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Eastern Europe
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Strzyga: From Roman Owl-Demon to Cursed Princess (The Witcher: 4 monsters and their origin, part 3/4)
It’s the very first monster of the Witcher saga – and the moment Geralt became a hero: the striga, a cursed princess who rises…
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Lady Midday – The Deadliest Ghost Appears in the Brightest Light | The Real Myth Behind THE WITCHER: 4 Monsters explained
Geralt calls her a “Noonwraith.” The Poles call her Południca. And in Lusatia she was feared as the Noon Woman — sickle in hand.…
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Elizabeth Báthory Was Walled In Alive. The Reason Will Disturb You. All about the Blood Countess.
Imagine a bathtub. Stone, or maybe copper. In a cold chamber of a castle high in the Carpathians. Filled not with water — but…
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Why Dracula Was Never About Vlad the Impaler: Vlad Țepeș: Hero, Monster, or Both?
Nuremberg, 1488. A printing press spits out a pamphlet with a woodcut on the cover: a crowned prince dining at a table, surrounded by…
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The Strigoi: Dracula Was Never About Vlad the Impaler.
In January 2004, six men in a Romanian village dug up a dead man. He had been in the ground for six weeks. They…