Lifted Up by the Power of the Saints: Prihvanati, Music, and Embodied Experience in the Firewalking Rituals of Two Bulgarian Nestinari
This thesis explores the experience of Bulgarian ritual firewalking, prihvanati, from the perspective of two individual nestinari(firewalkers), Ivailo Ayanski and Vesselina Ilieva. Building upon their personal accounts, it focuses on the history and context of the firewalking rite and the transcende...
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-2851 |