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Stara Basn
Posted on February 17, 2009 by oprishki
Stara Basn…When the Sun was God. Pretty nifty film. Definitely did not win any major awards nor should it have but still fun to watch for self styled warrior types who swing axes around:)
Set in pre-christian times in the land that would become Poland…Stara Basn tells a familiar tale of greed and betrayal in an [...]
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Dust Devil or Wizard?
Posted on December 26, 2008 by oprishki
The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life
By William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Published by Ellis & Green, 1872
The Russian peasant generally attributes such winds to the wild dances in which the devil indulges when celebrating his marriage with a witch; but sometimes, he thinks, a wizard is being whirled [...]
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The Poorman and the King of crows
Posted on December 26, 2008 by oprishki
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars: of the Russians, western Slavs, and Magyars
By Jeremiah Curtin
Published by Little, Brown, 1890
” But how wilt thou enter the black castle, since it is covered all around with a stone wall, and whirls unceasingly on a golden cock’s foot? But make no account of [...]
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