#czart

[vermillionsketcher]

Commission for cryptid-crafter on bluesky of Wrecker about to make a splash with Tech and Echo on beach day 🌊

[mydarkwearyeyes]

Czart - Czart Rogat

[avana-arts]

"I'm much more interesting man, won't you think?"

[jakubrozalski]

“Czart” Czart - a relic of ancient times, although very rare even this days you can still meet some of them in less populated and wild places of Eastern Europe. Often near to the places of the ancient pagan temples and cults. They eat cows and sheep, try to avoid people, for unknown reasons they are really afraid of cats... Who need a Witcher, when there is Babushka ;) prints: https://society6.com/mrwerewolf/s?q=new+prints

[lamus-dworski]

Is there any figure in Polish folklore that could be an eguivalent of Krampus?

There’s no direct equivalent, but there’s a lot of similar figures and customs to talk about!

First to mention might be the archaic concepts of czort / czart (in English often spelled chort) and bies that frequently appear in our folklore.

Then, we have lots of interesting figures accompanying the annual carolers. There are straigh-up devil costumes too (in the old times they would be more often called by the name of czort), but also other horned creatures that might be interesting in the context of Krampus, such as the turoń, or masks called straightforwardly a koza (goat). 

All these horned creatures were most often appearing in rituals of ‘scaring off’ the winter, merged with the custom of kolędowanie (caroling) aka koleda/koliada, usually around the carnival season.

Here, what might be important, I want to mention a name of old Slavic winter holiday-  Koročun or Kračun, worth to analyze here as well.

Similar horned figures appear in most regions of Europe, particularly in the context of scaring the winter away. 

Other examples could be the Croatian Zvončari, the Hungarian Busos, the Slovenian custom of Kurentovanje, some horned masks of Bulgarian Kukeri, some horned Serbian masks of the koledari for Bele Poklade, horned masks worn in Romania for colinda, goat masks worn for Finnish Nuuttipukki or Swedish Julebukk, and so on, and so on.

(these are only a few customs I remembered at the moment, do you know other? would love to collect more for reference)

[mysloteka]

Wiedz, że w momencie, gdy się spełnia zdrada Jako ta moja, czart staje na straży Ciała i póki śmiercią nie ochłódnie, Do tego kresu sam w nim gospodarzy

Dante Alighieri “Boska Komedia”

[mythelios]

2x2 mythology moodboards || chort

I’ve got the demons in me

[lyanneyey]

Hardest enemy