В конака на св. Константин. Още за с. Българи и пътя към нестинарския транс
In the Town Hall of St. Konstantin. More about the Village of Bulgari and the Way to the Nestinari Trance

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the town hall of St. Konstantin in the village of Bulgari and the Nestinari trance. Inherently connected with the general meaning of the Nestinari ritual, these two issues are logically analyzed together. The attention is focused mainly on the Nestinari trance reached in the course of the Nestinari ritual dance in the town hall of St. Konstantin. The major reason for drawing upon this already analyzed problem is an incidental discovery made by the author in the sphere of geophysics and psychophysiology. It appeared that the town hall of St. Konstantin falls in the field of a rather dynamic geo¬magnetic anomaly, which obviously exercised a psycho-physiologic impact on the high sensors’ abilities of the dancers. It was namely them who showed the exact place for building the town hall. This phenomenon is part of the series of external factors that facilitated the more prompt achievement of the Nestinari trance. From that point, in unity with the firm faith in the Saint and his role as a special elect, the Nestinari women were guided into the fire dance. In this respect and in the context of the entire Nestinari cycle, the article pays detailed attention on the issue of being a specially elected. The analysis of the fire walking furthermore enhances the ethnological analysis.

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