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Under the mountain Chakor is located the most beautiful village – Velika. The mountains are on all sides, and on them, besides the beautiful forests and meadows, there are pieces of cultivated land, a wooden fence and a house. There are not many of them. All of them are old, like the few inhabitants of this wonderful village. All these houses could tell their own history, just as these few people could tell their stories about their life and village. Until now many people remember one wonderful old man, who, as the story goes, has been called an eccentric with herbs, herb doctor, witch doctor, sorcerer, healer, a man who moves objects and knows how to talk with the spirits of ancestors.

“Yes. I remember Gatso. How not to remember?! Even when I was a kid, I heard a lot about him from my parents, grandfather and grandmother, and others used to say incredible things about that wonderful person”, – one of the residents of that village confessed to us.

“He is my own blood. God will reward him in the next world, – his relative assured us. “I remember all, sonny. Why not?! Such a person he was! And what power did he have? God rewarded him. It was enough for the patient to approach him – he immediately recovered. He gathered various herbs and made therapeutic ointments ad inunctions. Believe me, he was not equal in the whole world. He knew to have a look and to say everything that was with you and what will happen. Look. He could do like this, – and she pointed with her old hands towards the bench and the vat near the water source, – for fun he could raise without hands and throw this bench and the tub. Yes, son, he was strange. I can still tell you, but I know – you will not believe, many times I heard from many people that he can talk with his late father, grandfather, great – grandfather and with everybody. I’ve heard. His house was near the cemetery and, my God, it was said that many times after midnight they saw him there at the graves – the old woman opened us making the sign of the Cross. – The only thing I did not like in him.”

We asked her if she could tell anyone we could ask about him and his abilities.

“Of course, I can tell, son! Listen! He has a son and two daughters, but only all his skills, notebooks and records he left his sister’s son, nephew Miki. He lived in Pecs, and then he moved with his sister to Kraljevo. God you are, and they say about him: he is an eccentric out of eccentrics.”

We ended up talking with the innocent people of this village and went to Kraljevo to meet this “eccentric crank.”