Some creatures of ancient Slavic daemonology, like vampires and strigoi have gone on to earn some worldwide notoriety – and even became part of popular culture. Slavic mythology, by contrast, remains ...

As Łukasz Kozak points out in his new book ‘With Stake and Spade: Vampiric Diversity in Poland’: ’If one were to weigh up the greatest Slavic contribution to global culture, vampires would certainly ...

That sparked the sisters' dive into Slavic mythology. "Mickiewicz then, during the Romantic Era, dug up, unearthed old beliefs that were ceasing to exist, but had remained somewhere in the ...

I burn the bones of a long-dead being with the searing touch of Svarog, the Slavic god of fire ... woodland feels like a loving reminder of the folklore that the tale is based on, from the ...