Old European culture

"Motanka", elaborately decorated but always faceless cloth doll was once a common feature in every Ukrainian peasant home. These d...

This is Grýla, the Icelandic Christmas witch. She lives in a cave in Iceland’s hinterlands, from where she attacks nearby townships, snatche...

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 ancient Greece undiluted red wine was reserved exclusively for gods and was only used for libations. Drinking undiluted red wine was cons...

In Serbia people believed that droughts could be caused by the angry thirsty ancestors who didn't receive their water libations.. ...

Ancient tombstones on Morine, Bosnia Are tombstones placed on top of the dead to "bind their souls" and stop them from wand...

" On Christmas morning in Scandinavia every gable, gateway, or barn-door, is decorated with a sheaf of grain fixed on the top of a ...