Old European culture

"A savage Dragon lives in the forest, / Most venomous he is [...] / In the hour of his death / His venom becomes the great Medicine...

This is Croesus , the last Lydian king. In 546 BC, he misunderstood the prophecy from Delphi, which said that "If Croesus attacked the ...

Storm clouds over norther Serbia,  2nd of August. Terrible storms hit Serbia yesterday and today. Crops were destroyed, houses damaged...

I came across this very interesting object on edgarlowen.com auction site: 9764. ROMANESQUE MARBLE SCULPTURE. France or Northern Ital...

In North Germany, the peasants say, when they hear the low rumbling of distant thunder, "Use Herr Gott mangelt" meaning 'The L...