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Slavic (and Baltic) religion and mythology is considered more conservative and closer to the purported original Proto-Indo-European religion than other Indo-European derived traditions, due to the fact that, throughout the history of the Slavs, it remained a popular religion rather than being reworked and sophisticated by intellectual elites ...
The history of Christendom during the Early Modern period has resulted in a number of traditions that are shared in many European ethnic and regional cultures. This concerns notably common traditions based on Christian mythology , i.e. certain commonalities in celebrating Christmas , such as the various Christmas gift-bringers , or customs ...
The scholar identifies the worship of vampires and bereginyas as a form of "dualistic animism" practiced by the Slavs in the most ancient period of their history. According to him, the term was replaced by "rusalka" in most areas, surviving into the 20th century only in the Russian North. After the publication of Rybakov's research, the ...
Map of the territorial evolution of the domains under the rule of the House of Habsburg. The Habsburg myth (German: Habsburgischer Mythos or Habsburgmythos; Italian: Mito asburgico) is a political myth present in the historiography and literature of some Central and Eastern European countries, particularly in Austria, according to which the past rule of the Habsburg monarchy led to an era of ...
The German Myth of the East: 1800 to the Present is a nonfiction cultural historical account of centuries of durable German myth-making about the lands to the east of them as written by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius and published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
Albanian; Arabian; Armenian; Aboriginal Australian; Berber; Baltic (Latvian - Lithuanian - Prussian); Basque; Bantu; Brazilian; Buddhist; Catalan; Cantabrian; Celtic ...
Legendary creatures from Europe, supernatural animal or paranormal entities, generally hybrids, sometimes part human (such as sirens), whose existence has not or cannot be proven. They are described in folklore (including myths and legends ), but also may be featured in historical accounts before modernity .
The central and eastern Alps of Europe are rich in folklore traditions dating back to pre-Christian times, with surviving elements originating from Germanic, Gaulish (Gallo-Roman), Slavic (Carantanian) and Raetian culture. [citation needed]