[Liste] 57 Slavic Folklore Aesthetic

Slavic folklore arose from the need to give meaning to the hardships of life and to understand the brutal world around them the foreboding forests the thunderous seas and the wars that raged.

Slavic folklore aesthetic. In bulgarian legends for instance male dragons are believed to be the protectors of crops whilst the female ones are bent on destroying the fruits. The vodianoi is a male water spirit of slavic origin. Slavic culture boasts one of the most amazing tales ghost stories and legends about witches. It always had either one or even number of heads and traits from animal that it borrowed. It fought against azhdaya and it was invisible to everybody except to woman. The strzyga is a demon related to a vampire in slavic mythology although it has a particular association with polish folklore it is a creature born from human parents but has two hearts two souls and most creepily two sets of teeth with the second set barely visible. 10 weird beings from slavic mythology and folklore.

However zmay in slavic folklore is represented as rather benign creature created from certain animals which lived up to 30 or 100 years rooster carp horse ox ram or dog. Paganism in europe has existed well before recorded history. In certain slavic countries dragons can viewed either as good or evil depending on their sex. Reports of his appearance vary. Most slavic superstitions and traditions are reminders of times before the dark ages. It is believed that slavic mythology can trace its roots back to the proto indo european period and perhaps as far back as the neolithic era the early proto slav tribes split into groups consisting of the east west slavs and south slavs each group created its own distinct set of localized mythologies deities and rituals based upon the beliefs and legends of the original proto slavs. One of the least well known is the slavic pantheon of gods spirits and heroes that persisted before and after.

Slavic mythology baba yaga babe yaga is a supernatural beinge who appears as a deformed and or ferocious looking witch. Some tales define him as a naked old man. Soon there came a crowd of crawfish and amongst them a gigantic lobster as large as a year old calf illustration by emily j. Lucky for us it is possible to restore some of the ancient legends thanks to oral folklore rituals folk beliefs and such notes made by ancient chroniclers. It is enigmatic and rich in horror elements. Greek and roman mythologies are so common in western culture that most people have never heard of the polytheistic pantheon of other cultures. One of the lesser known dragons is that of the zmaj a dragon that can be found in slavic folklore.

Baba yaga flies around in a mortar wields a pestle and dwells deep in the forest in a hut usually described as standing on chicken legs or sometimes a single chicken leg baba yaga may help or hinder those that encounter or seek her out.