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Pages in category "Slavic legendary creatures" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. ... Babay (Slavic folklore) Bauk (mythology) Blud;
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)
Drekavac, (literally "the screamer" or "the screecher" [1]), also called drekalo, krekavac, zdrekavac or zrikavac, is a mythical creature in South Slavic mythology. The name is derived from the verb "drečati" ("to screech").
Strzyga (Polish pronunciation: [ˈstʂɨɡa], plural: strzygi, masculine: strzygoń) is usually a female demon in Slavic mythology, which stems from the mythological Strix of ancient Rome and ancient Greece. [1] The demon is similar to a vampire, [2] and is predominantly found in Polish and Silesian folklore.
Caricature of Napoleon with a chort A Ukrainian disguised as a Czort on Malanka. A chort (Russian: чёрт, Belarusian and Ukrainian: чорт, Serbo-Croatian čort or črt, Polish: czart and czort, Czech and Slovak: čert, Slovene: črt) is an anthropomorphic malign spirit or demon [1] [2] in Slavic folk tradition.
Slavic folklore encompasses the folklore of the Slavic peoples from their earliest records until today. Folklorists have published a variety of works focused specifically on the topic over the years. Folklorists have published a variety of works focused specifically on the topic over the years.
Bukavac (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [bǔːkaʋat͡s]) is a demonic mythical creature in Slavic mythology. [1] Belief in it existed in Syrmia. [2]Bukavac was sometimes imagined as a six-legged monster with gnarled horns and bright blue eyes.
Licho by Marek Hapon. Likho, liho, lykho (Belarusian: лі́ха, Polish: licho, Russian: Лихо, Ukrainian: Лихо) is an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology, a creature with one eye, often depicted as an old, skinny woman in black (Лихо одноглазое, One-eyed Likho) or as an evil male goblin of forests.