Bald Mountain (folklore)
Witchcraft location in Slavic mythology
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Bald Mountain ( Polish : Łysa Góra , Ukrainian : Лиса гора, Lysa hora ; Russian : Лысая гора, Lysaya gora ) is a location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft . According to legends, witches periodically gather on the "bald mountains" for their " Sabbath ". [1]
The exact origins and factual evidences of the concept are unclear. [ citation needed ] Notable "bald mountains" include the Łysa Góra in Poland , Lysa Hora and Zamkova Hora hills in Kyiv , Ukraine .
Cultural references
- Night on Bald Mountain (music composition by Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov inspired in the legend)
- A Bald Mountain can be found in Mikhail Bulgakov 's The Master and Margarita as the mountain where the Iyeshua ( Jesus of Nazareth ) was crucified and it is the location of a sabbath it which Margarita takes part.
- In 1970s, in Belarus , an anonymous poem A Tale of the Bald Mountain (Сказ пра Лысую гару) was widely circulated by samizdat . It ridiculed the "sabbath" by the members of the Belarusian Union of Soviet Writers , who quarreled during the allocation of dachas for them. [2] [3]
- In Monday Begins on Saturday , a 1965 science fantasy novel by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky , the witch Naina Kyivna, the landlady of the protagonist regularly flies to Lysaya Gora for what is called "Annual Republican Convention". [4]
- Łysa Góra (Elder Speech: Ard Cerbin) is a location in the role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
See also
- Lysa Hora (disambiguation)
- Walpurgis Night
- Hill of Witches , Lithuania
- Other locations for witches' sabbath in folklore
- Blockula (Blåkulla), Sweden
- Brocken , Germany
- Kyöpelinvuori , Finland
- Šatrija , Lithuania
References
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Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article: О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа (Даль)/Ведьма
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- ↑ Vladimir Dahl , О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа [On Beliefs, Superstitions and Prejudices of the Russian People], 1845–1846 (see Wikisource)
- ↑ "Охота на последнего ведьмака" ["The Hunt for the Last Witcher "], Belarus Today , January 1, 2003
- ↑ "Ніл Гілевіч — Сказ пра Лысую Гару"
- ↑ Толоконникова С. Ю., "УТОПИЧЕСКИЙ НЕОМИФОЛОГИЗМ БРАТЬЕВ А. И Б. СТРУГАЦКИХ В ПОВЕСТИ «ПОНЕДЕЛЬНИК НАЧИНАЕТСЯ В СУББОТУ»" , ВОПРОСЫ РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ , issue 3, 2015, pp. 31-32
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