BY TRADITION
South Slavic folklore
3 records of South Slavic folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
DrekavacA South Slavic night-being often linked with the souls of unbaptised or improperly buried dead. Its cry is the warning; descriptions of its body shift from village to village.VilaBeautiful, often winged mountain or cloud spirits in South Slavic lore (vila, samovila, samodiva), capable of aid or harm. Offerings at springs and trees belong to living memory of the cult in some communities.VukodlakA South Slavic wolf-skinned being whose name means wolf-hair. In Serbia, Bosnia, and neighbouring lands the word often names a revenant that drinks blood, not the literary werewolf of Western Europe.
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