Slavic folklore encompasses the
folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ...
of the
Slavic peoples
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Southeast ...
from their earliest records until today. Folklorists have published a variety of works focused specifically on the topic over the years.
There are few written records of pagan Slavic beliefs; research of
the pre-Christian Slavic beliefs is challenging due to a stark class divide between nobility and peasantry who worshipped separate deities.
Many Christian beliefs were later integrated and synthesized into Slavic folklore.
See also
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Vladimir Propp, Russian folklorist who specialized in morphology
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Supernatural beings in Slavic religion
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Deities of Slavic religion
References
Further reading
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