The issue of the Church's attitude to the soothsayer Vanga still worries society. Who was she? From whom did you receive your gift? Before […]
The issue of the Church's attitude to 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,” who compare her with the blessed Matrona of Moscow and do not understand 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 a dream of her life "," What wrong did this woman do, helping so many people? " etc. She said, "Go and be baptized!" - as if she had never been alien to the Church. Hence the difficulties arise. On the one hand, she clearly declared that she belonged to the Church, and on the other, everything she did completely contradicts the dogma of the Church. And this is another striking evidence that it is becoming more and more difficult for modern man to discern 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. This statement is not true. Here is the official response to Superstition.net from Bulgaria.
Vanga - a new "saint" for the Russian TV viewer? There is a high interest in Vanga in Russia. 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 the First Channel in prime time, that is, at the most convenient time for viewing, the series "Vangelia", dedicated to the Bulgarian soothsayer, is on for the second week. At the same time, the main character in the film looks almost a saint: kind, meek, hardworking, sincerely devout.
In connection with the showing on the First Channel of the series "Vangelia", many people began to contact the editorial office of the Pravoslavie.Ru portal with questions about whether Vanga was an Orthodox Christian. The following materials clearly demonstrate that the Bulgarian soothsayer was actually 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 was holding 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. Anyway, she couldn't know who it was. Suddenly she broke off and in a changed - low, hoarse - voice with an effort she said: “Someone has come here. Let him immediately throw IT on the floor! " "What is it"?" - Asked Vanga, stunned others. And then she broke into a frantic cry: “THIS! He holds IT in his hands! THIS prevents me from speaking! Because of THIS, I can't see anything! I don't want THAT to be in my house! " the old woman yelled, kicking and swaying.
Brief biography of Vanga (1911-1996)
Vangelia Pandeva Guscherova (1911-1996), better known as Vanga, was born on January 31, 1911 in Strumnica (now Macedonia) in the family of a poor peasant. Vanga was only 3 years old when in 1914, with 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 Tank Georgieva, who becomes Vanga's stepmother. He had three more children from Tanke (Vasil, Tome and Lyubka). With 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 two cousins, returned 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 her, littered with branches and sprinkled with sand. Because of the sand in her eyes, she undergoes three unsuccessful eye surgeries, as a result of which Wanga completely loses his sight.
At the age of 14, Vangu 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, a blind man named Dimitar, who also lives in the House of the Blind, proposes to her. His parents are rich, and the girl can expect a secure future. Wanga agrees, but at this time she receives news from her father about the death of her stepmother Tanki, the father calls his daughter home, since her help is needed to take care of young brothers and sister. The wedding with Dimitar is upset, and Wanga returns to his father, actively involved in everyday chores.
Knowing how to knit beautifully, Vanga takes orders for the house, 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 named with amazing accuracy the locations and events, the names of the mobilized men who would return alive, or with whom some misfortune would happen…”. From that time on, Wanga 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 marries, on the categorical order of the "forces", to Dimitar Gushterov (despite the fact that he was then betrothed 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 the age of 42.
In 1982, at the age of 71, Vanga moved to the Rupite area, surrounded by respect and great recognition of 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 attended her funeral, including senior officials (presidents, ambassadors, diplomats, the entire cabinet of ministers, MPs and journalists). This is, in general terms, 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 in front of her, who said that she would become the first fortune-teller (strange, because St. John Chrysostom always spoke of witches as the servants of the evil one). Much later, she became the owner of an unusual "gift". A lot of people came to her every day. She could tell a person's past. Open details that even those close to you did not know. She often made predictions and predictions. People left under a strong impression.
Vanga's visions began with her communication with a certain "rider". Here is how her niece, from the words of Vanga, describes one of these visions: “... He (the rider) was tall, Russian and divinely beautiful. Dressed like an ancient warrior, armor that glittered in the moonlight. His horse flapped 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 a lot of people will die. In this place you will stand and divine the dead and the living. Do not 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 who knew Wang, she spoke about the voices that dictated the prophecies. The Holy Scriptures and the holy fathers speak of two sources of the gift of prediction: from God and from demonic powers. There is no third. Who gave information to Vanga about the invisible world? Where did the amazing awareness come from? This answer can be found in the book by Krasimira Stoyanova, Vanga's niece.
K. Stoyanova reports various details about how Vanga communicated with the other world, with the "spirits":
Question: Are you talking to spirits?
Vanga: Many and very different come. Some I cannot understand. Not those who are now coming 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: No. I don't remember much. After the trance, I feel really 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 Wanga 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 cataclysms. Then Vanga's face becomes pale, she faints and a voice begins to be heard from her mouth, which has nothing to do with her voice. It 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 Wang uses in her ordinary speech. As if some alien mind, some alien consciousness infiltrates her in order to communicate through her mouth about events fatal for people. Wanga called these creatures "great power" or "great spirit".
The description of the beings with whom Vanga communicates very clearly reveals to us the world of the heavenly spirits of malice, just as it was described in the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers: the dark forces have a hierarchy; a person cannot control his mental and bodily activities; "Forces" arbitrarily come into contact with Wanga, 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 confessed: “When a person stands in front of me, all deceased loved ones gather around him. They themselves ask me questions and willingly answer mine. What I hear from them is what I transmit to the living. " The phenomenon of fallen spirits under the guise of dead people has been known since ancient biblical times. The Word of God emphatically forbids such communication: Do not turn to those who call 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 of the other world. She called them the inhabitants of the "planet Vamfim" (no comment).
In the story of K. Stoyanova 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 Svetoslav Roerich visited Vangu, she told him: “Your father was not just an artist, but also an inspired prophet. All his paintings are insights, predictions. " As known, The Council of Bishops in 2000 excommunicated an 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 Dzhuna Davitashvili, approved the activities of psychics, communicated with many of them personally, and was actively engaged in healing herself. As for the methods of her treatment, no magic textbook would disdain their description. Here is a short retelling of one of the many cases in the practice of Wanga and the recommendations given by her. A certain man, having lost his mind, grabbed an ax and threw himself at his relatives, when the brothers tied him up and brought him to Vanga, she advised to do as follows: “Buy a new clay pot, fill it with water from the river, scooping against the stream, and this water three times water the patient. Then throw the pot back to break it, and do not turn around! " We do not see a word about repentance and church life that could heal the soul of a sick person! The healings performed by Orthodox saints have always aimed primarily at spiritual healing; healing the flesh at the cost of the defeat of the spirit is the lot of occult healers of all stripes.
In her work, Wanga 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 lumps of sugar, which before that had to lie under his pillow for several days. Taking these pieces in hand, Wanga told the person about his past and future. Fortune telling with the help of a magic crystal has been known for a long time. For Wanga, sugar was a kind of crystal available to everyone that everyone could bring (sugar has a crystalline structure).
All the above facts and evidence show that Vanga's "phenomenon" fully 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.
Wang herself was not aware that she was communicating with the world of fallen spirits. Its numerous visitors did not understand this either. A strict spiritual life and many years of ascetic experience save from deception by fallen spirits. Such a mood teaches spiritual sobriety and protects from harmful delights. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), 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 seduction. 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 came to this place and felt oppressed.
Yes, Wanga 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 servant possessed “... by a spirit of divination, who through divination delivered great income for their masters ”(Acts 16:16). Let us emphasize that the prophetic spirit left the woman after the command of St. Paul, pronounced 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 sympathies for the occult and extrasensory perception, we can conclude that the same forces that feed occultism and magic acted at the heart of her spiritual phenomenon, and therefore, if Vanga were in the place of that New Testament servant, she would have suffered the same fate.
Once, accidentally finding himself near 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 divine. It is known that if Orthodox prayers began to be read next to Vanga, she also lost her gift.
Vanga Church
Vanga built a church in the name of St. Paraskeva Bulgarian. 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 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 Neurokosky Metropolitan Pimen, but it should be noted that a schism took place in the Bulgarian Church that year, and Metropolitan Pimen was one of the organizers of this schism. The church was built by the Vanga Foundation. In 1994, the altar of the temple was consecrated by the canonical Neurokopian Metropolitan Nathanael, 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 there is a portrait of Vanga herself, made in 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, the fellow countrymen of the great clairvoyant demand from the Church to rank Wanga among the saints. 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 believer, a modest woman. She observed the canons, prayed, and happily attended church. And she 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 manifests itself with a full and clear consciousness of spiritual experiences, there is no violence against the will of a person. 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 spiritual fruits begin to visibly manifest. We need moral efforts and, as Seraphim of Sarov says, the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Vanga, however, is far from these conditions, just as she has many misconceptions about the Christian faith. It is noteworthy that Wanga falls into a trance and after it does not remember anything. She has a strange voice, which she speaks, and this shows that another creature is inhabiting her, which she herself admitted. At the moment of such introduction, she (the “saint”) began to growl. This is not holiness, but the opposite of holiness. A person in this state does not communicate with the Holy Spirit, with the Lord, but with dark forces.
When it comes to performing miracles, miracles may not necessarily be a manifestation of holiness. As we know from the lives of the saints, not all saints performed miracles. Conversely, there are many cases of miracles with an obvious lack 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 the 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 cover of Christianity, they preach non-Christian ideas and practice non-Christian actions.
What do Vanga and Blessed Matrona of Moscow have in common? Blindness? So Homer was blind. Vanga openly engaged in witchcraft, talked about a special gift that she had after a severe hurricane, took money for the reception (not personally, but through a fund). It was a well-established and well-established business, on which a lot of people made money - the entire circle of the Bulgarian witch. Blessed Matrona lay paralyzed, humbly carried her cross and prayed to God for the people who asked her to.
There is no easy way to God, and there never has been. 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 anything. He wants everything to be magic. 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 this is not the case.
Prepared by Sergey SHULYAK
Used Books:
1. Hieromonk Vissarion (Zaografsky). "VANGA - PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WITCH"
2. Hieromonk Job (Gumerov). How does the Church relate to the "clairvoyant" Vanga?
3. Pitanov V.Yu. Wanga: who pulled the string?
4. Hieromonk Vissarion: “There is no easy way to God”
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Velikaya Vanga, whose life and activities the project on the Domashny TV channel is devoted to, easily talked about the future, but there are many dark spots in her past. And one of them is a version of how the seer lost her sight and found her gift.
In the official biography of Vanga, based on her memories, it is said that the seer lost her sight as a result of a tornado. In the summer of 1923, when the girl was 12 years old, she returned to the village of Novo Selo with her two cousins. Suddenly a storm started. Vanga's niece Krasimira Stoyanova told: “Suddenly a hurricane came. The sky darkened, a terrible wind arose, which broke thick branches of trees and carried them along with the dust above the ground. A huge column of dust rose from the earth to the sky. The girls were numb with horror. The wind lifted Vanga and dragged him into an open field for two kilometers. " Vangu was found a few hours later, under the rubble of branches and sand. Her eyes were seriously injured - the sand dust damaged the mucous membrane. Vanga was treated for a long time, but nothing helped, and by the age of 14 the girl went blind.
For many years this version was the only one. But it is not supported by meteorological or any other records of natural anomalies at that time.
Several years ago a Bulgarian journalist Svyatoslav Todorkova made a request to the meteorological service - were there any natural disasters, tornadoes or strong winds in the area where Vanga lived since 1900. She was answered: "No." There are no such tornadoes in southern Europe that are capable of lifting a person and carrying him several kilometers. To lift a child, the wind speed must be at least 180 km / h. For more than 250 years of observation in the Balkans, such phenomena have not been recorded even once.
Todorkova managed to find police reports for 1923. And among other papers, there is a protocol stating that a few kilometers from the village of Novo Selo, local residents found a girl who looked at least 12 years old. She was unconscious. The doctor who examined the police station found out that the girl had been raped. Moreover, the criminals gouged out her eyes. The name of the victim was not included in the report. But there are many coincidences. Svyatoslav Todorkova is sure that the girl referred to in the protocol is Vanga. And, according to the journalist, the tornado story is just a family legend.
Historians say that at that time a girl who was abused was usually sent to a monastery. Like, the victim is no less guilty than the perpetrator. It is possible that Vanga's parents decided that it is much easier to marry a blind girl than one who has lost her innocence.
However, both versions - with a tornado and with rape - look implausible. Bulgaria is not Kansas - there are no such tornadoes. Also, where everything is known about everyone. Therefore, the story of the rapist would have leaked sooner or later.
There is a more realistic version. Historians who studied church books in the Novo Selo parish found out that local residents collected money for the treatment of a certain girl. She suffered from a disease that only the capital's doctors could cure. This girl turned out to be Vanga, and her father every Sunday service begged the parishioners for money for his daughter's treatment. Indeed, Vanga was rapidly losing her eyesight, and she urgently needed an operation. The collected funds were enough only for therapeutic treatment. The operation required much more.
Now experts who have studied the archives and the description of little Vanga's disease have come to the conclusion that it was progressive glaucoma. At that time, she could be cured, but a dangerous and costly operation was required. At first, Vanga saw, as it were, through a thin white curtain. Then it became denser and denser. Until the age of 14, the girl plunged into complete darkness.
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3 versions of vision loss by the greatest soothsayer of the 20th century.
One of the most famous women of the 20th century, whose predictions were believed by ordinary people, politicians, creative people, and scientists. Vangelia is a Bulgarian who knew how to talk with the dead and received information from them about future events. Many films have been shot about her, many books have been written. Interestingly, she gained her gift of the Gospel after she became blind. And why this happened, why Wanga at the age of 12 remained completely blind, historians are still wondering. We will present three possible versions.
1. As a result of a strong hurricane, sand got into Vanga's eyes, and because of not started treatment on time, complete blindness occurred. This is the official version, which Wang herself told. It happened when she was out for a walk with her cousins.
According to her stories, a strong hurricane rose and carried her away for many hundreds of meters. The girl was found alive, but her eyes were badly damaged. Skeptics call this story implausible. What Wang describes is a real tornado. Staying alive in this situation is already unlikely, and even in Macedonia, a tornado of such force does not exist. And if it happened, then it would definitely be recorded in some historical sources. But there is no such thing.
In my humble opinion, this story may be true, but only partially. Destructive hurricanes still occur in Macedonia. As a result of one such, a thin twelve-year-old girl could indeed have suffered.
2. Violent acts. A certain journalist discovered that at the specified time in the place where Vanga lived, a terrible crime had taken place - some girl was dishonored and injured, leading to a complete loss of sight. She was absolutely sure that it was about the Gospel. And supposedly her father was able to hide everything. In my opinion, this version is not very similar to the truth, since after what happened, Wang and his father remained to live in the same place. But how then did they explain the ensuing blindness? In any case, there would be talk.
3. Vanga had an eye disease - glaucoma. As a result, intraocular pressure rises, and over time, vision is completely lost. If this is true, then Vanga had vision problems from early childhood. By the way, in addition to blindness, Vanga also had infertility. Perhaps these two pathologies are related and are a consequence of the woman's presence of some kind of genetic disease (syndrome).
As for diseases, other options are possible, not only glaucoma, because blindness can also occur as a result of a lack of vitamin A, and damage to the eyeballs in infectious diseases, helminthiasis, diabetes mellitus, etc. Perhaps the story with the hurricane was invented or partly invented to give Wanga's gift more of a mysterious veil. Moreover, for many years she officially worked for the Bulgarian government.
Baba Vanga is an internationally renowned Bulgarian clairvoyant with a unique gift for foreseeing the most important events in the world. The biography of a clairvoyant is considered the most mysterious among all famous people of the last century, since there are no confirmed events in it. However, Vanga's predictions are still an unsolved phenomenon, according to the popular press. Fans of the gift of Vanga find new evidence that the prophecies continue to come true with incredible accuracy in the modern world, while skeptics argue the opposite.
Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova was born on January 31, 1911 in a family of Bulgarian peasants Panda and Paraskeva in the territory of the modern Republic of Macedonia. The newborn did not receive her name immediately, as she was very weak and her relatives did not believe that the girl would survive. Immediately after birth, she was wrapped in a sheepskin coat and placed under the oven, where, two months later, she began to cry for the first time. This became a symbol of the fact that the future clairvoyant has grown stronger and will live. Therefore, the girl was immediately christened in the church and gave her the name Gospel, meaning "bringing the good news."
Until the end of her life, Wanga remained religious. The clairvoyant urged people to believe in, be kinder and wiser.
At the same time, Vanga interpreted biblical parables in a peculiar way and invented her own prayers. The prophet 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 tree, which Vanga really liked to do. Fans of Vanga's prophetic gift interpret these stories in different ways.
Personal life
Vanga's personal life, like the entire biography of a clairvoyant, has no official confirmation. It is known that the first clairvoyant love of the 20th century overtook 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.
Vanga's only husband 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 years of drunkenness and its consequences for health.
The children of Vanga are also one of the most interesting counts of the biography of the soothsayer. It is known that the clairvoyant was childless, but during her life she adopted two children - a boy Dimitar Volchev and a girl Violetta. The seer raised her adopted children as worthy people, they were given a good education and a "correct" start in life.
Death
Vanga's departure came on August 11, 1996. The clairvoyant predicted her own death a month before what happened. The cause of death of the great predictor was breast cancer, which began to progress rapidly in the last months of Vanga's life.
Wang accepted her own death with a smile on her lips. The clairvoyant urged the whole world not to mourn her, since the load that Vanga had to carry through life is 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 the clairvoyant lived in her last years, a statue weighing 400 kg was installed.
Wanga's predictions come true
Some of the clairvoyant predictions that came true appeared on the Internet in 2001, without having primary sources indicating the authorship of Vanga. Skeptics argue that the Vanga phenomenon is a falsification initiated by the Bulgarian government and special services in order to attract a tourist flow and, accordingly, financial investments.
According to popular sources, over half a century, Wanga made 7 thousand predictions that came true. In addition to World War II, the clairvoyant predicted events in Syria, Nicaragua and Prague. In 1943, Wanga predicted a fiasco in the war with Russia, to which the German Fuhrer only laughed, which was in vain.
The world famous psychic and soothsayer Wanga possessed a unique gift of foresight. There are legends about her life, fate and prophecies, films are made, stories and whole books are written, and there are countless people who were healed and saved by her gift (by the way, there are many privileged and titled persons among them).
Was Wanga sighted or blind at birth, how she acquired unusual abilities, and what famous predictions she left behind to humanity - these are the main questions that interest many people around the world. Read on when and how Vanga lived (the biography of the soothsayer in expanded form is presented in this article).
According to Wikipedia, the full name of the world-famous predictor Vanga is Surchev Vangelia Pandev (after marriage she was Gushterova). The life of a woman who became the owner of an amazing gift as a result of an accident began in a poor family.
Early childhood and the wanderings of the Gospel
Vanga was born in an ordinary Bulgarian family, whose financial situation in the pre-war period was completely deplorable. The date of her birth is January 31, 1911. The appearance of the future prophetess was already in the distant 1911, it was very mysterious, because the girl was born at midnight, premature and with some physiological defects. The probability that the baby would die was so high that she was not given a name at first.
The first person they met was a woman who suggested the name Andromache. But it did not suit the grandmother, and she decided to try her luck again, turning to the next passer-by. He suggested the name of Gangelia. Since its full form was the name of the Gospel (translated from Greek "«υαγγελία" - "good news that brought the gospel"), it was decided to give it to a two-month-old baby to protect it from death and various misfortunes.
Vangelia's father, Pande Surchev, was a simple peasant who fought at the front in the First World War. Mother - Surcheva Paraskeva, in whose honor many years later a temple in the village of Rupite, built at the expense of Vangelia in 1994 (Temple of Light Petka Bulgarska), will be named.
Girl Vanga in childhood was left alone early. Her father, drafted into the ranks of the Bulgarian army, went to the front. When he fought, Vanga's mother died. Until the demobilized father returned, Vanga was brought up and lived in a family of neighbors.
Pande returned when Vangelia was almost 8 years old. At first, he, a yearning widower, and the girl lived together in their old house. But soon Pande married a second time to one of the beauties of Strumitsa, Tanka. In the new composition, the family lived together, but poorly. Several years later, Pande decides to move to his homeland, Macedonia. Since 1923, when the young Vangelia was already 12 years old, they began to live in Novo Selo.
How a girl got a gift
Moving in 1923 will radically affect all subsequent years of Vangelia's life. She will lose her sight, but she will gain something more, starting to predict ...
All this happened in the afternoon, while Wang was found in the evening. She was lying on the ground under a pile of debris and sand, and there was so much dust in her eyes that they hurt terribly and hardly opened.
To restore his vision, Vanga needed surgery and special medications, for which the parents did not have money. As a result, a 12-year-old girl lost her sight, but began to practice clairvoyance, which we will discuss below.
After this tragic incident, Vangelia will live with Pande and Tanka for a couple of years. Later, she will go to a Serbian school in the city of Zemund, where they were engaged in the training and education of blind people. Little is known about the life of the blinded Vanga of those years.
While in the "house of the blind," she mastered the sciences, learned to play the piano and various household skills, and even planned to get married. But the wedding of Vanga and one of the inmates of the orphanage Dimitar (also blind) was not destined to take place just then. In connection with the death of his stepmother in 1928, Pande called Wanga home.
The blinded woman who could "see"
Already at home, doing housework and caring for her younger half-brothers and sisters, Wanga tries to make prophecies to her friends. The first experience of Vanga's clairvoyance came about in the 30s, when, at the request of her girlfriends, the girl read them fortune.
Each time predicting exactly what came true in a few days, she earned herself the glory of a clairvoyant. And since then they have turned to her to tell about the fate of a person.
On the eve of her 30th birthday, after Vanga suffered pleurisy, an amazing guest appeared to the seer in the guise of a shining wanderer on a white horse. He said that soon Wanga would broadcast to people about death, and told her not to be afraid, as he would prompt her the right words. Such a story, told from the words of the seer, would seem like only an amazing tale if Vanga's life did not change after this incident.
Since 1941, the clairvoyant Vanga began to accept people who wanted to know the fate of those who left for the war. Often lonely women entered the door of her house in the hope that Vanga would tell about the fate of their fathers, husbands, and sons who had gone to the front. And no matter how bitter the truth was, Wanga always told everything exactly.
Since then, the fortuneteller began to compose prophecies for a variety of people. She worked with ordinary people, but sometimes she also accepted privileged personalities (political and cultural figures, actors, pop stars and many others). Among the most prominent personalities who made an appointment with Vanga and went to Petrich were:
- Soviet scientist Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva.
- The heir to Nicholas Roerich (the famous painter) is Svyatoslav Roerich.
- Representatives of B.N. Yeltsin and others.
How was her further fate
Throughout her life, the soothsayer was religious. She was proud that she belonged to the Orthodox faith, and in this regard, at first she was afraid of her gift. But, realizing how much good he brings to people, Wanga began to practice, taking 100 thousand people annually.
Having heard about the blind Vanga the prophetess from a Macedonian village, Dimitri Gushterov, a pupil of the Serbian "house of the blind", decided to find his first love. He came to her in 1943, and a year later the couple in love went to Petrich, where the young people played a wedding. But after the wedding, Dimitri had to leave his beloved - he was called to the front.
By what miracle did Dimitri survive and was able to return home to Vanga? According to available information, before leaving for the war, Dimitri received advice and guidance from his newly-made wife. Most likely, guided by Vanga's prompts, he was able to avoid a terrible death and return from the war alive.
But after the front, against the background of worries about the death of his brother and the diseases that persecuted him, Gushterov gradually began to drink too much. Disregarding the instructions and requests of his wife Vangelia, Dimitri Gushterov did not stop drinking. And as a result, in 1962 he died. The cause of his death, according to the doctors, was cirrhosis of the liver.
But all the time while the husband abused alcohol and dreamed of revenge for her brother who died in the war, Wanga did not stop practicing. She met people who traveled to her from different parts of the world for advice, tips, problem solving and even healing.
Having put Wanga in custody without the right to correspond, they planned to keep her in custody for 10 years. But Joseph Stalin did not manage to avoid the predicted. In March 1953, as the seer declared, Stalin died. After lengthy meetings, they decided to release Wang from prison. Much later, in 1967, she was even awarded the status of a civil servant, for which she received two hundred leva a month.
In addition to this incident, 85-year-old grandmother Vanga "guessed" her own death. Wang died a month after she predicted the date of her own death - August 11, 1996 - from an oncological formation in her right breast, flatly refusing to undergo surgery. After 3 days, she was buried on the territory of the Temple of St. Paraskevia, built with her own money.
What Wanga said about Russia, which would become a mighty power that united many states, brought her considerable fame during her lifetime. But world fame came to the prophetess when Wang told about the end of the world. According to the fortuneteller, it will happen in 3797. But by this time, people will be able to invent a new method in order to preserve the foundation of humanity and thereby continue life after death on Earth in a new star system. Author: Elena Suvorova
