Jezinka (wild forest woman) - Czech and Slavic folklore explained

[@FolkWalkCZ]

I hope you've enjoyed the video 🙂Although the story is morbid I find it pretty funny how chad Janeček refuses to simp for the Jezinky and takes no shit from them 😃

[@kalavi-knightlygaming]

As someone who is from Poland and is keenly interested in Folklore I must say its intriguing to similarity between our cultures and folklore, especially how little about it is actually spoken in the modern times. And I must say the second story was most engaging to hear about the Jezinki, truly the lad was bravest guy I heard about in Folklore stories so far.

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Yeah, it's pretty cool how similar our cultures are 🙂 That's why I fell in love with The Witcher because I saw so many things which were similar to our culture in it. Speaking of that, I want to do a video about the Polish fairy tale which inspired the first Witcher short story with striga this month. We have our own version of that story which was written by Němcová as well and I'm really looking forward to talking about it 🙂 The protagonist being really brave is actually pretty common trope in our fairy tales. In the future I want to do videos about my two most favourite Czech live action fairy tales which have very similar concept where the protagonist is almost unable to feel fear so they go on a journey to find something they could be afraid of and to find out what it's like to feel fear. And they usually save a princess from some evil wizard in the process 😁

[@schnebot]

i vaguely remember story about janeček as a kid. not the whole story but him throwing the sisters into the water really hit me with a nostalgia feeling i cant quite place.

[@kaktus3.96]

My man! Konečně někdo kdo propaguje český folklór v zahraničí! Everybody watching this, give a follow to this guy!

[@neodlehoko404]

I’m South African, but I grew up for four years in Czech Republic, and those rocks and forests really remind me of my childhood.

[@mariaantonicova6205]

Dang Janeček has no chill :D I like how the story ended happily and the only traumatised people are the Jezinka and the reader...

[@fafiklata]

Nice story, and the music... oh maan! :-)

[@Artemiska58]

11:42 midjourney took the line my master seriously Loving the anakin Skywalker vibes xD

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Well, I used Anakin's picture as one of the sources if I remember correctly 😀 I needed really intense angry look and Midjourney was refusing to give it to me so I tried to used Anakin as an example and this is the result 😀

[@Artemiska58]

@@FolkWalkCZ oh that explains it xD

[@Jake-xz2ze]

A really interesting collection of stories. I love the artwork too.

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@greendalf123]

Holy shit. I just realized this is exactly the same story as the ladies of the wood in the Witcher 3. The witches have kids that they're fattening up to eat in Crookback bog. One of the options you have as Geralt is to free a druid who saves the children in the form of a horse (another hoofed animal). Almost identical to the story with the boy and the stag.

[@V1RU5420]

Great video!

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Thank you 🙂

[@mindbrain935]

Thank you for presenting and persevering this legends and stories to us. 👍

[@kotomeanie]

love the "ladies of the woods" in the bg :^)

[@men_del12]

I like the young man & old blind man story. It's epic, drama, & obviously another moral of "don't be fooled by only appreance" lol

[@criacuervosproductions7115]

Thank you, Folk Walk! This is a wonderful and most interesting video!

[@luboszima_orig]

Amazing video!

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Thanks 🙂

[@mato7773]

Dakujem, to bolo vyborne👍

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Díky. Jsem rád, že se ti to líbilo 🙂

[@isajmody2344]

Pretty sure I dated a few of these.

[@kaliopavuk2866]

Stay strong slavic brother ❤

[@evgenipetkov1631]

The first fairy tale is similar to Hop o’ my thumb, my favourite fairy tale when I was a child.

[@stepanpazderka5497]

Janeček aint no simp

[@frankienayman3641]

Thanks for the info! I’ve got lots of Czech ancestors, apparently Nayman was originally spelled Najmon, anyway, the internet gives almost NOTHING FOR WEST SLAVIC MYTHOLOGIES. If you’ve any info on deities, I’d really appreciate. The only one I’ve found in connection to Czechia is Morana

[@TheDevOfTheDevs]

Fun fact, we, Macedonians, call Baba Yaga, Baba Roga. Cheers!

[@shylockwesker5530]

Where do you get this art? It's really nice.

[@FolkWalkCZ]

Midjourney

[@lokalnawrozka]

In poland there is mamuna/dziwożona. Pretty much the same creature.

[@JMslo1893]

In Slovenia we commonly call her Jaga Baba 😀 but also Ježi-baba

[@FolkWalkCZ]

We have ježibaba as well but they're different creatures which just have similar characteristics so they sometimes seem like one and the same folklore creature as I said in the video 🙂 I want to do video about ježibaba as well at some point.

[@JMslo1893]

I will definitely watch your video about Ježibaba when you'll post it 😀 and btw, I like the music in this video. I recognize it 😀 is from the Witcher, Crones. For me, one of best games ever 😀👍

[@karolzdunowski6475]

heh, the town next to me is called Striga oryginal: ,,Strzygi " and ,,Wąpielsk" Vampire 😅

[@aerislunam]

Interested to learn more about the deer with golden horns.

[@karolinakuc4783]

Ma to sens Smoliczek mógł po prostu zaoferować im trochę drewna by zrobiły sobie szałas i miały się czym ogrzać.

[@aleskejla4719]

I wonder what the original meaning and role of these supernatural beings in the original Slavic pagan cultures was . Were they really evil or is this an invention of a later regime in an attempt to sever the roots that connected people to the forces of nature?

[@FolkWalkCZ]

That's hard to tell but it is possible. The booklet by Ratoch I've mentioned in the video says that roasting of the children in the oven by a witch (ježibaba) or jezinka might have had completely opposite meaning. The oven was apparently a symbol for Mother Earth's womb because it's a place where things are born (baking of bread for example). There also might have been an old custom where a sick child was put on a wooden bread shovel and then put in and out of the oven three times and people believed that it could cure the child. But I don't have sources for any of this so take it with a grain of salt please.

[@redcapetimetraveler7688]

@@FolkWalkCZ and @Ales K , hi guys , you can compare with the myth of Demeter using a sacred fire to give immortality to Demophon... Jezinka may have been a benevolent mother-earth godess in a previous mythology. Demeter was a godess of wheat and bread ;=)

[@Kadwid]

You don't go into the woods, weird stuff happens. I've been reading Eliade, Gieysztor etc recently, quite worthy of recommendation, albeit quite academic. But the way they were used in my Polish farming community, those were like stand-ins for things that could actually happen to explain how they happen and give a bit of a relatable human aspect to "weird stuff" happening when you go into the woods or generally do things you shouldn't. There's always a good reason for grandmas to tell you not to do these things, and the various "devils", "spirits" and others explain them while incorporating elements of beliefs older than the tribes themselves, many of these things can be found in various Indo-European cultures. Did people believe in literally there being spirits like people who did semi-magical things that were dangerous to people? Some of them for sure, I think the grandmas mostly were pragmatic, and telling these stories does a better job at preventing problems than trying to explain to kids intricacies of things nobody really understands (at the time) or have a high degree of randomness to them. And the whole "invention of a later regime" is marxist bs for the most part lol

[@Eat_the_leftist]

Paganism is dead, bud.

[@ליזהנורט]

Great video but holy hell, the ai art is distracting

[@MichaelMusou]

Ježibaba (Jezinka) neni od slova "ježit se" ale od slova "jed".

[@ZKing-d8m]

#TGT + Eos

[@MythicMarkus]

baba yaga