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  2. Croatian Tales of Long Ago - Wikipedia

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    Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Croatian: Priče iz davnine lit. "Stories from Ancient Times"), is a short story collection written by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (sometimes spelled as "Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić" in English), [1] originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica hrvatska publishing house. [2]

  3. Slavic folklore - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. The Tale of Tsar Saltan - Wikipedia

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    Folklore scholar Christine Goldberg identifies three main forms of this tale type: a variation found "throughout Europe", with the quest for three magical items (as shown in The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird); "an East Slavic form", where mother and son are cast in a barrel and later the sons build a palace; and a ...

  5. List of Slavic deities - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Supernatural beings in Slavic religion - Wikipedia

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    Boris Rybakov connects the term with the Slavic word for "riverbank" and reasons that the term referred to Slavic mermaids, although, unlike rusalkas, they were benevolent in nature. [4] The scholar identifies the worship of vampires and bereginyas as a form of "dualistic animism" practiced by the Slavs in the most ancient period of their history.

  7. Kolobok - Wikipedia

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    Kolobok (Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic fairy-tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical bread-like being. The story is often called "Little Round Bun" [1] [2] [3] and sometimes "The Runaway Bun." [4] The fairy tale occurs widely in Slavic regions in a number of variations.

  8. Zagovory - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Category:Slavic folklore - Wikipedia

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