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The Zmeu (plural: zmei, feminine: zmeoaică / zmeoaice) is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Though referred by some sources as a dragon, the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artifacts such as ...
[d] [15] But God intervened to keep the dragon from growing too weary, lest it plummeted and devour a great part of the earth. [15] A rather different presentation is that Solomonari who normally lived as beggars among the populace would occasionally engage himself for a fee to become the dragon-rider and hail-bringer. He selected which fields ...
In Romanian folklore, dragons are ridden by weather-controlling wizards called the Solomonari. The type of dragon they ride may be the zmeu [b] [33] or the balaur, depending on the source. [40] [41] The lamia and the hala (explained further below) are also generally perceived as weather dragons or demons.
The Scholomance [a] (Romanian: Șolomanță [ʃ o l o ˈ m a n ts ə], Solomonărie [s o l o m o n ə ˈ r i. e]) was a fabled school of black magic in Romania, especially in the region of Transylvania.
Romanian teens in traditional clothes are dancing A traditional house in the Village Museum. The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and the learned culture, determined by two factors. First, the rural character of the Romanian ...
Illustration of the dragon Zhulong from a seventeenth-century edition of the Shanhaijing Dragon art on a vase, Yuan dynasty. The word "dragon" has come to be applied to the legendary creature in Chinese mythology, loong (traditional 龍, simplified 龙, Japanese simplified 竜, Pinyin lóng), which is associated with good fortune, and many East ...
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