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Extract from the Rupite Travel Guides:
Twelve kilometres northeast of Petrich,
RUPITE
is famed in Bulgaria as the home village and burial place of the oracle
Baba Vanga
. Legend has it that at the age of six, she witnessed an angel who offered her the choice between sight and clairvoyance, and she chose the latter. Vanga's subsequent prophecies and healing skills gained her a wide following (including Politburo members), and her vision of Varna engulfed by water was vindicated when it was discovered that the city stood upon an underground lake - from which day on, high-rise building was prohibited. In old age she had fewer VIP visitors but her predictions...
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