Folklore of Russia is folklore of Russians and other ethnic groups of Russia. Russian folklore takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and...

(Russian: Медуза), Meluza (Russian: Мелуза, literally «small», «little») or Meluzina (Russian: Мелузина) is a mythical creature in Russian folklore. She...

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...

Kharitonova, Valentina (2015). "Revived Shamanism in the Social Life of Russia". Folklore. 62: 37–54. doi:10.7592/FEJF2015.62.kharitonova. ISSN 1406-0949....

13 (1973): 55. Oinas, "Folklore and Politics", 47. Frank J. Miller, "The Image of Stalin in Soviet Russian Folklore", The Russian Review 39 (1980): 51....

occurred within Russian fairy tales. He identified these 31 functions as typical of all fairy tales, or wonder tales [skazka] in Russian folklore. These functions...

into Slavic folklore. Vladimir Propp, Russian folklorist who specialized in morphology Supernatural beings in Slavic religion Deities of Slavic religion...

popular character in Russian folklore. Interest is caused by its contradiction to the real historical figure of the first Russian Tsar, as well as the...

folklore Russian folklore Ukrainian folklore Serbian folklore Bulgarian folklore Western Folklore American folklore Australian folklore Brazilian folklore Ethnic...

tradition of folklore – including folktales, legends, and superstitions – resulting from the diverse ethnicities, religions, languages, and culture of migrants...

American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It...

now known to also be widely told among the Oirats in Mongolia, China and Russia. The story is recited by singers called Jangarchi (Kalmyk: Җаңһрч, romanized: Cañhrç...

the folklore of Russia and were rewritten both in prose and as poems, including nebylitsa (a variation of nursery rhymes). Most famous are The Tale of Yersh...

the next volume. Children's literature portal Fairer-than-a-Fairy Folklore of Russia Vasilisa (name) The Two Caskets Cinderella Babushka's Doll by Patricia...

As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the...

Yaga is an enigmatic or ambiguous character from Slavic folklore (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who has two opposite roles. In some motifs...

The folklore of Romania is the collection of traditions of the Romanians. A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and...

folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of...

similar to that of a garden gnome. The nisse is one of the most familiar creatures of Scandinavian folklore, and he has appeared in many works of Scandinavian...

In Slavic folklore, the rusalka (plural: rusalki; Cyrillic: русалка, plural: русалки; Polish: rusałka, plural: rusałki) is a typically feminine entity...

Babay or Babai (Russian: Бабай) is a night spirit (Bogeyman) in Slavic folklore. According to beliefs, he abducts children who do not sleep at night or...

in the presence of religious objects or displays. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Russian traditions. Folklore of Russia Russian culture Slavic...

influence of Russia, while the western part was under the influence of Sweden. This difference in cultural influence is reflected in the folklore of the two...

Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during...

2012, Russian Federation) was a Soviet and Russian writer, teacher, collector of songs and folklore of the Krymchaks, one of the last speakers of the living...

Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have...

is an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea...

a cultural impact reinventing an authentic Russian folklore. Some Russian critics noted that the success of "Buranovskiye Babushki" on Eurovision-2012...

fairies or nymphs found in South and West Slavic folklore. One of the hypotheses of the etymology of the word samovila is that it comes from the Indo-European...

Old Norse, and Swedish) is a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares...