Slavic mythology, by contrast, remains to a large extent a terra ... as well as searching for surviving relics of the ancient pagan religion still present in the tales, legends, and customs of the ...

The myth may started with the Vikings ... a Christian symbol of binding the devil—rattle around his frame, while pagan elements like the Ruten, birch branches used for swatting, connect him ...

Some ethnologists tie the fern flower myth to the old belief that adder’s tongue ... a clear example of the entanglement of pagan and Christian traditions in Polish folklore. To mark the Christian ...