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    Czech folklore is the folk tradition which has developed among the Czech people over a number of centuries. Czech folklore was influenced by a mix of Christian...
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    Hungarian folklore Montenegrin folklore Romanian folklore Slavic folklore Polish culture Czech folklore Russian folklore Ukrainian folklore Serbian folklore Bulgarian...
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    Saint Nicholas is a legendary figure in European folklore based on the Greek early Christian bishop Nicholas of Myra, patron saint of children. On Saint...
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    does not glow, but rather makes the land bloom through its song. In Czech folklore, it is called Pták Ohnivák (Fire-like Bird) and appears, for example...
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  • Nachtkrapp (category Czech folklore)
    scare children into going to bed. Similar legends exist in Hungary, the Czech Republic [citation needed] , Poland, and Russia. Several versions of the...
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    Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...
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    Рарог) is a fire demon, often depicted as a fiery falcon. According to Czech folklore, a raroh can hatch from an egg that was incubated on a stove for nine...
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  • Folklore is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was a surprise album, released on July 24, 2020, via Republic Records...
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    Maslenitsa) Mermaid Naiad Nix (or Nyx) Nymph Samodiva Water sprite Czech folklore Rusalka Máchal, Jan (1918). "Slavic Mythology". In L. H. Gray (ed.)...
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    Czech writers of the period often looked to the countryside for inspiration. In a similar fashion to how the Brothers Grimm recorded German folklore,...
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    Rübezahl (category Czech folklore)
    Rzepolicz; Czech: Krakonoš) is a folkloric mountain spirit (woodwose) of the Giant Mountains (Czech: Krkonoše, Polish: Karkonosze, hence his name in Czech and...
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    Vila (fairy) (category Czech folklore)
    víly [ˈviːli]; Bulgarian: vila, diva, juda, samovila, samodiva, samojuda; Czech: víla, samodiva, divoženka; Old East Slavic: vila; Polish: wiła; Serbo-Croatian:...
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    Easter whip (category Czech folklore)
    chorvatských svátků" (PDF) (in Czech). Retrieved 26 July 2020. Silverman, Deborah Anders (2000). Polish-American Folklore. University of Illinois Press...
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    Morana (goddess) (category Czech folklore)
    Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morana (in Czech, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian) or Mora...
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    being named a vodník is widely known in western Slavic folklore and tales, especially in the Czech Republic or Slovakia.[citation needed] In German mythology...
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    Golem (category Czech folklore)
    ‎גּוֹלֶם, romanized: gōlem) is an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud....
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  • ISSN 1583-6819. Pavelčík, Nina; Pavelčík, Jiří (2001). "Myths of the Czech Gypsies". Asian Folklore Studies. 60 (1): 21–30. doi:10.2307/1178696. JSTOR 1178696....
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    Karel Jaromír Erben (category CS1 Czech-language sources (cs))
    české písně a říkadla ("Czech Folk Songs and Nursery Rhymes"), a five-part book that brings together most of Czech folklore. He was born on 7 November...
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    Judah Loew ben Bezalel (category Czech folklore)
    in northern Israel, was established by Czech Jewish immigrants and named in his honour. In April 1997, Czech Republic and Israel jointly issued a set...
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    Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (category Czech folklore)
    Wenceslaus I (Czech: Václav [ˈvaːtslaf] ; c. 907 – 28 September 935), Wenceslas I or Václav the Good was the Prince (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until...
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  • This is a list of dragons in mythology and folklore. This is a list of European dragons. Azazel from the Abrahamic religions, is described as a dragon...
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    supernatural, spectral, or demonic hellhound originating from English folklore that has also been seen throughout Europe and the Americas. It is usually...
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    Ice Saints (section Folklore)
    Austrian, Belgian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, North-Italian, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Swiss folklore. In parts of the Northern...
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    Cup (category CS1 Czech-language sources (cs))
    developed in north-west Bohemia during the 17th century and are now part of Czech folklore. In the Christian ritual of Communion, adherents drink from a cup of...
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    Jára Cimrman (category CS1 Czech-language sources (cs))
    modest caricature of the Czech people, history, and culture, he became an immensely popular protagonist of modern Czech folklore, and an ersatz national...
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    Baba Yaga (category Russian folklore characters)
    Baba 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...
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    In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of humanoid appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear...
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    Additionally, some other theme-related sets of words have been thought out as Czech folklore. In Polish, which does not distinguish long and short vowels, Morse...
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    Saint Wenceslas Chorale (category Czech folklore)
    Wenceslas Chorale (Czech: Svatováclavský chorál) or simply Saint Wenceslas is the church hymn and one of the oldest known Czech songs and Czech religious anthems...
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    Moravian Slovakia (category Czech folklore)
    Slovak region of Záhorie) and Austria. It is known for its characteristic folklore, music, wine, costumes and traditions. The area forms part of both the...
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