Monsters of Slavic Mythology

Not me comparing traditional Slavic creatures with that of The Witcher

Who the hell wanders into the woods at night?!

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I got interested in learning more about Slavic mythology because of the Witcher video games and series 😊

Thanks for making these videos incredible work

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strzyga that looks that demonic nun from the horror movie. any relation?

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My I ad the Kurent of Slovenia. A large demon with thick white fur, large horns and tusks, feathers on the side of his head, a large tung and mace covered in a hedgehogs pelt. Chained with cowbells he was restrained by his smaller counter part the Hudiček who owned Kurents like large brutes. Kurents would beat at winter and fight the snow away every year by coming from hell. The only thing controling them were their Hudiček masteres. Often people would dress as them and do duels. Now thier duels are just dances but once grown men would beat each other to death while dreased as kurents.

I remember listening to stories about the screamer as a child and being terrified. Apparently its main pray were pregnant women

Steel for humans
Silver for monsters

Ok I’m sure many of us hearing these stories are here because we’re huge fans of the Witcher books/games but out of the few monsters I’ve wanted to know more about there’s one specific that I’ve found nothing except what’s in the game itself: The Botchling… is there anything else about that creature or is it just a made up creature from cd projekt red?

The sceamer zombie is the information hazerd type zombie.

Awesome video. Subbed.

Great video keep up the good work

Slavic Mythology Is So Fascinating 🧐 Folklore. Great Work On Making This Video. Can You Please 🙏 Do Japanese Monsters Mythology Next Please 🙏.

This is more of a Slavic folklore rather than mythology, as it already is not Pagan but rather Christian-like stories (at least, some of them).

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You should look up the Taniwha and Maori/Pasifika mythology.

Wait.."The Drake.."
"Drakavok.."
Similar apearance...
huh.

when your culture is gypsy based, you get this horror show.

Funny enough, vodnik/vodyanoys appearances are different in Eastern and Western Slav nations. In the western nations, they ale sometimes called the little green men. They look human, but are clad head to toe in green. Green skin, green hair, green clothes, except for the colorful ribbons decorating their hat. They sometimes wear red leather shoes. They have webbed hands, rather than paws, but no scales or a fishtail. They store souls of those whom they drowned in jars. To make them lose their power, you need to make the tails of his coat .

From what i know there are two serpent like monsters. Zmey and Lamia. Zmey can be helpful but Lamia very much sees humans as food.

Great video! 🤘

silver is for monsters witcher

i deeply appreciate the mention of cracow’s wawel dragon, i’m a proud citizen of that city and i find it comforting that even abroad we’re know for him

I thought you'll discuss the most terrifying one of them all Baba Yaga aka John Wick!!!!!

Slavic gods and nurses gods are so familiar hmm suspicious

My family jokes we have a domovoy living in our house because we keep hearing odd sounds in our kitchen when nobody’s there, to the point of waking my parents up

Bieda literally translates to "Poverty". I think that recontextualizes the whole character

slav here, our politicians and journalists are the biggest monsters

"Zmey" literally translates as "wyrm".
Gotta add my 5 cents about Veles: the name means "hair" in old russian, because he was created by couple of other gods, Morana and Chernobog, from the "hair of unfaithfull woman and a snake's egg" - those dark gods are afraid of the sun and needed a minion to do their bidding during daytime. However, Veles had powerfully affinity to nature and soon dark gods found out they can't really control him, he did whatever he felt like, which usually included food and sex. He didn't mind helping people, but Morana taught him to always ask "what's in it for me", so people payed him for his druidic services - like making cattle fat, raising the crops faster and so on, payed with gold or gems - and he liked shinies. At some point he began to covet gold, like a proper western dragon. When his services weren't needed, he didn't mind to use that gold to buy some sheep, or seduce some girl (hence the other dragons were born, probably). When he was rejected, btw, he just moved on to the next one, or shape shifted into an animal and had fun with some bear. No raping, despite that he totally could, what a Chad. His down to earth attitude made him very popular, since he's probably the only powerfully being who actually takes requests and does them. He didn't care about light side gods, but they did have complicated relationships with Peroon, resulting in their battle, which was a draw. Peroon did overpower Veles, but was unable to kill him for good because of his insane hydra-like regeneration.

Amazing 😻! Please do some about 🇷🇴 mythology?

почему все американцы так сильно меняют произношение слов из других языков под себя???

Also, "Domovoy" or "Domovoj" represents a classical spirit/ghost which lives in homes.

About dragons, Ljubljana the capitol of Slovenia in EU, has a "dragon bridge" (on of the main city centre bridges), has a dragon in the city crest, and several statues around the city. Great video ❤

Stryzga can also be killed not only when encountering sunrise, but also when encountering Geralt of Rivia.

u don`t anderstent do u

Nothing more scarier than the humans on this plane that like to rape a little 7 year old girl or a touch 7 year old little boy.Same humans that cause wars and death 😢💔👎🏽

Hmmm....the moment when you realize that witchers Monsters are based on slavic mythology....😮

I am Bulgarian who really loved to read about mythology around the world and i must say our Balkan/Slavic Mythology feels like the origin of many Western stories.

I think the leashie is the closest thing we will get to an Ent

most Slavs will recognize a striga/stryga (a female vampiric monster), a rusalka (a female water wraith) or a leshy (a forest spirit) which are in the withcher games

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winds howling..

Man thank you for making a video of Slavic mythology! Its so underrepresented and underrated outside of eastern Europe, but its just as influential, complex and varried like any other set of myths. Being Russian I always reveled in folk tales and myth from my country and sister countries, so much content and mystery and I'm glad people are starting to recognize it from around the world, definitely earned a sub from me!

Nephilim hybrids

Big thanks from Croatia. In 2 countryes for here Srbia there was vampire Sava Savanović look up on internet.

There was tons of warning u just weren't looking not deamons magic things but u gotta believe