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A brief list of different mythological beings in Serbia. Note: there is a lot of overlap of different beings from neighboring countries.

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Created by: Silentchapel

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Forest daemon, which defends pregnant women and newborn children, but sends them sorrow and nightmares. Likes to seduce young men and takes them to forest. Hair of older forest mothers is turned into ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Mythology

Wraiths look like very thin men and women, wearing a winding sheet over their bodies in vain attempt to warm themselves. They constantly chatter their teeth. They kill not because they're evil, but ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Mythology

Psoglavi (or the dog-headed ones) are dangerous demons with canine heads that usually feast on human corpses. They're known to understand human language but cannot speak it.

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Mythology

Hag or babaroga (horn-headed crone) is a very old woman without teeth, twisted face and a small horn in the middle of the forehead. Lives near villages. Her presence scares children, which she ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Mythology

Rusalka is a water spirit created from a drowned maiden. They are eternally young and beautiful. If someone heard songs of rusalkas, he would go mute, but hey are easily warded off with common ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Applied anthropology

Invisible good spirit that watches over house by night. Created from people whose shadow was bricked in a wall. Those men soon die, but their souls remain eternally bound to that building. Talasons ...

Domain: Anthropology; Category: Mythology

Reanimated corpse of a wizard, murderer or suicide. After the burial, they leave their graves by turning into a cloud a fog. They are invisible until they attack, but can be seen normally by members ...

Domain: Religion; Category: Mythology

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