Indipasha

The ancient Thracian sanctuary Indipasha in Strandja heals diseases. The sanctuary is situated in a deep valley near the village of Slivarovo in the municipality of Malko Tarnovo. It is supposed that Thracians carried out their rituals with milk and water in the holy place. According to the legend, only the most enlightened Thracian priests knew the way to the hidden place, orienting around the rocky slopes around the rocks. Indigenous customs and Christianity are now intertwined in Indipasha.

Even today the place will help you to get rid of the pains, believe all who find their way to the mystical place. According to the belief, the power of the sanctuary is the strongest on the fifth day after Easter. Anyone who gets to the hard-to-reach place must drink a sip of water from the deep well-hidden source. Then most often a candle burns in front of the numerous icons that make up something like a small chapel. And purely in pagan custom, the ill should ties his garment, a cloth, or a thread from it, to beg for health. It had to hang between heaven and earth, not to touch the waters underneath it, so that the pain in the space would remain, far from man.

Although it is not clear what the name Indipasha means, it is most often referred to as “after the Easter”. Long after the Thracians, the place was forgotten and believed to be re-discovered by an old buffalo. The animal was blinded, but his owners were sorry to kill him and let him wander freely. In the meantime, the bull returns completely healthy and could see. Years passed, and old age overwhelmed him, yet he escaped again into the woods and returned his forces. After several times of repetition of this story, the farmers followed him to a spring in the rocks whose water was healing – the holy spring of Indipasha. According to scientists, that studied the water from the Indipasha spring, its composition is close to the distilled water. That’s why she treated eye diseases. And it also affected other woes.