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  2. Polevik - Wikipedia

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    Polevik or Polewik in Slavic mythology are field spirits that appear as a deformed creatures with different coloured eyes and grass instead of hair. They appear either at noon or sunset and wear either all black or all white suits. They are also described in south Russian folklore as field spirits with green hair. [1]

  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. Category:Slavic folklore - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Slavic folklore" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. Russian folklore - Wikipedia

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    The area proposed as the homeland of Slavic peoples is roughly around modern-day Eastern European countries. East Slavs emerged around the Volga-Dnieper basin. The Oka river was a homeland to Slavic tribes from which Russian culture grew. South Slavic culture grew in Balkan region [4] West Slavic people grew most likely in eastern Poland.

  6. Deities and fairies of fate in Slavic mythology - Wikipedia

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    In the folklore of the Southern Slavs, rozhanitsy are described as beautiful girls or as good-natured elderly women. Sometimes they are also represented as three women of different ages: a girl, an adult woman and an elderly woman. Southern Slavs described them as beautiful figures with white, round cheeks.

  7. Supernatural beings in Slavic religion - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. Paraskeva Friday - Wikipedia

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    Wooden sculpture of St. Paraskeva. Late seventeenth - early eighteenth century Icon "Paraskeva Pyatnitsa" in a riza.The Urals, circa 1800. In the folk Christianity of Slavic Eastern Orthodox Christians, Paraskeva Friday is a mythologized image based on a personification of Friday as the day of the week and the cult of saints Paraskeva of Iconium, called Friday and Paraskeva of the Balkans. [1]

  9. Martenitsa - Wikipedia

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    In Bulgarian folklore and Macedonian Slavic mythology the name Baba Marta (Bulgarian: Баба Марта, "Grandma March") evokes a grumpy old lady whose mood swings very rapidly. The common belief is that by wearing the red and white colors of the Martenitsa, people ask Baba Marta for mercy.