The question of the Church’s attitude towards the soothsayer Vanga still worries society. Who was she? From whom did you receive your gift?
There are still people who call Vanga “saint”, “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 churchwoman? I went to church; built a temple - it was her life’s dream,” “What bad did this woman do who helped so many people?” etc. She said: “Go and be baptized!” – as if she had never been alien to the Church. This is where difficulties arise. On the one hand, she clearly declared that she belonged to the Church, and on the other, everything she did was completely contrary to the dogma of the Church. And this is another clear indication 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 the 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 site “Superstition.net”, received from Bulgaria.
Is Vanga a new “saint” for Russian TV viewers? In Russia there is high interest to 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. Wherein main character She looks almost like a saint in the film: kind, meek, hardworking, sincerely pious.
In connection with the broadcast of the series “Vangelia” on Channel One, 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 the bishop arrived a few days later and entered the old woman’s room, he was holding in his hands a reliquary cross with a particle Holy Cross The Lord's. There were a lot of people in the room, Vanga was sitting in the back, saying something and could not hear that another person had quietly entered the door. In any case, she could not know who it was. Suddenly she interrupted and in a changed - low, hoarse - voice said with effort: “Someone came here. Let him throw THIS on the floor immediately!” "What is this"?" - the stunned people around asked Vanga. And then she broke into a frantic cry: “THIS! He holds THIS in his hands! THIS is stopping me from speaking! Because of THIS I can't see anything! I don’t want THIS in my house!” - the old woman screamed, kicking her legs and swaying.
Brief biography of Vanga (1911-1996)
Vangelia Pandeva Gushcherova (1911-1996), better known as Vanga, was born on January 31, 1911 in Strumnitsa (now Macedonia) in the family of a poor peasant. Vanga was only 3 years old when her mother Paraskeva died in 1914, at the birth of her second child. After the end of the First World War, around 1919, her father Pande Surchev married a second time, to Tank Georgieva, who became Vanga's stepmother. From Tanke he had three more children (Vasil, Tome and Lyubka). At birth fourth child Tanka, his second wife, also died in 1928.
When Vanga was 12 years old, in 1923, an event happened to her that changed her whole life. later life. When she, along with 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. They found it littered with branches and covered with sand. Because of sand in her eyes, she gets three failed operations on the eyes, as a result of which Vanga completely loses his sight.
At the age of 14, Vanga was sent to the city of Zemun (Serbia) to the House of the Blind, where she spent three years of her life and studied the Broglie alphabet, music, and began to play the piano well. The girl is taught to knit, cook, and 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 prosperous future. Vanga agrees, but at this time she receives news from her father about the death of Tanka’s stepmother. The father calls his daughter home, since her help is needed in caring for her young brothers and sister. The wedding with Dimitar is upset, and Vanga returns to her father, actively getting involved in everyday chores.
Knowing how to knit beautifully, Vanga takes home orders and does weaving. But the money earned is not enough to decent life, and the family lives in poverty.
Vanga's unusual abilities began to manifest themselves in April 1941, when she was 30 years old. She was visited by a "tall, fair-haired, mysterious horseman 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 this, “another voice began to be heard from her lips, which named with amazing accuracy areas and events, the names of mobilized men who would return alive, or with whom some misfortune would happen...”. From that time on, Vanga began to often fall into a trance, receive more and more visitors, find lost people and things and talk to the “dead”.
In 1940, at the age of 54, Vanga’s father died. In May 1942, Vanga married, according to the categorical order of the “forces,” Dimitar Gushterov (despite the fact that he was then engaged to another woman). Family life Vangi was unhappy, she had no children, and 5 years after the wedding, her husband Dimitar became seriously ill (in 1947), began drinking very heavily and died in April 1962 at the age of 42.
In 1982, at the age of 71, Vanga moved to the area of Rupite, surrounded by respect and great recognition from many people. Vanga received visitors almost until her death, at the age of 85 (she died of cancer on August 11, 1996). More than 15,000 people attended her funeral, including senior officials(presidents, ambassadors, diplomats, the entire cabinet of ministers, deputies and journalists). Such is the general outline the life of a world-famous soothsayer.
The emergence 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 fortune teller (strange, because St. John Chrysostom always spoke of sorcerers 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. Reveal details that even your loved ones didn’t know. She often made forecasts and predictions. People left very impressed.
Vanga’s visions began with her communication with a certain “horseman”. Here is how the niece describes one of these visions from Vanga’s words: “... He (the horseman) was tall, Russian-haired and divinely handsome. Dressed like ancient warrior, in armor that glittered in the moonlight. His horse swung its white tail and dug the ground with its hooves. He stopped in front of the gate 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 predict the dead and the living. Don't be afraid! I will be next to you and will say what you have to convey to them! Who was this horseman who appeared to Vanga?
The source of Vanga’s “gift”
According to relatives and those who knew Vanga, she spoke of voices that dictated prophecies. The Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers speak of two sources of the gift of prediction: from God and from demonic forces. There is no third. Who gave Vanga information about the invisible world? Where did this amazing awareness come from? This answer can be found in the book of Krasimira Stoyanova, Vanga’s niece.
K. Stoyanova reports various details about how Vanga communicated with the other world, with “spirits”:
Question: Do you talk to spirits?
Vanga: Many and very different people come. Some I can't understand. Not the ones who come and are near me now, I understand. One comes, knocks on my door and says: “This door is bad, change it!”
Question: Do you remember anything after you were in a trance?
Vanga: No. I remember almost nothing. 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, like a spirit, leave my body and stand aside, and they come into me and speak, and I hear nothing.
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 who communicate with her have some kind of hierarchy, because there are “bosses” who rarely come, only when it is necessary to report some extraordinary events or major disasters. Then Vanga’s face becomes pale, she faints, and a voice that has nothing in common with her voice begins to be heard from her mouth. It is very strong and has a completely different timbre. The words and sentences that come out of her mouth have nothing in common with the words that Vanga uses in her ordinary speech. It’s as if some alien mind, some alien consciousness is invading her in order to communicate through her lips about events fatal to people. Vanga called these creatures “great power” or “great spirit.”
The description of the creatures with whom Vanga communicates very clearly reveals to us the world of celestial spirits of evil, exactly as it was described in Holy Scripture and the Holy Fathers: the dark forces have a hierarchy; a person cannot control his mental and physical activities; “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 deceased relatives. Vanga admitted: “When a person stands in front of me, all his deceased loved ones gather around him. They ask me questions themselves 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 strongly prohibits such communication: Do not turn to those who call forth the dead (Lev. 19:31).
In addition to the spirits that appeared to Vanga under the guise of “small forces” and “big forces,” as well as deceased relatives, she communicated with another type of inhabitants other world. She called them inhabitants of the “planet Vamfim” (no comment).
In K. Stoyanova’s story about Vanga’s contacts with the dead, there is an episode where she communicated 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, The Council of Bishops in 2000 excommunicated ardent fighter against Christianity N. Roerich(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 with many of them personally, and was actively involved in healing herself. As for the methods of its treatment, not a single magic textbook would disdain to describe them. Here brief retelling one of the many cases in Vanga’s practice and the recommendations she gave. A certain man, having lost his mind, grabbed an ax and rushed at his relatives, but when his 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 flow, and with this water three times water the patient. Then throw the pot back so it breaks, and don’t look back!” We do not see a word about repentance and church life, which could heal the soul of the sick! Healings performed by Orthodox saints have always had the goal, first of all, of spiritual healing; healing the flesh at the cost of defeating the spirit is the lot of occult healers of all stripes.
In her activities, Vanga often used sugar, which allowed her to see a person’s past and future. A person who came to her for advice brought with him two or three pieces of sugar, which before that should have lain under his pillow for several days. Taking these pieces in her hands, Vanga told the person about his past and future. Fortune telling using magic crystal known since ancient times. For Vanga, sugar was a type of crystal accessible to everyone that anyone could bring (sugar has a crystalline structure).
All the above facts and evidence show that Vanga’s “phenomenon” completely fits 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. Nor did her many visitors understand this. A strict spiritual life and many years of ascetic experience save one from being seduced by fallen spirits. This attitude teaches spiritual sobriety and protects from harmful charm. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), discussing 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, demons appear to him instead of angels, which, in turn, leads to grave spiritual seduction. Vanga had neither experience of Christian spiritual life, nor knowledge that could help her in a critical assessment of the 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 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 servant girl possessed “... by a spirit of divination, who through divination brought great income to her masters” (Acts 16:16). Let us emphasize that the spirit of divination left the woman after the command of the apostle. Paul, speaking 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 that same hour” (Acts 16:18). Considering Vanga’s sympathies for the occult and extrasensory perception, we can conclude that the basis of her spiritual phenomenon were the same forces that feed the occult and magic, and therefore, if Vanga had been in the place of that New Testament servant, she would have suffered the same fate.
One day, accidentally finding herself close to a cross that had a piece 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 you started reading next to Vanga orthodox prayers, she was also losing her gift.
Vanga Church
Vanga built a church in Rupite in the name of St. Paraskeva of Bulgaria. But here, too, not everything is so simple. The built temple violates all church canons. The architecture and painting belong to the famous artist Svetlin Rusev, who is a big fan of Nicholas Roerich, which was very evident during the construction of the church. The altar and wall paintings were so inconsistent with ideas about 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 Nevroko Metropolitan Pimen, but it should be noted that that year a schism occurred in the Bulgarian Church, and Metropolitan Pimen was one of the organizers of this schism. 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. It is interesting that opposite the image of the Savior hangs a portrait of Vanga herself, made using the “pseudo-icon” technique, which also caused sharp rejection by the clergy, who call such faces semi-occult.
About the “holiness” of Vanga
Today, the countrymen of the great clairvoyant demand that the Church canonize Vanga as a saint. People come to her grave in Rupite, 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. Auntie was a believer, a modest woman. She observed the canons, prayed, and attended church with joy. And she always called for faith in God! As for the priests, they did not officially recognize her, but even metropolitans came to talk to her about business. And she told the truth, even the hard-hitting one.” Vanga herself in her statements spoke about good attitude to 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 manifests itself with 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. Usually pass long years purification before the spiritual fruits begin to visibly manifest. What is needed is moral effort and, as Seraphim of Sarov says, the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Vanga is far from these conditions, just as she has many misconceptions 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 in which she speaks, and this shows that another creature is possessing her, which she herself admitted. At the moment of such penetration, she (“the saint”) began to growl. This is not holiness, but obsession, the opposite of holiness. A person in such a state does not communicate with the Holy Spirit, with the Lord, but with dark forces.
As for performing miracles, miracles may not necessarily be manifestations of holiness. As we know from the lives of saints, not all saints performed miracles. Conversely, there are many cases of miracles in the absence of holiness (sorcerers, fortune tellers, modern psychics with frankly abnormal lives, some fans of Eastern religions, etc.), which is clear evidence 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, light, faith, Christ, love, wisdom. Vanga uses the word “Christianity” only as a screen. Under the guise of Christianity, they preach unchristian ideas and practice unchristian actions.
What do Vanga and Blessed Matrona of Moscow have in common? Blindness? So Homer was blind. Vanga openly practiced witchcraft and spoke about a special gift that appeared to her after strong hurricane, took money for the reception (not personally, but through the foundation). It was a well-organized and well-established business, from which a lot of people profited - everyone around the Bulgarian sorceress. Blessed Matrona lay paralyzed, humbly carried her cross and prayed to God for the people who asked her about it.
No easy way to God and never was. That is why the Lord speaks about 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 go as planned magic wand. He wants to drive 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 that's not true.
Material prepared by Sergey SHULYAK
Used Books:
1. Hieromonk Vissarion (Zaographsky). "VANGA - PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WITCH"
2. Hieromonk Job (Gumerov). How does the Church relate to the “clairvoyant” Vanga?
3. Pitanov V.Yu. Vanga: who pulled the string?
4. Hieromonk Vissarion: “There is no easy path to God”
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Baba Vanga is a world-famous Bulgarian clairvoyant with a unique gift of foreseeing the most important events in the world. The biography of the clairvoyant is considered the most mysterious among all famous people of the last century, since it contains no confirmed events. However, Vanga’s predictions are still an unsolved phenomenon, as the popular press claims. Fans of Vanga's gift are finding new evidence that prophecies continue to come true with incredible accuracy in modern world, while skeptics say the opposite.
Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova was born on January 31, 1911 in the family of Bulgarian peasants Pande and Paraskeva in the territory of the modern Republic of Macedonia. The newborn did not receive her name right away, as she was very weak and her family did not believe that the girl would survive. Immediately after birth, she was wrapped in a sheepskin coat and placed under the stove, where two months later she cried for the first time. This became a symbol that the future clairvoyant had grown stronger and would live. Therefore, the girl was immediately baptized in the church and given the name Vangelia, meaning “bringer of good news.”
Vanga’s childhood and youth cannot be called bright and joyful, since at the age of 3 the girl lost her mother and was left half-orphaned. After that, Vanga’s father was called to the front, and left her completely in the care of a neighbor. Upon returning from the war, Pande married a second time, and the future soothsayer was taken under her wing by her stepmother, who saw in her stepdaughter only labor force, which she used to the fullest.
As a child, little Vangelia loved to play a very strange game, which became a kind of symbol of her destiny - she loved to look for hidden objects in the room blindfolded, and also blindly treat her toys. At the age of 12, Vanga became blind under strange circumstances. She, returning from the pasture, was carried away by a tornado several hundred meters from the house and thrown into a field. When the girl was found, her eyes were tightly closed, as they were tightly clogged with sand. The father and stepmother tried to cure their daughter, but in vain - the required amount of money for the operation was too much for them, so after 4 years the girl became completely blind.
At the next stage, Vanga’s biography is connected with the House of the Blind in Serbia. It was perfect place for children with such problems, because the boarding school staff took very good care of the pupils and taught them to survive with such serious injuries. At the House of the Blind, Vanga was taught to knit, play the piano, clean the house and cook. The girl also took a course in school sciences, becoming acquainted with mathematics, the alphabet, music, drawing and other developmental sciences inaccessible to her due to blindness.
Three years later, Vanga had to return home to Strumitsa, since her stepmother died during the next birth and her father needed help. Despite her blindness, the girl became a real housewife - she managed to run the household and look after her younger brothers and sisters, and also knitted and sewed for her fellow villagers, who, knowing the financial state of the family, paid the girl in food and clothing.
Extrasensory perception and prophecies
The blind girl's great gift began to manifest itself in 1940. Then she began to predict the fate of her fellow villagers and decipher their dreams, and she did this in a strange male voice. According to Vanga, during this period the clairvoyant began to hear the voices of the dead and communicate with God. During the same period, Vanga fell into her first trance, after which she predicted the outbreak of World War II, which began in April 1941.
Then the girl was afraid to admit her visions to anyone, since she could be considered crazy. But she still told close friends and acquaintances about her secret, which soon spread to the whole world.
Vanga was deeply religious; the woman belonged to the Orthodox faith, in which such supernatural abilities were interpreted as witchcraft. But when Vanga’s predictions and healing gift began to help people, the prophetess became convinced that she had received a heavenly gift, and not a gift from the devil.
At first, Vanga’s predictions concerned male front-line soldiers - the girl told her family about their whereabouts and foresaw whether they would return home alive.
After this, people began to come to Vanga en masse for help, advice and predictions. According to historians, the woman received up to 130 visitors a day. The seer made her predictions on a piece of refined sugar, on which every visitor had to sleep the night before visiting Vanga. Statisticians have calculated that during the clairvoyant’s career, people brought her more than 2 tons of refined sugar, which indicates that she helped more than a million people.
In 1967, Vanga became a civil servant and began to receive a salary for her predictions, since before that she had received people for free. During this period, more and more people began to appear among its visitors. famous people and politicians who wanted to learn from the seer their own destiny and the future of the country, and also to receive valuable advice. Regular guests of the clairvoyant were the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon II, the leader of the Bulgarian Communists Todor Zhivkov, Soviet writers Leonid Leonov and Yuri Semenov, as well as representatives former president Russia.
Until the end of her life, Vanga remained religious. The clairvoyant urged people to believe in, to be kinder and wiser.
At the same time, Vanga interpreted biblical parables in a unique way and came up with her own prayers. The fortuneteller loved to retell to journalists the legend of the flood and Noah's Ark. According to Vanga, the famous ark was ten steps from the clairvoyant’s house, and the woman could touch the warm wood, which Vanga really liked to do. Fans of Vanga's prophetic gift interpret these stories in different ways: some see this as evidence of Vanga's direct connection with God, while others see it as a veiled prediction about the end of the world.
Personal life
Vanga’s personal life, like the entire biography of the clairvoyant, has no official confirmation. It is known that the clairvoyant of the 20th century found her first love in the House of the Blind. Then Vanga was even ready to marry her chosen one, but all plans were changed by her father, who urgently returned the girl home.
The only husband Vanga was Dimitar Gushterov, who married a blind soothsayer in 1942. Then Dimitar took his wife to his hometown of Petrich, which was located on the border of Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia. The couple lived for 40 years until the death of Dimitar, who passed away due to many years of drunkenness and its consequences for health.
Vanga's children are also one of the most interesting biography of the soothsayer. It is known that the clairvoyant was childless, but during her life she adopted two children - the boy Dimitar Volchev and the girl Violetta. The seer raised her adopted children as worthy people, they were given a good education and the “right” start in life.
Death
Vanga's death occurred on August 11, 1996. The clairvoyant predicted her own death a month before the incident. Killed great fortune teller oncological disease (breast cancer), which began to rapidly progress in recent months Vanga's life.
Your own death Vanga accepted with a smile on her lips. The clairvoyant called on the whole world not to mourn her, since the load that Vanga had to carry through life was unbearable. The achievements of the fortuneteller for humanity are highly appreciated in modern society. In honor of Vanga, a museum dedicated to the seer was opened in Petrich in 2008, and in 2011 in Rupite, where she lived last years clairvoyant, a statue weighing 400 kg was installed.
Vanga's predictions that came true
Some of the clairvoyant’s predictions that came true appeared on the Internet in 2001, without primary sources indicating Vanga’s authorship. Skeptics claim that the Vanga phenomenon is a falsification started by the Bulgarian government and intelligence services in order to attract tourist flow and, accordingly, financial investments.
According to popular sources, over half a century Vanga made 7 thousand predictions that came true. In addition to World War II, the clairvoyant predicted events in Syria, Nicaragua and Prague. In 1943, Vanga predicted a loss in the war with Russia, to which the German Fuhrer only laughed, which turned out to be in vain.
Also among Vanga’s predictions that came true, it is worth noting the “velvet” revolution foreseen by the seer in Montenegro, the death of an Indian political figure, the death and collapse of the USSR. In addition to political forecasts, journalists became aware of Vanga’s predictions regarding scientific world. The clairvoyant foresaw that the time of miracles would soon come, and science would make grand discoveries in the immaterial world.
In 1980, Vanga predicted the tragedy with the Kursk submarine, which occurred in 2000 and claimed the lives of 118 crew members. And in the early 90s, the seer started talking about the terrorist attack in the United States in September 2001. Then Vanga said that “the American brothers will be pecked to death by iron birds.” Scientists claim that the Bulgarian clairvoyant also predicted the ascension to the presidency of the United States of a “black man”, who would become the last head of this country.
Vanga did not use dating in her own prophecies. The clairvoyant listed events sequentially and used vague language. Tying Vanga’s words to specific years and events is either a subsequent interpretation of the fortune teller’s statements, or falsification.
Vanga’s dream books and horoscopes are popular on the Internet, despite the fact that the clairvoyant did not compile collections of dream interpretations, but did it intuitively and in a trance and, being an Orthodox believer, did not believe in eastern horoscopes.
In 2013, the first fictional biographical series about the life of the famous healer and fortuneteller appeared. The serial film is named full name psychic and shows the life of Vanga as a person, illuminates various periods of the life of the mysterious seer. The role of Vanga was performed by five actresses: Natalya Nikolaeva, Daria Otroshko, Kristina Pakarina. This made it possible to convey Vanga’s life both in childhood and in old age on television.
In 2014, another series about the fortuneteller appeared - the documentary project “The Real Vanga.” In total, 18 feature and documentary films dedicated to the famous prophetess were released on television. Last – documentary NTV channel “New Russian sensations: Vanga. Prophecies 2017" - released in 2017.
Vanga’s predictions for 2016 that appeared in the press spoke of natural disasters And man-made disasters. During this period, the fortuneteller foresaw a war between the whole world and the Muslim state, as well as a conflict between eastern countries, after which one eastern country will eventually apply nuclear weapon and Europe will be empty. According to Vanga, in 2016 Europe was supposed to be depopulated after the world war. chemical warfare, which will be unleashed by Muslims.
Vanga- Vangelia, Gospels. She is also Vangelia Pandeva, Vangelia Gushcherova, Vangelia Dimitrova (1911-1996).
Pande Surchev- Vanga’s father, a small landowner, Bulgarian by nationality (1886-1940).
Paraskeva Surcheva- Vanga's mother (died in 1914).
Vasil Pandev- brother of Vanga (1922-1944).
Tome Pandev- brother of Vanga (1924-1981).
Lyubka Pandeva- sister of Vanga (1926).
Tanka- Vanga’s stepmother, wife of Pande Surchev in her second marriage (died in 1928)
Kostadin Surchev- brother of Pande Surchev, uncle of Vanga.
Dimitar- a native of the village of Gyaoto, Heveli region, a pupil of the home for the blind in Zemun. Vanga's first love.
Dimitar Gushcherov- aka Mitko. Vanga's husband (1919-1962), originally from the village of Kryndzhilitsa.
Magdalena Gushcherova- mother of Dimitar Gushcherov, mother-in-law of Vanga (1872)
Venche- she's Veneta. Stepdaughter Wangi.
Dimitar Volchev- aka Mitko. Foster-son Wangi.
Stoyan Gaigurov- husband of Lyubka Pandeva, Vanga’s sister.
Maria Gaigurova- mother of Stoyan Gaigurova, teacher by profession, originally from Sandanski.
Boris GaiguroV- father of Stoyan Gaigurov, teacher, musician, painter, mathematician, originally from Sandanski.
Nikola Gaigurov- brother of Boris Gaigurov, electrical engineer, lived in Russia for 22 years.
Shcheryo Gaigurov- brother of Boris Gaigurov, lawyer.
Krasimira Stoyanova- daughter of Lyubka Pandeva and Stoyan Gaigurov, niece of Vanga, philologist.
Anna Stoyanova- daughter of Lyubka Pandeva and Stoyan Gaigurov, niece of Vanga, doctor.
Dimitar Stoyanov- son of Lyubka Pandeva and Stoyan Gaigurov, nephew of Vanga, technician.
Asanica- a Turkish woman who sheltered little Vanga for three years (1914-1916) during the First World War.
Tina- an old friend of the Pande Surcheva family since the 1920s.
Savich- Belgrade doctor who performed Vanga's eye surgery in 1923.
Pande Ashkanov- an old friend of Vanga and Lyubka, originally from Skopne.
Milan Nartenov- a close acquaintance of Vanga, lived in the city of Strumica in a neighboring house.
Hristo Parvav- Vanga’s acquaintance, lived next door in Strumica.
Georgi Lozanov- doctor medical sciences. Director of the Institute of Suggestology and Parapsychology. He became, essentially, a family member in Vanga’s house.
Dimitar Filipov- old friend big family Pandevykh-Gaigurovs, professor.
Vitka- Vanga’s friend, helped her with housework for many years.
Pricing- Vanga's friend. She lived 20 meters from Vanga’s house in Rupite.
Spaska- Vanga’s friend, Helped take care of the flowers.
Atice- Vanga’s friend, friend from Petrich.
Lyudmila Zhivkova- Minister of Culture People's Republic Bulgaria, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the BCP. She considered Vanga a second mother.
Lyudmila Kim- Vanga’s close friend from Russia. Traditional healer and journalist.
Boyka Tsvetkova- Vanga’s close friend from Sofia. Psychologist and journalist.
Elena Andreeva- Vanga’s close friend from Russia. Member of the Bulgarian Writers' Union and member of the Russian Writers' Union. She considered Vanga a second mother.
Vitka- worked as a nurse for Vanga for many years.
Natasha- daughter of nurse Vitka. Vanga was her mother at her wedding.
Petr Kostadinov- Vanga's security guard and assistant.
She became a legend during her lifetime. In her hometown Petrice is still not spoken of in the past tense. People believe that Vanga still works miracles today.
The name Vanga is heard again today. Words and predictions 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. The 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. The 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 passer-by. Beautiful ancient Greek name She rejected Andromache immediately, contrary to all customs. And only the second woman she met named the fateful name Vangelia - bearer of the good news.
2. Strange games
Until the age of 12, Vanga lived on her own ordinary life himself an ordinary child, but an amazing future seemed to already be on the threshold, waiting for the right moment to meet. Vanga's relatives recalled that she loved to invent 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, closed her eyes tightly and, feeling as if blind, went to look for her. Parents were apprehensive about blind games, but despite all the prohibitions, this type of entertainment was one of the girl’s favorites.
3. First love
At the age of 12, during terrible hurricane, Vanga was seriously 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 saying goodbye to her family at such an incredibly tender 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 later considered the happiest period of her life - it was here that she met her first love.
The young man's name was Dimitar. But Vangelia married much later to 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 is to help others, and love is 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 whether 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 spoke about the end of the world and never predicted it. She answered questions about the origin of the world evasively, arguing that humanity itself would learn this secret, and she simply did not have the 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 charge money for an appointment.
To get to her, you had to not only stand in a huge line, but first get a special coupon, for which you had 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 godmother to almost three thousand children. She said many times that her mission was predetermined from above and was completely different. Although she really wanted to become a mother and after the death of her husband she took in two adopted children.
Vanga was the first to adopt 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 after 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 spoke about the past, she treated people for a variety of diseases. Moreover, she used unusual methods to confuse 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 defies explanation, but Vanga’s recipes turned out to be effective and gave results. However, to cure your beloved husband from alcohol addiction Vanga couldn’t do it. She knew that tragedy could not be avoided, but she hoped for a miracle. Also, the soothsayer was unable to influence the course of her illness. Vanga died on April 11, 1996, exactly on the day that she predicted for herself.
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 themselves, their and their family's future. Sick people also came in the hope that Vanga could cure them.
One day, several soldiers of the 2nd Quartermaster Regiment of the Bulgarian Army came to see her. Among them was one dark-skinned 23-year-old soldier named Dimitar Gushcherov, from the village of Kryndzhilitsa. It turns out that he dreamed of talking personally with Vanga, to find out the future, which did not promise him anything good. The villains killed and robbed his merchant brother near the village of Sklava. Three children were left orphans, whose mother suffered from tuberculosis.
Dimitar stomped 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 tell you them, but you have to promise me that you won’t take revenge. You will be alive and will become a witness to their crimes - at trial.”
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, it will certainly become a curse for his descendants. They often asked her why it was so unfair, and she always answered: “To make it hurt more!”
Another incident comes to mind. A few years ago a peasant came to Vanga. He had 13 children in his family, but they all died young, the last one, the thirteenth, died at the age of twelve. Doctors believed that the mother, without knowing it, was infecting her children with tuberculosis while still in the womb, but Vanga had a different explanation. Vanga reminded her guest that he was stupidly shy as a young man late pregnancy his no longer young mother. And once he even cruelly offended her. He regretted it, of course, but it was too late: both she and the child died. So it happened a long time ago that the person managed to forget, but she did not “forget” Wang, she immediately understood why nature was so merciless towards the offspring of this unfortunate man. Vanga not only reminded him of what happened many years ago,
but she also told a number of details that no one knew, and then added: “You should know that the cause of your trouble is not your wife. You must always be kind so as not to suffer throughout your life.”
But let's return to the meeting with the young soldier. Then, in Strumitsa, 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 that soon the two of them would go to live in Petrich.
There were no brothers with them at that time. Basil served as a soldier in Dupnitsa, and Tome was sent to work in Germany.
On the morning of April 22, 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 area, and neighbors, just acquaintances, began to come from everywhere to say goodbye to Vanga. Some even reproached her for leaving motherland. Vanga did not listen to them, since she was saying goodbye not to her homeland, but to difficult memories, poverty and a joyless orphan’s life. Their future was also not entirely clear, but they hoped that joyful days awaited the young family.
The bride’s dowry was purely symbolic: Wang threw a red woolen scarf, knitted by herself, over her shoulders, and as a memory of parental home She took a copper pot and a copper can. This was all her luggage. Lyubka sat down next to her and looked back at their miserable house in last time...
A large rusty lock was hung on the gate, and no one knew when it would open now.
Quietly rocking, the carriage headed towards Petrich, the three future relatives were silent, experiencing farewell to Strumitsa.
We arrived in Petrich in the evening of the same day, stopped at 10 Opolchencheskaya Street. We got out in front of a rickety house, which could not even be called residential. The rickety roof could collapse at any moment. There was a large, untidy yard in front of the house. Dozens of eyes watched them with curiosity from the windows of neighboring houses; the fame of Vanga the soothsayer reached this city. Some people went out into the street, some woman began to loudly wonder: how can a blind woman be a housewife and, in general, what kind of a 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,” recalls Lyubka, “in which a flooring was made of boards, a mattress lay on it, and woolen bags filled with corn straw served as pillows. On this “bed” slept 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 tubercular mother. The filth and poverty are depressing.”
This is how Vanga exchanged one life, filled with poverty and deprivation, for another, no less poor and difficult.
On May 10, 1942, Vanga married Dimitar and began to manage her new home. It was very difficult for the young woman. Grandmother Magdalena, with her inherent ordinary people frankness, did not approve of her son’s choice and at the very first moment of the meeting she said: “Is this really your destiny?” She probably hoped that her son would bring her to the house, where, in addition to the five children, a dying, strong, healthy village girl was lying in the corner, who would take on all the care of the house, since Grandma Magdalena was no longer able to do them.
Vanga silently swallowed her insult and very soon showed what she was capable of. She was not frightened by evil slander, poverty, or any difficulties at all, since she not only had a strong character, but also considerable experience in the struggle for life, experience acquired, one might say, from birth.
Day and night, together with Lyubka, they washed, cleaned, painted, repaired, and soon the house began to shine with cleanliness. During those war years, it was simply impossible to create any kind of comfort, but Vanga, with her characteristic ingenuity, created amazing things out of nothing. A trait very typical of Vanga’s style, who always tries to make everything around her “beautiful and pleasing to the eye.”
Vanga forbade the residents of the outlying villages to trade in their yard, they cleaned it out and put it in order. Throughout the yard and house one could feel the firm hand of a skilled housewife.
The family lived exactly the same as other families of that wartime, but this did not last long. Rumors about Vanga's prophetic talent spread like ripples on water from a thrown stone, and again the human river flowed to Vanga's house. The husband was very unhappy with this development of events. He believed that after marriage Vanga would stop making his predictions and would begin to deal only with the house and family affairs, following the example of everyone married women. Deeply respecting Vanga, he felt awkward because he was not able to support his family himself. Vanga loved and appreciated him very much both as a person and as a spouse, but she believed that her calling - to serve people - was much stronger than family affections and even her personal life should be devoted to others. In addition, her amazing gift haunted her, requiring constant self-expression.
They walked and walked towards her various people: both civilians and military, and the sick, and the languishing, hope for help shone in everyone’s eyes.
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 told his mother: “Don’t be afraid! Go to Vanga more often, and she will tell you everything about me.”
This kind of visit did not remain a secret to the police. Two policemen, Dimitar Sugurov and Boris Nazarov, came to Vanga almost every day, threatened her, and demanded to tell her what she was talking about with the relatives of the “enemies of the authorities.” But Vanga was silent. Then the police came up with something else: they began to force her to perform “labor service,” from which blind Vanga had previously been released.
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