Meng-hu – Page 56 – Hermits around the web

July 15, 2016October 14, 2016

Maija Zlatic, hermit mystery

Maija Zlatic, a Serbian-Australian widow who inherited over $5 million but deliberately lived in apparent poverty as a hermit in a mud hut in Serbia, died without a trace of the money she inherited from her late husband. She had supposedly given away the first million dollars awarded to her by an Australian court, but the rest of the money’s whereabouts is unknown. Her fellow-villagers are curious, suspecting that caregivers may have stolen everything.

URL: http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/maija-zlatic-a-serbian-woman-who-inherited-1m-from-her-australian-husband-has-died-and-her-neighbours-are-curious-about-her-fotune/news-story/51df02ef9a6eeab4e171dcdb86f71113; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3681914/Serbian-hermit-woman-dies-months-Australian-husband-left-1million.html

July 9, 2016October 14, 2016

Agafya update

Hermitary readers will be familiar with Agafya Likova, the Siberian Old Believer and hermit, now 72 years old. This Siberian Times update notes her recent difficulties with insufficient food and heath issues.Includes many archival photos.

URL: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0696-emergency-helicopter-sent-to-rescue-world-famous-siberian-hermit/

June 29, 2016October 21, 2016

Cloistered Australian nuns

From the Northern Star (Australia) comes a unique photo gallery of cloistered or reclused nuns, from the Carmelite monastery of Goonellebah. Notes the article:

The Northern Star was recently given access to the hidden world of the Carmelite nuns in Goonellabah.

It has been almost 20 years since the Star visited and it was a rare opportunity to glimpse a life which, for many, is unimaginable.

As seen in the photos the nuns days are filled with tasks, prayer, duties and other items around the monastery.

URL: article: http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/nuns-live-life-solitude/3048471/; photos: http://www.northernstar.com.au/photos/photo-gallery-03-06-2016-1150/41352/#/0

June 14, 2016October 14, 2016

New Zealand hermit “Pete”

From New Zealand, The Wireless offers a profile of “Pete,” a wanderer settled on the Kaikoura coast for over 30 years. The article is appropriately titled “What It’s Like to Be a Hermit.” Pete speaks frankly about wandering, surviving, growing old, and being alone.

URL: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/what-it-s-like-to-be-a-hermit-in-new-zealand

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016

“Hermits” – Chinese hermits documentary film

Hermits, a 2015 documentary film directed by Shipig He and Chengyu Zhou, follows author and translator Bill Porter’s three decades’ long journeys in search for modern Chinese hermits in the Zhongnan mountains of China. The film is based loosely on Porter’s classic book Road to Heaven, and includes some hermits who appeared in the film Amongst White Clouds.

Information about the film is scanty (Internet Movie Database IMDb lists the several film festival showings around the world) FilmFreeway includes a 4+ minute trailer and the director’s summary “13 Commandments” for hermits.

URL: https://filmfreeway.com/project/423180