Because Nestinarstvo belongs to those ritual systems whose roots were deeply implanted in the very origin of Man's concept of secular and sacred.
If we start with the ancient times' nestinar in his position of priest, who was the mediator between the world, God and the world of afterlife, and finish with the modern psychoanalyst, we would conclude that human society has always needed its mediators.
Fortunately, the ritual system of Nestinarstvo has remained intact throughout the centuries, in terms of its philosophical and notional aspects; and it has kept its thorough meaningfulness.
This region is the only one famous for the so-called nestinarstvo/dancing on live coals /which is one of the most ancient pagan rituals on the Balkans and lays a bridge between the past and the future, thus revealing a slight fragment of the cultural heritage of our nation.
One can trace the history of nestinarstvo tradition back to the Thracians - the ancient inhabitants of Bulgaria who paid their respect to the Sun as their God and believed in immortality.
The nestinars in Bulgaria, however, insist that they have inherited this ritual from their ancestors as a truly Christian duty which, if observed, would bring the believers health and rich harvests and, if not respected, would bring their community a period of ailments and poverty.
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