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Polish legends - Postage Stamps, Poland 1986
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Polish legends - Postage Stamps, Poland 1986
the fern flower (polish: kwiat paproci)
Maksymilian Piotrowski, Śmierć Wandy (The Death of Wanda)
1859 oil on canvas
✦ Legend of the White Stag from Świętokrzyskie Mountains ✦
30 Days Music Chellenge: 2024 edition
Day 26: A song by a band (artist) of your country: Jaskółka Uwięziona by Valkov & Georgina Tarasiuk
"Legendy Polskie" by Allegro mini series, episode "Twardowsky 2.0" - a polish myth devil Boruta inspired by traditional tales character. He was played by Tomasz Drabek.
Legendy Polskie. Film SMOK. Allegro
“We can negotiate with the dragon.
How can you negotiate with a gangster!!!”
Context: In ancient times, the Wawel Dragon terrorised King Krak’s city. The beast required ransoms of cattle, while other sources insist that it only devoured virgins.The Wawel Dragon was a beast which lived in a den under Wawel Hill and terrorised all the inhabitants of King Krak’s town. They had to feed to the monster by giving him offerings of cattle, while other tales speak of that hellspawn eating nothing but virgins. No knight could vanquish the monster, until a young shoemaker Skuba outsmarted the Dragon. He stuffed a ram’s hide with sulphur and pitch, and put the doctored ram in front of the Dragon’s Den. The monster caught the bait and devoured the ram. Immediately, he felt a bad pain and burning in the throat. To quench his thirst, the Dragon started to drink from the Vistula River. However, as water cannot extinguish burning sulphur, the gases produced by the fires inside him made the beast explode. All the townsfolk revelled in the news and the heroic shoemaker was properly rewarded. To commemorate the vanquishing of the Dragon, Bronisław Chromy designed a sculpture of the beast which now stands by the river at the foot of Wawel, near the Dragon's Den.
TUROŃ—
...A black, hairy and behorned creature with a snapping jaw that appears as a character in polish folk plays in a timeframe of Christmas to Easter.
It participates in caroling with the whole group, the rest of the children also being clad in costumes.