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Yelbeghen, sometimes Yelmogus is generally considered to be a creature separate from dragons and a polar opposite to them in its nature. It is a being of pure evil, a dragon-like beast and dreadful monster with no reason, that usually lives in dark and hostile places, or guards unreachable locations in fairy-tales.
The creatures are also known as "vodianoi" [19], "water devil" [19], "water-sprite" [20]. A vodyanoy is a male water spirit. He is thought to inhabit a given body of water, sometimes having a dwelling place at the bottom of it. [19] [20] Like the leshy, the vodyanoy's appearance varies from story to story. [19]
Berehynia (East Slavic mythology female character) Baba Marta (mythical female character in Bulgarian folklore, associated with the month of March. Martenitsa) Božić (Christmas holiday near the southern Slavs) Dodola (in the Balkan tradition, the spring-summer rite of causing rain, as well as the central character of this rite)
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. ISBN 978-2251453-12-5. Rosik, Stanisław.
Ivan Bilibin's illustration to a Russian fairy tale about the Firebird, 1899. In Slavic mythology and folklore, the Firebird (Russian: жар-пти́ца, romanized: zhar-ptitsa; Ukrainian: жар-пти́ця, zhar-ptytsia; Serbo-Croatian: žar-ptica, жар-птица; Bulgarian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa; Macedonian: Жар-птица, romanized: Žar-ptica; Polish: Żar ...
A fying zmei may appear as a "mythological lover", i.e., a mythical creature behaving as a suitor and lover of human females. [8] [44] A favorite topic of folk songs was the male zmey-lover who may marry a woman and carry her to the underworld, or a female zmeitsa (zmeitza) who falls in love with a shepherd.
19 Siberian mythology. 20 Slavic mythology. 21 Thracian mythology. 22 Yoruba mythology. 23 Other. 24 See also. 25 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of ...