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SĽUK is the largest Slovak folk art group, trying to preserve the folklore tradition. Male Slovak folk dancers. An example of wooden folk architecture in Slovakia can be seen in the well preserved village of Vlkolínec which has been the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. [2] The Prešov Region preserves the world's most remarkable folk ...
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Slovak folk hero Juraj Jánošík (first name also Juro or Jurko , Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjuraj ˈjaːnɔʃiːk] ; baptised 25 January 1688, died 17 March 1713) was a Slovak highwayman . Jánošík has been the main character of many Slovak novels, poems, and films.
vile, Slovak/Czech víly) is a fairy that is similar to a nymph, identified as a nymph by the Greek historian Procopius; their name comes from the same root as the name of Veles. They are described as beautiful, eternally young, dressed in white, with eyes flashing like thunders, and provided with wings, and blonde hair.
Simple English; Slovenčina; Slovenščina; Српски / srpski; ... Slovak folklore (6 P) Food and drink in Slovakia (2 C) H. Cultural history of Slovakia (3 C, 2 ...
Marzanna. Poland. Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon. Morana (in Czech, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian), Mora (in Bulgarian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), or Marzanna (in Polish) is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth ...
V. Malyshev. Vodyanoy, 1910. His usual appearance is that of a naked old man with a fat paunch of a belly and swollen face according to the Russian folklore collector, [5] but a later English commentary using similar phraseology insisted the creature was not nude but bald, and concatenates additional commentary from the Russian source which says he is seen naked but covered in slime ...
Pavol Dobšinský (16 March 1828 – 22 October 1885) was a Slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of Romanticism and the Štúr generation. He is perhaps best known for creating the largest and most complete collection of Slovak folktales, Prostonárodné slovenské povesti (Simple National Slovak Tales), self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883.