VANGA
Our story is about one of the most amazing women of the past century, the Bulgarian seeress Vanga.
Her wonderful ability to cure physical and moral pain and delve deep into the past and future have spawned a wealth of legends. For more than a half century people kept coming from all around the world seeking advice from the blind soothsayer whose face was amazingly shining from within… To some she prescribed treatment and explained the cause of their ill health, others she warned against taking wrong decisions, still others she helped find their long-lost loved ones. Thousands of people, heads of state, public leaders, writers, scholars and ordinary people came to Vanga hoping to find cure and get answers to their questions. 
Born in the village of Petric in Bulgaria in 1911, Vanga lost her sight at age 12 in a windstorm. An ordinary child, she was blissfully unaware of her amazing abilities. Her life reads like The Lives of Saints for it’s hard to imagine all the hardship and suffering that befell this poor Bulgarian clairvoyant. During World War I her father was drafted into the army, and her mother died when Vanga was still a teenager.  Looked after by neighbors, the girl, just like her peers,  spent most of her time fooling around and inventing all kinds of new games to play.  When Vanga was 11, she played a strange game her father just could not stand. Putting something on the street or inside the house, she would then start looking for it, her eyes shut closely, as if she were blind… Despite all her dad’s protestations, she kept playing the blind game. 
One day the village she lived in was hit by a terrible hurricane. The sky suddenly went dark, the wind started blowing like crazy uprooting trees and  hurling Vanga far away into the fields. They found her hours later, scared to death, her eyes filled with sand. The girl was in great pain, unable to open her eyes. All attempts to bring her eyesight back to normal failed, the family had no money for an operation, and the poor girl eventually went blind. In 1925 Vanga was sent to a blind people’s home where she spent three years gradually waking up to her newfound supernatural ability to see some unpleasant things happening in her dream that later materialized in real life. Her talent came to a full flowering during World War Two when almost every day thousands of desperate  and heartbroken people would line up outside Vanga’s house seeking consolation and information about their loved ones.
Vanga explained her extraordinary clairvoyance by the presence of some transparent creatures whose origin she could not explain, and who sent her information about people, which she could not relate to the suffering.  Vanga watched one’s life as if it were a movie, from birth to death, but she was powerless to change one’s karma. Besides clairvoyance and soothsaying, Vanga also realized she could treat various diseases, not with drugs but with herbs. She advised her patients to take herbal baths because the curative broth better penetrates one’s system through the skin. 
People say that women dealing with things occult and mystical should not have a family. Vanga still got married and lived happily with her husband for a whole 20 years.  Unfortunately, her husband drank a bottle too much during his ebbing years and ultimately succumbed to cirrhosis of the liver. When he was already in agony, Vanga kneeled down by his bedside tears rolling from her unseeing eyes… She was whispering something, and the moment the man passed away she fell asleep.  She slept until the very funeral and then, waking up, she said: “I escorted him all the way to his destination.” Vanga believed that one should always try to retain his peace of mind and taught people to be kind and help one another.  She said that people had no right to be useless because everyone, good or bad, comes to this world to preserve life in all its forms so that it can develop to meet some supreme objectives we still know nothing about…
Vanga soothsaid about newborn and soon-to-be-born babies, saw and conversed with people who had died a hundred, two hundred and more years ago – something experts describe as the most mysterious reflection of her clairvoyant talent. She also predicted the future even though she didn’t like doing that.  Vanga said that about 200 years from now man would establish contact with his brethren from other worlds and once even said that extraterrestrials had long been living on Earth… 
Vangelia Gushterova died on August 11, 1996. Before passing away, the great soothsayer who knew exactly when she was going to die, said there was a 10-year-old blind girl living in France who had the same abilities as she did and that the would learn about her soont…
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