Old European culture

Jasper gem engraved with the scene of a wild boar hunt set in a gold frame with pearls and glass. Roman Empire II-III c AD. Metropolitan Mus...

Serbs believed that hazel was a "blessed tree". An old hazel tree was particularly "holy". A person could even confess t...

"The Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl, Russia" by Anastasia Usvayskaya. The cathedral was built by the Grand Duke Yuri Dolgo...

In the past, during spring droughts, Serbs used to go to mountain lakes and pray for rain on their shores "to a dragon living in the la...

In the past Serbs believed that wolves were "enemies of demons". Which is why when the devil, a vampire, or an "unclean"...