{"id":33549,"date":"2024-02-19T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=260120"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:11:37","slug":"slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavic Myths: vampires, werewolves \u2013 and cabbages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Noah Charney and Svetlana Slap\u0161ak introduce us to the myths and monsters of the Slavic peoples \u2013 and reveal how they might be more familiar than you think <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Kev Lochun\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 19 February 2024 at 07:53 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>The Slavic diaspora is one of the biggest in the world \u2013 so why aren\u2019t their myths better known? Speaking to Kev Lochun, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slap\u0161ak introduce the Slavic gods, explaining how their myths continue to hold sway over daily life \u2013 and how these stories have been used to shape nations. You\u2019ll never look at a cabbage the same way again.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-260120-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/slavicmyths-a9d517e.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/slavicmyths-a9d517e.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/02\/slavicmyths-a9d517e.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Noah Charney and Svetlana Slap\u0161ak are the authors of <em>The Slavic Myths<\/em> (Thames &amp; Hudson Ltd, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-slavic-myths-noah-charney\/7417563\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Slavic-Myths-Noah-Charney\/dp\/0500025010?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-slavic-myths%2Fnoah-charney%2Fsvetlana-slap-ak%2F9780500025017\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Noah Charney and Svetlana Slap\u0161ak introduce us to the myths and monsters of the Slavic peoples \u2013 and reveal how they might be more familiar than you think <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":33550,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/02\/slavic-myths-vampires-werewolves-and-cabbages.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Noah Charney and Svetlana Slap\u0161ak introduce us to the myths and monsters of the Slavic peoples \u2013 and reveal how they might be more familiar than you think","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/33549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}