THE ORBS AT PIDHIRTSI CASTLE
Even after his visit to Ivan the Ghostseer, Nicholas had more skepticism than any real belief in the legends and myths that so many shared with him (from scientists and scholars to street cleaners and check-out girls), though it was all in fun. There was a consistency in what they said with small variations, a kind of collective mass awareness of the subject. One incident shifted him a little closer toward belief – a visit to the Castle at Pidhirtsi with his friend Vira, his actress friend from the Zankovetsky Theater. Vira had the day off and her little boy, a budding actor at age five or six, was being taken care of by his grandmother for the day. It was a typical story. Vira fell in love, got married at 18, got pregnant with a guy from Slovakia and had a ch
