The Truth Behind Serbia's Notorious Witchcraft Subculture

In Serbia, Vlach magic - the spiritual rituals of the Vlach people - has been linked to mass killings and crimes of passion by the Serbian media. Galeb Nikacevic went to some of the most remote villages in Eastern Serbia to take part in Vlach magic rituals and discern truth from sensationalism.
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[@doudeau1988]

"The Truth Behind Serbia's Notorious Witchcraft Subculture" also known as: "The roast of Galeb Nikcevic"

[@LeauxNBehold]

this is not "Eastern Voodoo", this is its own tradition with its own name and history. don't be lazy.

[@justperpetuallybothered3474]

Exactly. This is so fucking disrespectful.

[@prayerwarrior3030]

It's from satan not tradition..they're being deceived

[@justperpetuallybothered3474]

@@prayerwarrior3030 as someone of aromanian background you're talking absolute bullshit. You religious people are mental I swear

[@nandemanando5720]

ShadowHealer 101 you sound angry and confused, calm down brother its 2020 ✌🏽️

[@sincerelyeugene6638]

@@nandemanando5720 fool.

[@bluefiremoon1158]

Lmao everyone telling him he is trash. *Self-confidence has left the chat*

[@7GabriEl7FM7]

Haha🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ac-xq8pk]

Galeb: hi lol grannies: you are a loveless womanizer. you have no will, no strength, no love. you are a failure. you are dead inside.

[@toresanderify]

An people say that fortune tellers only tell you what you want to hear 😅

[@coolcat6341]

Sounds like my ex,,,, uh sorry he loves his ex who ducks other men.

[@back2paranormal]

Lol...I feel bad for 'ol Galeb...don't worry bro just have a glass of bats blood when the moon is full while beating your face with a birds feather, and you'll be fine.

[@ac-xq8pk]

@@back2paranormal not even magic could fix a lazy womanizer lmao

[@amykimball5811]

I would have been like 😳😳😳

[@nelsonarias4560]

The tittle should have been : "Serbian Hipster gets roasted by grannies"

[@dancergoddess3712]

nelson arias LMFAOOOOO

[@roygarcia2109]

nelson arias best comment

[@ap1s2k78]

What's a tittle? Does it resemble a tittie

[@dvowls120]

The grannies seemed very good at their job!

[@annaluna5662]

Hahahahahahahahahaha jaoo oplakah 😂😂😂

[@BTRFan4894]

When you know the language,it is even funnier to listen😂

[@downbelxw]

Bukvalno 😂😂

[@MrSimoneti2008]

Da 🤣🤣🤣

[@madebydzoni]

Jeste jeste 🤣

[@Benjamin-he1hl]

a sto pises na eng. onda glupaco ;/

[@MrSimoneti2008]

@@Benjamin-he1hl hahahahaha

[@vz8462]

Name of video: old serbian grannys legendary troll young man

[@Andreas_linden]

🤣🤣🤣

[@omgthatsspooky9129]

Is that bin laden in your pic?

[@vz8462]

@@omgthatsspooky9129 sure is

[@countesskiki]

So I was born and lived in Romania (in a village nearby Resita ) for the first 11 years of my life, my and other villages speak Croatian/Serbian, witchcraft is really common in Balkan and especially Romania I‘m happy to know that our villages are related to Serbia and Vlash is basically romanian. “witchcraft“ is not always bad it’s most of the time fortune telling or helping people with their problems in life. Also in Romania astrology and crystals are popular so no wonder why everyone doesn’t have anything against witchcraft.

[@Lalelelelele]

CHIYOKO im glad serbian and romanian people are getting along so well tbh

[@jozocolic3185]

witchcraft = always bad.. you will always have some sortf of consequences so be careful with this stuff

[@sebastiancurut9574]

Thanks for bringing this up I had a really powerful Witch on my Romanian side of the family

[@servius3362]

Jesus

[@slamee100]

fortune telling is evil, only God knows the future, past and present, not other people and you turn to God alone with problems in your life, not to other people, this is the problem with witchcraft, it goes against God. Seek God, not fortune tellers and witches.

[@Haiylin]

Baba Ruza was savage with that kid. I love her, you can see she won't deal with people's bullshit.

[@alektad]

Most likely it was because he is not white lol, and with Belgrade accent

[@Lobo_Loco1]

I can guarantee you it was because he wasn't white. These people are only accepting of their own.

[@savapavlovic3956]

@@Lobo_Loco1 O shit, you think they saw him as some kind of gypsy or something?

[@Lobo_Loco1]

​@@savapavlovic3956 I wouldn't know that because I don't live in some shanty European village that looks like it dates back to the 1800s. Gypsy? I can tell you're not from North America, lol!

[@Thispersonaintimportant]

ofc she is!! her own neighbor told them to tell her to go to hell. you don't think she received so much backlash and criticism? She ain't takin no one's shit.

[@kittycatknows]

I'm just here for the cat following them through the woods

[@thosechocolatebrowneyes]

same

[@sg6388]

Same I swear serbserb cat

[@sarahsiddiqui9591]

Omg same lool

[@lupinaocean4326]

that was a shapeshifting witch

[@vantastroganoff4370]

Im here to look at serb girl pics

[@gherkin7620]

I'm Serbian lmao And I absolutely love this,if you understand Serbian you will find SOME of the things hilarious

[@GalaxyLemonade]

Tell us more!

[@nikolaspasojevic5728]

istina hgahahahhahahhahahha

[@daniellejeanette8099]

Sorry to hear that you’re Serbian

[@cosmicdoggo9296]

@@daniellejeanette8099 whay is that a reason to be sorry?

[@csauzier]

@@cosmicdoggo9296 because she is trolling or racist.

[@cookiebuttercup8232]

I wonder what he did...these grannies definitely picked up on something.

[@mimisikujui5514]

He is half black.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I agree every single granny picked up on something dark in him. He all but admitted he sleeps with married women. and he never denied any of what they said. He never said oh you're wrong except when the Granny asked if he had a girlfriend and he had no problem telling her that he didn't so why wouldn't he correct them if they said something else that wasn't true? Def seems like they all saw something similar

[@Evie170]

Yeah, they may have been getting Aleister Crowley vibes off him. They've seen men like him before.

[@eri6984]

@@mimisikujui5514 so?

[@brandysara]

@@WhitneyDahlin you're not really suppose to correct them. They won't be able to do a reading for you if you are reluctant or talk back them, they will feel your energy when you come into the room.. and most of the time they talk about future events as well.

[@nanotech2080]

Didn't know Kid Cudi is fluent in serbian. Nice.

[@CovertBandit0]

LMAOOOOOOO

[@the_guy_actual]

nanotech2080 good one lmao

[@ishootyoustaydown7281]

You are my niqqa

[@ellanasth7293]

Kid Cudi, real Camus fan

[@illuminickiblanco]

Oh shit😂😂😂😂

[@S2DEliptiK]

Finally some sketchy old school vice documentaries being uploaded on this channel. I was beggining to think it had become a tabloid.

[@TAYSHELLA]

same

[@Cordovan]

+hotcrossedbun Exactly.

[@Ebb0Productions]

+Puppiesnwaffles People have said this for the last 2 years. Don't worry dude.

[@ho_ey]

+Puppiesnwaffles Yeah I find vice's documentaries interesting when I dont expect them... like we already get enough news on politics... how bout some voodoo

[@verbaledge]

+Puppiesnwaffles vice is like a reality show sometimes..oh no where's the driver!? such suspense...

[@michaelprice3040]

Western mystics: “ you are from a long line of powerful rulers and you’ll be rich and you are blessed“ Eastern mystics : “well... you’re souls is cursed”

[@Nikola7.62]

Serbian here and I gotta say, no horror movies/games/etc... can compare to true stories which originate from Serbian hills and other rural parts. Those things keep you up at night.

[@belindi25]

Indulge us pls

[@ivansimunek4829]

pls explain

[@skisk00]

kazi nam brate

[@G_mpDWLe111]

They should make a really good horror movie about it. By the books, super raw and on point with the old traditions; it would be fantastic!

[@oksana8575]

@@ivansimunek4829 you don’t want to know.

[@user-wg4hz3bk4f]

"there are no roads there". Walks along roads with tire tracks, and the old woman has a car in her yard.

[@ayandadlamini7838]

Dude 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Fake news at it's best I'm really starting to believe that everything on KZbin is staged

[@lukey1989]

Not really a road tho is it, more off a dirt track that is not looked after, Also the first house they visited with the car, was the wrong house. So pay attention before saying shit lol,

[@NOWtheband]

@@lukey1989 - Ha ha! Good one(s) :-)

[@MrSimoneti2008]

@@NOWtheband but there was a car at the other house as well

[@MrSimoneti2008]

@@lukey1989 there was the car at the other house also. Pay attention before making fool of yourself as well :-)

[@Exposetheworld]

Vlach 'magic' is still very prevalent in eastern Serbia. My family and I are Vlach and we moved to London but every summer when we visit; someone will leave something like a feather or an apple on top of our very front gate so that when you open it, it falls on you. It happened to me once, a funeral procession past by our house which is located near the cemetery and as I walked in a feather fell on my arm. I simply laughed it off but a few days later I told my family and that's when death-con 5 was engaged. My family began sprinkling the house with 'holy water' and moaned at me for being so 'ignorant'. A lot of people complained about this documentary but I think it was pretty fascinating to see how these people actually did readings. Here in the UK you get those bullshitters with tarot cards, but it was awesome to see how religious Orthodoxy is mingled in with 'dark magic' and how the two juxtapose one and other; it provides a fascinating insight in to a culture that has remained largely unchanged for centuries.

[@Roman-bh7hb]

Tarrort cards have more power than you think its just than in the UK they cannot use them my nan who reads peoples fate using tarrot cards is lithuanian i myself am half russian half lithuanian and she had once read a friends fate not my friend but one of my mothers and she had read that there that her life would fall unstable and that it would lead to her death later on it turned out that the person had betrayed many people, she became crazy and eventually ended up comitting suicide

[@VendPrekmurec]

In Slovenia existed Vešče (Witches) and Witchers until the late WW1 as leaders of Staroverci or old believers... Last priesthood died out in late 1960's. - 1980s. One of latest Dehnars (priest) in Slovenia (on a photo: i1.wp.com/www.trzican.si/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/DSC3783.jpg?fit=1772%2C1179) www.aura.si/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nikrmana009-226x229.jpg According to Weikhard von Valvasor (The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola) the Witches were known as "goddesses in the presence of people (highly respected) and in the presence of the Church they were the satanic seed, plague... " that's why were these people burned on bonfires... This was the symbol called TrutaMora or Morina šapa (Mora's claw (Mora = Morana), which was protecting children & cattle from nightMAREs & death staroverci.si/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/zibelka.png ; to understand the meaning of it watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h57FoYKrmLOJpJY the symbol was for example later recycled in Socialism & Communism: ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB10FWoLXXXXXbgaXXXq6xXFXXXf/Red-Star-Hammer-Sickle-Communism-Emblem-Soviet-Union-Symbol-Ussr-Pin-Cold-War.jpg

[@arfacrew]

Awesome!!

[@DJNellyNemanja]

Sve je u glavi brate

[@kategoried7501]

serbians are also vlachs

[@briantravelman]

"Our friends in Serbia recently traveled to a remote village to check out Black Magic. Which is the traditional rituals of the Black people." This is why Americans need to stop pronouncing foreigner words in American accents.

[@gingerjuice4053]

That was soo wrong😭

Hahah they maybe thought vlack is a typo😂 and corrected the word o To black?? Hahhahaha

[@gnas1897]

It makes sense that they called them black since most Vlachs live in Albania and Greece

[@AngiePF22]

what if the kitty was a witch spy? i wouldn't mind tbh

[@user-ih1db4xt3q]

A belief from that region does say that the witches do shape shift and take the form of animals and use animals to “see” through them

[@Wjyndigo]

At 9:50, I love how the little kitty was chasing them.

[@Swanselm]

Lamb Jenn i bet hes the witches eyes and ears outside of the home. Informing her of visitors & such

[@Syph1l1S]

so it can get lost in the woods to be eaten by a coyote so cute

[@anthonyalvarez4215]

ENGLISH !

[@animani355]

The cat is a spy 😂😂

[@iamnumfive]

I fainted from cuteness overload. That was so adorable.

[@Mzmissy215]

the convo that started off "where's ur girlfriend?" was hysterical to me lol 😂😂😂

[@AP-jl2lv]

very natural for a balkan grandma to speak like that, reminded me of my own.

[@itsjeninMass]

Yes! Baba Ruza was the best!

[@lil_weasel219]

Sensationalising this shit, calling it voodoo for easier recognition even tho it has nothing to do with voodoo. It is also not a subculture

[@danafoley9207]

What is it then

[@cobracrew1986]

@@danafoley9207 Charlatanism ^

[@piquedametarot]

@@danafoley9207 folk magic

[@nla5307]

Well when you're okay sleeping with married women, yeah you got some problems and some darkness you need to work through.

[@ivanai9659]

If you dont know what vukojebina means...i fell sorry for you

[@ljiljanastejic2745]

I know it's an old comment, but I couldn't resist! It means wolffuck, where even wolves don't fuck cause it's too far from anything.

[@zde5491]

Hahaha

[@baremax]

😁😁😁

[@guybrushthreepwood3054]

@@ljiljanastejic2745 No, the opposite - it means "a place where wolves fuck" because wolves don't fuck in public spaces (they have high moral values).

[@willybilly2712]

@@guybrushthreepwood3054 wolves have high moral values? 😂 That's some furry fantasy bullshit

[@arthurtully]

As someone who lives in Serbia it's really not that big of a deal. People tend to belive all kinds of crazy when things don't go their way. Also the Vlach language is basically Romanian. And to the team that made this: svaka cast.

[@mukbangsandcloggedarteries2357]

My relative witnessed that in Bosnia. Apparently she took video of an old lady who was knitting, when she checked her phone the lady is nowhere to be found. No joke creepy.

[@proudcroatiangirl8351]

@@mukbangsandcloggedarteries2357 what did he witnessedi if its ok to you telling me what happend

[@faiyprasannet9384]

U

[@joancvetkovic3595]

Vlach language isn't at all near similar to Romanian, it's language for itself. You lack education.

[@user-qe5xh6yk4i]

That is right

[@gabrielatheruby]

He talks about the locations calling them hell holes when they're really luxuries away from the vast majority of shit-filled air-heads i see why the desanka said what she said he's not spiritually aware

[@91DevilDriver91]

that's bad translation actually. vukojebina loosely translated means "where wolves fuck", meaning they are far away from any civilization.

[@TeXinat0r]

i actually live in this region and it is far away from anything 😂

[@savetafelix6669]

Oh my goodness that Grandma was hilarious I couldn’t stop laughing that is 100% a natural serb

[@enaknezevic2894]

a lot of old women in serbia are very supersticious .they say things like "you should not leave open scisors on the table,count how many moles you have,you should not let a small chilld look in the mirror..etc"they also look into your cup of coffee to predict your luck also they have tarot card readings"

[@nirad8026]

I'd say the majority of people in general.

[@andreeacatalinacristescu6533]

Same thing in Romania! And when i say same thing, I mean we have exactly, the same superstitions!

[@nirad8026]

@Marcus Marcus I am a Serb. I am not some shithead ashamed of his ethnicity. I am just stating the facts.

[@medina__anidem]

s e r e n i t y you missed the one where they tell fortune by looking at beans. Lolololo gleda je u grah sine hahahah

[@antoniskomethadonis8256]

In greece also

[@moepskie]

This could have been interesting, but the guy barely spent any time on the topic at all. 90% of the video consists of traveling and having lulz. The remaining 10% on chatting a bit with the supposed witches.

[@cyberla]

He doesn't know anything and just did as he was told. Total sheep.

[@franivanmatakovic2419]

walking through mud and snow for five kilometres just for some old granny to tell you you're half dead

[@mjauzrs]

“ako mu se nesto desi ja nisam kriva” AHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAGAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

[@lea666nevermore]

I ja sam umiralaa

[@daehyeonswife]

TO JA I MOJ BRAT 😂 😂

[@andjelaaaaa03]

Kako su se Amerikanci usrali u komentare ahahahahahha

[@DJ-zm4kj]

Brate kako su ovaj prevod napravili . Sprdnja🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MyFootYourFace]

Tako ti je kad se radi sa sejtanom

[@XlllXlllXlllX]

everything this woman says is the truth...he pretends not to believe...but he can feel it

[@aleksandarstankovic2521]

@K K yep lol

[@nser_uame6762]

@Mycel seems like you can tell who has an ongoing probe by looking at them?

[@victoryv116]

His body language speaks a lot...

[@theSelodijehermano]

They all told him he's fucked and that his life and his attitude are a joke, lmao. I'm fairly sure that's the way it is. It only takes a few looks at his face to know that he likes to play and that his life is not the way he likes it to portray.

[@xplosivelilly]

+Dionicio Baca Huh i thought it was only me. He looks like a total douchebag. I just felt to punch him in his face during the whole episode. and what's up with that awful language..not as bad as dutch tho, the surinam vid gave me a headache

[@theSelodijehermano]

+monster right, he looks like the guy who would cheat on his girlfriend with the first girl in front of him.

[@GeniusVozdVth]

+Dionicio Baca Totally agree with you. We will see will the old women are going to be right about his outcome.

[@GeniusVozdVth]

+monster lol the language is not that bad but the way this guy speaks is annoying even to me and i'm a Serbian. He kind off speaks with a posh/douche accent and i think those ladies might be right about him lol

[@Fr0Z3n64]

+Dionicio Baca are you guys being serious right now

[@charleekarina6359]

Omg this poor guy traumatized for life. We need an update on how is he doing

[@milicazivanovic2631]

He's doing great. He has wife and a child now, and his own podcast (agelast) wich is very popular in Serbia. Also, he openly speak about struggles he had in his life

[@BakinKoljac]

the grandmas healed him

[@madj7152]

@@milicazivanovic2631 3 grannies said the same thing. He got scared for his life, he changed for good . Lol🤣

[@ksnabu]

His name is Galeb Nikacevic and he has money for hashish.

[@andreeaionescu7851]

When you're romanian so you understand only the rituals 😂

[@justinsibley1]

I feel like this guy was extremely scared when every single person said he had something bad following him.

[@billbill2296]

Shame on you for turning on the mic after Baba Desanka told you her ritual was secret. I have no doubt you recorded it without Baba Desanka’s knowledge or permission and you will no doubt pay for that, one way or another. These people don’t play. Neither does their craft.

[@nirad8026]

Indeed. Here, people are not obsessed with magic. But you just aren't supposed to mess with that stuff.

[@aldman25]

😭😭😂😂

[@Herospite]

Could be why he was cursed in the second half of the video

[@RobertMilat]

I'm so used to watching english content that I forgot I can just listen to what they're saying instead of reading the subtitles

[@VojvodaSloboda]

i caught myself doing the same in the first few minutes hahaha

[@seeingsights]

The grandmother psychic asks about the dude's sex life, and the young woman in the background is laughing.

[@vgm_central]

and?

[@eurodiaz3712]

I hope she didn't fall for his BS hipster womanizing, if she did, I lose more faith in women

[@KaSpAsArK]

I think that second witch they went to see really shook up the narrator. His mood changed and i could sense something different about his attitude. Perhaps he was hexed.

[@Lil.Grandpa]

Any time you fuck around with black magic, you're not going to have a good time.

[@Menuki]

+KaSpAsArK Anyone else find it slightly creepy that the white cat seemed to follow him from the wrong house to the right house over all the random terrain

[@timothyshoup5044]

+KaSpAsArK I think his attitude went from lighthearted mockery to respect for a different culture.

[@wradford1990]

+Menuki Yes that was weird

[@jquest43]

no its the demon in the which.

[@markoeberhardt3132]

Gotta love Slavic grandmas... They used voodoo to roast him lmao

[@Anastasijaa18]

Marko Eberhardt they are not slavic

[@user-gu3gg9pu1s]

Anastasijaa18 what are they?

[@bc-hd2wd]

they're slavic lmao

[@melancholica999]

Aromanian, Vlach

[@user-gu3gg9pu1s]

Lua Jane sory?

[@valkyrie1066]

WOW..... don't hold back, grandma, tell me how you REALLY feel! DAAAAAAAAMN!

[@wandererstraining]

That house that they had to turn around to find, the one with the cats and the goats... It was in such a beautiful location! I'd go pay a visit just to have an excuse to walk in the area.

[@grinchoi1]

that's awesome. he went on a hike, got cursed out, got drunk on brandy and got an activated charcoal drink which is like $6.

[@pava313]

It is very sad that serbian producers think we are idiots. They have sad that they can not go with car to the Desanka house (thinking that is so spooky) and when they arrived there there is car parked on 10:36.

[@mawathere]

yes, I am Serbian and agree

[@AnnaLVajda]

Too muddy to drive.

[@ruslankazimov622]

@@AnnaLVajda '"Too muddy to drive."--that's literally a 20+years old compact opel. I'm pretty sure any suv or 4x4 would have made it in rainy day...and it's not even that muddy.

[@gingerjuice4053]

You clearly didn't follow along to see that it was the wrong house and they has to turn back🙄

[@BLACKSENSUALITY]

Mama Ruza is a wild onion. She is very interesting & straightforward. I’d like to see a show about her where she reads people. She’s got star quality.

[@Awass93]

The “host” made this video unbearable. Less than 5 minutes on what the video was supposed to be about and the rest of the time the cringeworthy kid hosting the video tried to be interesting and make jokes. Absolutely horrible.

[@nerkec603]

" 'Ste se prcali?" HAHAHAHAHHHA

[@codkiller4423]

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA IDI U KURAC UMIREM LOL

[@DJNellyNemanja]

Nerkec a daaaaj

[@lucasmcqueen7463]

HHAHAHAHAHHA TE BABE SU MI TOPCINA

[@miggames1250]

🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 Ajmo

[@stefan7883]

Nepismen si pa ne znas

[@EBTSarge]

"there's no road to her house" as they walk on a road with tire tracks all over it lol

[@Mila9355]

No car roads they meant

[@bogdankg100]

Eric G its a rode to the forest ... the vrlige peopl use thet rode for the grave yard thet she men buy thet ..😐

[@sarahm4365]

Eric G there were roads because that was the wrong house

[@nikkisweets2098]

And a car in front of her house.

[@lukalukunic2820]

My Great grandma has those "pumpkins" too im from Croatia ... There is so many pumpkins all over the village😱

[@Bogdan-mx4hd]

The chanting was in romanian at the last to grannies. I’ve listened to it a few times because it got me confused. They were speaking serbian but the chant was purely Romanian

[@pheenez7881]

A black man speaking Serbian - MIND BLOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SUdatsthecalloftheWU]

+Xaos Legion do you have a life? or do you just spend it responding to comments on this video?

[@maelstrom57]

You can tell an American when they consider anyone who's slightly more tanned than white to be black.

[@dyston1c]

+Pheene Z LMFAOOOO FINALLY I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT!!!

[@AliBaba-pk3co]

+Pheene Z Judging by his surname and his fluency in the language, it is very obvious to even a idiot that the host is of mixed heritage. He is part Serbian.

[@irispopa4722]

***** I love pretty blonde boys AND NO OTHER TYPES.

[@ennuied]

I bet that second babushka witch tells that to all her visitors, that they are one leg in the grave... I mean aren't we all?

[@StephanieHill]

"No roads lead there" Walks up driveway with tire tracks.

[@bojana27]

Could’ve been a tractor :) it’s what they use all around villages and lands like that

[@willybea977]

"you have to hike ten or fifteen minutes to get to her house, there's no road"..., Precedes to walk up a one and a half lane dirt road with tire tracks all over it to her house

[@vgm_central]

yeah ou know.. they surely have to arrive first there, and meet the woman and tell her "hey were are here and want strat to record" and THEN they make the footage how they walk there

[@ginasaephanh1511]

I don't think that place is a hellhole.. it's beautiful to me.. Idk what he's talking about.. city boy..

[@keysofperception4377]

Esa gente es tercermundista, pobre y ignorante, hay gente que nunca fue a la escuela y si caminas por la ciudad puedes ver las casas destruidas con los agujeros de las ametralladoras que han usado en la guerra y eso que me enojó lo mas cuando fui alla es que no puedes caminar ni 100 pinches metros sin que 10 niños te preguntan por dinero. Este pais es como África. Serbia es uno de eso "shithole countrys " como lo dice Trump y no los paises de Latinoamérica

[@tixana_9751]

The word he used does not actually mean hellhole,it means in the middle of nowhere,usualy used when the place is rural,bad translation

[@panaxhorridum]

And they went in winter ...

[@ivanmihalj7781]

the whole country is a hellhole trust me HAHHAHHA priprčina

[@NariaPanthar]

It is beautiful

[@Dolcebella1989]

why calling this "voodoo" ? just call it witchcraft or another word. voodoo is a word from africa ,like damn.however, good documentary

[@nagihangot6133]

Voodoo is more Caribbean and South American. Africa does Juju. Now let's dance, boyo.

[@nirad8026]

Everything that has even remote relations to black people is african culture. But anything related to whites is not european culture.

[@malikjohnson4799]

@@nagihangot6133 "voodoo" (Vodou) is actually African in origin, being brought over from West Africa by the slaves of the Dahomey Kingdom, who practiced the religion of Vodoun, vodou's predecessor. The "voodoo" religions of South America and the Caribbean, such as Palo Mayombe, Candomblé, and santeria are also from Africa, as they were introduced by the Yoruba slaves who practiced Ifa, the predecessor to these religious systems.

[@KimmiKat75]

@@nagihangot6133 voodoo is an African word and culture. If you don't know the culture stfu😣

[@malikjohnson4799]

@Marcelo Brozovic there are damaging implications (especially in the case if African and african-derived religions) when a religion is mislabeled and disassociated from it's cultural setting and definitions. Voodoo is practiced by initiation only. One cannot "do voodoo" without initiation. The result is people mistakenly identifying witchcraft as voodoo and vice versa when the two are not synonymous. Then you have adherents to voodoo being demonized as "witches" when they are not. Voodoo is a defined religious system with a complex culture and history behind it, and should not be mistaken for general witchcraft. Labeling general witchcraft as voodoo is like going to a pagan temple and calling it church.

[@LAbidjanaiseBlogMode225]

Serbian sounds really nice to me 😍🔥

[@patrickberger9708]

youn are nice too:))

[@scepan5155]

Причај српски да те цео свет разуме ♥️♥️♥️

[@ernieg8261]

Man's is fluent 🤣

[@moonshine2748]

💖💖💖

[@andjelaaj5550]

Thank you

[@satsuki_kiryuin_sama]

Am I the only one that noticed the kitten followed them all way down to the other grandma's home, which btw was a bit far away?! XD

[@ausetgypsy3750]

It may just be a generational or "Millennial" thing, but the host showed little respect, if any for the subject. His arrogance and weak delivery made this,video quite boring, displaying the culture as seen in a Blair Witch Project light, presenting it as creepy. It's because he didn't respect the subject enough! He is a little boy playing with his friends and video cameras. This video provided nothing, no information, no data, no details, nothing. These women saw the truth in him, as did I watching this 20 minute video of his vain glorious minor trek across the country side propagandizing mediocre modern media norms : hype, weak journalism, the show and attention is just about him. This was awful and how it depicted our Vlach people was weak as water and macabre. Learn a thing or two about a people's culture and at least do some comparisons within the work before playing on iMovie editor and loading immediately to KZbin. Thank you.

[@Lobo_Loco1]

Auset Gypsy "These women saw the truth in him, as did I watching this 20 minute video " Are you sure you and these old grannies didn't just see his black face?

[@zde5491]

Amen to that!

[@krumpelschtiltzkeen]

True. But these babushkas char-broiling his hipster ass has a way of redeeming it.

[@krumpelschtiltzkeen]

@@Lobo_Loco1 you can't use race/color to hide the fact that his innate douchebaggery has been exposed. One could easily imagine a black granny accomplishing the same thing.

[@Lobo_Loco1]

Kevin Balogh Have you ever been to Europe? I have, and I can tell you right now you can most certainly consider race/color as a factor, ESPECIALLY with the older generation.

[@qualityasdf]

This should be re-titled: "The Truth Behind Serbia's Notorious Hipsters Getting Their Trainers Muddy"

[@dunjaljubic2518]

Shame on you. You don't know how people from Serbia are living hard

[@aldman25]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha yaaaaak

[@user-ru5er5nf3t]

I loved this story here and I liked the way it was delivered and the messy, documentary style. Some people said the host was rude, but, whereas if this was US this would be rude, it sounded natural in the context. Like in Peru it is much more formal, at least in the highlands with Andean old people, and so it is easy to be accidentally rude. If Serbia is anything like Ukraine, the opposite is true.

[@emermbiemer302]

I didn’t know there was vlach in serbia, i grew up in a vlach neighbourhood in central albania .theyre good people but for most part only old people speak the language . It’s being lost among young people

[@user-bj9zz3tv4v]

When you're Russian and understand half of their speeches

[@TorxyElboo]

Slatka si

[@greenlifesaves]

Pravda

[@GalaxyLemonade]

When you are Hungarian from Transylvania and you recognize some romanian words :D

[@Don_Puparo]

Blu Foarte tare commentul! Pace tie 😏

[@user-dz1zo3mz3n]

Одна нога в гробу, одна на гробу))

[@phreakazoith2237]

speaking of "cultural context" --the term "Vodoo" is something related to a very different cultural context aint it?

[@bennygee3067]

Think they meant doodoo

[@gingerjuice4053]

You're right. This isn't Voodoo or witchcraft from what I've seen. Voodoo is a form of black magic that involves animal sacrifices or body parts. Witch craft on the other hand involves human sacrifices or body parts.

[@m.r.2989]

@@gingerjuice4053 No??? You’re completely wrong in both of those accounts.

[@gingerjuice4053]

@@m.r.2989 that's is what it is where I come from and many other places,that's how we tell the differences. Plus I'd rather you give your different explanation than coming at me with "I'm wrong"

[@afterthestorm9583]

@@gingerjuice4053 voodoo is not evil its a religion that was originated in west Africa and people still practice it today in New Orleans or Louisiana, so stop stereotyping voodoo based off what the media tells you because it’s someone’s religion and you’re being disrespectful, they honour their ancestors that were practicing voodoo during the slave era, do some research instead of going off what people tell you.

[@shughy1]

Very interesting, thanks for filming this

[@thebuffbengali790]

This was actually really good to watch. I want to see more

[@FIONA21ful]

Haaaaahaaaaa the first Baba sussed our man correctly, he likes what doesn't belong to him, doesn't feed or water it just rides it. lol Different type of man than old school provincial , she had no time for him .

[@ionebrown481]

💖💖💖💖💖

[@doryapo9778]

Love the sound of the Serbian language. Very masculine!

[@AMG-316]

It is a very masculine language... Guttural!

[@tobiaswilhelmi4819]

The real magic is how grandma Desanka managed to have a car perfectly parked in front of her house despite the 'fact' that there is no road. Maybe she flew.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

definitely muted it every time the ladies spoke and just read the subtitles.. wouldn't want to accidentally curse myself lol

[@VICE]

Vlach magic is an integral part in everyday life in eastern Serbia, but the country's mainstream media has linked the practice to mass killings and crime across the country. Is there any truth to those claims?

[@trippynippies]

Vlach*

[@jared9643]

+VICE rekt!

[@andym28]

I see a vision... You will continue uploading bullshit hipster videos and I will be so bored I will watch them.

[@boss83733]

+Andy M LOL!

[@danielmp-007]

you have just cursed your life by playing with witchcraft. I am pretty sure that witch put a lot of unclean spirits inside of you. Repent of such wickedness and seek the Lord Jesus Christ before it is too late. Also, stay away from the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Catholic Church. They also practice witchcraft

[@ZweiBein]

Last year i were in serbia. But there were no subtitles. Vice why you always lying

[@words_on_a_screen]

ZweiBein lmao

[@MrBOBANRAJOVIC]

I‘m dying awesome zweibein :D

[@the_number_one]

Wow. Amazing, never expected such an in depth video on this

[@andjeobezkrila9889]

Bravo za voditelja. Simpatican, harizmatican, duhovit zbog cega su cak i ovakve teme jako zanimljive.

[@dreary2090]

Please make more documentary about witchcraft from all over the world. I loved the documentary. Please, I'll be waiting for more videos on this subject. Thank you VICE

[@imperatorfuriosa2505]

Thank you for this. One thing that hit me hard was "Women stopped falling into trance." This resonates very deeply with me. Men carry out the traditions of keeping the churches sacred, while the women pass on the gift of witchcraft. I find this to be a powerful statement regarding the state of things in the world surrounding religious expression, exclusion, oppression/suppression of personal beliefs based on our understanding of them from outside. I would be pleased to see more about witchcraft around the world. It seems the last few ways for women to be in religious power anymore is in Satanism or dark magic. I fear a time when we will be burned alive for dancing...again.

[@partofthebrethenpraisehim9649]

Imperator Furiosa Femeninity is powerful in Christianity

[@michaelhaydenbell]

There are still ALL KINDS of "Christians" out there who believe that a woman's purpose is to serve them unconditionally. Matter of fact the VAST MAJORITY of them felt this way as recently as a couple generations ago. WTF are you talking about???

[@Batonaleash]

If you are still aroung, take a look at wiccan, or the witchcraft movement at the moment, young women finding their true power again.

[@haku22222]

Burn the witch, crush the false gods again. Moonlight dancers. The haze on men will not last forever. Young woman finding the Spirts while doing unfocused energy where they curse themselves by their naive thinking. They play with emotions so woman get SPIRTUALLY trapped first. It's the trick of the snake.

[@maddiebaker4010]

@@haku22222 you are not immune to the snake, you bottle your emotions, thinking your safe but your mind is already plagued. The moonlight cleanses me. What fire will be used to cleanse your misogyny?

[@e.ts.235]

I believe the grannies, he looks like a looser. I don't find it to be an accident that all of them said pretty much the same thing.

[@srbinbwe]

Galeb is respected and well known for his journalism work and coverage of hip-hop scene since early 2000s, also for hosting some tv shows, so he is more successful and acomplished than you will ever be. Also, it doesnt take a genius to figure out how these women operate. Why would you go to middle of nowhere to some old hag if you were doing great in life? Of course you wont hear from them that your life is perfect.

[@e.ts.235]

@@srbinbwe of all the comments and roasting this video got, this is the one you wanted to reply on.. ok lol

[@TataMataAkrobata]

@@srbinbwe to sto je poznat po pracenju hip hop scene moze samo biti dodatna potvrda onoga sto babe govore jebiga..

[@stella-vu8vh]

E. Ts. i like how one persons success defines the success youre bound to have in youtube comment land

[@user-f5ntnyl1cy1l2sex]

Bro I literally live 5km from there and I went to the forests alone since I was a child and I'm still alive. It's not that scary as you tell in your documentation.

[@TheGenowolf]

That cat is a gate keeper aha followed them everywhere

[@YellawayHD]

Serbian kind of sounds like Portuguese mixed with Russian

[@datboi3136]

That is romanian

[@n.trajkovic]

More like Russian and Spanish. Believe me. I speak both Spanish and Serbian and speak just enough Russian :)

[@thegamingwolf8755]

@@datboi3136 Serbian language is not Romanian.

[@datboi3136]

@@thegamingwolf8755 That was romanian buddy

[@thegamingwolf8755]

@@datboi3136 But some are generalizing that Serbs are Romanian. Which is not true.

[@VV-wi6ir]

One from the most brave and talented nation all over the World. Huge love and respect from your South friend from Athens

[@mikidellphone4038]

I was in Serbia in 1987 and old grandmothers were always talking about this and that. One took a drinking straw and took white worms out of my ears.

[@RazzerCro]

Great documentary ! I'd like to see more from Vice Serbia

[@McStroke23]

+RazzerCro same

[@dide6382]

+SuperShok82 u pravo si

[@RazzerCro]

Agent 47 Nije bolest sve sto boli

[@RazzerCro]

Agent 47 Nije bolest sve sto boli :/

[@fuckandroid9648]

+Agent 47 pa nije nista protiv srbije rekao, sta vam je ?

[@indigo2365]

The vlach magic is not only used in Serbia but also in many other eastern countries. My house hold was once cursed by the vlach magic. It was like there was this broken stones in a black napkin and like this thing is real. Don't underestimate such power.

[@caseywhite3150]

All witches will burn in hell if they do not repent. Christ is King and has warned us

[@THEVISIONOFAITH]

​@@caitlyncarvalho7637Bullshit american movies

[@a.m.3719]

Omg this explains things, I was dating a sebian guy once and jockingly told him i was going to use my African voodoo on him. He superly freaked out and made me take it back....i thought that was super wiered but I guess now i get it. Who new there is voodoo in eastern Europe.🤔

[@discogoth]

It's not voodoo, it's Vlach magic. African voodoo is its own thing, different from Vlach magic, which is different from Satanist witchcraft which is different from Wiccan witchcraft. There are lots of different kinds of witchcraft and I wish the producers of this video would honor that not all forms of witchcraft or magic are the same thing by calling this Vlach magic.

[@lucinainyene4107]

I love these Elders, they are sacred. The term “Witch” is a negative connotation perpetuated by the West. I am a proud Aje aka Bruja, healer...I would love to sit with both these elders for a spell, not to long however for I am a solitary Aje. They have much to share. Bless them and the Brotha Galeb.❤️

[@annoulamaraki5315]

I don't know if the term "witch" was used as a negative connotation in the past but nowadays thousands of people identify as "witches" and are proud of it. Of course at any place of the world people use a different term for healers and people who practice divination, Cast spe9etc.

[@mrsmcconville5764]

they would be privileged

[@jellyacc]

"you are not dead, you are not alive. that's how it is" ouch.

[@htx92]

i don't know whats more bizarre.. the witchcraft or the black serb

[@Barbara-zb5gk]

Stowik he is not black, you dumbass, we tend to have darker skin..

[@dunjajankovic5103]

He is mixed,half Serbian,half Somali

[@MissRikkiKat]

He's a beautiful human being, that's what he is.

[@jup1t3rera]

Stowik is it wrong that he's a black Serb?

[@bobibg4ever]

Relax nobody is focusing on anything its just rare to see here in balkans dont you agree

[@helenalford2831]

This is a trip back into what it would've been like in rural places everywhere.

[@mkultra70]

This reminds me of my Grandmothers Aunt Connie. She was a little old Italian lady that practiced a kind of Italian folk witchcraft. Sort of like Italian Santeria.

[@marcanij]

I'm upset at one of the opening comments. Vodoun is not witchcraft nor is it black magic. It's a legitimate Haitian religion with influences from West and Central African traditions and born in the era of African enslavement. Equating Voodoo with black magic or evil is essentially racist, anti-black, and anti-Haitian. It's reminiscent of the fears French, British, and Spanish soldiers had when they lost a colony to an army of Black men and women, demonizing their campaign and undermining their capacity to forge a state of their own. I would ask that Vice be a little more careful about how it informs its audience. I also ask that this be renamed.

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

Voodoo is satanism, get real.

[@joshualove1403]

how? Satan doesnt exist in Voodoo Traditian.

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

Just by using voodoo to ruin someone's life and force him/her into depression or even to commit a suicide tells you that it's the work of the devil. And voodoo is used mostly for exactly that

[@littlewitchy6145]

Subidubidubi Du Idiot!You have no idea what Voodoo is.Simply watched from HOLLYWOOD MOVIE and hear what those STUPID PASTORS have said and think Voodoo is Satanism like the religion who always yell Hail Satan.Do More research and stop being expert if you're NOOBIE.

[@SubidubidubiDu1]

Just seeing the dance, the terrible screeching and screaming and throwing bones is enough of an indicator for me that it is indeed a satanism. I don't have to watch a Hollywood movie to see it

[@annikaalien]

Best part of this video was the cat...interesting nonetheless

[@dythagreat1]

that cat lives an adventurous life...followed them forever

[@leilalulu101]

When she was corn reading, man, that was HILARIOUS. 😂😂😂😂

[@raphpap2294]

sensational discoveries about this dude's life (he's a player & half-dead) made by mysterious old ladies living on the outskirts of Serbian villages, dangerous river crossings and treks at dawn on slippery icy paths, ... VICE knows how to treat us

[@stz2104]

After watching this clip, I'm halfway to the grave laughing

[@milankasorokin833]

Not surprised at all. Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia were the last practicing Pegans in Europe, if not the world. Resisted conversion to Christianity very fiercely. Even in their today's christian tradition's includes parts of Pegan rituals and traditions. It was the only way for them to convert to Christianity. Slavs even have their version of Zeus, Odin, Thor and other gods long before Celts and Vikings.

[@ryanv3015]

Milanka Sorokin it's tragic how Balkans Europe got trampled over by Turks, Russians and to a lesser extent Austrians. It would be interesting to see what culture would have thrived.

[@dusanpavlovic5529]

A fun fact tho, is that the video game series "The Witcher" is based on slavic mythology that includes some pagan rituals.

[@babyshaker90210]

Do you have any suggestions on books on South Slavic pre-Christian beliefs? I can read latinica but English would be preferred since I'd probably have to look up a bunch of shit haha. I can only find so much online.

[@choccomonde]

bro bosnians are predominantly muslims, they didn't resist much to Ottoman empire converting them, mostly because they didn't force them . I think where violence is used, the resistance is always greater than via peaceful means

[@stefan2serb]

nije tacno, ljudi iz Balticne zemalje su bili zadnji da prihvate isosa hrista, mi smo rano uzeli hristijansku veru u usporedbi s njima

[@cacoca79]

that billy blanks commercial was awsome!

[@cacoca79]

@@sirrodneydoodlesmom you should be a comedian

[@NAGM92]

Anybody notice the cat was waiting for them 5km away from the house?! 😱