The Egg ceremony in Eastern and Central Ukraine

Halyna Vasylivna does the Eastern version of the egg ceremony. She holds the egg over the patient’s head while reciting a prayer. She then works her way down the body, moving the egg in clockwise circles. The egg both draws the malady out of the body and acts as a diagnostic tool – it gets heavier when in contact with afflicted parts of the body. The egg is then broken into a glass of water and the healer examines its appearance. The location and the color of the egg white filaments help the healer ascertain what is wrong with the patient and to prescribe a cure. Halyna’s prescriptions include massage, dietary modifications, and changes in behavior.
Halyna became a healer relatively late in life. Her father was critically ill and none of the conventional medical practitioners that she and her family took him to could help. Finally they took him to a folk healer who specializes in the egg ceremony of the type that Halyna uses. The healer cured her father and told Halyna that she, too, had the power to cure. Since then Halyna has been performing the egg ceremony she learned from the man who cured her father.
In the video, Halyna is performing the egg ceremony on Greg who had contracted a severe case of vomiting and diarrhea and had been up all night. Halyna worked on Greg for several hours and went through three eggs. With each egg Greg felt better and, at the end of the treatment, was able to rest and recover. The several hour ceremony is condensed for web presentation.

Here Halyna is performing the egg ceremony on Greg.