Those who never lived in the balkans or in any slavic country have no idea how scary these myths can be.Also The Ovinik,Kikimora and Rusalka are left out from the video.
we here know that there is a snake living in the walls taking care of your house and in the tradition wegive it milk when we have a new child to protect it. cheers from Bulgaria
I have Slavic ancestry but I was born and raised in Canada and my first tongue is English. So I would probably still fail if I tried to pronounce Slavic words.
Living in the USA we don't get to hear about legends & folklore of slavic origin so I found this video to be really informative & a good reference point to research these myths from.Though I have heard of Babba Yagga before from my grandparents as their parents grew up in Ukraine. Maybe in the future if you do another of this series it could be about the relation between Babba Yagga's flying cauldron & early UFO sitings in eastern europe as a parralell was drawn between the 2 in the late 40's early 50's & did see some research from both Nato & Warsaw Pact countries due to the similarities.Thanks & keep up the good work, Liked & Subscribed.
Sava *Savanović* _(sah va-noh VITCH)_ [cyrillic: Сава Савановић] Slavic peoples are mostly descended from the very first kingdom (now hidden by time). Slavic legends are so ancient that the real events they're rooted in have also been, by most, forgotten through the ages.
Here's an important fact about the Romans, for whomever is interested. The word 'barbarian' has a vastly different meaning now than it did back then. The Romans used 'barbarian' to describe anybody who wasn't Roman - this means that even the highly advanced Greeks and Egyptians were referred to as 'barbarians'. Over time, the word gained it's uncivilised and violent connotations.
Foot Lettuce Cool, thanks for the information. As a person who has a set of great grandparents from Italy and a set of Slavic (Croatia) great grandparents I’m having an internal conflict right now!!! 🤯
AsapNicky Bars I've only taken 3 modules on Roman history in my degree, it isn't my thing. I'm unsure of how simplified my explanation is, however I am sure that people who really love Roman history can elaborate much further. Perhaps you can contribute?
@@jakubpluhar4914 Hurvínek is cute, but the stop motion puppetary is VERY unsetteling. I am familiar with it from my childhood, but I was always scared of them
for me (czech) It was "večernice" evening spirit, I was serously scared of her when I was small, i was afraid to look out of window at night, because I thought she is somewhere there, when I think about it now, it is silly, it was just my parents way to tell me to go home when it gets dark
As a kid I would throw my bottle when I drank everything from it, one night it flew out of the window and my grandma told me Baba Roga as we call her stole it I was terrified for years
7:24 We know this legend in Poland, as the legend of black Volga. Back in the 80's and 90's it was a popular story. It was told, that there is a black Volga (old "luxury" car produced in Soviet Russia) with black wheels and black covers in the back windows, that kidnaps children for organs transplants, riding from city to city in sears of victims.
I used to hear this urban legend as a kid in Czechoslovakia, but we always heard that the Volga was of color of blood and was accompanied by a black ambulance van Škoda 1203. :)
In the philippines its not a legend yet its true they kidnap children even adults for organ transplant and sell it to people and even hospitals but their bodues they are sold to hospitals or medical schools.
Volga was real, you can even find a real life example in Hungarys Museum of terror, although I doubt they kidnapped children, just adults, you know KGB stuff
I have no idea why people insist on turning Ć and Č into C and pronounce it as /k/. Here's a tip; I instead of C, write it down as CH and pronounce it as /ʧ/ since it will be way more correct.
Lucitaur it’s because Balkan Slavic languages are pronounced as an single tone so having ć has different production from ch also people sometimes pronounce č as ć because of different dialect that Balkan has č is read as English ch for eg. č is read as you would pronounce first letter from cheap or cheat but ć is pronounced more like chewing plus c isn’t read as k but c as center
@@legiization C is read in more than one way. If you saw the video, you'd see why I wrote this in the first place, because in video C is pronounced like in the word 'can'. I also have no idea what you tried to achieve woth what you wrote because it still doesn't deny that writing CH instead of C in order to replace Ć and Č is more correct.
@@Lucitaur he reads c as k in video but there is difference as native slav would read letter c, č, ć adn ch would be simply read ch not as i explained č as cheep. we slavs read as we write so we needed additional letters in our letter such as č, ć, ž, đ, š as only acception as letter Lj also đ could be writen as well dj u totally missed my point
I love these dark legends videos! If you haven’t yet, maybe you could try Australia next? I feel like Australia doesn’t get enough attention (even though they gave us Rebel Wilson, which they STILL don’t get enough credit for).
Proud Slav here No, not squatting Just proud From all these legends I have only heard of Baba Yaga (aka Angela Merkel) as a child. I have also heard of the Huskov Castle in recent years though. Greetings from Bulgaria, Eskify You are awesome
Love how he avoided pronouncing Strzyga. Its "stshyga" also there are other scarier things I think. Like Noon and midnight ladies, but the Graveyard guardian takes the cake in my opinion: bent skeletal being with an elongated neck, and Leśniczy aswell-a tall, bipedal creature with a skull of a bovine for a head, he wasn't really hostile though and was known for leading wanderers and children out of the woods. Baba Yaga was also known to heal or wash passing warriors according to legends
I have an interesting idea for Ukrainians and I'm Americans with a Slavic obsession. The Chernobyl Walker: A man who worked at the factory was spotted wearing a GP-5 Soviet-era gas mask that would be considered dangerous to breath in for any person for the filter was outdated, the man also wears casual Soviet-era civilian clothes. When he removes the gas mask, his face reveals a burnt down melted face, the left side dropped down, his face a deep charcoal black, and his eyes a blankly white. He's usually spotted either by the reactors or at Pripyat walking a drunken zombie like walk and when he talks to you it's slurred. If you dare ask him what happened he'll tell you, but once he's done he'll tell you in either Ukrainian or Russian "The same shall happen to you" and will proceed to screw your legs for you to limp like him and melt your face like him and contaminate you with radiation like him, but unlike him, you'll die in the state you're in, ask him about economics and he'll speak greatly about the Soviet Union to you as if the Soviet Union still exists tell him otherwise and you'll be shot by him using a Makarov pistol, preach to him about the Soviet Union as well and he'll more than likely know and assume you're more of a spy and kill you in any way he chooses
@ϟ AntiSemiTHICC [Reborn] Ϟ Yes, but I gave the wrong figure accidentaly, it was 30 million in USSR 50 million in China And 20 million in Eastern Europe as well as other parts of Asia.
Croatia had "the first european vampire" in 1672 called Jure Grando/Štrigun from Kringa (a town in Istria), basically at night if he knocks on your door one person from that house died
What if Baba Yaga asked me? Would she become younger? P.S. It's Black Lady of Kraków, not White, as a ghost she's in black, when she lived she had white dress
White Ladies are spread across the world, i don't know where they have their origin, maybe in Poland. Maybe in Ireland. Maybe even in Czech Republic. But i'm certain that they gave origin in Europe.
Black volga is pretty similiar to Czech Black Ambulance or Vampire from Ferat (Vampire from Ferat is Czech SCI-FI Horror movie about racing prototype of Škoda that uses blood of driver as fuel)
8:30 Be honest, you don't know how to say "Strzyga"? "Rz" is a form of diphtong that sound like hard "sh". It's "stsh", "Y" is a schwa like in Vinyl and "ga" (like gala).
TY for the propper pronunciation,didn't know it & that little tidbit will help, sorta reminds me how a double D ( dd ) in Gaelic gets pronounced as "th"
I actually went to the castle at 4:13! There are more mysteries surrounding it. What puzzles historians is that the castle is built in a very strange way. It's as if it's supposed not to protect its inhabitants from the outside, but more likely to protect the outside from what is inside. I'm not a professional castle builder so I can't confirm that - it is what I've heard and read. Then there's the small chapel. The guide who was showing us around told us that sometimes people bring their dogs and for some reason, they go crazy in the chapel or straight up just refuse to enter. This chapel is supposedly built right above the pit. It is also possible to stay in the castle overnight and people say that those who wish to sleep over have seen a caped monk walking around and watching them. And then there's this whole thing about a czech writer Karel Hynek Mácha. Mácha is a very known writer from the era of romantism. He liked to travel and stay over at numerous castles - and one time, he stayed over at this castle. In his letters to a friend he explained how he traveled into "another dimension" through a crack. This man lived in the early 1800s and what he described looked very much like a modern czech city. He actually described something that could very probably be a tram. Beside all that, the castle itself is really pretty. I'd recommend going there just for the sake of visiting a castle alone.
So Black Volga is a Slavic version of Christine plus a vampire well if they still exist, I want them to read Bram Stokers Dracula with me oh and also Christine too
Idk if anyone else knows about this myth, but it's a story going around here (Slovenia) especially well known to my family... It's about a spirit, a creature called "krulek" which literally means growling man... He was a soldier whose head was cut off, and he just wanders the world. But when someone sees him it means that a world war will happen soon. My family saw him both times, before both world wars. He usually shows up around parties, when people have a good time, are already a bit drunk and just plays an instrument... It's told that he plays so good that people gather around him, dancing... Only to realize moments later that it is a headless corpse playing the music. Other times he just wanders the streets and playes his tunes. But a week after a first person sees him, the war begins. Or so I was told
These dark legend vids rock, my favourite is the Scottish one, would you consider doing top ten ways the Japanese empire could have won? If so I’d like to hear how they failed in China.
What books on slavic folklore and mythological creatures could you recommend? I want to know more about slavic folklore but literature on that topic seems a little hard to find.
@@warlordbdansky5731 I looked up "chechen" and found this. Chechnya Russian republic Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a federal subject of Russia. It is located in the North Caucasus, situated in the southernmost part of Eastern Europe, and within 100 kilometres of the Caspian Sea. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny.
I visit Sava Savanovic water mill several times. It's placed in mountain Povlen in western Serbia. Close to the location there are grave of some policeman and epitaph says "you died in fear and we couldn't help you". He was found dead close to the watermill on the side of the road. Entire POvlen mountain have a lot of weird stories, more scary than Sava Savanovic. There are also story about Todorci, riders from the underworld...
Word ,,vampire" came out from Serbian language, while Bosnians and Croats had their own ,,lapir". Today, the whole world is using a word ,,vampire". 🧛🏻♂️ Greetings to all Slavic brothers and sisters, make sure you have a garlic 🧄🧄🧄
One Of The Best Videos On Eskify's Channel. You Should Make A Video About SCP. Bro Whenever You Upload A Video You Make My Day You're My Most Favourite RU-vidr. There's Just One Thing Bro That You Should Upload Your Videos More Often Like You Uploaded This Video 10 Day's Later It Means That We Only Get 3 Videos Per Month. I Know That It's Hard Finding A Topic And The Editing But We #Eskifers Live On Your Videos Love You Bro ❤
@@kakosotr9133 its not rly important the stats it self, the thing that Serbs from Kosovo vvhere violenty moved so that albanians can come in, doesnt change the fact that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. The greatest of churches and monasteries come from that area, some of dating all back to 1000-1200 year.
I enjoy listening to these stories very much, thank you for your efforts but, can you please read a little slower? 🤭^^ I find the reading too fast, sometimes I have to rewind just keep up with the story
In Slavic countries there are a lot of dangers in the forests. Parents made stories to help keep the children safe. Hence why the stories are so creepy.
I fucking dare you to camp for a month into deepest and oldest slavic forests. And plz do go deep down into mines and tell me what you hear down there. I am not promising you that you will see creatures and ghosts but you will hear and feel stuff and that i can promise.
my favourite bulgarian folklore tale is turbalan. He kidnaps children who don't go to bed early by sneaking through their windows and eats them. i was SO TERRIFIED of him when i was younger
We and corgidog are Still here.. always Watching eskify’s new uploads.. I wonder if he himself is a dark legend.. always heared, never seen, sharing knowledge and sarcasme.. obviously from the dark depts of eastern Europe..
