March 28, 2023 at 6 p.m.
Lecture by prof. Maria Schnitter
Regional Ethnographic Museum - Plovdiv

The lecture traces the attitude towards traditional magic in the environment of the Orthodox Slavs during the 15th-19th centuries in comparison with the processes taking place in Western Europe at the same time. The doctrinal, political and cultural-historical factors hindering the persecution of "witches" among the southern Slavs in the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Times are described.

Free entrance.

The lecture is part of the events of the exhibition "Threads I weave and braid, joy and sorrow I interweave" (Magic and magic in Bulgarian folk culture).
The project is part of the official programme of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019