Yeah, it's pretty cool how similar our cultures are 🙂 That's why I fell in love with The Witcher because I saw so many things which were similar to our culture in it. Speaking of that, I want to do a video about the Polish fairy tale which inspired the first Witcher short story with striga this month. We have our own version of that story which was written by Němcová as well and I'm really looking forward to talking about it 🙂 The protagonist being really brave is actually pretty common trope in our fairy tales. In the future I want to do videos about my two most favourite Czech live action fairy tales which have very similar concept where the protagonist is almost unable to feel fear so they go on a journey to find something they could be afraid of and to find out what it's like to feel fear. And they usually save a princess from some evil wizard in the process 😁

Stay strong slavic brother ❤

Well, I used Anakin's picture as one of the sources if I remember correctly 😀 I needed really intense angry look and Midjourney was refusing to give it to me so I tried to used Anakin as an example and this is the result 😀

@@FolkWalkCZ oh that explains it xD

Glad you like it 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Thank you, I'm glad you like it 🙂

Díky. Jsem rád, že se ti to líbilo 🙂

Thanks 🙂

Midjourney

We have ježibaba as well but they're different creatures which just have similar characteristics so they sometimes seem like one and the same folklore creature as I said in the video 🙂 I want to do video about ježibaba as well at some point.

I will definitely watch your video about Ježibaba when you'll post it 😀 and btw, I like the music in this video. I recognize it 😀 is from the Witcher, Crones. For me, one of best games ever 😀👍

That's hard to tell but it is possible. The booklet by Ratoch I've mentioned in the video says that roasting of the children in the oven by a witch (ježibaba) or jezinka might have had completely opposite meaning. The oven was apparently a symbol for Mother Earth's womb because it's a place where things are born (baking of bread for example). There also might have been an old custom where a sick child was put on a wooden bread shovel and then put in and out of the oven three times and people believed that it could cure the child. But I don't have sources for any of this so take it with a grain of salt please.

@@FolkWalkCZ and @Ales K , hi guys , you can compare with the myth of Demeter using a sacred fire to give immortality to Demophon... Jezinka may have been a benevolent mother-earth godess in a previous mythology. Demeter was a godess of wheat and bread ;=)

You don't go into the woods, weird stuff happens. I've been reading Eliade, Gieysztor etc recently, quite worthy of recommendation, albeit quite academic. But the way they were used in my Polish farming community, those were like stand-ins for things that could actually happen to explain how they happen and give a bit of a relatable human aspect to "weird stuff" happening when you go into the woods or generally do things you shouldn't. There's always a good reason for grandmas to tell you not to do these things, and the various "devils", "spirits" and others explain them while incorporating elements of beliefs older than the tribes themselves, many of these things can be found in various Indo-European cultures. Did people believe in literally there being spirits like people who did semi-magical things that were dangerous to people? Some of them for sure, I think the grandmas mostly were pragmatic, and telling these stories does a better job at preventing problems than trying to explain to kids intricacies of things nobody really understands (at the time) or have a high degree of randomness to them. And the whole "invention of a later regime" is marxist bs for the most part lol