Dr. Adelina Angusheva (University of Manchester)
The lecture explores both didactic and polemic textual and visual representations of the witches in the pre-modern Balkan cultural context focusing closely on the works of Josef Bradati (a monk from Rila Monastery), Nikodemos Agioretos (a monk from Mont Athos), and the images of the witches on the external church walls in some of the major Bulgarian monasteries (such as Rila and Troyan).