(Free) Polish Folklore Creatures

Obra monster a swan eating water monster.

Polish folklore creatures. Zorya vechernyaya evening light zorya polunochnaya midnight light. Zorya utrennyaya morning light often conflated with zvezda dennitsa. Lady of dzialdowo castle the polish lady and her prussian violin playing lover. The point is that our werewolf has specific characteristics that we have given it. However zmay in slavic folklore is represented as rather benign creature created from certain animals which lived up to 30 or 100 years rooster carp horse ox ram or dog. Czernobog is the king of all polish and slavic monsters. And that makes it ours.

After all culture is the result of many factors. Zmay zmey or dragon is known in almost all world s cultures. Werewolves and devils are also found in other beliefs. The black volga black volga calender and photography. Waldemar sosnowski forum czermna is a village in. Polish eagle the story about why poland has an eagle as its symbol and why the first polish capital was gniezno. Babay slavic folklore bauk mythology black dog ghost blud.

It is a creature born from human parents but has two hearts two souls and most creepily two sets of teeth with the second set barely visible. Chapel of skulls skull chapel kutna hora czech republic photo. The strzyga is a demon related to a vampire in slavic mythology although it has a particular association with polish folklore. Janosik the legend of the polish robin hood. According to the polish folk tale dictionary the stzryga is a phantom although there are messages confirming that sometimes the wraith. His name literally translates to black god and in slavic mythology he was the accursed brother of bielobog the white god. Vampire graves after death mask of chopin museum of czartoryski family in kraków photo.

The source of all evil in the world czernobog regularly enjoys stealing and devouring souls. Is polish folklore unique however. I first went to poland when i was eighteen and among the places i visited was the fairy tale city of kraków. It always had either one or even number of heads and traits from animal that it borrowed.