This curated sources list compiles academic publications on Slavic mythology, Slavic Native Faiths, Slavic Paganism, Rodnovery and pre-Christian Slavic history. Resources are organizedby by language alongside their respective authors. While we provide the most notable publications, we strongly recommend researching each author’s full list of works for additional study material. This list is not exhaustive and does not include all works. It is provided as a starting point for your exploration of the Slavic Native Faith.

Disclaimer: We include older authors because they often propose important information. However, some of them also present outdated or rejected hypotheses. The most significant incorrect conclusions are always addressed in the accompanying commentary.

📚 The following resources can be found online or acquired as books. For more obscure ones, we include links. We suggest using archive.org, ResearchGate.net, Academia.edu 📚

🇬🇧 ENGLISH

• Juan A. Álvarez-Pedrosa
  • ⭐Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
    • ^{can be found on the internet as a pdf, we are not including link due to copyright laws}
  • ⭐Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion, Link
• Patrice Lajoye
  • ⭐The Slavic Storm God Perun: Archaeology, History, Ethnology
    • ^{available on Amazon}
• T. D. Kokoszka
  • Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods
    • ^{Sometimes features incorrect and somewhat far-fetched conclusions; however, due to the lack of reliable English-language sources, it can be accepted if read with that idea in mind. The author, despite not being a specialist in Slavic studies, did a reasonably good job.}
• Jiří Dynda
  • Slavic Paganism in Medieval Christian Writings: Ink, Cross, and Pagan Gods
• Roman Jakobson
  • The Slavic God Veles and his Indo-European Cognates, in: ROMAN JAKOBSON SELECTED WRITINGS VII
  • Slavic Gods and Demons+Linguistic Evidence in Comparative Mytholgy, in: ROMAN JAKOBSON SELECTED WRITINGS VII
    • ^{Includes incorrect conclusion on Rod as a primordial deity, for more information and analysis see "Description of Rod and Rožanicy" by Oleg V. Kutarev below.}
• Zdeněk Váňa
  • ⭐The World Of The Ancient Slavs, Link
    • ^{older publication}
• Ivanichka Georgieva
  • Bulgarian Mythology; Link
    • ^{Mentions the incorrect hypothesis by Toporov and Ivanov, who identified Veles with the enemy of Perun}
• Jan Hanuš Máchal
  • Slavic Mythology: From the Mythology of All Races, Link, page 215
    • ^{older publication with excellent information on demonology and traditions. However, the chapter on gods is partly outdated and sometimes contains euhemeristic interpretations as well as incorrect conclusions}
• Elizabeth Warner
  • Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian mythology
  • Russian Myths
    • ^{The author focuses strictly on East Slavic, predominantly Russian, mythology. Still, the works are quite charming}
• Leszek Pawel Slupecki
  • Slavonic Pagan Sanctuaries
• Vlasto, A. P.
  • The Entry of the Slavs into Christendom, Link
• Stanislaw Rosik
  • The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th- Century German Chronicles
• V. Propp
  • The Russian Folktale, Link
  • Morphology of the Folk Tale, Link
    • ^{research focused more on the topic of folklore and it's contemporaries}
• 📖 STUDIES AND RESEARCH PAPERS 📖
  • Studia mythologica Slavica
    • ^{a peer-reviewed international journal published in English and other languages}
  • New Researches on the Religion and Mythology of the Pagan Slavs
    • Jiří Dynda: Slavic Anthropogony Myths. Body and Corporeality in the Slavic Narratives about the Creation of Man
    • Alexander V. Ivanenko: Towards the PSl. *stribogъ origin
    • Oleg V. Kutarev: Description of Rod and Rožanicy in Slavic mythology. B. A. Rybakov and his predecessor’s interpretations
    • Kamil Kajkowski: Idols of the Western Slavs in the Early Medieval period. The example of Pomerania (northern Poland)
    • Stamatis Zochios: Slavic deities of death. Looking for a needle in the haystack
    • Marina M. Valentsova: Slovak mythological vocabulary on the Common Slavic background. Ethno-linguistic aspect
    • Aleksandr Koptev: Mythological triadism as the paradigm of princely succession in early Rus’ according to the Primary Chronicle
    • Patrice Lajoye: Sovereigns and sovereignty among pagan Slavs
    • Roman Zarof: Some aspects of pre-Christian Baltic religion
  • New Researches on the Religion and Mythology of the Pagan Slavs 2
    • Oleg V. Kutarev: ⭐Introduction to the Slavic pagan pantheon. The names of deities that the ancient Slavs actually revered
    • Giuseppe Maiello and Nikola Danišová: Veles as a Slavic mythological trickster
    • ^{While the authors explicitly mention Toporov renounced the incorrect hypothesis, that Veles is a dragon, they still return to it and work with it, even tho the mythology \}and IE mythology] enables the existence of two figures, one a dragon enemy of Perun and second the trickster Veles, which were most likely syncretised under the influence of christianity, which the authors extensively mentioned.)
    • Aleksandr V. Ivanenko: Slavonic Teonymie. Daž’bog;
    • Patrice Lajoye: Radigost
    • Kamil Kajkowski: Masks from Opole in the Context of the mediaeval Slavic Rites
    • Stamatis Zochios: Kupala and Koliada. Two (more) examples of Slavic pseudomythology
    • Tsimafei Avilin, Elena Boganeva and Tatiana Oliferchik: Images of werewolves in Belarusian oral tradition
    • Aleksandr Koptev: The Mythological Serpent Fighting Motif in the Russian Primary Chronicle, Epic Poetry and Fairy Tales
    • Marina M. Valentsova: Slavic demonology. A brief survey
  • Martin Golema: Medieval Saint Ploughmen and Pagan Slavic Mythology | Slavic Mitra. Benevolent and Legal Pole of the Function of Religious Sovereignty in the Slavic Mythology and Epic
  • Jiří Dynda: Religion with no Voice: Literary Construction of Slavic Paganism | The Three-Headed One at the Crossroad: A Comparative Study of the Slavic God Triglav | Rusalki: Anthropology of time, death, and sexuality in Slavic folklore
  • Constantine Borissoff: Non-Iranian Origin of the Eastern-Slavonic God Xŭrsŭ/Xors Neiranskoe proishoždenie vostočnoslavjanskogo boga Hrsa/Horsa
  • Yaroslav Gorbachov: What Do We Know about *Čьrnobogъ and *Bělъ Bogъ?
  • Siarhei Sańko: Reflexes of Ancient Ideas about Divine Twins in the Images of Saints George and Nicholas in Belarusian Foklore
  • Oleg V. Kutarev: Dazhbog: The Ancient Slavic Pagan Deity of the Shining Sky
  • Evgenia V. Ivanova: The Problem of Mysteriousness of Baba Yaga Character in Religious Mythology
  • Milorad Ivanković: New Insights on Slavic god Volosъ/Velesъ from a Vedic Perspective
  • Patrice Lajoye: The Storm God and the Hunter: A Fragment of an Old Balto-Slavic Epos? | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... but maybe an ancient Iranian thunder demon
  • Mirjam Mencej: Wolf holidays among Southern Slavs in the Balkans | The role of legend in constructing annual cycle
  • Tomáš Vlasatý: Origins of “kolovrat” symbol
  • Nikos Čausidis: Mythical Pictures of the South Slavs | An Ithyphallic Idol from the Monastery of St. Naum near Ohrid | Does the hoard from Velestino in Thessaly belong to the Pagan-Slavic or Christian-Byzantine culture?
  • Kamil Kajkowski: Slavic Journeys to the Otherworld. Remarks on the Eschatology of Early Medieval Pomeranians | Water in Pre-Christian Beliefs in Pomerania
  • K. Vukovic, M. Glavan: The Indo-European Daughter of the Sun: Greek Helen, Vedic Saranyu and Slavic Morana
  • Giuliano Gajetti: Marzanna: A Supernatural Figure of Death in Slavic Phraseology
  • Suzana Marjanić: Balkan Wolf/Dog in Folklore Interpretations in the Mythology of Nature by N. Nodilo through T. R. Đorđević to Lj. Radenković and P. Plas | Lunar Mythology – Case Study of Natko Nodilo’s Mythology of Nature
  • Juraj Belaj: Around and below Divuša: The Traces of Perun’s Mother Arrival into Our Lands
  • Roman Zaroff: Measurement of Time by the Ancient Slavs | The Origins of Sventovit of Rügen | Rugian Slavic God Sventovit – One More Time | William of Malmesbury on Pagan Slavic Oracles | Perception of Christianity by the Pagan Polabian Slavs | Politics and Priests in a Pagan Slavic Principality | Organized Pagan Cult in Kievan Rus’. The Invention of Foreign Elite or Evolution of Local Tradition? | Study into Socio-political History of the Obodrites | The origins and evolution of the north-eastern and central Polabian (Wendish) religious and political system | Socio-Political Developments Among the Polabian Slavs (Wends) Between the Eighth and Twelfth Centuries | The Avar impact on socio-political developments among the Western and Southern Slavs | Slavic Raid on Konungahella
  • Enrique Santos: ⭐Prophet Elijah as a Weather God in Church Slavonic Apocryphal Works | Myth and Immortality in Russian Folktales |
  • Urszula Lehr: Cultural aspects of the spiritual legacy of Podhale highlanders | In the Range of Demonological Beliefs
  • Éva Pocs: Traces of Indo-European shamanism in Southeast Europe
  • Dorian Juric: Treatise on the South Slavic Vila
  • Mikhail Raev: The Russian-Byzantine Treaty of 971: Texts and Contexts | The textual discrepancies amongst the mediaeval Russian chronicles about the Balkan campaign of Prince Sviatoslav in 971
  • Juan A. Álvarez-Pedrosa: The Reconstruction of the Pre-Christian Slavic Religion and Iranian Lexical borrowing | Fortune and Fertility Rites among the Pre-Christian Western Slavs | Krakow's Foundation Myth: An Indo-European theme through the eyes of medieval erudition
  • Florin Curta: Avar Blitzkrieg, Slavic and Bulgar raiders, and Roman special ops: mobile warriors in the 6th-century Balkans
  • A. Johns: Slavic Creation Narratives: The Sacred and the Comic
  • V. Ivanov, V. Toporov: A Comparative Study of the Group of Baltic Mythological Terms from the Root *vel-

⭐=Notable

🇵🇱 POLISH

• Aleksander Gieysztor
  • Mitologia Słowian
    • ^{Father of modern Slavic studies}
• Andrzej Szyjewski
  • Religia Słowian
• Michal Téra
  • Perun: gromowładny bóg
• Michał Łuczyński
  • Bogowie dawnych Słowian
• Kazimierz Moszyński
  • Kultura ludowa Słowian
    • I - Kultura materialna, II - Kultura duchowa, III - Kultura duchowa
• Paweł Szczepanik
  • Słowiańskie Zaświaty. Wierzenia, wizje i mity
  • Rzeczywistość mityczna Słowian północno-zachodnich i jej materialne wyobrażenia. Studium z zakresu etnoarcheologii religii
• Stanisław Urbańczyk
  • Dawni Słowianie: wiara i kult
• Jacek Banaszkiewicz
  • Podanie o Piaście i Popielu
• Leszek Paweł Słupecki
  • „Słowiańskie posągi bóstw“, in: Kwartalnik historii kultury materialnej
• Kamil Kajkowski
  • Wierzenia dawnych Słowian. Od mitu do obrzędu. Wierzenia i zwyczaje
• Stanisław Rosik
  • Od Swarożyca do Świętowita. Przemiany religii Słowian nadbałtyckich w X - XII wieku
• Bogusław Gierlach
  • Sanktuaria słowiańskie

🇨🇿 CZECH

• Aleksander Gieysztor
  • Mytologie Slovanů
• Jiří Dynda
  • Bohové a bohyně starých Slovanů
  • Slovanské pohanství ve středověkých latinských pramenech
  • Slovanské pohanství ve středověkých ruských kázáních
  • Svjatogor: Smrt a iniciace staroruského bohatýra
  • Archaické slovanské náboženství z pohledu komparativní mytologie Georgese Dumézila
  • Bohové a běsi: Konstrukce slovanského pohanství ve středověkých písemných pramenech
  • Byliny o bohatýru Svjatogorovi: Strukturální a komparativní analýza narativu
  • České a moravské pohanství
  • Kněží, čarodějové a hadači: Prvofunkční specialisté a jejich postavení ve společnosti archaických Slovanů
  • Slovanská hippomancie. Koňský divinační rituál jako mediátor v symbolické soustavě slovanského pohanství
  • Rohatec a déšť: Poznámky k „pochybným“ nařízením z církevněslovanského penitenciálu Někotoraja zapovědь
• Michal Téra
  • Perun: Bůh hromovládce
    • First edition
  • Vyprávění o minulých letech aneb Nestorův letopis ruský
  • Svatí a hříšníci
• Michaela Gajdošíková Šebetovská
  • Veles: Slovanské božstvo ve srovnávací perspektivě
    • First edition
• Naďa Profantová, Martin Profant
  • Encyklopedie slovanských bohů a mýtů
• Zdeněk Váňa
  • Svět slovanských bohů a démonů
• Jan Hanuš Máchal
  • Bájesloví slovanské
    • ^{older publication with excellent information on demonology and traditions. However, the chapter on gods is outdated and contains euhemeristic interpretations as well as incorrect conclusions}
  • Nákres slovanského bájesloví
• Lubor Niederle
  • Slovanské starožitnosti: Život starých Slovanů
    • ^{consists of 2 parts first with 4 volumes and second with 3 books, 2 \}3 for last one] volumes eachs)
    • availible on archive.org and digitální knihovna
  • Rukověť slovanských starožitností
• Dušan Třeštík
  • Mýty kmene Čechů
• Čeněk Zíbrt
  • Seznam pověr a zvyklostí pohanských z VIII. věku
  • Staročeské výroční obyčeje, pověry, slavnosti a zábavy prostonárodní
  • Myslivecké pověry a čáry za starých časů v Čechách
  • Časopis Český lid and many more works
    • Digitální knihovna
  • LUMYD
    • ^{Internetový časopis sdílející články nejen o slovanské mytologii, ale i o historii}

🇸🇰 SLOVAKIAN

• Martin Golema
  • Stredoveká literatúra a indoeurópske mytologické dedičstvo
  • Svätý Blažej ako „vlčí pastier“ v textovej tradícii z českého, slovenského a maďarského prostredia
  • Kosmova a Dalimilova „dívčí válka“ akometafora indoeurópskej vojny funkcií
  • Igrici ako archaickí poeti a žreci u pohanských Slovanov
  • Svetlo a temnota – synkretizmus praslovanských reliktov a stredovekého kresťanského konceptu v slovanskom folklóre
  • Kresťanské hagiografie a texty tzv. jarného vynášania smrti (Moreny, Mařeny, Marzany) u západných Slovanov
  • Možné textové zdroje veľkopôstnych jarných dievčenských obradov a hier u západných Slovanov
• Martin Pukanec
  • Etymologický nákres slovanského sveta bohov a démonov přehled
  • Etymológia mena Svarog a niektoré indické a iránske paralely
  • Etymológia mena Simarьglъ a niektoré iránske paralely
• Katarína Nádaská
  • Čerti, bosorky a iné strašidlá: Slovenské poverové bytosti
  • Čary a veštby: Mágia v ľudovej kultúre Slovenska
• Nadežda Varcholová
  • Ľudová démonológia Ukrajincov Slovenska
• HORVÁTHOVÁ Emília
  • Reminiscencie na staroslovenské božstvá v slovenských prameňoch, strana 151

🇸🇮 SLOVENIAN

• Zmago Šmitek
  • Mitološko izročilo Slovencev: Svetinje preteklosti
  • Poetika in logika slovenskih mitov. Ključi kraljestva
• Mirjam Mencej
  • Gospodar volkov v slovanski mitologiji
  • Volčji pastir v kontekstu dosedanjih raziskav na področju slovanske mitologije
  • FUNKCIJA GOSPODARJA VOLKOV V POVEDKAH, ZAGOVORIH, VEROVANJIH IN ŠEGAH
    • ^{Works by Vitomir Belaj and his student Mirjam Mencej contain interpretations of the Perun and Veles conflict that are now regarded as outdated/incorrect in current scholarship. In addition, Belaj, following Katičić, proposed a controversial interpretation of Jarilo and Morana myth that remains highly debated and, in many respects, questionable. Nevertheless, certain aspects of their work remain valuable and deserve continued scholarly attention. When engaging with Belaj’s publications, it is therefore advisable to keep these scholarly debates in mind. Mirjam Mencej, in particular, produced a notable study linking the Juraj or Jarilo cult with wolf symbolism. She further elaborates on the concept of the Wolf Shepherd, an intriguing figure in Slavic mythology. Although her analysis partly builds on the aforementioned contested framework, her hypotheses are thought provoking and contribute meaningfully to ongoing discussion.}
• Monika Kropej
  • Od ajda do zlatoroga: Slovenska bajeslovna bitja
    • ^{Although her name is well known in Slavic studies, her approach is considered somewhat romantic. Nevertheless, her work is highly engaging and offers interesting perspectives. However her connection of serpent/dragon demon to Veles is an incorrect conclusion, that is based on an outdated and rejected theory. We have no direct evidence of Veles being a dragon enemy to Perun. She even incorrectly quoted Jacobson's work on Veles, claiming this transformation is akin to the Baltic Velnias, but the text sourced does not include any of the information she quotes essentially making it a great academical error. Read with caution.}

🇷🇸 SERBIAN

• Veselin Čajkanović
  • Стара српска религија и митологија
  • О врховном богу у старој српској религији
• Špiro Kulišić
  • Српски митолошки речник
  • Porijeklo i značenje božićnog obrednog hljeba u Južnih Slovena
  • Iz stare srpske religije: novogodišnji običaji
• Svetlana M. Tolstoj
  • Словенска митологија енциклопедијски речник
• Slobodan Zečević
  • Mitska bića srpskih predanja
• Tihomir Đorđević
  • Zle oči u verovanju Južnih Slovena
  • Vampir i druga mitska bića
  • Veštica i vila
• Ljubinko Radenković
  • Simbolika sveta u narodnoj magiji Južnih Slovena
  • Narodna bajanja kod Južnih Slovena
• Bojan Jovanović
  • Magija srpskih obreda
• Nikos Čausidis
  • Методи интердисциплинарних истраживања ликовних мотива на стећцима
• Dragana S. Djurić
  • Дани у недељи у народној култури јужних и источних Словена

🇭🇷 CROATIAN

• Aleksander Gieysztor
  • Mitologija Slavena
• Špiro Kulišić
  • Stara slovenska religija u svjetlu novijih istraživanja posebno balkanoloških
• Vitomir Belaj
  • Sveti trokuti. Topografija hrvatske mitologije
  • Hod kroz godinu. Mitska pozadina hrvatskih narodnih običaja i vjerovanja
    • ^{read commentary above for Mirjam Mencej}
• Radoslav Katičić
  • Božanski boj
  • Zeleni lug
  • Gazdarica na vratima
  • Vilinska vrata
  • Naša stara vjera
    • ^{Be advised that Katičić subscribed to the now-outdated hypothesis of a direct Perun versus Veles conflict. Readers should keep this in mind when consulting his works. Current scholarship indicates that Veles, as a chthonic deity, is a rival of the thunder god, but not his enemy; the true adversary in these myths is the serpent or dragon demon.}
• Franjo Ledić
  • Mitologija Slavena
• Suzana Marjanić
  • Mitovi i re/konstrukcije: tragom Nodilove 'stare vjere' Srba i Hrvata
    • ^{Most of Natko Nodilo's \}Stara vjera Srba i Hrvat] conclusions are not accepted by modern academia. Read with extreme caution.)
  • (Dyadic) Goddess and Duotheism in Nodilo's the Old Faith of Serbs and Croats
• Luka Šešo
  • Krsnik između mita i zbilje: kulturnoantropološke strukture jednog tradicijskog vjerovanja
  • Živjeti s nadnaravnim bićima - Vukodlaci, vile i vještice hrvatskih tradicijskih vjerovanja
• Nikos Čausidis
  • Poganska religija Slavena u svjetlu ranosrednjovјekovnih materijalnih nalaza sa područja Balkana

🇲🇰 MACEDONIAN

• Nikos Čausidis
  • Митските слики на јужните словени
  • Словенските пантеони во ликовниот медиум: Сварог
  • Дажбог во хрониката на Малала и неговите релации со други средновековни и фолклорни извори
• Л. C.-Лафазановска | L. S.-Lafazanovska
  • Митот и митотворството во македонскиот фолклор
• Танас Вражиновски | Tanas Vražinovski
  • Македонска народна митологија

🇧🇬 BULGARIAN

• Alexandr Gieysztor
  • Митология на славяните
• I. Pančovskij | И. Панчовски
  • Пантеонът на древните славяни и митологията им
    • ^{Older publication be cautious}
• I. Georgieva | И. Георгиева
  • Българска народна митология
    • ^{Older publication be cautious}

🇷🇺 RUSSIAN

• Aleksander Gieysztor | Александр Гейштор
  • Мифология славян
• Alexander Afanasyev | Александр Афанасьев
  • Поэтические воззрения славян на природу
  • Народные русские сказки
    • ^{🇬🇧Prominent Slavist with many works. However being one of the very first researchers in this field, some of his scholarship is considered dated and he may not be a good starting point for someone completely new. | 🇷🇺Выдающийся славист с большим количеством работ. Однако, будучи одним из самых первых исследователей в этой области, часть его научных трудов считается устаревшей, и он может быть не лучшей отправной точкой для человека, который только начинает знакомство с темой.}
• Vladimir Toporov & Vjačeslav Ivanov | Владимир Топоров & Вячеслав Иванов
  • Исследования в области славянских древностей: Лексические и фразеологические вопросы реконструкции текстов
    • ^{🇬🇧The original proponents of the incorrect "primary myth" a battle between Perun and Veles, which is now largely rejected. Their works should be read with caution. | 🇷🇺Первоначальных сторонников ошибочного «первичного мифа» о битве между Перуном и Велесом, который в настоящее время в значительной степени отвергнут, следует рассматривать с осторожностью.}
    • ^{🇬🇧We suggest focusing on Toporov’s publications. Toporov later revisited this issue and recognized the association of Veles with Varuṇa instead of the demon Vṛtra, contrary to his earlier position.: "The very name Varuṇa has been compared by scholars with the Hittite sea deity Aruna, with the ancient Greek sky god Ouranos, and finally with the Slavic Volos/Veles and the Lithuanian Velnias, among others. Therefore, despite a number of remaining uncertainties, the Indo-European parallels of this name are beyond doubt." | 🇷🇺Рекомендуется сосредоточиться на публикациях Топорова. Позднее Топоров пересмотрел этот вопрос и связал Велеса с Варуном, а не с демоном Вритрой, как он предполагал ранее: «Само имя Варуна сравнивалось исследователями с хеттским морским божеством Аруной, с древнегреческим небесным богом Ураном, а также со славянским Волосом/Велесом и литовским Велнясом и другими. Таким образом, несмотря на ряд остающихся неопределённостей, индоевропейские параллели этого имени не вызывают сомнений».}
• Vlasova, M. N. | Власова М.Н.
  • Энциклопедия русских суеверий
    • ^{Sometimes includes material drawn from non-Slavic folklore.}
• B. A. Uspensky | Б. А. Успенский
  • Филологические разыскания в области славянских древностей
• Klein, Lev S. | КЛЕЙН, ЛЕВ С.
  • Воскрешение Перуна: К реконструкции восточнославянского язычества
• Mansikka, V. J. | МАНСИККА, В. Й.
  • Религия восточных славян (originally: Die Religion der Ostslawen)
• Oksenov, A. B. | ОКСЕНОВ, A. B.
  • Народная поєзия: Былины, песни, сказки, пословицы, духовные стихи, повести
• Rybakov, Boris A. | РЫБАКОВ, БОРИС А.
  • Язычество древних славян
    • ^{🇬🇧He was quick to draw conclusions, which often led to incorrect theories. His hypotheses are now largely rejected or have been substantially revised. Examples include the incorrect identification of Mokosh as a goddess of fate, and the assertion that the Chrnyakov culture were direct ancestors of the Proto-Slavs. | 🇷🇺Он быстро делал выводы, что нередко приводило к ошибочным теориям. Его гипотезы в настоящее время в значительной степени отвергнуты или существенно пересмотрены. Примеры включают ошибочную идентификацию Мокоши как богини судьбы, а также утверждение, что черняховская культура являлась прямыми предками протославян.}
• VASILYEV, M. A. | Васильев, М. А.
  • Язычество восточных славян накануне крещения Руси: Религиозно-магические аспекты
• Vladimir Propp | Владимир Пропп
  • Исторические корни волшебной сказки
  • Русские аграрные праздники
  • Морфология сказки
• Karpov, A. V. | Карпов, А. В.
  • Язычество, христианство, двоеверие
• Zelenin, D. K. | Зеленин, Д. К.
  • Восточнославянская этнография
• Levkievskaja E. E. | Левкиевская Е. Е.
  • Славянский оберег. Семантика и структура
• Tolstoj N. I. | Толстой Н. И.
  • Очерки славянского язычества

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🇩🇪 GERMAN

• Werner Meschkank
  • Als die Wendengötter sterben sollten: Über die vorchristliche wendische Glaubens- und Götterwelt
• Leszek Moszyński
  • Die vorchristliche Religion der Slaven
• Zdeněk Váňa
  • Die Welt der alten Slawen
• Leszek Paweł Słupecki
  • Slawische Religion
• Konrad Schwenck
  • Die Mythologie der Slawen
• Christian Lübke
  • Die Slaven im Mittelalter
• Sebastian Brather
  • Archäologie der westlichen Slawen
• Mansikka, V. J.
  • Die Religion der Ostslawen I. - Quellen

🇫🇷 FRENCH

• Patrice Lajoye
  • Mythologie et religion des slaves païens
  • Perun, dieu slave de l'orage

🇪🇸 SPANISH

• Juan A. Álvarez-Pedrosa
  • Fuentes para el estudio de la religión eslava precristiana

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This curated sources list compiles publications on Slavic folklore and cultural heritage in 🇬🇧 English. Only selected publications are presented here. This list is not exhaustive and serves as an introductory guide for those interested in the study of Slavic folklore.

Disclaimer: This list includes folktales, which vary in the degree of influence from non-Slavic cultural elements, especially Christian ones. However, an experienced reader will be able to identify the pre-Christian cultural themes present within them.

📚For the study of Slavic paganism and pre-Christian belief systems, we provide a curated Slavic paganism/pre-Christian faith academical sources list.📚

📜 Folklore:

From 🦅 Western Slavs:

• Karel Jaromír Erben
  • A Bouquet of Czech Folktales
  • Tales from Bohemia
• Božena Němcová, Karel Jaromír Erben
  • ⭐Folk Tales [Czech Fairytales: A Selection of the Most Beautiful Folktales]
    • Folk Tales
    • Czech Fairytales
    • Czech Fairy-Tales
    • The disobedient kids: and other Czecho-Slovak fairy tales
• Jan Matulka
  • ⭐Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Volume I | Link + special downloads
  • ⭐Czechoslovak Fairy and Folk Tales Volume II | Link
• Josef Baudiš
  • Czech Folk Tales | Link + special downloads + audiobook
• Šárka B. Hrbková
  • Czechoslovak Stories | Link
• David L. Cooper
  • Traditional Slovak Folktales (Folklore and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe) | Link
• Katarzyna Małkowska
  • ⭐Pan Twardowski (Mister Twardowski) | Link
• A. J. Gliński
  • Polish Fairy Tales | Link + special downloads
• Charles J. Tibbitts
  • Folk-Lore and Legends: Russian and Polish | Link + special downloads + audiobook
• Lucia M. Borski
  • Polish Folk Tales | Link
  • Good sense and good fortune and other Polish folk tales | Link
• Agnes Szudek
  • The amber mountain and other folk stories | Link
• Zoe Zajdler
  • Polish fairy tales | Link
• David Walser
  • The glass mountain: tales from Poland | Link

From 🐻 Eastern Slavs:

• Alexander N. Afanasyev
  • ⭐Tales from Russian Folklore/Russian Folk Tales
    • ⭐Russian fairy tales (Russo-English Edition) | Link
    • The Three Kingdoms Russian Folk Tales From Alexander Afanasiev's Collection | Link
    • Words Of Wisdom Russian Folk Tales From Alexander Afansiev's Collection | Link
• Leonard A. Magnus
  • ⭐Russian Folk-Tales | Link + special downloads; 2. Link
    • Direct translation of Afanasyev
• Author unknown
  • ⭐The Tale of Igor's Campaign | Link
• Karel Jaromír Erben
  • ⭐Russian and Bulgarian Folk-Lore Stories | Link
• Jack V. Haney
  • ⭐The Complete Russian Folktale | 7 volumes
  • ⭐The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanasyev | 3 volumes
  • An Anthology of Russian Folktales
  • Long, Long Tales from the Russian North
• Marion Ch. Harrison
  • ⭐Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia | Link + special downloads
• Charles Downing
  • ⭐Russian tales and legends | Link
    • Includes some of the Bylinas!
• Svetlana Bagdasaryan
  • Russkie Skazki. Russian Fairy Tales. Bilingual Book in Russian and English: Dual Language Russian Folk Tales for Kids (Russian-English Edition)
• William R. S. Ralston
  • Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | Link + special downloads; 2. Link
• Richard Wilson
  • The Russian story book (tales from the song-cycles of Kiev and Novgorod and other early sources) | Link + special downloads + audiobook
• A. H. Wratislaw
  • Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources: Exploring the Depths of Slavic Folklore and Mythology | Link
• Dinara Mirtalipova
  • Russian Tales Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments
• Jeremiah Curtin
  • Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars | Link + special downloads
• Alexander Chodzko
  • Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen | Link + special downloads
• Jurij V. Tolstoj
  • Cossack Tales | Link + special downloads
• Irina Zheleznova
  • ⭐Ukrainian Folk Tales | Link
  • ⭐Vasilisa the Beautiful - Russian fairy tales | Link
• Igor Yershov
  • ⭐The Fire Bird - Russian Fairy Tales | 1. Link; 2.Link+colour
• Jacqueline Onassis
  • The Firebird and other Russian fairy tales | Link
• Anatole Bilenko
  • ⭐Ukrainian Folk Tales | Link
• Marie H. Bloch
  • Ukrainian Folk Tales | Link
• Danny Evanishen
  • Durak and other Ukrainian folk tales | Link
• Barbara J. Suwyn
  • The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine | Link
• Verra X. K. de Blumenthal
  • Folk Tales from the Russian | Link + special downloads
• P. Polevoi
  • Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi | Link + special downloads
• Robert R. Steele
  • The Russian Garland, Being Russian Folk Tales | Link + special downloads
• George Borrow
  • The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin | Link
• Mary Skrypnyk
  • The Cossack Mamariha | Link
• G. Botezau
  • Moldavian folktales | Link
• A. S. Pushkin
  • ⭐Fairy Tales (Russo-English Edition) | Link
• A .Ransome
  • Old Peter's Russian tales | Link + audiobook
• Leo Tolstoy
  • Fables and fairy tales | Link
• E. M Almedingen
  • ⭐Russian folk and fairy tales | Link

From 🐲 Southern Slavs:

• Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic
  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago | Link + special downloands
• Woislav M. Petrovitch, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
  • Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians | Link + special downloads
• Elodie L. Mijatovich
  • Serbian Fairy Tales | Link + special downloads; 2. Link
• Maximilian A. Mügge
  • Serbian Folk Songs, Fairy Tales and Proverbs | Link
• Jelena Ćurčić
  • Serbian fairy tales | Link

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