8 Slavic Creatures You Didn't Know Existed

[@FutileFacts4u]

It’s been brought to my attention that Drekavac, originating in southern Slavic folklore, is actually pronounced “Drekavats” since “c” is “ts” in those regions. We’re all here to learn so I appreciate the corrections 🫡

[@Angie2343]

Is that music from Mario?

[@petrakristalova6089]

You mean č ? I Guess you could Also pronounce it like the ch part of the Word check😅 Might be helpful

[@petrakristalova6089]

Also a little Fun fact, i might be Wrong but in my country Theres another screecher type creature we call it Hejkal from the Word hejkat( a verb) also with lichoi, i remember a Story that Is similiar- a girl named Káča Is taken by the devil from her father As the prize for a deal, but the girl wont let go of the Devils back And no matter what He does She rides him like a limping horse, So in the end He either leaves her alone, or the other thing that i forgot lol😅 Also great video, greetings from Czechia🇨🇿👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

[@mikeoxlong1395]

@@petrakristalova6089 Wait, you pronounce it with a č in Czhech? Here in Serbia it's pronounced like in the way he corrected it, with a c (kinda like in "pizza") Also you pronounce the name Kaća with a č, also? For ć i'm certain you don't even have an approximation in the English language. The closest i could explain would be the soft sounding Č.

[@mythicalcreaturesdoctorsor3589]

Kikimora : 🇷🇺 Russia slavic night house bedroom sleep nightmare paralysis men house spirit guardian of chickens woman body clothes chicken-like leg kidnap children

[@DyxoXinoro]

Man, I love the Vodyanoy. I looked into it a while back and came to the conclusion that he's basically what would happen if the average Midwestern US dad was a frog. Would go fishing with and buy the beers.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Honestly, yeah

[@yourlocalhuman3107]

people often dont talk about slavic mythology so its nice to see this

[@FutileFacts4u]

It helps that I’m married to a Slav myself 😌

[@JanKonecny8]

Vodník mentioned!!!🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰 As a Czech i will appreciate every video about slavic mythology.

[@mueezadam8438]

Slavic culture getting the attention it deserves ❤️ Much love from Sudan 🇸🇩🇸🇸

[@kname1882]

bro are you safe there in sudan?!?!

[@kname1882]

😃😃😃

[@brnecessities3335]

I think the scariest monster you mentioned was the disobedient children 👦👧

[@FutileFacts4u]

Truly terrifying 😱

[@croutendo2050]

To be fair, disobedient children are the most likely thing you'll find in places where there are also monsters

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

@@FutileFacts4u Dissapointing Slavic boneless vampire, Bezkost didn't make the cut.

[@Igorooooleynikov]

You should've inserted Домовой Кузя in domovoi segment, this character is modernized version of original folk tale, but he is so cute. Also I'm not sure about black rooster sacrifice, I think it is more of demonology thing. Anyway very nice video, I learned new stuff too.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Most of my research was on the old lore of these creatures but I could cover their more modern versions in another video. Glad you enjoyed it 😎

[@Igorooooleynikov]

@@FutileFacts4u It is very hard to differ between pagan version from christian and modernized. Also there is lot of neo pagan stuff which muddies the water even more. I have read a book about slavic paganism, it was very deep research but unfortunately because there is little to no pre baptism writing or even much of archeology most of it is speculation on neolithic and iron age artefacts and 16-19 century witness accounts of strange local traditions, which are usually heavily mixed with christianity and nobody really remembers meaning behind all of it.

[@dagoonite]

I don't know why, but I've always been fascinated by the mavka. There's something interesting about them having these gaping holes in their backs or just missing skin. There's others similar to them in other cultures, which is equally fascinating. I just can't remember who else offhand. I need more coffee.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Definitely a unique twist to what otherwise seems like a typical forest nymph. Makes them more ghostly and otherworldly imo

[@Thunderwolf4]

Sounds like the huldra.(Scandinavian folklore) They are also depicted as young women with hallowed backs and have an animal tail. (cow or fox)

[@atamija]

one note: in slavic languages is almost always read as /ts/ so Drekavac is /drekavats/

[@Miniredfoxette]

I saw the video, then I saw the channel name and went "hey! I like futile facts I should probably subscribe"😂. Looking forward to more videos from you in the future 😊. P.s. I also like the little doodle person, very cute😊

[@FutileFacts4u]

Thanks! Glad you enjoy the little guy too he’s come a long way since I first started doodling him. Welcome aboard! 🫡

[@sethleoric2598]

Virgin lovecraftian eldritch horrors that live in the angles of your house vs Gigachad gnome that lives everywhere in your house.

[@ewegenia]

Hell yeah! I love hearing about this stuff (and hearing the good music). Keep it up.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you like it! 👌

[@dariaz7776]

this is great! Loved the kikimora jump scare. It's so sweet that you learn about your partner's culture and loved it and so wanted the world to love it, too. I know that there are people out there who didn't get to ask their grandparents about this. People like you can help others fill in the gaps and make it easier to explain to their partners, too. Thanks for sharing!

[@kid9893]

Excited for rhis video. Always looking for new monster for my dnd game.

[@FutileFacts4u]

These will make great additions to any bestiary I’m sure 👍

[@OstblockLatina]

The eastern Slavic regions were christianized by Byzantine monks who were more tolerant of the Slavic population and their traditions, which allowed the locals to preserve some of their beliefs and customs. Meanwhile the western Slavic lands were under the influence of Germanic christianizers who had no love, respect nor mercy for the Slavs and any elements of their culture and made sure to ruthlessly root out as much of their ethnic customs and destroy their material religious heritage as it was possible. That's why the original Slavic beliefs and rituals had been better preserved in the East.

[@sakura_pompadour]

cool to learn more about my culture, especially through an english-speaking perspective. good video, you have style!

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you enjoyed it! It definitely deserves a larger spotlight than it gets 👌

[@BookMagic2K]

There are also rusalki (plural of rusalka) - girls who drowned themselves (usually out of love) and got reborn as water spirits, or daughters of vodyanoy, or just "zombies" with long seaweed-green hair (err, riverweed?). They also like to tickle men to death, but they also love gifts. Also, their image is now sadly merged with the image of mermaids, as the word rusalka is usually used as a translation of mermaid. Rusalki actually don't have fish tails nor gills (they are human corpses, after all) and can walk on land - though usually only in the vicinity of the body of water they were reborn at.

[@Pelligream]

Mavka originates from Ukrainian part of Slavic mythology( other Slavs have other versions of those entities), and verb “to tickle”( лоскотати) used to also mean “to use magic on one”

[@FutileFacts4u]

That makes so much sense! Glad you shared this, I love how language in addition to culture change over time and sometimes shift their meaning in funny ways

[@B2WM]

First exposure to the Domovoi for me was Vivian Van Velde's "The Rumpelstiltskin Problem," but more children's lit fans may associate the creature with a certain Butler.

[@icedteacatfish]

nice!

[@segothgalont23]

Thanks for the lore!

[@blecis74]

I hope you do more of these types of videos and if you do could you do Celtic folklore next

[@FutileFacts4u]

It’s definitely next on the list 👌

[@blecis74]

@@FutileFacts4u fantastic, looking forward to it. Celtic folklore and history is great and overlooked in my opinion

[@bobkielbasa7500]

I love your use of Zelda music

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you noticed 😎

[@Jackentasche-j4d]

Loved the video. You should definitely do more about obscure folk lore creatures

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you like it! I’ll definitely be covering many creatures in future videos. Up next will be something more historical to keep pace with my usual upload schedule 👌

[@alemilano5576]

Just a little correction: Drekavac is read as Drekavats - the C is a TS like in Beats, also Vampire (originally Вампир - Vampir eng.) is one of the few universally used Serbian words

[@FutileFacts4u]

Yeah another commenter mentioned this as well. Thanks for the tip, my Ukrainian wife missed that one too 👍

[@shanurahmed5105]

Love learning about myth and folklore from other cultures! Some here that I'd not heard of before so thanks! :D

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you learned something new!

[@pomeoxfl]

Thanks for the video! BTW, vampire in Slavic languages called Upior/Upyr'.

[@MasterSpud]

Didn't expect to find such a good video when I clicked! You've earned a new sub, i can't wait for new videos

[@FutileFacts4u]

Welcome aboard! Next video should be out in the next week or two 👌

[@MasterSpud]

@FutileFacts4u can't wait! Good luck to you - hope you get to 1k before the next upload!!

[@samaradragonhart5719]

Commenting to help boost this awesome channel 👍

[@Anon26535]

Slavjank predates even the earliest computer games.

[@capitandino2370]

i haven't watched the full video but as the first video i've seen of this channel DAMN! it's honestly CRIMINAL how small your channel is if it was created back in the 2010s it would have been some obscure 10k sub channel not just 273! honestly hope you make it man this has alot of potential hope you do well!

[@FutileFacts4u]

Thanks! I appreciate the motivating words 🙏

[@thatguy3688]

This is a great direction to take the channel in. Are you gonna do some other cultures too?

[@FutileFacts4u]

Well my first ever video was on Greek mythology, then a little later I covered some Egyptian gods and asked what people would like to see next and Slavic mythology seemed like the next choice. I post in a pattern of historical, then mythological so my next video will be more focused on general history and less on folklore or mythology. After my next video I’ll most likely cover another lesser known mythology if not delve deeper into one I’ve covered already 👍

[@minator1277]

Very cool stuff! Got a sub from me, hope you cover more Eastern Europe facts!

[@FutileFacts4u]

I would love to! My next video won’t cover this topic but future releases will 100% 🤞

[@laszlokovacs9368]

Great video, i learned a lots of new things

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad to hear it 🤓

[@mothbrainedindividual]

I only knew Kikimora from The Owl House, didn't know it was an actual mythological creature!

[@FutileFacts4u]

The more you know ⭐️

[@gimgimlet6350]

love this silly little guy

[@FutileFacts4u]

Glad you like him! He’s pretty cool 😎

[@38.thachthaolehuynh20]

Him: Kikimora Me: The Owl House?!

[@FutileFacts4u]

I’ve never seen that show but I’ve heard of it. It’s dope that they’d have a character based named after something more obscure in western culture 😎

[@defaulttech-priest8879]

Slav here. Didn't know only about drekavak

[@FutileFacts4u]

I guess it makes sense since it was most common in Southern Slavic regions so not as well spread as the others. Glad I caught your eye though!

[@defaulttech-priest8879]

@@FutileFacts4u South Slavic culture indeed is rather obscure. And Slavic culture overall isn't very popular, so great job with making this video.

[@soulsnail2495]

glad to be part of your first 500 subs! i just know you're bound to hit 100k or even 1m eventually!

[@FutileFacts4u]

I hope so! Welcome aboard 👍

[@SikkeOst]

I certainly hope you grow! Ill certainly look forward to the next video ❤

[@MessiahsandMythology]

The Bannik is just like every woman I’ve ever dated: full of mixed signals. “Oh hello there fellow nature spirit, come in to my bath house!” Also the Bannik: “No don’t watch me bathe! I’ll choke you out if you ever watch me bathe!”

[@FutileFacts4u]

Clear as mud. Glad I caught eye of a fellow “mythtuber” 😎

[@MessiahsandMythology]

@@FutileFacts4u the algorithm works in mysterious ways

[@jonnidapani]

Saunatonttu perkele!

[@bruhpaint6729]

Holy shit how do you have less that 1000 subs.

[@jeppepedersen2717]

Great video!

[@Luna-ej4mi]

Personally, my favorite is Poludnica. Lady Midday, Noon Witch, Noonwraith, whatever you want to call her. In short, she's a personification of a heat-stroke

[@FutileFacts4u]

I’ve heard of that one too, maybe if I do a follow up on “8 more Slavic creatures…” I can include it in there

[@kname1882]

First of all Drekavci do egzist 😂😂😂 they are pretty much alive and real. You can still find them in night in extreamly rural villages. They can be heard like a cry of a baby, all night every night so they are not a legend. There are also babajaga, babaroga, bes, besomar, Denuve water spirit, karakondjula, lesnik,rusalka and so many more creatures. These are the ones that stayed in south slavic tradition

[@Homamanya]

this is spooky...

[@-Fizz-ni7ui]

I just realized the first one’s name is just my name but you put the nickname first and keep the “mora” part

[@llllajnalll]

Dom = Home ;)

[@WishfullDev]

Cool video

[@diooverheaven6561]

I pretty much knew all of them tought hearing non polish names of there is weird. I have this cool book called "bestiariusz słowiański" (slavic bestiary), with a lot of them from well known to almost forgoten ones and probably most hilarious of them to me is "biali ludzie" (white people) so small white creatures hiding in small bodies of water that will enter your stomach and make you sick (they were most likely malari or however the illness is called you know one spread by mosquitos), another fun one was "miesięcznik" (monthly?) who was just a guy for month and next month a gal and cycle continued on monthly basea

[@FutileFacts4u]

I wouldn’t mind a book like that for myself. Love to see different cultural interpretations on folklore

[@diooverheaven6561]

@@FutileFacts4u i don't know if their books are in english but if you are interested authors are Paweł Zych an Witold Vargas. If i am not mistaken they well versed in slavic folklore. I know they also have books about Polish dragons, Polish ghosts, atlas of polish cities and their legends (like my city having Utopiec [you know the drowned dudes]), book called "święci i biesy" (saints and fiends). And those books have imo great illustrations

[@MysticMorigan1998]

So Vodnic is Old Greg?

[@ryftedmage1404]

Garfield is just a Domovoi

[@blazejflorkiewicz9698]

certain occupants xD

[@jonnidapani]

Sorry about the mean comment

[@FutileFacts4u]

It’s all good. I know my channel attracts a wide array of knowledge seekers from scholars to know-it-alls and some are more vocal about their opinions than others 😅 but I don’t take it personally. Also glad you revisited the video! That means more to me than you may realize 🙏

[@theguiltypaytheprice.4899]

No offense, but Slavs use "c" and "k" differently, unlike English. "Drekavac" is not pronounced "drekavak", the "c" in drekavac is like the "c" in pronounced. Not corn (korn) or colour (kolor), it's not drecavac or drekavak, it's "drekavac" for a reason. Keep up the good work, love your drawing style.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Thanks for tip, even my Slavic wife didn’t catch that. She’d never heard of that one so the pronunciation didn’t stand out

[@tetiana.erhart]

Interesting to see how people have created “creatures” so they can blame them for whatever happens in life🤣🤣

[@Homamanya]

my grandma always told me it was domovoi when things fell on their own 😅

[@stevenpeterson2545]

Is that panpipes I hear?

[@GarienAries]

Geralt of Rivia can deal with it

[@FutileFacts4u]

Definitely 💪

[@alexeisenhauer5874]

❤

[@MemphiStig]

It seems like most monsters would punish either disobedient kids or unfaithful men. Funny how that works.

[@FutileFacts4u]

Seem to be the eternal vices of our kind 🤷‍♂️

[@blazejflorkiewicz9698]

i think 'mavkas (?)' re some kind of methaphore

[@mandolinka29]

drekavac i believe is pronounced with a [t͡s(ʰ)]

[@dylanbair3553]

If you know, you know 😢

[@FutileFacts4u]

It’s a beautiful movie

[@oduffy1939]

Wait, what the hell happened to the Slavic Leshy? How could you leave out the Puccas/Saytrs of the East? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy

[@FutileFacts4u]

I know of the Leshy, it was made especially popular thanks to the Witcher. I decided to leave it and many others out of this video so I have more to cover for a follow up 👍

[@fabiansw8]

Wait are you quitting? But i just found you 😢 But fr i thought this video was really cool!

[@Homamanya]

he is not quitting, it was an April fool's video 😂

[@fabiansw8]

@@Homamanya thats what i get for not checking the date XD it looked to real and sincere tho

[@Homamanya]

​@@fabiansw8it did! haha

[@ZecaPinto1]

Dumavoi is basicaly a boggart

[@FutileFacts4u]

Assuming you’re referring to the Spiderwick brownie to boggart relation, yeah I totally got those vibes from it too. As for the old English folklore boggart reminds me more of the Kikimora with how malevolent it is 😬

[@Homamanya]

Is your wife a Mavka or a Kikimora?

[@FutileFacts4u]

I would say she’s a Mavka, most of the time 👀

[@Homamanya]

​@@FutileFacts4uso that's how she got you! Don't let her tickle you!! 😏

[@rankoorovic7904]

Drekavac is more the screamer

[@JokerFace090]

All those Greek Slavic folklore creatures......wtf did I just watch?

[@FutileFacts4u]

I didn’t run into these while researching Greek creatures (Ancient Greek at least) for a previous video but I suppose the influence of the Eastern Orthodox faith (which had a huge Greek influence early on), would definitely create some parallel legends and folklore 🤔

[@labeilleautiste6318]

They dont actually exist duh

[@olfrogo]

What about Baba yaga,koshei bezmertny and zmei gorinaich? Baba yaga is your humble witch who helps adventurers find their fate in their quests and she doesn't eat children And she lives in a house with chicken legs Koshei bezmertny Is an evil incel lich who gets no bitches and despite being a son of chernobog he gets his old ass beaten every time Zmei gorinaich Is a dragon/hydra who makes your life absolutely miserable by eating your cows and drinking all of your vodka And leshy He's a old Slavic God of the Forrest He looks after the ecosystem and he's an asshole to those who gets lost at the forest

[@FutileFacts4u]

Yeah there’s so many! It was hard to pick which ones to cover for this video so I’ll probably do a follow up later like “8 more Slavic creatures you didn’t know about”

[@olfrogo]

@@FutileFacts4u I also recall a mythological creature from a russian fairy tale "Zhar ptitza" (fire bird) Who is said to have beautiful magic feathers and who posseses those feathers will have treasures and wealth beyond his imagination