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This indicates that West Slavic charms served as a mediator between the East Slavic tradition and Western influences. The magical formula "Stop, blood, as still in the wound, as water/Jesus in the Jordan" is an example of a treated person's bleeding wound assimilation with a medieval apocryphal story of how the Jordan waters stopped flowing ...
The Slavic Myths. co-author Svetlana Slapsak. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500025017. Graves, Robert (1987). New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology: With an Introduction by Robert Graves. Gregory Alexinsky. Nowy Jork: CRESCENT BOOKS. ISBN 0-517-00404-6. Lajoye, Patrice (2022). Mythologie et religion des Slaves païens. Les Belles Lettres.
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There are few written records of pagan Slavic beliefs; research of the pre-Christian Slavic beliefs is challenging due to a stark class divide between nobility and peasantry who worshipped separate deities. [2] Many Christian beliefs were later integrated and synthesized into Slavic folklore.
The brothers Lech and Czech, founders of West Slavic lands of Lechia and Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) in "Chronica Polonorum" (1506). Lech, Czech and Rus (Czech pronunciation: [lɛx tʃɛx rus], Polish pronunciation: [lɛx t͡ʂɛx rus]) refers to a founding legend of three Slavic brothers who founded three Slavic peoples: the Poles, the Czechs, and the Ruthenians [1] (Belarusians ...
1993 – Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness, which draws upon Slavic mythology, features a rusalka; Paladin characters have the option to avenge her murder and let her move on to the afterlife. 1996 – Rusalka , a short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov and animated using his paint-on-glass animation technique.
In Slavic folklore, especially among Eastern Slavs, the most widespread are the anthropogonic myths, which go directly back to the biblical myth of the creation of man from earth and clay. [3] [19] At the same time, the motif of Satan's participation in the creation of man is more popular among Eastern Slavs than the very presence of God. [19]
Baba Yaga depicted in Tales of the Russian People (published by V. A. Gatsuk in Moscow in 1894) Baba Yaga being used as an example for the Cyrillic letter Б, in Alexandre Benois' ABC-Book. Baba Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) from Slavic folklore who has two