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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Kurochka Ryaba) is an Eastern Slavic folktale of Ukraine [1] [2] [3] and Russia ... interpreted the story's ...
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 ...
The three books in the series are Rusalka (1989), Chernevog (1990), and Yvgenie (1991). Rusalka was nominated for a Locus Award in 1990. [2] The stories draw heavily from Slavic mythology and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a rusalka. [3] For example, a "Rusalka" is a type of life-draining Slavic fairy that
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... (2 C, 46 P) S. Serbian fairy tales (9 P) U. Ukrainian fairy tales (32 P) Pages in category "Slavic fairy tales"
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.
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The dualistic creation myth by "evil god" diving has 24 credentials in Balto-Slavic areas and 12 credentials in Finno-Ugric areas. The Bulgarian myth does not mention the Devil's catastrophe, but it develops the theme of creation by the formula "by God's and my power", and the Devil, who twice reversed the order of the formula, could not reach the bottom until the third time he pronounced the ...