Nebulous Heritage: The Spring of the White-Legged Woman in Harmanli

• In Event: Tales, Narratives, and Myths between Oppression and Liberation: The Case of the Walled-Up Woman in the Balkans and Beyond

Abstract

In my presentation, I will introduce a case study related to the legend of a walled-up woman in the Bulgarian town of Harmanli. The site and the legend, which inspired one of the most famous Bulgarian poetic works by Pencho Slaveykov about the White-legged, currently constitute a space for numerous memory practices and policies, while simultaneously undergoing increasingly profound material erosion.

Author

• Sylwia Siedlecka, U of Warsaw (Poland)