I will translate each page, which contains the description of the spooky thing, how it affects people and how to defend against it, over next couple of weeks and will attach it to this thread
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Vodenjak (Water demon). It is believed that it is a drowned person which somehow came back to life. It snatches people who enter rivers or lakes, pulls them in and drowns them. Be careful when crossing rivers and when in a boat, don't stick hands in the water
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Vrkolak. Flying ravenous beast. Likes devouring the sun. Defence: During solar eclipses, bang metal objects related to the house hearth (cauldrons, chains, grills, andirons...) very loudly...
@MagicalEurope@TheSacredIsle@FolkloreThurspic.twitter.com/MLiIr2kq8c
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Gvozdenzuba (Ironteeth woman). A hag used for scaring little children, especially the ones spinning wool. She carries around a cauldron full of hot coals and burns fingers of children who don't spin wool properly. Countermeasures: spin wool properly and behave
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Gvozdenzuba is one of the incarnations of Baba Yaga, an interesting Hag character from Slavic mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga
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Karakondžula. Black wraith with red eyes and long arms. It hides next to the the doorstep. If someone leaves the house after dark, it throws a sack over his head, jumps on him and rides him all night until the first rooster call. Defence: Spindle, salt and bread
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Kemza. Water demon from river Sava, near Sabac. Looks like a man with a snake tail. It gets swimmers into whirlpools where it coils around them and drowns them. Countermeasure: cross yourself if you want to drink water from the river. May god help the swimmers
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Madjionik. A small being which carries with it all the things needed for casting evil spells: needles without eyes, grey hair, nails, black wool. It casts evil spells to harm people. Defence: A priest's prayer will break the spell and recover object used to cast it
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Mračnik (The dark one). A type of flying demon, similar to a vampire. Flies around at night belching fire, burning fields and poisoning water. Dogs are the first to sense it. Defence: keep blackthorn thorn stuck in your clothes and a 4 leaf clover in your shoe
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Nav. A soul of a dead unbaptised child enters a bird and becomes a "nav". It screeches during the night most commonly making crying sounds. It can make breastfeeding mothers go dry. Crossing yourself and saying "I baptise myself" makes it disappear.
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This is very interesting. Slavic word Nav denote the souls of the dead in Slavic mythology. The singular form (Nav or Nawia) is also used as a name for an underworld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nav_(Slavic_folklore)@TheSacredIsle …
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In Slavic mythology, souls of the dead entered birds who brought them to irij, paradise. Birds then brought the souls back when they were ready to be reborn. It is interesting that only the souls of unbaptised (still pagan) children become "nav"
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What is even more interesting is that in Irish the word for saint is "naomh" which is pronounced like "n(i)ev" and which comes from Old Irish noíb (noeb) meaning sacred, holy. https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/naomh https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/naomh
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And that in Irish the word for heaven (where saints (naomh) go) is "neamh" which is pronounced like "nav"
and which comes from PIE "*nébʰos." meaning sky which is in Slavic "nebo"
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/neamh https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neamh @duchas_ie@iar_ie@TheSacredIsle@FolkloreThurspic.twitter.com/Uq4GWzUZXm
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So in Slavic languages the dead, (navi) go to underworld, old pagan heaven probably, (nav) and in Irish language saints (niev) go to haven (nav)...
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