to her, for what purpose. And was the game worth the candle?
Chapel of St. Paraskeva in the Bulgarian village of Rupite. It was built in 1994 according to the project of the Bulgarian architect Svetlin Rusev. The money for the construction of the chapel was given by the clairvoyant Vanga, who lived the last twenty years of her life in this village.
How was Vanga's superpower of clairvoyance explained?
Some medical specialists, speaking on television, each in their own way, evaluated the talent of the clairvoyant.
Everyone recognized that she possessed some special natural instinct. Only what?
She is in no way a witch, not a charlatan, she did not deceive people, did not take money from them, she did not act in the name of her own enrichment.
She did not make money on her gift, she needed to communicate with people, she wanted her gift to bring benefits, to help those who suffer.
It was the gratitude of the people who received advice or even a cure from her that was her greatest reward.
Some argued that her gift manifested itself after an accident, when in childhood she lost her sight, later the body was rebuilt, and her internal sensory abilities became aggravated.
The girl began to somehow especially acutely feel another person, to perceive his pains as her own. It was this acute feeling of the other that allowed her to correctly diagnose.
But most of the time she was just guessing, nothing more. It has nothing to do with medicine.
Others called her the village healer. Again, nothing more. This meant that she was practicing medicine without a medical degree and without permission.
But the healer is a representative of traditional medicine, which has accumulated considerable experience in treating patients with natural remedies, including conspiracies and spells.
And if his treatment gave a positive result, what's wrong with that?
What Vanga herself said
Vanga herself explained her superpowers for clairvoyance in this way - supposedly ghostly creatures sometimes appear near her. Who they are, she does not know and cannot describe them.
It was from these ghosts that she received information about the person who came to see her. When they were close, she could know the whole past life of a visitor, foresee what fate awaits him.
She saw as if she were in a movie, and live shots passed before her eyes. She offered to treat illnesses ... by going to the doctor or by decoctions of medicinal plants.
She claimed that decoctions work best through the skin, advised them to pour over.
And yet, she loved the smell of flowers. These smells played a special role for her. They helped her establish a connection with ghosts, with the cosmos, through them she received information about a person's past.
When asked why she, a healer for others, did not have her own children, did not save her husband from alcoholism (he died in 1962), she replied that everyone in the family had their own path written and she was not able to influence it. .
Vanga made her predictions for free in the USSR in the 1970s. the popular science film Seven Steps Beyond the Horizon, filmed in 1968 by director Felix Sobolev, was shown.
For the first time, it showed achievements in the field of research on the capabilities of the human brain, analyzed the sensory abilities of a person. The film aroused great interest of millions of people.
The audience saw experiments in which various people with phenomenal abilities took part. This film raised questions that at the time no one really could answer.
What did Vanga predict?
Vanga rarely predicted political events. Although she said that soon a coup or revolution would take place in one or another part of the earth, the president would be replaced somewhere.
Most often, she made such forecasts at the request of politicians who visited her. Vanga singled out Russia in particular.
She clearly favored the Russians, predicted a lot of good things in the future, invited Boris Yeltsin to her place. He did not go himself, but sent people to her, including a television company.
Russian journalists made a documentary about Vanga, which also had many questions and few answers about who she is.
The Bulgarian press wrote mostly positive things about Vanga, while the Western European press often published skeptical and ironic articles.
Some journalists who visited Vanga called her an extraordinary phenomenon worthy of attention, scientific study.
Others, who, by the way, did not have her, considered her just a village sorceress, a local fortune-teller, a fortune-teller, hardly endowed with a special gift to unravel the human essence, which, based on her self-awareness and some kind of inner clairvoyance, successfully guesses.
They believed that Vanga was more often mistaken, she relies on her everyday experience, says elementary things, thoughtful conclusions are inaccessible to her. It is not interesting for an educated person to listen to her.
And yet, for the most part, both journalists and scientists, including doctors, agreed that there was something unusual in this elderly woman, in her statements.
Meeting with a German journalist
One German journalist wrote that, going to her, he was very skeptical. And when I saw it, I was completely disappointed.
He was supposed to have given her a lump of sugar, which had been under his pillow for two days before, supposedly this lump of sugar helped her see the past and the future. Then he held out his hand.
Usual procedure. Vanga accurately told the German about his past. Along the way, I noticed that he had a sick stomach, he should stop smoking and drinking beer. Then she moved on to politics.
She said that in the near future Germany was waiting for renewal, she would unite, that after the Russian troops would leave her territory.
The journalist was stunned by what he heard. Over the years, everything happened as Vanga predicted.
The Germans in 1990 united into one state, rejoiced, then became disillusioned with each other, and in 1994 Russian military units finally left the territory of united Germany.
Vanga (1911-1996) 
Vanga's house in Rupite
What did Vanga predict to the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III?
At the same time, Tsar Boris III, popular in Bulgaria, learned about the clairvoyant, predicting future events, who ascended the throne at 24 after the defeat of the country in the First World War.
The tsar could not ignore the fellow tribeswoman-soothsayer, to whom, as he was informed, even the Nazis dropped by.
In April 1942, a motorcade of cars appeared in the village of Strumice and stopped at a modest one-story rural house.
A man of medium height with a mustache and a hat stepped out of one of the cars. Adjutants ran up to him and showed him the way. He removed his hat and entered the house.
Nobody knows exactly what Vanga and the king were talking about. He asked not to spread about the meeting. Only later, Vanga's sister Lyubka admitted that Vanga was waiting for his arrival.
She was sitting in her corner, and before Boris had time to say hello, she began to speak.
According to Lyubka, Vanga said that his rule made it possible to expand the borders of Bulgaria, to establish its authority in Europe, but this was not for long. Bulgaria will shrink. He was told the date was August 28th.
With what the date was connected, she did not explain. And she repeated several times: Get ready for it, it's coming soon. She didn't say anything more. The king left her in great embarrassment.
Death of Boris III
As you know, exactly one year later, on August 28, Tsar Boris III, a pacifist by conviction, who did not declare war on the USSR, did not send Bulgarian troops to the Eastern Front, saved 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation into German slavery, died suddenly.
Officially from a heart attack. He was only 49 years old.
Later it turned out that his death occurred immediately after returning from East Prussia, where he met with Hitler. Obviously, the Fuhrer did not like the independent position of the Bulgarian Tsar.
Boris returned to Sofia in a gloomy mood. Suddenly, his heart ached. And it stopped. The doctors were powerless.
In Bulgaria, they said that supposedly German doctors were to blame for his death, they could poison him with their special long-acting poisons that leave no traces ...
Vanga's predictions about Russia
Now Russia is called the Union. But the old Russia will return and will be called the same as under St. Sergius.
Everyone recognizes her spiritual superiority, and America too. It will happen in 60 years. Before that, three countries will get closer - China, India and Russia.
Bulgaria will be with them only at the same time with Russia if it becomes part of it. Bulgaria has no future without Russia. And many new people will be born in Russia who will be able to change the world. 1979
There is no force that could break Russia. Russia will develop, grow and strengthen. Everything will melt like ice, only one thing will remain untouched - the glory of Vladimir, the glory of Russia.
Too much has been sacrificed. Nobody can stop Russia. It will sweep away everything in its path and not only survive, but also become the ruler of the world. 1979
Russia is the mother of all Slavic powers. Those who turned away from her will return in a new guise. Russia will not deviate from the path of reforms, which, in the end, will lead to the growth of its strength and power. 1996
At the end of the century, Kursk will be under water, and the whole world will mourn it. This will happen in August, around 1999-2000. 1980
Famous guests from Russia
In 1979, the writer Sergei Mikhalkov visited Vanga.
Later, he said that the clairvoyant predicted longevity for him, at the same time asked why he stopped celebrating his birthday, which Mikhalkov had not really celebrated for two years.
Then she reminded him of his sister, whom he forgot about since she died at the age of five. All her messages basically turned out to be true...
Around the same time, the famous actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov came to visit her. She reminded him of the request of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, with whom he was friends, to buy him an alarm clock.
Tikhonov really bought an alarm clock, but did not have time to hand it over - Gagarin died tragically. Vanga told the actor that she would spend the last years of her life as a hermit, away from Moscow, from loved ones.
And so it happened ... The writer Leonid Leonov heard a warning from the soothsayer - supposedly his manuscripts are in danger, they will burn. He did not believe.
But for some reason, having returned home, just in case, he moved them from the dacha to the apartment, where one day, for some inexplicable reason, they burned down ...
And further. For some reason, Vanga asked academician Natalia Bekhtereva, who visited her in the 1980s, the head of the Brain Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, where her husband was. Bekhtereva, according to her, replied that he was at home, in Leningrad.
Vanga grimaced, replied that something was wrong with him. But she didn't specify what exactly. In the same year, Bekhtereva's husband died ... Coincidences, accidents? Who knows.
What were the millions earned by Vanga spent on?
Vanga moved to Rupite from Petrich in 1976. It was said that she was forced to leave her house after a search was carried out in it, which was carried out by members of the Bulgarian special services.
Wang has long been suspected of working for foreign intelligence. Petrich was located 10 kilometers from the border with Greece, and representatives from the capitalist world often visited Vangelia.
What did they ask her about? What could she tell them? Maybe she's a spy and passes on state secrets?
Later, all these ridiculous suspicions disappeared. And guests from the capitalist world continued to visit her, only at the same time they had to pay a certain amount in dollars to the state treasury.
Boris III (1894-1943). Photo 1933 
Todor Hristov Zhivkov (1911-1998) The Bulgarian authorities, of course, could not remain aloof from the amazing events that were taking place, first in Petrich, then in Rupite.
The Communist Party, which at that time was ruled by General Secretary Todor Zhivkov, had to somehow respond to the predictions coming from the lips of an illiterate elderly woman who had no education, was not associated with any political movement, was not supposed to be a spy, but who had gained great prestige in Bulgaria and around the world.
Todor Zhivkov repeatedly came first to Petrich, then to Rupite, invited Vanga to Sofia. He took on the role of the clairvoyant's unspoken curator.
Then, in this honorary post, he was replaced by his daughter Lyudmila Zhivkova, the former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria, who became a close friend of Vanga.
From that moment on, the fortune teller was recognized by all politicians and scientists in Bulgaria.
How Vanga became a civil servant
Around the same years, it was decided that Vanga should not work for free, let her activities benefit her, the village of Rupite and the whole country.
Vanga's enterprise - healing and clairvoyance - became commercial, it was supposed to make a profit.
In 1967, the healer Vanga became a civil servant, she was given an official salary - 200 leva, about 100 euros of the very millions of money that she collected from visitors.
They set a tax: for locals, a visit to a clairvoyant is 10 Bulgarian leva, today it is about 5 euros, for foreigners - 50 dollars.
The incoming money was distributed in this way: part went to the city treasury, part went to the fund of Vanga herself, part went somewhere else.
There were such philanthropists, mainly from Western European countries, who, feeling gratitude for the predictions that came true, transferred amounts up to a million dollars to her.
In total, it was calculated: the clairvoyant earned about 100 million dollars for Bulgaria.
Part of these funds Vanga spent on her own needs, according to her project, a chapel of St. Paraskeva was built in Rupita, that was the name of her mother, whom she practically did not know.
Her adopted son Dimitar Volchev, later the prosecutor of the city of Petrich, created a foundation for his adoptive mother, which he called Vanga.
How did Clairvoyant Vanga die?
When in 1996 Vanga felt sick, she went to the doctors. Those diagnosed - cancer of the left breast. She did not worry and did not allow herself to be operated on, guessing three more years of her life.
But in this case, the seer was wrong. The disease progressed rapidly, and after six months Vanga was gone.
The doctors were powerless to help her without an operation, she would still live, but the clairvoyant refused.
She was buried not near the house in Rupite, where she had lived in recent years and where she wished to be buried, but against her will - on the territory of the chapel of St. Paraskeva.
Entrance to the chapel of Saint Paraskeva 
Bell tower and Vanga's grave
Recognition of the sanctity of Vanga
The Orthodox Church did not recognize the clairvoyant for a long time. The Orthodox did not consider Vanga's abilities a gift from God. High-ranking priests, especially Bulgarian ones, were wary of her.
They did not see in her either holiness or a person endowed with a special natural gift. They were not interested in her life or her activities.
Only in 1994, when a chapel named after Saint Paraskeva was built in Rupite according to the project of Vanga and at her expense, the official Bulgarian church suddenly recognized Vanga and declared her a saint ...
Years go by, but people do not forget about Wang. They are still interested in the life of this healer and clairvoyant. To her, as if to a living person, they go to Petrich, then to Rupite.
They visit her house-museum, not far from it a chapel and next to it the grave of Vanga.
Visitors again and again wonder who this simple and amazing woman was, who bewitched millions of people, discovered so many secrets and gave birth to new ones.
And the house of the prophetess in Rupita is now considered a source of incredible cosmic energy.
Chapel interior 
Vanga's grave Professor Velichko Dobriyanov from the Sofia Institute of Suggestology - the science of mental suggestion at a distance, has been researching the Vanga phenomenon for several years.
He conducted a survey of 18 people who visited Vanga and analyzed over 800 of her messages.
As a result, it turned out that 445 of her answers turned out to be true, that is, more than half; alternative, which can be interpreted in two ways - 288; erroneous - about 90.
That is, the percentage of hits was near the number 70. This is a very high figure.
Professor's conclusion: Vanga undoubtedly possessed some telepathic abilities, the nature of which has not yet been established by modern science.
She became a legend during her lifetime. In her hometown of Petrich, people still don't talk about her in the past tense. People believe that Vanga still works miracles.
Vanga's name is on the radar again today. The words and predictions of the great soothsayer are increasingly being confirmed. What do we know about Wang and how much do we still have to learn? Her whole fate is woven from mysteries and amazing contradictions. Here are just a few of them:
1. Mystery of the name
Now it is difficult to imagine that the world famous seer could have received a completely different name at birth. And instead of Vanga, she would be ... Andromache. But, indeed, the future soothsayer did not receive her name immediately, but only two months after birth. She was born incredibly weak, seven months old. Parents were afraid that the child simply would not survive, so they decided to choose a name only after she was more or less stronger.
According to the old Bulgarian tradition, they went out into the street and asked the name of the first person they met, but the girl's grandmother did not like the choice of a random passerby. She immediately rejected the beautiful ancient Greek name Andromache, contrary to all customs. And only the second woman she met named the fateful name of Vangelia - the bearer of the good news.
2. Strange games
Until the age of 12, Vanga lived the most ordinary life of the most ordinary child, but an amazing future seemed to be already on the threshold, waiting for the right moment to meet. Vanga's relatives recalled that she was very fond of inventing games for herself as a child. One of the strangest was this: in the yard, in a secluded place, she hid a simple toy; she returned to the house, tightly closed her eyes, and by feel, as if blind, went to look for her. The parents of the game "blindly" were apprehensive, but, despite all the prohibitions, it was this kind of entertainment that was one of the girl's favorites.
3. First love
At the age of 12, during a terrible hurricane, Vanga was badly injured and lost her sight. When she turned 15, she was taken to the city of Zemun, to a home for the blind. She recalled parting with her family at such an incredibly reverent age as one of the most difficult events in her life. Surprisingly, it was these three years spent in the house of the blind that Vanga then considered the happiest period of her life - it was here that she met her first love.
The young boy's name was Dimitar. But Vangelia married much later for a completely different Dimitar. And her first love ended tragically for her - the lovers were separated, Vanga returned to her home to help her family and for a long time suffered from the cruelty of fate. And then Vanga realized her unique abilities and realized that her mission in life was to help others, and love was a luxury inaccessible to her.
4. Keeper of secrets
It seems that Vanga knew everything about the origin of the world and about each person individually. No one could hide anything from her, but she herself knew how to keep secrets. For example, Wang was often asked if there is life after the death of a person? “I have no right to answer this question,” she said.
The clairvoyant also avoided answering questions about the apocalypse. She never talked about the end of the world and never predicted it. She answered evasively to questions about the origin of the world, arguing that humanity itself would know this secret, and she simply had no right to reveal other people's secrets.
5. civil servant
Since 1967, Vanga was officially considered a civil servant and even received a salary. She became the first soothsayer who was officially allowed to take money for an appointment.
To get to her, it was necessary not only to stand in a huge queue, but first to get a special ticket, for which it was supposed to pay a small fee. All the money went straight to the treasury, and Vanga was entitled to only a small salary.
6. Children
Vanga loved children very much, treated her nephews with special trepidation and care and became a godmother for almost three thousand children. She said many times that her mission is predetermined from above and is completely different. Although she herself really wanted to become a mother, and after the death of her husband, she took two adopted children.
The first Vanga adopted a 6-year-old girl Violetta(according to other sources - Veneta(Venche)). Then the seer baptized a little sick boy who could die at any moment. But he survived, becoming her adopted son. Vanga named the boy in honor of her husband Dimitar. Both children received a good education. Violetta married a wealthy man. Foster-son Dmitry Vylchev is one of the founders of the Vanga Foundation and works as a prosecutor in the city of Petrich.
7. healer
Vanga not only predicted the future and accurately told about the past, she treated people for a variety of diseases. Moreover, with unusual methods, she confused both doctors and representatives of alternative medicine, offering people simple, but sometimes quite strange recipes.
She used herbs as medicines, which, according to experienced herbalists, had no medicinal properties. At the same time, she often indicated the exact place where it was necessary to get this or that medicinal plant. This is inexplicable, but Vanga's recipes turned out to be effective and gave results. However, Wang could not cure her beloved husband from alcohol addiction. She knew that tragedy could not be avoided, but she hoped for a miracle. Also, the soothsayer could not influence the course of her illness. Vanga died on April 11, 1996, exactly on the day that she herself predicted.
People most often represent Vanga as a blind, hunched-over old woman.Today we give you a unique opportunity to see her in the picture as she was in her youth. Swift, impetuous and full of tenderness...
My aunt in her youth and youth was a very attractive woman, - Vanga's niece Krasimira Stoyanova shows us photographs from the family archive. - Slender, with a wonderful figure, sweet face. Even blind eyes did not spoil the overall impression. She was energetic, agile, very neat. A sharp mind and sense of humor made her the soul of any company. Vanga's first love happened in a boarding school for the blind in the city of Zemun - where she studied from fifteen to eighteen years old. A young man Dimitar from the village of Gyoto, also blind, confessed his feelings for the girl.
Wang really liked him. Their romance was pure and innocent. The young man made Vanga a marriage proposal. His parents, and they were rich by local standards, agreed to the marriage. Vanga and Dimitar were already dreaming of a wedding. And, had it happened, the life of a blind girl would have flowed in a completely different way. But everything turned out quite differently.
In the city of Strumitz, Vanga's stepmother suddenly died. And the father demanded that the daughter return home immediately. Submissive to him Vanga forever said goodbye to her beloved. Those who lost their first love will understand her pain, her tears. By the will of her father, she herself renounced her happiness. In order to raise children left without a mother in poverty.
Vangelia became a nanny for her brothers and sister. Vasil was six years old, Tom was four, Lyubka was only two...
And after the death of her father, Vanga remained the only support of the family. She herself almost died of pleurisy in 1941. Vanga stood in front of a lit lamp and spoke in a low and strong voice, completely different from the one she usually had. She was very frail, but looked majestic. It seemed that just about - and take off, soar into the heights. The face changed, shone as if radiating light. Vanga spoke without ceasing, with amazing accuracy called the names of the mobilized men, the area, the events that happened to them ...
One of the predictions associated with passionate love glorified the young Vanga throughout the district. At the very beginning of the war, she told the mother of her countryman Hristo Prchanov that her missing son was alive, but would not return soon.
Pavlina, the bride of the young man, did not believe this prediction and married another guy. A year later, Christo returned. And it was Pavlina who saw him first on the market square! She fainted, because she considered the groom dead! Following the news of the betrayal of his beloved, a new blow awaited Christo. The mother, embracing her son, died of a broken heart...
People came to Vanga not only for prophecies. She received the gift of a healer. In some amazing way, a simple woman felt which herb could help a particular person. Her recipes were often unexpected. For example, she advised a mentally ill woman to be poured with water in which herbs growing near the river were soaked - and she recovered! Vanga called herself a doctor - in Bulgarian it means a healer.
If it weren’t for a new love, Vanga’s fame would have gone to Yugoslavia, her native country. She lived in the city of Strumica and did not think of leaving her beloved Macedonia. But things turned out differently...
Vanga's heart was won by the Bulgarian guy Dimitar Gushterov, the namesake of her first lover. He was brought to her by misfortune.
Vanga was then thirty-one years old, but she seemed much younger. Dimitar Gushterov was twenty-three. A swarthy handsome guy came to Vanga to find the killers of his brother.
I must take revenge on them! - Dimitar fumed on the way to the prophetess, telling fellow travelers about his grief. - My brother left three children and a wife with tuberculosis ...
He was still only in the courtyard of the house, when Vanga came out to meet him herself.
I know why you came to me,” she said. “You want me to name the killers of your brother. Maybe I'll tell you their names, but not now. You must promise me that you will not retaliate. God will punish them, and you will become a witness of this...
The shocked Dimitar came to Vanga many times that spring. They talked about everything in the world. And soon they felt that they were in love ...
Dimitar took the bride away from Strumice on April 22, 1942. Together with her sister Lyubka - the brothers were then mobilized - Vanga began to live in her husband's house in the Bulgarian city of Petrich.
On May 10, Vanga married Dimitar. His mother Magdalena did not rejoice in her marriage to a blind girl:
Is this, son, your happiness?
In a tiny house on Opolchenskaya Street, 10, besides Dimitar and Vanga, a bunch of relatives huddled. His mother, three nephews from the deceased brother and his sick widow, as well as two more children of two other brothers.
Vanga and her sister Lyubka took care of all household chores. The blind girl washed, cooked, sewed, knitted, cleaned the house. Imagine how much effort it took!
There was no time to rest. Having heard that the famous prophetess had moved to Petrich, people were drawn to Vanga. For divination, she asked to bring them a piece of sugar.
Then, years later, scientists agonized over the solution of this riddle: is it really refined sugar that helps Vanga find out everything about the person who has come? Many versions were put forward: and the fact that its crystals, if you hold them under your pillow at night, somehow record information about a person. And the fact that here, as in homeopathy, grains remember the state of matter...
And the secret is simple - you need to look for it in the hungry past.
During the war, sugar was a much harder currency than money. And Vanga then had to feed his family.
Dimitar loved his wife very much, but was burdened by her fame as a fortune teller.
You must end this! he told her more than once. - Do only home and family, like all other women!
But then we will die of hunger,” she answered. - My beloved Mitko, you cannot provide for your entire family now. Besides, people need my gift. Who will help them now, if not me?
It is no coincidence that Dimitar was afraid for his wife: Vanga was pursued by the police. Two local gendarmes - Dimitar Chuchurov and Boris Lazarov - constantly visited her house and demanded to report enemies of the authorities.
If you don't cooperate, we'll send you to a concentration camp! they threatened.
Vanga flatly refused to spy. She was not sent to the camp, but they began to demand money. This racket, started by fascist accomplices in tsarist Bulgaria, was then continued by the communists. It is amazing: the authorities changed, but always demanded the same thing from the blind prophetess - espionage and money!
The Nazis nevertheless took revenge on Vanga for his intractability. Her husband was sent to the front, to Greece.
Vanga managed to say goodbye to Dimitar:
You will return alive, but watch out for the water!
Dimitar caught hepatitis, which then tormented him all his life.
And the fate of Vanga's sister and brothers during the war turned out differently. Vasil was a partisan in Yugoslavia, he died heroically on the day of his birth, as predicted by his sister. Tome's younger brother also fought against the Nazis. He survived and lived all his life in Yugoslavia (he died in 1981). And sister Lyubka in 1947 got married in Petrich and did not part with Vanga until her death.
Returning from the front, Dimitar built a new house on the site of an old hut. He overworked and began to suffer from stomach pains. One of my friends advised me to drown the pain with vodka. First - a glass of brandy before dinner. Then - and before dinner.
Mitko, you can’t drink, Vanga convinced her husband.
And he only remained silent in response. Became withdrawn, irritable. He locked himself in his room - and drank, drank, drank ...
Vanga cried, prayed. Once she told her sister that she knew for sure that Dimitar would not overcome his passion for vodka:
He's doomed...
Every day, hundreds of people came to Vanga for help, but she did not show them her own misfortune with a word or a tear. They told her about their problems, sought help. And no one knew that this woman, merciful to everyone, suffers immeasurably: she becomes an inveterate drunkard, the most beloved and dear person to her dies from vodka!
Dimitar's cirrhosis of the liver worsened, dropsy began.
He was in the hospital, and Vanga did not leave his bed. The attending physician Peter Delijski told her that there was no hope, but Vanga herself had known this for a long time.
She took her husband home. Vanga knelt beside his bed, wept and prayed. When Mitko died, Vanga fell asleep. She slept through until the funeral. And, waking up, she said to her sister Lyubka:
I escorted his soul to the place where it was destined...
On that day, Vanga put on a black widow's clothes. Her relatives suggested that the people who came to her for help disperse:
We are sad...
But Vanga went out into the yard, as always. Quietly she said:
Don't chase them. I will accept everyone...
She tried to satisfy her sadness with work. And always, until her death, she remembered Dimitra as the only man in her life. God did not give them his children, and Vanga suffered greatly from this. She became a godmother to 15,000 children.
Was Vanga's marriage happy? Don't rush to say no. How many women in the world love their promiscuous drinking husbands more than anything?!
Vanga lived with Mitko for twenty years. And she always spoke of him with tenderness, without reproaching a single word. So she loved a lot. Yes, I suffered from his drunkenness. But she always considered Dimitra her protector:
If my husband were alive, - said the widowed Vanga, - he would not give me offense. Mitko would stand up for me...