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Notorious creatures from Slavic folklore

From forest spirits to nightmarish demons, Slavic folklore is filled with creatures both feared and respected. These beings ...
Baku Slavic University has embraced the teaching of the core tools of statecraft, as global tensions rise and geopolitical ...
She lives in a house with chicken legs and flies in a mortar, but there’s nothing whimsical about Baba Yaga. Her legend is as ...
Women who died in childbirth, young men who died in war, infants who died before baptism—these especially pitiable dead were ...
The final season of Stranger Things has sparked an unstoppable debate among fans worldwide. Social media platforms are abuzz ...
The internet has been going wild during the last few days because of the Stranger Things finale. The theory that has become ...
ABSTRACT: As the first female-led spinoff in the John Wick cinematic universe, Ballerina (2025) grounds its narrative structure in the mythological traditions of Slavic folklore. Approaching the film ...
ABSTRACT: As the first female-led spinoff in the John Wick cinematic universe, Ballerina (2025) grounds its narrative structure in the mythological traditions of Slavic folklore. Approaching the film ...
The singular, disconcerting uneasiness that is so characteristic of Joy Williams’ fiction, yet so hard to pin down, is once again dazzlingly on display in her latest collection, “The Pelican Child.” ...
I don’t know about you, but if I stumbled across a witch in the woods who wanted me to help her resurrect her moving chicken-house, I’d be noping it out of there faster than you can say “cluck”. But ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A solar farm planned for an abandoned landfill in the Slavic Village neighborhood has been axed because Cleveland and Cuyahoga County couldn’t connect on an issue — literally. The ...
After my first brush with Deathless, when it had a different subtitle, I was already impressed by this deckbuilder bursting at the seams with colorful Slavic folklore. So when I saw that it was coming ...