the witch in " Hansel and Gretel ", Lamia of Greek mythology and Baba Yaga of Slavic folklore.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

Egypt ), Mordavia ( Game 4 ; Slavic mythology ) and Silmaria ( Game 5 ; Greek mythology ).

** Slavic mythology

* Leszi, ( Slavic mythology )

Celtic giants also figure in Breton and Arthurian romances perhaps as a reflection of the Nordic and Slavic mythology that arrived on the boats, and from this source they spread into the heroic tales of Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and their follower Edmund Spenser.

** Rod in Slavic mythology

These include the Greek god Zeus, the Aztec god Tlaloc, the Mayas ' God K, Slavic mythology's Perun, the Baltic Pērkons / Perkūnas, Thor in Norse mythology, Ukko in Finnish mythology, the Hindu god Indra, and the Shinto god Raijin.

Radegast is also the name of a deity in Slavic mythology.

* Vile, Vili: are mythological beings in south Slavic mythology, incarnation of beautiful maidens with magic powers

* Mara, also Marzanna, Murava, Morana, Moréna or Morena, in Slavic peoples mythology, the goddess of darkness, death, winter, the Moon and horror

* Slavic mythology

Related names to Dyauṣ Pitṛ appear in the Greek as Zeus Pater ( accusative Día, genitive Diós ), in Latin as Jupiter ( from archaic Latin Iovis Pater, " Sky father "), in Slavic mythology as Div, and Germanic and Norse mythology as Tyr or Ziu.

Category: Slavic mythology

* Mora ( mythology ), in Slavic mythology

* Veles ( god ), a similar demon in Slavic mythology.

Other largely extinct Indo-European religions closely allied to the Indian religions, sharing a common history, include Zoroastrianism, ancient Greek, Celtic, Roman, Hittite, Slavic and Norse mythology.

* Vodyanoy ( Slavic mythology )

Bies or bes ( ) was an evil spirit or demon in Slavic mythology.

In literature Slavic mythology, werewolves and other human-to-animal shapeshifters, exist in their variations.

The town's name derives in the Slavic settlements Rybanis ( ryba means fish ) and Damgor ( dam means oak tree, gora means hill ), located on opposite sides of the mouth of the Recknitz river.

Terminology is derived from an old Slavic word dub ( oak ) and it generally means " oak forest ", " woods of dub ".

For example, a medieval Slavic settlement of Dubrava later formed the city of Dubrovnik ; the species of oak that grows in that area is Quercus ilex L.

The name comes from a Slavic toponym for oak forests.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

As a borderland between German and Slavic cultures, the country was known as a march.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

Bulgarian was the first " Slavic " language attested in writing.

As Slavic linguistic unity lasted into late antiquity, in the oldest manuscripts this language was initially referred to as языкъ словяньскъ, " the Slavic language ".

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

The word " Bohemian " was never used by the local Czech ( Slavic ) population.

In the Germanic and some Slavic languages, the word kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón was adopted instead and derivatives formed thereof.

There is an hypothesis asserting the existence of another daughter of Mieszko I who was married to a Pomeranian Slavic Prince.

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

On 31 October 1721, Peter I was proclaimed Emperor by the Senate-the title used was Latin " Imperator ", which is a westernizing form equivalent to the traditional Slavic title " Tsar ".

The name was not coined until many centuries after its creation, and comes from the Old Slavic glagolъ " utterance " ( also the origin of the Slavic name for the letter G ).

Authorisation for use of this language was extended to some other Slavic regions between 1886 and 1935.

In missals, the Glagolitic script was eventually replaced with the Latin alphabet, but the use of the Slavic language in the Mass continued, until replaced by the modern vernacular languages.

Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").

The castle was built on rocky terrain in a marsh between the River Alster and the River Elbe as a defence against Slavic incursion.

The territory remained under Roman ( Byzantine ) control until the Slavic migrations of the 7th century, and was integrated into the Bulgarian Empire in the 9th century.

The Act was also used to justify German, Slavic, and Ukrainian Canadian internment during the First World War, and the internment of German-Canadians, Italian Canadians and of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.