Find Your roots and something nice to go with it.
World today is obsessed with cursing. Many claim to be a witch, but mostly dealing with black magic and cursing – like blessings don’t work or exist. Let’s explore them in Slavic folk tradition and relate it to modern day. Blessings Significantly, they are used less often than curses… But for example, we use the …
If you’ve ever looked up traditional Eastern Slavic embroidery (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian), you likely came away from the experience with a head full of profound symbols and ancient meanings. But when you delve into Polish folk art patterns, there’s often a sense of disappointment—there seems to be no special meaning behind them… or is there? …
Searching for information about ancient Slavic (or more broadly, pagan) cult sites, You can quickly come to the conclusion that nothing is known, and everything remains uncertain. Especially, if You rely on internet:) Wikipedia provides us the most basic information – Wolin, Ślęża, Łysa Góra… One could conclude that indeed three places of worship existed …
One of the questions I see asked most commonly on Slavic Reddit threads is what to include in a Slavic Pagan Altar. Claiming Your roots might be hard, especially if You’re back to a certain faith after 1000 years;) So here are my thoughts collected after reading and studying all things Slavic for years, while …
Nowadays, it is so easy to find generic, loosely Polish-related items marketed as Polish folk Art gifts. But there are still many gems that You can find and buy locally (and some of them also on-line)! Paper cut-outs or wycinanki | POLAND and BELARUS While compiling e-books with archive patterns of wycinanki (cut-outs) from different …
Dark Witchy Aesthetic? Do you remember how Harry Potter had a broken wand and it backfired on him or Ron? Well, that’s often the case with spells and rituals—especially if you’re brand new to this and know little about it. So yes, first of all, you may do it wrong, and it will come back …
I don’t know if you know, but as recently as 2003, I was in the scouting movement, and around Christmas we would go caroling around the apartment blocks in Bielany, Warsaw. Some time ago, someone pointed out to me that carolers always have a spinning star and… a goat. Actually it is a “turoń” and …
Having a Slavic shop here and on Etsy I stumble upon a lot of interesting angles on Slavic Paganism on the internet. The further away someone lives from Poland, or Europe even, the more sure he often is about things that he never saw or experienced firsthand 🙂 But myths spread easily even in Poland. …
“In our rich, colorful, knightly past, patterned native fabrics played a significant role, with the kilim at the forefront, serving as an essential backdrop for life in the camp, in the palace, in the noble manor, in the inn at the Kiev contracts, and for ceremonies on the steps of altars“- writes the catalog of …
These are my thoughts on Slavic Excercises for Women or so called Slavic Yoga (relax, it is not even called that. It is just a simple term for Americans instead of Gimnastyka Słowiańska dla Kobiet w Tradycji Białoruskiej :). A quick summary of 4 years of my experience. Do I recommend it? Is it worth …