Category: Eastern European Folklore
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Bannik; The Haunting of the Banya
I was offered a job that spring; an opportunity I gratefully accepted, desperate to ease the strain of my current circumstances. My town was a bustling yet forgotten place, tucked deep within the shadow of the surrounding mountains. Only one Banya belonged to the area, nestled near a winding river,…
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Rusalka
In a village swallowed by marshlands and plagued with monstrous creatures that roamed the night, there lived a poor man and his wife, Myla. Though their world was bleak, treacherous, the two were happy, content in the one comfort that was their love for one another. But the husband, Damir,…
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Shtriga
I was tasked with helping a young woman in distress, tormented with insomnia which she insistently claimed was caused by a demon on her ceiling. Now I had encountered many strange things in my lifetime, treated many patients, so the news was not alarming to me, and upon her husband’s…
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Poludnitsa; Lady of the Fields
I had barely been in town for a week before Mr. Ivanova sent me out to work in the fields. Few people wished to work there, he said, and the town could use with some fresh faced volunteers. At first, of course, I thought little of his words. The summer…
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Leshy; the Old Man of the Forest
Amidst the sheltered embrace of ancient trees, the old man of the forest dwells, safeguarding the creatures within which he cherishes so dearly. He is a fallen angel, forged by the devil’s hands, cast from heaven to reign over his own shadowed domain. APPEARANCE A Leshy is a guardian, at…
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Romanian Bloodsuckers: The Strigoi
The belief in vampires has endured throughout the ages, continuing to terrify people to this day. Romania, often regarded as the epicentre of the vampire world due to its association with Bram Stoker’s Dracula, remains fearful of the haunting Strigoi; malevolent spirits of unbaptized people and those lacking morality and/or…
Ethereal Chronicles 