Find Your roots and something nice to go with it.
Why do I still go on about vintage Czech book illustrations (and illustrators) in 2025? Well, nowadays, books like this are not made anymore and they will not be made ever again. Why? Simply because never again will there be an economic scenario where a publishing house will pay a renowned painter like Adolf Zabransky …
As a mum, I see a lot of modern children’s books and most of them are… trash. I know people say they’re modern, in vogue, high quality. But all I see are blobs and triangles. Blobs and triangles that look like they took maybe a day to slap together. Contrast that with vintage Slavic book …
Polish history officially begins around 960 AD, yet children in primary school read stories of the wise Queen Wanda and her father Krak, Piast Kołodziej, Popiel, and of course, Lech, Czech, and Rus. There are many more characters and creatures in Polish, Czech, or Ukrainian fairytales who might be more real than you’d think. Here, …
Did You know that the world for a witch (wiedźma) in Polish means The One Who Knows? While running a Slavic shop I often hang out on-line in places frequented by various Pagan, Wicca and Witch types. Somewhere between them is the area of Slavic witchcraft, often, but not always inherited with Slavic roots. Our …