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Southern slavic paganism
« on: May 19, 2016, 10:26:28 pm »
Orginally when I set out into becoming a pagan, I was looking something involving southern slav traditions. I was born and raised in US but my mother immigrated here from Croatia. I am still well connected with her side of the family but a language barrier is present since I only speak English. My family is split Catholic or nonreligious and none of them have had any interest in paganism so there isn't much of an information source there. My grandmother did read fortunes through multiple mediums and I heard that her mother taught her. I'm sure they would have been a great source for a lot of my questions.

I've found lots of things from many other slavic groups, which have been great reads. But I am curious for things more local to the area around Croatia. I know that so much has been lost and it is an uphill climb to find anything on them. My mother actually told me that she had read some books in her hometown about the pagans but the library has been destroyed since then. So, does anyone have any recommendations?

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Re: Southern slavic paganism
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2016, 07:05:45 am »
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Quite an interesting question! While I myself can't help you there (I'm not even remotely Croatian), surprisingly, I could understand Croatian when I heard it (I'm a native-speaker of Russian, so that helped). What I'd suggest is that you visit your croatian relatives, ask them about it; of it not, ask your mom to teach you Croatian and then go to Croatia. Now, I could be mistaking, but Croatian mythology is based on Illyrian and Slav? There's indeed very little info available on the Illyrian subject (at least, from what I couldn't find on the 'net), but there's plenty on the Slav subject (if anything, look at the neighbor Slavs' traditions). Of course, the Croatian folk traditions and lore are also a good place to start.
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Re: Southern slavic paganism
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2016, 08:30:54 pm »
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Quite an interesting question! While I myself can't help you there (I'm not even remotely Croatian), surprisingly, I could understand Croatian when I heard it (I'm a native-speaker of Russian, so that helped). What I'd suggest is that you visit your croatian relatives, ask them about it; of it not, ask your mom to teach you Croatian and then go to Croatia. Now, I could be mistaking, but Croatian mythology is based on Illyrian and Slav? There's indeed very little info available on the Illyrian subject (at least, from what I couldn't find on the 'net), but there's plenty on the Slav subject (if anything, look at the neighbor Slavs' traditions). Of course, the Croatian folk traditions and lore are also a good place to start.

 
It's funny you say that. I knew Croatian when I was younger but I have forgotten it. But, one of my good friends is Ukrainian and when I hear him on the phone with his parents, I can pick out some of the words. I bought a textbook on early slavs in general so hopefully that will lead me to Croatian-specific things to read.

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Re: Southern slavic paganism
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2016, 09:34:01 pm »
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I've found lots of things from many other slavic groups, which have been great reads. But I am curious for things more local to the area around Croatia. I know that so much has been lost and it is an uphill climb to find anything on them. My mother actually told me that she had read some books in her hometown about the pagans but the library has been destroyed since then. So, does anyone have any recommendations?

 
Have you thought about researching into Balkan paganism? There's the book Balkan Traditional Witchcraft by Radomir Ristic, a thread about that can be found on the old board Here. It's not an area I know much about, but that might get you started :) I find it easier to research in larger regions that specific countries sometimes.
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Re: Southern slavic paganism
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2016, 01:47:27 pm »
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Have you thought about researching into Balkan paganism? There's the book Balkan Traditional Witchcraft by Radomir Ristic, a thread about that can be found on the old board Here. It's not an area I know much about, but that might get you started :) I find it easier to research in larger regions that specific countries sometimes.

 
Thank you! I just ordered that book

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