Polish Folklore Monsters
The strzyga is the most prominent one in polish folklore.
Polish folklore monsters. Lady of dzialdowo castle the polish lady and her prussian violin playing lover. She wanders across the world attacks people and torture them. There are sayings that beda found them or beda follows them from cradle to grave. The strzyga is a demon related to a vampire in slavic mythology although it has a particular association with polish folklore.
According to the polish folk tale dictionary the stzryga is a phantom although there are messages confirming that sometimes the wraith. Old polish death customs superstitions the most important discovery was made in gliwice during construction works for a new highway. It is considered impossible to get rid of dolya either in her good or evil aspect. They usually personified negative phenomena that happened to people from the lighter ones such as lack of sleep through all diseases to night time suffocation and drownings.
It is a creature born from human parents but has two hearts two souls and most creepily two sets of teeth with the second set barely visible. Pages in category slavic legendary creatures the following 69 pages are. Czernobog literally black god has cast a shadow over the slavic world for centuries but strangely. Workers found several beheaded bodies.
Top 5 wicked creatures in polish folklore 1. Beda or bijeda or misery is demon from southern slavic folklore that is far descent from ghosts and close to chuma. Wikimedia commons has media related to creatures of slavic mythology. The evil nedolya also called likho in later folklore neglects the man to whom she is assigned and thinks only for herself.
Czernobog is the king of all polish and slavic monsters. Obra monster a swan eating water monster. Janosik the legend of the polish robin hood. Vampire blood devilish owls.
So not just single creatures but a whole host of polish monsters polish demons and polish mythical creatures came into being. His name literally translates to black god and in slavic mythology he was the accursed brother of bielobog the white god the source of all evil in the world czernobog regularly enjoys stealing and devouring souls. Some of the oldest vampire stories originated in the slavic world and polish vampires wąpierz are some. Is polish folklore unique however.