I’m on vacation in Bulgaria atm, I’ve seen these all over the village Bansko, what are these? and why are there atleast 3 on every front door? please answer this mystery for me kind Bulgarians!
I’m on vacation in Bulgaria atm, I’ve seen these all over the village Bansko, what are these? and why are there atleast 3 on every front door? please answer this mystery for me kind Bulgarians!
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You see dead people…
These are necrologies (,,некролози” in bulgarian). When someone dies the family puts them mostly on their doors in memory of the dead person.
They are death notices and memorials. They are usually put up 40 days after a death, six months and then every year.
This is customary in Bulgaria and is practiced as a way to remember the deceased. These individuals, whose family posted these norices, most likely did live in the houses you saw.
70 years from his death?!
Those are obituaries. Where do you live?
Wanted Dead Or Alive. We’re like the wild wild West here, mate.
The most wanted people in the region.
If you catch one of them you get 100k and you unlock the “headhunter” achievement, which will allow you to use the nerf gun
Necrologies, when someone dies the family is going to use one or two aorund the house or the park in memory of their person.
As a Bulgarian.. im disgusted by these necrologies they look awful and it kind of kills your happiness because you see them 24/7 as if people want to brag with their dead people.. dont get me wrong its totally fine as long as you keep in in your door but nowhere else.
Some people dont get necrologies they just visit their grave every month and so on.. i think its preference
wanted posters
Facebook for the dead.
These are memorial notices. It is customary to post them on your door and sometimes around the neighborhood. They contain some brief details about the person (such as when they died, how old are they, sometimes profession, etc) and kind words from the relatives.
Usually a new notice is posted each year, typically for several years or at rounded anniversaries of the death (like 5-10-15 years), generally as long as there is somebody to remember. The last one on the right shows particular dedication since that person died 70 years ago (in 1941) at the age of 25 years.
Obituaries in English, we didn’t use to put those in the newspapers but family, relatives, friends hang them on the porch gates, church & dedicated notice boards for people who know them to remember them
These are made in memory of the deceased people from this house/family
Obituaries
*me realizing how weird we are*
These are like obituaries. Announcing the passing of the given person.
Memory eternal!
Obituaries. It’s our tradition to paste them all over, to be constantly reminded of the loss, and to signal to others how much we’re grieving. I’ve always considered this tradition disturbing at least.
wanted posters. the top criminals of the city you are in. jokes aside its a stupid thing we bulgarians do I guess to remember the dead. i cant wait for the new generation to stop it ;d
These are obituaries for the deceased.
They either announced the death and the day of the funeral, so friends and acquaintances know when to come and pay their respects, or they announced how many months or years have passed since the person’s passing. For instance the ones you have photographed announced that one of the people passed 14 years ago, the other 70.
You see them mostly on churches, places of gathering, so that as many people can see them, and of course on the doors of their family members’ homes.
It’s kinda a way to show the person is not forgotten.
They used to be all over Sofia too, but I see them rarely now except on someone’s door.
Its like facebook but for old people.
Hey, OP welcome to the Balkans. I remember a story, I heard once. So an international company sends their team here, to the Bulgarian office, they stroll around and the British guys in the team are baffled by the “death notices”(literal meaning) and they ask: Hey, what is that?
Their Italian collegues were, like, You uneducated peasants…
Apparently necrologs are common in South Europe and in Italy they ara actually posters…
#GDPR wants to know your location.
Let me see … portrait image, name, age … you’re going down brother.
Jokes aside, those are fugitives of the law and if you happen to encounter any of them, call the police.
Bro I remember how confused I was when I was living in Sofia – these were everywhere. Obituaries. В. П.
Also seeing these in Velingrad where I am on my hols. Think they area type of memorial.
Wait you’re telling me only us Bulgarians have necrologies?
If you visit the Sofia archeological museum you can see many examples of the same thing from Roman times. They are called funerary altars or reliefs and apart from being made of stone instead of paper are the exact same thing. An image of the deceased person, when and at what age they died and some nice words. They were placed on the side of the road as well.
This is a tradition that goes back at least couple of millennia and I find that fascinating.