Edited For History
I am writing this note at the beginning of January 2023. All political and economic specialists predict a difficult year. And is not for less. The COVID pandemic is still hitting us. As if this were not enough to disrupt the logistics of international trade and supplies, Russia’s unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine dangerously adds fuel to the fire. With the arrival of the year, many witches and seers predict diseases, plagues, wars and all the ugly things we can imagine. There has been a lot of talk in the press lately about a Bulgarian seer known as Baba Vanga that I want to talk about today.
I have been lucky enough to live in Bulgaria for six months and then I visited that beautiful country three more times, now for less time. I bear witness to the beauty of Bulgaria, how blessed its land is where, just by throwing a seed, the fruit germinates almost by itself. But if Bulgaria is beautiful, its people are even more beautiful. The Bulgarian is sincere and hospitable. Other than that, he is a nice breed. Women and men are very good looking. I feel in Bulgaria as in my own land, because that’s how the Bulgarians make me feel.
A few days after arriving in the capital for the first time, Sofía, an elderly lady, the widow of an Orthodox priest, told me that my destiny was marked with an eagle, that I would always triumph. Needless to say, at 24 at the time, I almost didn’t believe her. Subsequently, two other Bulgarians (none of them knew each other) predicted similar things to me. One, reading the remains of the dregs in my coffee cup, told me that my destiny was marked with a V for Victoria. The third advised me to spend all the money I had, that the more I spend, the more I would have.
I am explaining all this to tell you that among the Bulgarians, and among the Slavs in general, there is a predisposition to prophesy, to clairvoyance, to predict the future. And this brings me directly to the lady I want to talk about today, was born on Serbian soil on October 3, 1911 of Bulgarian, peasant and poor parents. She was christened Vangelia Pandeva, but is known to all as Baba Vanga. Vangelia in Greek means “the one who brings good news”. Baba would be like a nickname, which in Spanish is like “aunt”.
His childhood was almost normal. His mother passed away when he was 3 years old. As a child, she liked to play cover her eyes with a cloth and guess where in the room some objects were hidden. At the age of 12, she experienced a very strange incident. She was coming from the country on her way home when a tornado suddenly struck her and lifted her into the air, throwing her battered several hundred yards from where she stood. After her they found her with her eyes full of dirt and under a lot of rubble. She narrated that when she was in the air she felt like someone put a hand on her head and then she fainted from it.
He needed treatment but its price, 500 leva at the time, was too much money for his father and stepmother as his father had meanwhile remarried. Unfortunately due to lack of medical care, at the age of 16, our Baba Vanga lost her vision. She was sent to a school for blind children on the outskirts of Belgrade, where teachers specializing in blind children taught her to read, sew, embroider, take care of housework, play the piano and all the teachings necessary for the future of these children. It was at this institution that she met the love of her life, another blind boy from a wealthy family. Preparations for the wedding began when, as a result of childbirth, the stepmother died and her father sent for her to take care of the house and her brothers. She had to prioritize her family responsibility over her happiness.
It was in 1940 that Vanga fell into a trance for the first time.. With a strange masculine voice he predicted the life or death of those who were in the war that he was going through the world at that moment. in 1942 Dimitar Gusherov, a soldier who was on leave, approached him to tell him who his brother’s murderers were. Vanga told him that he would tell him as long as he did not take revenge because he would live long enough to see the death of the murderers with his own eyes. She married this man and took her to live with him in Petrich, a small town near the border between Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia. Baba Vanga’s fame was increasing, everyone came to see her so that she could predict her future, she even came to Bulgarian Tsar Boris III. He told Hitler to get out of Russia, because he would lose the war. They say that the fürher mocked the Bulgarian seer.
She began timidly, first she secretly told her neighbors and relatives about the gift she had, so they wouldn’t think she was crazy. She said that invisible beings came and narrated the prophecies in her ear. She also received the relatives of the dead to speak with her loved one who had disappeared from her. During the communist era in Bulgaria, Liudmila Zhivkovadaughter of the Bulgarian president of the moment Thodor Zhívkov and the one that the Bulgarians mocked calling her “The Crocodile”, took her under her wings to protect her, on the condition that she told him about her future. Political leaders from Bulgaria and even from the Soviet Union also came. It is said that at that time predicted the death of Indira Gandhiof Leonid Brézhnevof the collapse of the Soviet Unionof the problems that would occur in Syria, Nicaragua and the invasion of Prague in the summer of 1968.
For their part, skeptics argue that the Vanga phenomenon is a forgery initiated by the Bulgarian government, that it was the special services that created all this phenomenon to attract a tourist flow with its consequent financial benefits. Vanga received everyone who came to talk to her about her future. She just didn’t welcome skeptics or those whom she knew had her days numbered. The Bulgarian scientist Giorgi Lozanov recorded some 7,000 cases of predictions coming true during those years, but this study was not considered scientific.
They say that once the famous Russian actor came to visit her Viacheslav Tíjonov (actor best known for the magnificent Soviet film version of the novel of the same name “War and Peace” by leo tolstoy in the role of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky). As soon as he entered his room, Vanga asked him why he hadn’t done what his friend had said. Yuri Gagarin, humanity’s first known cosmonaut, asked him before his fateful flight in a test plane. He asked her why he hadn’t bought an alarm clock to put on a table for decoration. The actor, also a seer, was deeply dismayed that this incident was known only to him and the late Yuri Gagarin.
Baba Vanga is also credited with predicting the tragedy of the Russian Kursk submarine, which claimed the lives of its 118 crew members in 2000. Baba Vanga is also said to have said that “American brothers will be pecked by iron birds”, alluding to the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. It is said that he prophesied the arrival of “a black man” to the presidency of the United States. He said that on 02/22/2022, a fateful event would occur, considering his followers to be the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 14 of that year. However, little is said about the predictions that have not come true. He said that in 2011 there would be a nuclear war from which few people would be saved and that the Muslims would wage war on the survivors, accusing them of being the cause of this catastrophe. He also said that the winners would be the Muslims. He announced 2340 as the year of the end of humanity as a result of cosmic cataclysms. We must consider that Vanga never used dates in her prophecies. Baba Vanga listed the events sequentially, using vague formulations, so linking his words with what will happen in the future is a mere forgery. Hence, we should not believe at face value the writings we see on the internet and in the press about what Baba Vanga said for this year.
She fell ill with breast cancer and refused to undergo any treatment. A month before his death, Baba Vanga said that he would die on August 11, 1996.. That day she asked to be bathed and to be given bread and water to eat. Around 9 in the morning, she told those present that her dead relatives had come looking for her and she made gestures as if she were hugging someone. At 10 o’clock Baba Vanga was not from this world. Before leaving, she asked everyone not to mourn her because she led an unbearable life.
In front of the house where she lived in the small town of Petrich, Baba Vanga had a chapel built for Saint Petronila the Bulgarian, but since this saint has not been canonized, it is not called a church, but a temple. For its part, the Orthodox Church, both Bulgarian and Russian, does not recognize her as a psychic to the extent that she did not believe in life after death and resurrection, but in reincarnation, which makes her in pagan. Now the kind reader has all the information that I have provided and I leave it up to him to consider whether this lady was a clairvoyant or not.
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