Russian Mythology

Basic Information

Sources

The mythology and folklore of Russia includes:

• Baba Yaga - a powerful and frightening enigmatic old woman with supernatural powers
  • Baba Yaga's Hut - her house walks around on giant chicken legs
• Bogatyr - a stock character similar to a knight-errant
• Chernobog - a god of evil, sometimes part of a dualism with a good god named Belobog
• Dormovoi - a benevolent male household spirit
• Dyavol - Russian for devil
• Erlik - a pig-faced god of death
• Ivan the Fool - a stock character of a simple-minded but very lucky man
• Ivan Tsarevitch - culture hero who often wields the sword kladenets in his struggles against Koschei
• Kikimora - a temperamental female household spirit
• Koschei the Deathless - a villainous character who kidnaps wives. He is unkillable because he has hidden his heart inside an egg (He inspired the Lich of D&D)
• Leshy - a male forest spirit capable of shapeshifting or mimickry
• Mokosh aka “Moist Mother Earth” - a goddess of fertility, moisture and agriculture
• the Narts - a tribe of heroes (mostly)
• Polevoi and Poludnitsa - spirits that live in fields and farms
• Rusalka - a female water spirit that may tickle you to death
• Satanaya - mother of the Nart tribe, wise woman, goddess of fertility and/or crafts
• Sword Kladenets - a magic sword that swings itself, is often hidden and must be found by the hero
• Vasilisa the beautiful - a rare maiden protagonist who appears in several Russian tales.
• Vodyanoy - An evil male water spirit that likes to drown people

Russian mythology incorporates elements of Slavic Mythology, Turkic Mythology and the Nart Sagas of the Caucasus.

Russian Urban Legends, and Conspiracy Theories

• Dyatlov Pass Incident
• Height 611 UFO Incident
• Kitezh
• Moscow Underground
• Putin the dark rise to power
• Tunguska event

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Bibliography

1. wikipedia

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