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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.
Title Release date Notes The Humpbacked Horse: 1947 USSR - animation The Magic Sword: 1950 Yugoslavia Sadko: 1953 USSR Old Czech Legends: 1953 Czechoslovakia - animation
Animated films based on Slavic mythology (20 P) Pages in category "Films based on Slavic mythology" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The Winternight trilogy, by Katherine Arden, is inspired by Slavic mythology and includes many characters, such as the Domovoy, the Rusalka and other beings. In Edward Fallon's second book in his Linger series of novels, Trail of the Beast, a rusalka taunts a trio hunting a serial killer.
This is a collection of films based on Russian folklore, wholly or partially. See also: Russian films; Russian-language films; Soviet films; Russian fantasy films; Category:Films based on Russian novels
The fifth Kupalo was, as I believe, the God of Abundance, like Ceres for the Greeks, To him, the foolish people gave thanks during harvest-tide.The commemoration of this demon Kupalo is still being celebrated in some of our lands by the foolish, from the 23rd of June, the eve of the birth of St. John the Baptist, up to the harvest and longer in the following way: in the evening, the plain folk ...
The phrase Nawia (Polish) or Nav (used across Slavic tongues) was also utilised as a name for the Slavonic underworld, ruled by the god Veles, enclosed away from the world either by a living sea or river, according to some beliefs located deep underground. [3] According to Ruthenian folklore, Veles lived on a swamp in the centre of Nav, where ...
In Russian and Slovak folklore, notsnitsa are known to torment children at night, and a stone with a hole in the center is said to be a protection from nocnitsa. Mothers in some regions will place a knife in their children's cradles or draw a circle around the cradles with a knife for protection.