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 follows a young miner, Stepan, who enc.....
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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 is visited by the Malachite Maid.....
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'Vasilisa the Beautiful' webtoon by Julia Tar - https://julia_tar.artstation.com/projects/nJ4DlrJulia Tar's instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/julia_tar_art/ I want to tell you a story about Baba Yaga’s skulls. The ones that hang on her fence, presumably to ward off unwanted.....
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Nosferatu 2024 movie poster © Focus Features In the latest adaptation of this iconic vampire story there’s one scene that really stood out to me because it shows something I haven’t seen before - a historically accurate vampire hunt. Thomas, a German man, goes to a Transylvanian village in winter, .....
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The world of the Witcher has a new creature inspired by Serbian folklore. Let’s uncover some Slavic Lore.
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This is Christopher, a saint who is sometimes represented with the head of a dog. To find out why we need to uncover some Slavic Lore. The earliest image we have of him comes from a 4th-6th century terracotta icon from Vinica Fortress in Macedonia, where he’s hanging out with Saint George. The.....
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