58 Polish Folklore Monsters
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Polish folklore monsters. So not just single creatures but a whole host of polish monsters polish demons and polish mythical creatures came into being. B baba yaga 13 p c characters of the slavic cabinet mythology 7 p n nav 7 p p polish ghosts 1 p. The strzyga is a demon related to a vampire in slavic mythology although it has a particular association with polish folklore. His name literally translates to black god and in slavic mythology he was the accursed brother of bielobog the white god the source of all evil in the world czernobog regularly enjoys stealing and devouring souls. Vampire blood devilish owls. Is polish folklore unique however. This category has the following 10 subcategories out of 10 total.
They usually personified negative phenomena that happened to people from the lighter ones such as lack of sleep through all diseases to night time suffocation and drownings. Czernobog literally black god has cast a shadow over the slavic world for centuries but strangely. Beda or bijeda or misery is demon from southern slavic folklore that is far descent from ghosts and close to chuma. Workers found several beheaded bodies. Top 5 wicked creatures in polish folklore 1. The strzyga is the most prominent one in polish folklore. Wikimedia commons has media related to creatures of slavic mythology.
Some of the oldest vampire stories originated in the slavic world and polish vampires wąpierz are some. It is considered impossible to get rid of dolya either in her good or evil aspect. Janosik the legend of the polish robin hood. Obra monster a swan eating water monster. There are sayings that beda found them or beda follows them from cradle to grave. Polish eagle the story about why poland has an eagle as its symbol and why the first polish capital was gniezno. Old polish death customs superstitions the most important discovery was made in gliwice during construction works for a new highway.
The evil nedolya also called likho in later folklore neglects the man to whom she is assigned and thinks only for herself. Czernobog is the king of all polish and slavic monsters. According to the polish folk tale dictionary the stzryga is a phantom although there are messages confirming that sometimes the wraith.