Slavic folklore

The typical pattern in Slavic fairy tales is when a hero goes on a quest and, on the way, helps animals or spirits who are in trouble at the moment. Later, when the hero is in danger, all those…

These legends, along with other Slavic folklore, were with me since my childhood in Russia. Obviously, the fern doesn’t have flowers, and people knew about that — but it doesn’t interfere with the idea of its magical flower, as well as of other legendary herbs I mention here… So, my magic is also deeply irrational. My background is searching for the fern flower even knowing that it doesn’t exist… and still, for me, it does. ✍🏼 True magic (to try my favorite magical practice) With love…

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

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.

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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?

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…

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…