Comics & Articles on Slavic Myths, Creatures, & Legendary Tales

What was the Slavic peoples’ notion of death, and how did it shape the way they saw the Rusalka - the spirit associated with water, death and fertility. “Neither woman nor fairy can I be,I cannot die, I cannot live!”- Dvořák’s Rusalka Opera Rusalkas are believed to .....
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Who is the Slavic water spirit, who tickles men to death, and is in charge of the fertility of crops? I want to tell you about the Rusalka, a wonderful and complex being from East Slavic folklore that's both deadly and nurturing, and just as feared as she is revered.....
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This is the story of ‘The Malchite Casket’ and the fate of its author Pavel Bazov. In my last video I talked about the story The Mistress of the Copper Mountain, which is the prequel to The Malachite Casket, so I’m going to quickly summarise it here. The story follow.....
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Cover for The Mistress of the Copper Mountain by Pavel BazhovIllustration by Vyacheslav Nazaruk This is the story of ‘The Mistress of the Copper Mountain’ and its author Pavel Bazov, who survived Stalin’s Great Purge. Stepan, a worker at a mine in the Ural mountains .....
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