#Slavic Fairy Tales
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SKAZ | Sirin's Song | Animated Film
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Omg that's a good one😍
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She was a wonderful artist! It looks like these are all from her fairy tale Tamara and The Sea Witch, an Eros & Psyche (Beauty & the Beast) type of tale.
More about this fairy tale and the artist here.
Krystyna Turska (1933-2002), illustrator of myths and fairy tales.
#artist: krystyna turska#polish artists#slavic folklore#slavic fairy tales#fairy tales#tamara and the sea witch#books I want#ATU 425#eros & psyche#the search for the lost husband
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SKAZ | Sirin's Song | Award Winning Animation | ENGLISH DUB
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Russian fairytale "The Frog Princess" (1914)
#Россия#Russia#Царевна-лягушка#The Frog Princess#русская народная сказка#russian fairy tale#fairy tale#русская литература#russian literature#literature#русские народные сказки#russian fairy tales#fairy tales#русская культура#russian culture#culture#русское искусство#russian art#art#slavic#russian#illustrations#european#fairytale#book#vintage#folk#fairytales#traditional#1910s
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The Frog Princess ✧ Your Culture Day
Dream & Nightmare by jokublog
Cross from xtaleunderverse by jakei95
#zu art#your culture day#crossover#the frog princess#nightmare!sans#koschei the deathless#dream!sans#vasilisa the beautiful#cross!sans#ivan tsarevich#prince ivan#murder time trio#zmei gorynich#and the xtale gang#as tsar and his other sons#also Error is Baba Yaga fyi xd#undertale#undertale au#utmv#I've got SO many ideas I spent most of the time choosing the best one xd#I wanted to show our old beautiful costumes and interesting traditions and characters from Slavic mythology and much morrre#but then I thought: where do we all start from?#fairy tales#<3#''the frog princess'' has many variations in other cultures (even in old myths) but this one is my favorite╰(*´︶`*)╯#especially because most of the characters & features are collected in one tale *^* (the amazing soviet cartoon is in the link above! ☆)
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I’ve made a deck for the slavic themed Mafia game — each character is from classic fairytales and epics. Part 2 of ? (Not really supposed to reveal the whole deck)
𖧷 Tugarin Zmeevich (Tugarin the Serpent) 𖧷 Finist the Falcon 𖧷 Tsarevna Nesmeyana (the Unsmiling) 𖧷 Kikimora
[Part I]
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#artists on tumblr#folklore#slavic#kikimora#falcon#serpent#fairy tale#card games#game deck#character design
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Baba Yaga’s hut, my beloved 🐓🏠
#drawing#digital art#fantasy art#folklore#Slavic folklore#fairy tale art#baba yaga#mythology#illustration#sketch
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Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.
#Art#Painting#Illustration#russian literature#russian folklore#Vasilisa the Beautiful#Baba Yaga#Ivan Bilibin#Russia#Russian Art#Halloween 2024#Fairy Tale#Russian Fairy Tale#Slavic Folklore
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Credit to @/ Astrid Sheckels Art
#kidcore#sfw agere#nostalgia#whimsical#whimsicore#crittercore#fairy tale aesthetic#Slavic fairytale#cottagecore#retro#illustration#vintage
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Фильм: Алиса в Зазеркалье
#film#daisies 1966#soviet animation#soviet cartoons#soviet cinema#slavic#slavic cinema#fairy tales#russian cinema#80s nostalgia#60s 70s 80s 90s#алиса в стране чудес#alice in the wonderland
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Mavka - IrenHorrors
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разрыв-трава
#digital art#digital painting#illustration#fan art#oh how i love putting crucial pieces of knowledge in the tags#the weed here is a plant basically called “a weed that tears things apart”#it's a mystic plant common in slavic fairy tales that can break iron and show hidden treasures to the one posessing it#it's also notoriously hard to find and the majority of tales revolves around people searching for it#and you know. sqh. him. yeah#svsss#scum villans self saving system#shang qinghua#mobei jun#moshang#artists on tumblr#my art
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Unpopular opinion, but Germanic fairytales got nothing on Slavic/Balkan fairytales. Now, do not get me wrong, they are very different in essence, that is why they are quite dissimilar. German fairitales tend to be cautionary and grim, intended to teach you a lesson, whereas the Slavic/Balkan ones give you the strong feeling of some psychedelic daydreaming.
You start reading one fairytale and immediately begin to wonder what the authors were drinking/smoking, and where you can get said substance.
In some stories, people can eat rocks to spit out pavement, the moon uses gender like a skipping rope, horses and wolves fly, kids grow by the hour, princes weep a lot and seek guidance from anyone (even mosquitos!), women are wise, and there’s is almost always a shapeshifting companion that adds bromance to the story.
#thoughts#stories#fairy tales#slavic folklore#moldovan folklore#also there’s Ivan#Ivan or any other name variants#And Ivan is almost always a dumbass#Somehow he still pulls a beautiful and wise princess#bromance also happens#bonus points if the protagonist insufferably doesn’t follow his companion’s warnings and gets them both in more trouble after each task#and lest we forget the constant risk of imminent death for the main character by the future in-laws or otherworldly sources
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✨️Rusalka sittin🍃on the tree🌙
#art#artwork#illustration#artist#nature#artists on tumblr#autumn#slavic fantasy#slavic folklore#slavic mythology#fairy tale art#rusalka#watercolourpainting#watercolour art#illustrators on tumblr#alexander pushkin
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"The Russian Story Book" illustrated by Frank C.Papé (1916)
#Россия#Russia#vintage#book#Frank C.Papé#english artist#artist#books#русская культура#russian culture#literature#english art#art#illustration#русские сказки#russian fairy tales#fairy tales#beauty#русский фольклор#russian folklore#folklore#history#russian#english#Eastern Europe#illustrations#slavic#traditional#Europe#1910s
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Shapeshifting Dragons
I sometimes see people wonder if the idea of a dragon that can take on a fully human appearance is a modern fantasy invention. Or solely inspired by (East) Asian dragons, which are almost invariably noble and frequently appear human. Because European folklore is more well known for “dragon slayer tales”, in which the dragons are purely beastly. But! Slavic folklore absolutely has dragons who are capable of transforming themselves into (beautiful) humans!
The dragons from Slavic fairy tales still have typical “western” dragon characteristics (wings, scales, claws, maw), but they often act far more human than animalistic. They frequently live in castles, use weapons, sometimes even ride horses, write letters, or get married to humans. And some are described as fully shapeshifting into humans:
Dawn, Evening, and Midnight (Afanasev, 1866, trans. Guterman, 1946)
Three princesses are abducted by a whirlwind and three brave brothers Evening, Midnight and Dawn set out to find them. Dawn finds the youngest princess in an underground realm in a castle. She greets him, feeds him, gives him strengthening magic water and then: “At this moment a wild wind arose, and the princess was frightened. ‘Presently,’ she said, ‘my dragon will come.’ And she took Dawn by the hand and hid him in the adjoining room. A three-headed dragon came flying, struck the damp earth, turned into a youth.” The princess puts sleeping potion in the dragon’s wine, picks the lice from his hair (implies he is still human) until he falls asleep. She calls Dawn and he cuts off the dragon’s three heads (implies he’s full dragon again) and burns the body. He then rescues her sisters from a six- and twelve-headed dragon. The three princesses marry the three brothers.
The Footless Champion and the Handless Champion (Afanasev, trans. Guterman)
Two champions, Marko and Ivan, decide to steal a priest’s daughter to be their sister and housekeeper. Once they go on a week long hunt and when they return the girl looks ill and thin. “She told them that a dragon had flown to her every day and that she had grown thin because of him. ‘We will catch him,’ said the champions. (…) About half an hour later, the trees in the forest suddenly began to rustle and the roof of the hut shook: the dragon came, struck the damp earth, turned into a goodly youth, sat at table, and asked for food.” Ivan and Marko seize him and thrash him until he begs for mercy, promising to show them the water of life and the water of death. He tries to trick them into jumping into the lake of death, so they throw him in “and only smoke was left of him.” They do bring the priest’s daughter back home before carrying on with their other adventures. [The concept that a dragon’s presence can drain a maiden of her life force shows up in other stories too, but in this particular context it almost seems like the dragon is just? eating her portion of the food? Also the fact that she was abducted from her home by the two supposed heroes and the dragon is only visiting and asking for lunch really puts this into a weird perspective.]
King Bear (Afanasev, trans. Guterman)
A tsar’s son and daughter are abducted by the King Bear but eventually escape with the help of a magical bullock who conjures a lake of fire that the bear cannot cross. They live by its shore for a while in a fine house and Ivan hunts for their food. “Meanwhile Princess Maria went to the lake to wash clothes. As she washed, a six-headed dragon came flying to the other shore of the lake of fire, changed into a handsome man, saw the princess, and said to her in a sweet voice: ‘Greetings, lovely maiden!’ ‘Greetings, good youth!’ ‘The old wives say that in former times this lake did not exist; if a high bridge spanned it, I would come to the other side and marry you.’ ‘Wait! A bridge will be here in a trice!’ answered Princess Maria and waved her towel. In that instant the towel spread out in an arc and hung above the lake like a high and beautiful bridge. The dragon crossed it, changed into its former shape, put Prince Ivan’s dog under lock and key, and cast the key into the lake; then he seized the princess and carried her off.” When Ivan finds his sister missing and his dog locked up he goes to ask help from Baba-Yaga, finds the dragon, kills him, and takes his sister home. [This story ends with the standard “they began to live happily and prosper”, but it really seems like Ivan should have asked Maria if she was even in need of rescuing.]
So there we are! Proper folklore roots for all our mysterious strangers with a hint of scales around their flickering eyes~
#laura babbles#folklore#fairy tales#dragon#dragons#dragon prince#shapeshifters#shapeshifter#dragon shifter#slavic folklore#just as with vampires the slavs have the superior folklore
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