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In Croatian it's Štriga, Bijeda, Drekavac

Thank you.

In Bulgarian beda means trouble.

@@MiroslavBaldzhiev well poverty is troublesome 🤷‍♂️

Still they missed rusalka, samodiva, talasum and much more (from Bulgaria too) :)

@@nagatouzumaki8198 emi rusalki i talasumi sa prisushti i za mnogo zapadni folklorni istorii, tui che ne se uchudvam

I am Bosnian and besides the Screamer or Drekavac i have never heared of any other creature being tied to Slavic mythology. As you said, closly tied to western stories. Weird that he did not mention baba Yaga, Vampires, Jinns.

@@lmao1660 така е, но в нашите митове и легенди са представени по-различно. Има много интересна интерпретация за много видове същества. Имах някъде книга за българската митология и като дете много обичах да си я чета.

Greetings from Russia, I wish you peaceful skies and prosperity

Correction... Hold my Rakia only snowflakes drink vodka :D

​@@lustinlis413Balkans are barely Slavs....

Tbf, those two things aren’t necce mutually exclusive. For a more fictional example, one only need to look to Man-Thing from marvel comics, for example.

Sounds like monsters to me.

I believe monsters in this case means non-human/non-natural creatures

They sound as monstrous as Japanese yokai and kami

Well, they are demons, really. So they're sorta True-neutral as a whole. From Household demons who might've helped those who bribe them, to demons that are personifications of disease, death and hunger... Or just, nature, such as lakes. Water giveth and taketh away aftar all

your friends mother been smoking too much crack

Huh

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So like a Malignant type situation? 😬

If there is Poludnica, there must be a Polunochnica:) And Rusalki. And Volkodlacks and Upiers of course.

@@alexduraev Yeah! We have so many monsters and creatures in our culture :)

@@miramari732 a Pole you are, I’d imagine?:)

@@alexduraev Pole of Kashubian descent :)

Nerd

Another thing, in modern fairy tales(mostly from Zdenek Troška) he is often kind heart helping people while a little competing with Čert(devil) wich is also kind heart, in some(Láska rohatá) even fall in love with human and become human

Good point, I don't know any either. Do you have a few that would be a good place for a novice to start learning?

@@danielkubicek1323 It's hard to find them on the internet even in spanish, the best way to learn about them is through books, although they are probably not translated, here are some of the creatures from my list: Cuélebre: a dragon that had the shape of a giant snake with bat-like wings. It kept treasures and could kidnap a young woman to watch over them. Bú: a black humanoid owl with big red eyes that paralyzed people with fear. It was believed it came from one of the gates to hell. Cocollona: a nun that was imprisoned, accused of not being devoted enough. As time passes she transformed into some kind of crocodile, but thanks to her holiness a pair of butterfly's wings grew on her back. Urco: a big dog with horns dragging chains, it appeared at night, coming from the sea. It came from another world through the bottom of the ocean. Roblón: a tree that, through a magic mutation, absorbed the life of a young woman that seek shelter from the rain and everything around it, transforming into a giant with the form of a tree. Basajaun: a giant, also known as the Lord of the forests, with a characteristic hair that covered it's entire body. Caballucos del Diablo: Seven creatures that were half horse and half dragonfly. They left a trace of smoke, ash and embers. Quarantamaula: an evil creature, half man/witch and half chicken. It lived in the swamps and, at night, walked the streets and climbed to the roofs. It could transformed into harmless animals like a snail or a cat, meaning the danger and evil could come from anywhere. Aatxe: an evil spirit that usually took the form of a red bull on fire. Gailán: a big cat with a humanoid face and a powerful tail it could use as a whip. Tarasca: a dragon that, instead of wings, had a turtle-like shell, six legs and a poisonous breath. Machu Lanú: a humanoid goat, with a cavernous voice. It appeared out of nowhere, always preceded by a strong wind. Very dark and mysterious. Mono careto: an evil creature, similar to a monkey, that lived in the mountains, it provoked avalanches to kill people. Simiot: half monkey and half goat, provoked avalanches and storms and kidnapped children. Mano negra: meaning "black hand". A spectral black hand that lived in the darkest and most horrible places, waiting to drag it's victim to it's nest. Entiznáu: a huge man that carried a drum that was easily angered and could provoke fierce storms. Nubero: an evil djinn of the weather that lived in the clouds and threw lightning. Loberno: a creature similar to a wolf, red and with spots. It was deaf but could see through walls. Chancalaera: a creature similar to a woman, with supernatural physical abilities, a huntress, she took men to her cave, had sex with them and then killed them. Gruño: a demonic and humanoid creature, with dark clothes, if someone exchanged glances with it they would turn into a taciturn, bitter, moody and violent person. Nitus: really small creatures that entered the brain and ate the memory, making the person fall into a deep slumber. Colacho: a demonic creature, humanoid, covered by hair, with a beak instead of a mouth, legs of a bird, no arms, it could turn invisible and it's horrible screaming could bewitch a person and attract them. It waited, hanging from a tree, for it's prey. Magoria: an animal that lives underground during the day, it's tail, the only part of it's body that remains on the surface, looks like mistletoe. If you feed it you will get good luck, bur you need to feed it each day and each time more, or you will get bad luck. Osuñón: a man that could turn into a monstruos bear of 3 meters tall. Santos finaos: ghosts that dragged chains, they were dead relatives that appeared to say goodbye or make a person keep their promise. Saetón: a small dragon, 140 cm long, that jumped a lot and when it flew it's head inflated. It had gills behind it's eyes and could hypnotize and had a poisonous bite. Carramoña: a giant spider Llobu cerval: like a werewolf, but instead of a wolf they could transform into a hybrid of a lynx and a human.

I know its not much but i do know El Cuco. And some others cant remeber at all hiw to write the names so im not even going to try😅

@@DR_REDACTED I'm pretty sure you mean el coco. I've seen "cuco" written before, I don't know why english speakers got it wrong XD

I'd be very interested. I love finding out about creatures and tales of them from different cultures.

I seen the parallel as well, but we refer to a witch as "striga" around here. Like baba Jaga would be a striga.

Coraline.

Yep I encountered these in Slovenia also.

...and for awful poluted air.... and football fans witch matchetes :) nite!

Bieda means poverty in Polish

Never knew of it, but sorta feels like wendigo from the description...

@@silantro.9219 It's Polish then thanks. I was wondering where it belongs, as we have similar word "bijeda" in Serbian but I have never heard of its visual representation. Otherwise, bijeda would mean poverty, bad luck, sudden misfortune, etc. Maybe the word has Polish origin... interesting 🙂

It's old praslavic word, most likely the character as well as the word misery itself was known to slavic people before the migrations of the 5-6th century and split into west, south and east slavs.

Slovenia in particular doesn't have any history to be known of so they adopted dragons from mythology far older than themselves.

@@LAZARUS-ks7oy what does that even mean lol. Every nation and person has history and they decide how far back they want to go when picking symbols that they think will represent their place the most. Just because the republic itself is young, that doesn't mean the people have no history

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I read somewhere that Kaschey had real prototype. Some Germanic konung lived for about ~100 years and his Slavic neighbours detested him.

Were they slavic or gipsies? Because those are different ethnic groups, it's like saying my ancerstors were English Italians. I guess you mean gypsies from slavic countries. Btw. gypsies have some their own mythological characters.

​@@albertdittel8898 true

@@alo-bean shut up with your political correctness BS. Gypsies themselves don't give a damn.

@@albertdittel8898 you got my there Albert as I am not 100% certain. I really appreciate the info, unfortunately my mother passed away 18 months ago so I’m solo from this point on. Both my grandparents surnames, on my mothers side and my grandmother’s maiden name on my dad’s side, date back as far as mid 1600’s Italy. My grandfather’s surname, on my dad’s side, goes back to early 1800’s Italy, it is here that the Slavic suspicion begins. My sister did the DNA ancestry test and found 9% German within the results.

@@albertdittel8898 they are not different you have a lot of slavic gypsies. Those are people that mixed with gypsies often called white gypsy

i was thinking these sound a lot like the monsters from the witcher !

​​@@glitterbaby666ure, wither was writen by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski

Black cat, white cat is one of my favorite movies. Y'all have a brilliant sense of humor over there.

That's a common theme in the Czech fairy tales when it comes to vodník (vodianoy)

His name was yes but the main inspiration was Tanaka learning about the Lernaean Hydra. And the japanese legends about Yamato no Orochi.

No

And then Orthodoxy came and the angels killed him along with the Holy Martyr. George.

I love Old Greg. :)

Not sure our Slavic myths mention vodyanoy has a mangina... but who knows 😅

It is normal, because Slavic culture is pretty old just yet unknown for westerns. They where too focused on themselves and totally ignore that world doesn't starts with them..

Wow! Crazy story! Thanks for sharing.

mating cat sound like a baby cry

Nocnitsa and Bezkost

Bies, Leshy and Stuhac

Koschei in polish Kościej

Striga is not very Slavic. The word itself is from Latin, Strix is simply an owl and comes from Greek. There are variations od Striga from all of the Balkans and outside, with the same or similar name but varying from undead witch to demon to vampiric bird monster and so on. The Romanian Strigoi might be closer to the original than the Slavic version. even in Italy strega means witch. Basically it's a Roman thing.

@Richard Aubrecht I did not know that, but it does seem to make sense. Language evolution is never a simple thing, with words being loaned back and forth and changing over and over. The funniest thing is that in romanian, the word "striga" is actually mostly used as the infinitive form of "to shout" ("a striga"). So for me the connection with owls was initially that thier hoots sound like shouting, so that's why we used the same word to describe them. However, today the most commonly used word for owl is "bufnita", and that one I have no ideea where it comes from

​@@richardaubrecht2822 owl in polish is Sowa

​@@alin-mihai strzyga in polish is similar to strzyc to cut

@@borzmir9326 Last time I checked Poland is not in the Balkans. And striga is from the Balkans. Polish word for an owl does not matter, same as Czech word for it (sova, kdybys nevěděl). Or do you think the Albanians, Romanians and even Italians adopted a Polish word? That Romans adopted it, before Poles even existed?

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Rusalka is a female water fairy, vodník is always a male.

@@mokkorista well...I grown-up on stories from the books where Rusalka is mostly water nymph, but from my grandmother stories she is more like a demon. Seducer. She seats at night on the edge of the lake or swamp and trying to lure trespassers close to water to attack and kill them. And yes. Rusalka is always a Woman.

It's not specific, just phonetic

The one i know and is frequently used is Drekavac. And Zmey, but, we call it Zmaj.

@@AdamIsailovic I lived in Slovenia where those names were used. Finding out how the Slavic cultures branched out in different and similar ways was fascinating to me. I forget the name of the people/special spirits who can change or control the weather, but I met several Balkan friends who swear that the weather changers are real and still active on old farms. That was cool. Also still little references to keep the Domovoj happy.

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Bravo!