Folklore mythology

People, no matter from which era and what traditions, have always felt the need to explain their surroundings. After all, the greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. Before science did better explanations, myths, and mythical creatures fulfilled the need to know what, why, and how our reality exists.

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…

Ever since I started telling you about my native Slavic folklore, I feel a bit like Baba Yaga’s ambassador🦉 So, now I’ve decided to invite you in her hut on chicken legs on a brink of Smorodina fire river… The pictures we’ve created with @khvost.art are here to be a helpful visual, they may be not 100% historically accurate, but we’ve tried our best🐔 What else would you love to know about Baba Yaga? Or, maybe, some other Slavic folklore or mythological characters?

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…

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…

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…

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

Ever since I started telling you about my native Slavic folklore, I feel a bit like Baba Yaga’s ambassador🦉 So, now I’ve decided to invite you in her hut on chicken legs on a brink of Smorodina fire river… The pictures we’ve created with @khvost.art are here to be a helpful visual, they may be not 100% historically accurate, but we’ve tried our best🐔 What else would you love to know about Baba Yaga? Or, maybe, some other Slavic folklore or mythological characters?

The Bubak is a creature present in the old Czech folklore. It is usually described as a scarecrow looking monster, with the ability to cry just like a newborn baby, to lure its victims to their deaths.