After our parents death I and my brother were left together. I live in the city and he lives in a village.

My brother derive all positive and negative traits of our father – both “hands of gold” and drinking. When he is sober works much. All the people in the village look for him when they needed a builder or an electrician. He is very good at both. But if he is drunk he turned into different person. The alcohol radically changed him during the past years. He began to hate all his friends and acquaintances, insulted all of them, he even didn’t come to the burial of our mother. I have already known that there is no getting rid of the alcohol dependency.

But the news from the village became to arrive worse and more dramatic. My brother became a laughingstock. A year ago he fell down from a tree in intoxicated condition and it was necessary to have an operation. Because he hadn’t a health insurance I paid too expensive artificial joint. In spite of being in a wheel-chair he was drinking for days.

I did not believe the alcohol dependency could be overcomed. A neighbour of mine told me that the healer Magda has helped to her husband. I won’t enter into details how we did all the rituals but now it is a fact that my brother don’t touch alcohol.

He repaired the house, worked in the garden and welcomed his sons, who living in Spain. Magda is a blessed woman for me. She saved me lots of unpleasantnesses.

Hristo Kovachev, Chirpan