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This is a list of films based on Slavic mythology. Title Release date Notes The Humpbacked Horse: 1947 USSR - animation The Magic Sword: 1950 Yugoslavia Sadko: 1953
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.
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.
Kikimora is an antagonistic character in the animated TV show The Owl House. It has no relation to the folklore character. It has no relation to the folklore character. Infantry in Russia and Ukraine use kikimora camouflage clothing - ragged and mossy-looking - to blend into appropriate landscapes.
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Chernevog is book two of Cherryh's three-book Russian Stories trilogy set in medieval Russia in forests along the Dnieper River near Kyiv in modern-day Ukraine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel draws on Slavic folklore , the title of the novel being a variant name of the "black god" Chernobog , and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a ...
In 1941, filmmaker Aleksandr Rou began the development of his next fantasy project, Ilya Muromets based on Slavic folklore. During early development of the project, Yevgeny Veisman was intended to write the film's screenplay, but due to the outbreak of World War II , work on the film was postponed until the 1950s.
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