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21Hors — For the town in Armenia, see Hors, Armenia. In Slavic mythology, Hors (Old Church Slavonic: Хърсъ, Cyrillic: Хорс) is the Slavic sun god. The name Hors comes from the Iranian languages (Scythian or Sarmatian) see Avestan: hvarə хšаētəm, Middle… …
22Dodola — For the town in Ethiopia, see Dodola, Ethiopia. Dodola (also spelled Doda, Dudulya and Didilya, pronounced: doh doh la, doo doo lya, or dee dee lya), Perperuna or Preperuša is an old Slavic tradition. According to some interpretations, she is the …
23Nightingale the Robber — Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber, by Ivan Bilibin. Nightingale the Robber or Solovei the Brigand (Russian: Соловей Разбойник, Solovey Razboynik), also known as Solovey Odikhmantievich (Соловей Одихмантьевич), was an epic robber from… …
24Dobrynya Nikitich — rescues Zabava Putyatishna from the dragon Gorynych. Dobrynya Nikitich (Russian: Добрыня Никитич) is one of the most popular bogatyrs after Ilya Murometz from the Kievan Rus era. Many byliny center on Dobrynya completing tasks set him by the… …
25Slavic dragon — Zmaj redirects here. For the Serbian poet, see Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. Zmey Gorynych, by Viktor Vasnetsov In Slavic mythology, the word “zmey” (Bulgarian and Russian: змей, Macedonian: змеj) and its cognates zmiy …
26Ovinnik — The Ovinnik is a malevolent spirit of the threshing house in Slavic folklore. He is prone to burning down the threshing houses by setting fire to the grain. To placate him, peasants would offer him roosters and bliny. On New Year s Eve, the touch …
27Chort — This article is about a mythological creature. For other uses, see Chort (disambiguation). In Slavic mythology (demonology), Chort is considered to be a demon of total evil, with horns, hoofs, skinny tail, and a pig face. He is the son of the… …
28The Gingerbread Man — is an English fairy tale about a gingerbread man that comes to life. It exists in several variants, in which the piece of food is not always the same. Joseph Jacobs collected two variants; in English Fairy Tales , it is a Johnny Cake (sweet… …
29Cikavac — (Serbian pronunciation: [tsikavats]) is a mythical creature in Serbian mythology, imagined as a winged animal (a bird) with long beak and a sack.[1] A cikavac could be acquired by taking an egg from a black hen, which would then be carried… …
30Oźwiena — was the goddess of echo in the Slavic mythology. She is similar to the Greek nymph Echo. Her figure was connected to the human communication and the divulgation of discourses and actions. As the goddess of gossip, she was unable to keep any… …
