Bone and Sickle

Category: folk tales

Slavic Mermaids: Water Ghosts and Goblins

classical music, death, demons, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folk music, folk tales, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Green Christmas, history, horror, legends, literature, mermaids, movies, mythology, opera, pagan, paganism, Romanticism, rusalia, Rusalka, Russian, Semik, Slavs, vodnik, Whitsunday

Quite distinct from their Western equivalent, Slavic mermaids might better be described as water ghosts, as they are almost always[…]

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Walled Up Alive

ballads, black magic, cannibalism, Catholicism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, execution, folk music, folk tales, folklore, foundation sacrifice, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, human sacfrifice, immurement, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, murder, murder ballads, nuns, Rome, saints, superstition

Walling up a living victim, or immurement, has been used both as a punishment and for darker, magical purposes. In[…]

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