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Vlaicho Zhechev, known as Dyado Vlaycho (Bulgarian: Влайчо Жечев/Дядо Влайчо), was a Bulgarian mistic and folk healer. Vlaycho is perhaps one of the few world attributed clairvoyants who can foresee his own future, as he wrote that he will get out alive from the hell of the communist camps. Despite the regime persecutions, he wandered during the night around the country, helping those in need, never accepting any panny, which earned him reverence as the "Silverless" and the "Prophet of the People".

Biography

Early life

Vlaycho Zhechev was born into a wealthy agricultural family in the Novozagorsk village of Konyovo on August 15, 1894. His mother died вхен хе вас 6 and bequeathed to him a love for God. When he was ten, he had a vision of the Balkan war that started а year later. When turning eighteen and his father and most of the men in the village were mobilized, he began to predict who would return alive. Vlaycho went to the battlefield as a volunteer in 1916, but refused to carry a rifle and was sent to cook. He was assigned the regimental donkey to carry the food, but felling sorry for the animal he walked forward shouldering the entire load.

After returning from the front, he became a follower of Petеr Dеуnov and began his occult interpretations, wrote poems and revelations. He founded his own Society for Psychic Research and Spiritual Brotherhood. He ate only vegetable food, refused alcohol, worked in the fields tirelessly and in the evening led the gatherings of his spiritual society. His second mother decided to marry him for a girl from a rich family so that he would not become an old bachelor. On the day of his family-imposed wedding, he warned his bride that if she decide to stay they will live as brother and sister and on the fifth day she left. Vlaycho followed the path of the ancient Jewish prophets to remain celibate.

Vlaycho was like a modern apostle invariably carried a book of the New Testament with him. He always began his predictions with an open New Testament in front of him. After reading a few sentences and looking at the one standing opposite him, vivid pictures appeared in his mind which he interpreted. Word about his accurate predictions spread and people from all over Bulgaria began to come to him. Gradually, his relatives, with voluntary work, built a dozen shacks, where the crippled and sick settled. He gave exact recipes for healing, but most often he chased away the disease with prayers. In 1938 Dyado Vlaycho was summoned by Tsar Boris III in his palace in Vrana. It is said that he predicted the birth of the heir to the throne, but shocked by the second part of the prophecy: "...a king will be born without reigning", the tsar never sought him out again.

Prison period

The first years after the communist came in power in 1944 were quite difficult for Dyado Vlaycho as he was considered close to the old regime, he was religious and had no prospect of giving up his way of life. In 1949 he was arrested, investigated and convicted for anti-national conspiracy. His offense was that in one of his visions in 1947, he accurately predicted the recent death of Georgi Dimitrov.

First he was sent to work in the mines for six months in a camp in Pernik, then moved to Belene. It is said that as soon as he set foot on the eerie windy island in the middle of the Danube, he stood naked in front of everyone and doused with ice water. The executioner was joking with him by asking if he knew he would get out feet first or head first. Vlaycho told him: "Don't bother with me, hurry to your home." Very soon, a relative of the executioner came with the news that his child had died. Before running home he returned to Vlaicho's naked body, rubbed it and covered it with his coat. Once Vlaycho had a huge wound on his leg that got worse. Lacking medicines, the camp doctor washed the wound with just water and bandaged it. The doctor believed that only unshakable faith in God would be able to save Vlaicho and perhaps this is exactly what saved him. Regardless of the suffering he was convinced that he will get out of the camps alive and well. In 1951, he was sent to Bobov Dol, where he had to go down into the mines. One day, he warned the chief that there would be a collapse in the coal mine and hundreds of people would die. The next day was declared a non-working day and indeed a powerful landslide buried the galleries of the mine. Thus, according to some, Dyado Vlaycho was released in 1953 thanks to his gift.

Wondering period

For the last 15 years of his life, Vlaycho wandered the roads of Bulgaria as a traveling healer and prophet. It is said about him that he knew a cure for every disease, but he carried the strongest medicine in his hands, and as soon as he touched the pain, it was as if he took it with his hand. Some he sent to doctors, others he helped himself - with prayers, with medicine, with his own strength and energy. Until his last days, he did not change any of his habits - his strong faith, his way of life and diet, his lack of money and a lot of work, in which he stubbornly believed that it was the best medicine. The Bogomils were his great, hidden and painful love, carried over the centuries by a long-suffering and sinful soul who returned to seek redemption and forgiveness.

Dyado Vlaycho died at the age of 86 in 1981. A memorial complex "House of Goodness" was built in his native village. It is believed that every object touched by his hands is sacred, and his words remain after him:

Vision

All his life he lived as an ascetic - without much food, alcohol, cigarettes, meat and lust. He always told people to enjoy difficulties because they are the engine of life: "The higher a soul is, the more trials it has to go through," he explained."I am not a seer, I am a seer," said the Prophet about his gift. "I see the causes and effects of things, past, present, future, of all phenomena in time and space; of men, plants, animals, the location of what is happening here in the world and in the other world...". His abilities to see into the past, the present and the future, to heal the terminally ill, he explained with God's providence and its most valiant warriors - faith, repentance and redemption. It is freely given to me by God, freely I give it.– this is his answer for not taking a penny from those who come to him.

Some of his prediction about the world saved on paper after his death include a purge, the human race has not yet seen, heard, or even suspected - "purification of souls" will take place through the power of Nature. He also had visions that there would be environmental pollution, that there would be more and more areas where there would be unfit bread. That's why he gave advice to eat more fruits and vegetables that grow high up. In this way, we could not absorb the poisons of the earth.

See also

• Peter Deunov
• Slava Sevryukova
• Baba Vanga