HEALING MAGIC IN THE BULGARIAN TRADITIONALCULTURE
Date of event: April 8, 2023
Hybrid training - in person and online
Venue: Sofia, 10 Vihren St
Running time: 10.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
Health in traditional culture is perceived holistically. Achieving this unity, as well as the outer and the inner balance was not only done by influencing the human physiology by means of plant medicine, but also with the help of various traditional rituals.
The topic of this lecture is Traditional rituals and practices for achieving good health.
Dr. Georgi Mishev will answer the following questions:
- What is "baene" (chanting), what is the meaning of the word;
- What are the main types of this chanting and what are the requirements and expectations for the chanter(s) who practice it;
- Why our old ethnographers say that the chanters were more respected than the priests and the schoolmasters.