Pagan folklore

Illustration depicting a mythical "Alpine dragon" - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1723 - Dinosaurs & Dragons

Slavic gods, goddesses, spirits & mythical creatures ✨ This is a compilation of my previous series on Slavic deities and entities, plus one new artwork… Tell me if you want to see some other characters from folklore and Slavic paganism. Also, I’m thinking about making an Oracle deck dedicated to Slavic magic and folklore, what do you think? Find more Slavic culture posts on my page: @lidapavlova_magic

Siuda Baba, a person appearing on the Easter Monday in only a few villages in southern Poland, is a great example of how bits of the informations about the old religions and customs were carried on…

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Recently I’ve been obsessed with The Witcher series on Netflix. While this show is based in a fantasy universe, it is largely inspired by Slavic mythology. In the show we see several fascinating creatures from the Slavic mythos, such as the Striga and the Kikimora.

I’ve been telling a lot about Baba Yaga, and I guess I made her sound very grim. But she is an ambivalent entity, she is neither evil, nor good. So, this post is about the ways in which Baba Yaga can help… (And for more on her, you can see my Slavic folklore highlight) Do you still enjoy my Baba Yaga insights? And what other spirits, deities or creatures from Slavic folklore would you like to know more about? 🧙🏻‍♀️Find more Slavic culture posts on my page: @lidapavlova_magic

Probably the most ancient cult, along with the cult of the ancestors🌳 An important thing to be said about all my Slavic folklore and mythology posts: the names, the terms, the traditions strongly vary. There is no monolith canonical lore. There are a lot of places, peoples, cultures, local variations, etc. To summarize it I sometimes need to oversimplify things, and I am sorry for that. When I read anthropological research, I see that even two different families living in the same village…

The Green Man of Bankside at Hastings May Day in East Sussex | photograph by Joe Charrington | British Folklore