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vyvilha · 4 months

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115 years since the birth of ukrainian folk artist maria prymachenko

#ukrainian folklore #ukraine #folk art #naive art #ukrainian art #maria prymachenko

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folkcorewitch · 5 months

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The beauty of this modern traditional ukrainian kersetka 💙 I've been wanting one for years, but the vintage ones are too fragile for daily wear. Finally got my hands on a handmade one by the traditional line of the Gibson Girl Dress ukrainian brand. It's made of wool and it's SO warm !

#ukrainian folklore #ukrainian clothes #ukrainian costume #ukrainian culture #kersetka #traditional clothing #folkloric clothes #slavic clothes #eastern europe #folkcore aesthetic #dark folkcore #folkcore #cottagecore aesthetic #cottage goth #folkgoth #whimsigoth #whimsigothcore

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vintage-ukraine · 2 months

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Illustrations to Ukrainian folk tales by Viktor Savyn, 1954

#ukrainian art #ukrainian #Viktor Savyn #vintage illustration #ukrainian folklore #1950s

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madeleineengland · 9 months

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Mavka: The Forest Song (2023)

Directed by Oleksandra Ruban & Oleh Malamuzh

#mavka the forest song #filmedit #animationedit #ukraine #ukrainian movie #animated movie #ukrainian movies #ukrainian folklore #slavic folklore #animated movies #mavka #ukrainian mythology #slavic tradition #female directed movie #female directors #movie aesthetic #landscape #nature #animals

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theophan-o · 4 months

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A very special New Year Gift for a very special Friend, @wanderer-on-the-steppe, who brings so much joy to my life!

This time there was no particular reference for the picture. I just looked into my soul and drew, what I have seen there. As a result I have got some strange Slavic mixture: H. Sienkiewicz's "Trylogia" universe (but more as seen by my favorite book illustrator, Jan Marcin Szancer)... Ukrainian fairy tales... art depictions of Cossack heroes (both Ukrainian and Polish)... Eastern Orthodox icon painting (my only one "professional" art experience). I hope you can like it, after all Theophan-o is also a strange Slavic mixture. And I really love the World where I belong.

Dear Friends, happy New Year to all of you! May it be better than 2023 and 2022! If you see this Cossack Princess riding to you with my greetings, you can be sure, that you occupy a very special place in my heart!

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slavic-folklore · 9 months

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#slavic #slavic folklore #slavs #traditional #costume #slavic culture #slavic folk #ukraine #ukrainian folklore

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ukrainian-moodboard-enthusiast · 4 months

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ukrainian winter traditions / exhibition at Український Дім

#ukraine #kyiv #укртумбочка #український tumblr #український тамблер #ukrainian art #ukrainian moodboard #ukrainian traditions #ukrainian folklore #folklore

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zarya-zaryanitsa · 11 months

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How a person could become an upiór (a vampire) according to Slavic folklore?

I would like to disclaim that the information below was gathered by ethnographers on the territories of present day Poland, Ukraine and Belarus and that there was a lot of regional variation to the folk tales about vampires, therefore beliefs presented below cannot be treated as universally applicable to all regions of aforementioned countries.

An additional disclaimed: upiór is a Polish word, however other closely related names exist in other Slavic languages.

So who could become an upiór after death?

people who were left unburried,

people who were burried improperly, for example without certain ritual objects that were supposed to make the journey across easier, or conversely with objects that make the crossing more diffficult, such as shoes (in such case the upiór has to wander the earth untill they wear the shoes down completely),

people who were physically incomplete at the moment of death (for example they did not have a bag with their cut nails, which they collected all their lives, or they did not hide their lost teeth),

people whose corpse was crossed/jumped over by a man or animal, or over whose corpse a bird flew,

a person who died suddenly, i.e., by suicide, murdered, dying in an unfortunate accident,

unbaptized babies,

women who died in labor,

murderers and other people who harm the community (such as dishonest surveyors, who according to folk beliefs are rejected by earth after death),

a person who, during their lifetime, underwent spells protecting against wounds - their corpse would not decompose after death,

almost certain to become vampires were people who were conceived as a result of breaking of certain societal taboos, for example while their mother was on her period, during the Feast of Saint Anne, during the Feast of Annunciation, during the Feast of the Cross,

similarly almost certain to become a vampire after death were witches (czarownice lub czarownicy),

another category almost certain to become a vampire were people considered to be in some way related to demons or similar to them - for example people born with teeth, people with big teeth, people with large heads, people with various disabilities, people who lived very long and all kinds of outsiders, especially outsiders of an unfriendly religious denomination,

a child could be born as a vampire if their mother swallowed a piece of burning coal or a spark that fell into a pot during Christmas Eve,

a living person could turn into a vampire if the steppe wind blew on their feet.

Of course people could also turn into vampires after death through contact with an upiór during their life, for example

as a result of getting bitten by one,

born from a union between a vampire and a human,

children breastfed by a vampire mother.

To sum it up, it seems that various ideas about the origin of vampires can be reduced to two root causes: 1) omissions or errors in rituals and breaking ritual prohibitions; 2) a different ritual status of a dead person who was already considered a demonic being during their lifetime.

Source: Jeszcze raz o upiorze (wampirze) i strzygoni (strzydze) by Jarosław Kolczyński

#upiór #vampire #slavic folklore #polish folklore #ukrainian folklore #belarusian folklore

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vyvilha · 1 year

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traditional cross-dressing on ukrainian malanka holiday. the woman is dressed as vasyl (folk adaptation of st. basil) and the man is dressed as malanka (folk adaptation of st. melania).

during this holiday, ukrainians honor the ancestral spirits and imitate them by dressing as animals and opposite genders, since it is believed that the otherworld blurs the line between male and female, as well as between man and beast.

photographed by anna senik (ładna kobieta)

#ukrainian folklore #ukrainian culture #folk christianity #ancestral veneration #ancestral worship #slavic folklore #ukraine #ethnography #malanka

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folkcorewitch · 5 months

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Memory from a misty whimsical day. Whole outfit inspired by traditional ukrainian clothing.

#vyshyvanka #modern vyshyvanka #ukrainian folklore #ukrainian clothes #traditional clothing #dark mori kei #dark folkcore #folkcore #folkcore aesthetic #witchy aesthetic

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aimportantdragoncollector · 29 days

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Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Second One For All User/Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia), Gigantomachia/Sensei | All For One, Sensei | All For One & Yoichi | First One For All User, Second One For All User & Third One For All User (My Hero Academia) Characters: Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia), Sensei | All For One, Second One For All User (My Hero Academia), Third One For All User (My Hero Academia), Gigantomachia (My Hero Academia) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, ukrainian folklore, POV Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia), Morally Ambiguous First One for All User, Yandere, Past Child Abuse, Possessive Sensei | All for One, Third Wheel Third One for All User, Angst and Romance Series: Part 1 of Beauty is the Beast Summary:

Woodsman Kaiji Kudou falls in love with water nymph Yoichi Shigaraki. But a series of mysterious drownings and a possessive older brother threaten their romance.

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You’re getting this chapter early because I’m busy tomorrow. Back with more gorgeous Nyavka art by Palebonedry:

#bnha #ukrainian folklore #nyavka #mavka #yoichi shigaraki #second one for all holder #kudou bnha #all for one #gigantomachia #duo holders #ichinii #kudoichi #afomachia

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marysmirages · 2 years

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Cossack Mamay (2022)

This work was inspired by the image of the Cossack Ivan Bohun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bohun) and the Ukrainian folklore hero of the 17th century - the Cossack Mamay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack_Mamay). This is my tribute to the Ukrainian people and also to my ancestors, who had the surname Mamaeu, descendants of Mamay...

#cossack mamay #cossack #bohun #ivan bohun #mamay #rider #horseman #marysmirages #ukraine #ukrainian folklore #17th century #art #painting #sunset #horse

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owainigo · 2 years

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mavka

#mavka #ukrainian folklore #slavic folklore #art tag #blood #gore

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theophan-o · 3 months

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Graceful Cossack heroes by the Ukrainian contemporary artist and illustrator, Tereza Prots (Тереза Проць).

An illustration to the Ukrainian folk tale Matusya (Матуся)*.

*Matusya is a nickname of a boy here;-)

It is a fan&didactic account, existing only for the Cossack Heroes glory and promoting Ukrainian heritage worldwide. Copyright belongs to the Artist/Museum.

#art #traditional art #traditional illustration #ukrainian art #ukrainian folklore #ukrainian fairytales #cossack art #cossack heroes #cossacks #ukrainian heritage #ukrainian history #ukrainian culture #for me this scene looks like Chmielnicki admiring Bohun

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exploringslavicfolk · 17 days

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Evil Eye Protection Symbols in Ukrainian Culture

Just as any other culture, Ukrainians have their own protection symbols and objects. Evil eye is a concept recognized even by Christians, and there are prayers that exist as protection against it.

Motanka Doll

The Motanka doll (Мотанка) is a symbol of a feminine protective entity, with no face as to avoid accidental likeness and tying a soul to it. Instead of a face, it was adorned with a cross which is a pagan symbol for the sun. Vertical lines represent the masculine, and horizontal represent the feminine. Motankas can be for play, ceremony, and represent guardianship. It was forbidden to craft the dolls on Friday and Sunday, "because these days belong to the goddess of women's diligence and needlework, Makosha." The doll had to be started and completed within one day with naturally occurring materials. "The winding of the doll was to be carried out only clockwise, always accompanied by positive thoughts."

You can find a list of further subcategories, uses & symbols within the dolls here and additional details here

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vvortexccordis · 5 months

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my piece for chortiv zin!

#artists on tumblr #art #toriart #digital art #digital artist #digital painting #oc #my oc #furry oc #furry #anthro #sirko #fields #ukrainian folklore #kind of?#ukrart

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