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 ...

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In the present study four Celtic-Slavic correspondences in mythology and sacral lexicon were analysed. Although the idea of a common heritage (so Victor Kalygin) cannot be excluded, the borrowing or ...