What does vanga mean. Vanga predictions - What's next

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”, “prophetress”, “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… Continue Reading →

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. Continue Reading →

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. Continue Reading →

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. Continue Reading →

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 is 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). Family life Vangi 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 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.

Vanga's grave

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 gleamed in 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 next to Vanga they began to read Orthodox prayers 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 breaks everything 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 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 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 miracles 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 anything. He wants everything to fall into place magic wand. 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 blind soothsayer Vanga made predictions throughout her life. Some came true immediately, but almost all the messages remained unsolved. People could not understand the meaning of the words of the famous seer.

Life after Syria, Vanga's predictions

And only after the catastrophes had already happened did people understand their meaning. For example, the Kursk submarine Vanga predicted: Kursk would sink and be mourned by the whole world!, And the September 11 terrorist attack - The South American Brothers would fall, pecked by iron birds and the recent disaster in the Land of the Rising Sun (“No animals remain from radioactive rain , no people”), military conflicts in the East (in Libya and Syria), which, according to her, “will be the beginning of the end of earthly civilization” and almost everything else.

But the most interesting, in the light of recent events, is Vanga's predictions, which are temporarily tied to the Middle East, and directly to Syria, where revolutionary actions are taking place today. Looking ahead, I’ll say that, according to the soothsayer, all this has the most direct relation to Russia.

Video of Vanga's predictions

More than once, Vanga in her predictions spoke of the arrival of a new teaching into the world, although the clairvoyant called this teaching itself very ancient: “Soon it will come into the world ancient teaching. They ask me: "Will that time come soon?" No, not soon. Syria has not fallen yet!

And so, the fall of the regime in Syria should become a harbinger of some epoch-making event, the arrival of some new, or rather forgotten old doctrine. The most important thing is that it must come from Russia. Vanga spoke about this more than once in her stories: “There is an ancient Indian (Aryan) teaching of the White Brotherhood.

It will spread all over the world. Books will be printed about him, and everyone will read them. This will be the Fiery Bible. The time will come when all religions will disappear! Only the teachings of the White Brotherhood remain. This religion will cover the earth, and through it all will be saved. This teaching will come from Russia. And Russia is the first to be cleansed. The teachings of the White Brotherhood will spread throughout Russia and begin their campaign around the world.

What will happen after Syria

After the fall of Syria, changes for the whole world will come from Russia, which intersects with the predictions of Orthodox saints. “Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be amazed. Orthodoxy in it (Rf) will be reborn and triumph. But the orthodoxy that was before will no longer exist. God Himself will put the Tsar on the Throne” (from the predictions of St. Theophan of Poltava).

At the beginning of the article, we mentioned that the modern church (about which St. Seraphim of Sarov said: “the bishops of the Church of God and other clergymen will depart from the purity of Orthodoxy, and the Lord will severely punish them for this”). Nevertheless, we see that there are no contradictions between the words of Orthodox saints and Vanga’s predictions about some kind of “new teaching” (“the teaching of the White Brotherhood”, “Fiery Bible”, “that Orthodoxy that was before will no longer exist”) .

Let's explain why. Everyone understands that there are only 4 canonical Gospels, combined with other books in New Testament, in which even without being a specialist it is possible to find dozens of contradictory and deliberately distorted.

For example, in the Epistle to the Romans of the Holy Apostle Paul (chapter 13, verse 1) it is said: “For there is no power, but not from God,” which, translated from Church Slavonic, means “There is no power, if not from God.” In a modern translation, it was translated as "There is no power except from God." And this is far from the brightest and not the only falsification.

One of the more revered Russian Orthodox saints, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov and Wonderworker of All Russia, spoke about the distortion of Holy Scripture. He said that the real gospel would be proclaimed, and today's one was distorted by man. “The great elder told me that after his own resurrection he would move from Sarov to Diveev and there he would open the sermon of common repentance.

Each Orthodox person from the Revelation of St. John knows that the latest, and, in truth, the real Gospel will be read at a moment that the non-friends of the Lord cannot even think of without being numb from a nightmare.

“And I saw another angel hovering in the midst of heaven, who had the everlasting gospel, to proclaim the gospel to those who dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people; and he said in a resounding voice: Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come, and bow down to Him who made heaven and earth.

Vanga's last prediction about Russia

Vanga's last prediction, which concerned the future of Russia, was small. The seer Vanga simply outlined a large circle in the air and said that this country would again become a majestic empire, while at first there would be a state of mind.

Among latest prophecies seers - prophecies of the meeting of people with aliens and even assimilation with them, the discovery of life in space, the mutation and immortality of people.

Vanga spoke about the ups and downs of the world's population, her descriptions of future indescribable news end in the year 5079, when, according to the seer, the end of the world will finally come.

Vanga's predictions come true?

The researchers calculated that a third of Vanga's predictions, which should have already happened, did not come true. When Vanga made the very first prediction, it’s not exactly clear.

The soothsayer Vanga died in 1996, and shortly before her death, she said that ships from the planet Vamphim were already visiting our land. Vanga said that an extraterrestrial civilization is preparing a “big event” for earthlings and a meeting with aliens will take place in 2 centuries. Relatives of Vanga say that the grandmother knew the exact time of her own death.

Some time before her death, she announced that a future soothsayer had already been born on the Place de France, who would inherit the gift of Vangelia herself. Soon, Vanga said, the whole world will hear about the girl. If you believe the prediction of the soothsayer Vanga, today the young seer is about 16 years old.

Despite the fact that the great soothsayer Vanga died in the last century (date of death 08/11/1996), we can all with firm confidence consider ourselves her contemporaries. The past years could not underestimate the merits of the clairvoyant before many generations of grateful admirers.

However, despite the huge number of lives saved, heated debate over the abilities of the Bulgarian prophetess is only gaining momentum. After all Vanga, despite her difficult fate, remained a mysterious person. Her mysterious abilities amaze the imagination and cause the envy of ill-wishers even after her death.

was born soothsayer Vanga exactly 100 years ago, on January 31, 1911, a weak, seven-month-old girl had fused fingers and toes. newborn Vanga was so weak that her parents did not believe that she would survive. However, two months later, the weakened baby, having shown a huge will to live, began to recover. Perhaps this was the first miracle in the life of an outstanding Bulgarian woman.

When the girl was three years old, the mother of the future clairvoyant died. And at the age of twelve, a major event occurred that turned her whole life upside down. Vanga, who was returning with her cousins ​​to the village, was picked up by a hurricane and carried away far into the field. After some time, the girl was found, sprinkled with sand and littered with branches. Acute pain in the eyes and severe fright were the consequences of this inexplicable phenomenon.

It was at this moment that the future legendary personality appeared - soothsayer Vanga. According to the recollections of the clairvoyant herself, at the moment of the fall, someone helped her up and stroked her head. However, contrary to magical salvation, Vanga began to go blind, finally losing her sight four years later. It is likely that the extraordinary properties of the girl's body allowed the development of such abilities as inner vision. Or maybe it was blindness that was the very cruel price for the acquired talent.

In full force, the abilities of the Bulgarian clairvoyant were revealed with the outbreak of World War II. Since soothsayer Vanga regularly helped her compatriots. She predicted the future and communicated with the souls of dead people. The fame of her talents spread far beyond the borders of her native country. To Vange came from all over the world. The prophecies of an amazing Bulgarian woman concerned not only human destinies. She made many predictions for all mankind.

List Vanga's predictions come true huge. She was able to predict the start of World War II, the German invasion of Yugoslavia, the death of the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III and the date of the liberation of Bulgaria. For predicting the death of Stalin, Vanga even had to serve time in prison until the prophecy was fulfilled. On account of the Bulgarian soothsayer predictions about the victory of Indira Gandhi in early elections and the presidency of J. Carter. Perestroika, the collapse of the USSR, the coming to power of M. Gorbachev and B. Yeltsin - all these events Vanga clearly saw and talked about them.

To date, there are a large number of predictions from the Bulgarian clairvoyant that relate to the future of all mankind for several decades to come. This gives hope to us, living people, that our children and grandchildren have every chance to build happy life. You only need listen to the words wise soothsayer.

AiF decided to conduct its own investigation: was she a real soothsayer or is it a well-promoted brand?

The town of Petrich, twenty kilometers from the border with Greece, is nothing special. An ordinary Bulgarian village - most of the inhabitants work as laborers with the Greeks in the summer, and come home only for the winter. However, it is here that one of the main tourist sites in Bulgaria is located - the house of "Baba Vanga": a blind seer who died in 1996.

Vanga's two-story house in the city of Petrich: the clairvoyant lived there for 20 years. Photo: / George Zotov

Since then, disputes have not stopped about her personality - for some she is a saint, for others she is a servant of demons, and for skeptics she is also dexterous schemer. Despite this, many researchers put Vanga on a par with Nostradamus and seriously discuss at conferences: is it true that the rural old woman predicted the collapse of the USSR, the Fukushima accident and the war in Syria? The so-called gift from Vanga opened 90 years ago - on November 20, 1923, when during a strong storm a twelve-year-old girl was covered with sand in her eyes. Soon, visions began to appear to the blind child: the events of the coming years.

“Sometimes everything was revealed to her herself, and sometimes some creatures whispered prophecies,” she says, walking me through Vanga’s house in Petrich, her goddaughter Verka Tokov. “Grandma thought they were angels.”

Prayer room: here Vanga locked herself to communicate with the "angels". Photo: / George Zotov

A visit to the seer's two-story mansion costs 1 euro (video filming - for separate money). At the entrance - a portrait of Vanga on glass, in the courtyard - a bronze monument. In the kitchen there are presents from visitors, including a Tula samovar and Gzhel plates. “For some reason, they tried to impress Wang with the beauty of the gifts,” Tokova recalls. “People just forgot that she was blind.”

Kitchen: why were beautiful samovars given to a blind grandmother? Photo: / George Zotov

"Product of PR and special services"

In 1967, Vanga was registered as a civil servant with a salary of 200 levs per month, - recalls former Major of the Bulgarian KGB Nikolay Stoychev currently living in Madrid. - Each citizen of Bulgaria paid 10 leva for a meeting, and a foreigner - 50 dollars. The case is unique - imagine, in the USSR they would take a holy fool or a monk to an official position? Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov twice came to Vanga incognito and was impressed: she knew everything about his life - "your friends were killed, you were hiding in the basement." Zhivkov was unaware: he provided "sensations" to Vanga's entourage KGB chief Angel Solakov.

Then it became a system. The guest came to Petrich, stayed at the hotel. The maids, waiters, taxi drivers spoke to him, asking: where are you from? And who is your mother? Do you have kids, are you married or not? All these people collaborated with the KGB. Then a person came to Vanga, and the clairvoyant amazed with her knowledge of the secret details of his life. This, of course, was not with everyone, but with many.

Specially hired people spread myths about Vanga, word of mouth worked. I'm sure - undoubtedly, Vanga had a gift ... but rather a psychological one: she easily guessed the details of the life of strangers. Otherwise, the Bulgarian soothsayer is simply a “product” of PR technologies.

The opinion is, of course, tough and controversial. But what then is true about Wang, and what is fiction? Talking with me over tea in the seer's mansion, Verka Tokova refutes a popular myth - they say that Hitler secretly visited Vanga at one time. “This is fantasy. I don't even know where this came from. The entire Internet, all the newspapers are crammed with news - they say, Vanga told the Fuhrer: “Do not go to war with Russia,” but he did not obey ... Hitler did not appear in Bulgaria. In addition, Vanga's assistants deny the announcement by the clairvoyant of the dates of Stalin's death and the third world war.

“Grandma tried not to make political forecasts,” she said in an interview with AiF. former assistant clairvoyant Elena Milcheva. - She predicted the fate of ordinary people, told them how best to act in life. 99% of the information about Wang is a complete fiction. She said nothing about the future accident at Fukushima, or about Syria, or about the upcoming collapse of the USSR. The problem is this - the grandmother forbade visitors to make audio recordings. Therefore, so many rumors were born without documentary evidence.

By the way, for the Bulgarians themselves, Vanga is primarily a “healer”: it is believed that she could relieve pain, heal by collecting herbs, laying on hands and conspiracy. Now hundreds of “healers” offer services in Bulgaria, almost everyone has a biography that says “Vanga’s student”. There are no diplomas - they confirm the “teaching” with joint photos with Vanga: although it is known that the seer was photographed with everyone. The blind grandmother flaunts on Petrich's badges, magnets, calendars ("This is our oil," they joke in the town). After her death, Vanga turned into a brand. A very popular wiring in Petrich is to inform the guest that a clairvoyant once predicted his arrival in the city: they can extract a dossier with a revelation from the archives ... for a fee of 500 euros. Crooks are selling a bunch of "miraculous" items that Vanga once allegedly touched - so they, they say, should be applied to sore spots.

"Mysticism has become a conveyor"

Baba Vanga had little interest in money, explains journalist Ivan Angelov. - But in addition to government agencies, a lot of various people fed near it - there were hundreds of them. They spread rumors about miracles. Vanga herself gave very vague predictions. For example, she liked to tell her parents that their children would stand on the mountain and wave a stick. This has been interpreted in different ways. Kirkorov's father, after the success of his son in Russia, considered that the mountain is a musical Olympus, and the stick is a microphone. There were whole crowds of visitors, each Vanga allocated no more than a couple of minutes, often these were blank answers.

Bedroom: old furniture, the clairvoyant did not live well. Photo: / George Zotov

Perhaps in the 40-50s, Vanga was a soothsayer. However, the transformation of mysticism into a conveyor with consumer goods in the service of the state killed the clairvoyant in her. Dozens of her predictions have not come true - but people don't think about it. Everyone loves a myth.

And in fact, from within Bulgaria itself, the situation with Vanga is seen as completely different. This is an iconic figure for the country, but there is no blind adoration, worship, as in Russia. So you’ll think about it: would a blind grandmother from the rural outback have become so popular if it weren’t for the powerful PR support of the state? Therefore, I am going to Rupite - a village on hot springs, Vanga's "office", where she received visitors from all over the world for 20 years until her death ...

“Vanga had strange moods. Sometimes she suddenly shouted to the guests: “I see you! You are demons!" .