Vampire-Mythology

Vampire

First vampire was created 4000 years before Christ in ancient Sumer. It called Ekkimu and it was a demon who was sucking life from every encountered man. According to John Polidori (famous doctor and writer of Romanticism) vampire was a weak creature without bones, with red glowing eyes and sharp snout, but when it survive 40 days it becomes definitly more scary and dangerous monster.

According to many films and books, vampire is tall, inteligent creature who's in form of human. It slept in coffins and it could only be killed by pierced by axial pin. It could also transform in the bat and it hated sunlight, garlic and pumpkins. And the most important fact vampire could atack you, only when you invited him to your house.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/james-b-barnes/2014/10/9-terrifying-facts-about-vampires-from-ancient-folklore-that-will-scare-the-sht-out-of-you/

Striga-Slavic Mythology

Strzyga

Strzyga, this word is derived from Latinian Strix, which means owl or from Romanian Strigoi which means troubled soul of the dead rising from the grave.To become this horrible it's nessecery to be cursed. Strzyga is kind of vampire with two hearts, two souls and two sets of teeth. A newborn child with already developed teeth was also believed to be one. According to belief, only one of their two souls would pass to the afterlife, other soul resurrected deadman who's killing people. Strzyga was flying in the form of the owl and attacked night-time travelers and people who had wandered off into the woods at night. Stryga was sucking all blood from dead body and was eating internal organs. According to "Witcher" to make Strzyga again a man, it's nessecery to spend night in his tomb.

Basilisk- Slavic Mythology

 Unfortunately the Basilisk it wasn't created by Slav but by Roman by Pilny the Elder who described monster as first.The Basilisk (after Christianization) become a incarnation of devil and Satan. Basilisk was the creature which was created from egg hatched by rooster and incubated by a toad. It was believed to wither landscapes with its breath and kill with a glare. It just looked at person and this man died. His name (regulus) means "little king" because it was king of serpents. it could kill snakes by his odor and birds by fire which was coming out from his mouth. It could also kill by hissing, that the reason why it called sibilus. it likes dry places like scorpion. His bite caused that his victims became hydrophobic.  And the funny curio the Basilisk can be killed  by a weasel and gazing at its own reflection in a mirror.

Baba Yaga- Slavic Mythology

Baba Yaga 

Baba Yaga is one of the most recognizable creature in the Slavic Mythology. Baba in Slavic languages means grandmother, but There are two versions of the origin of this name. Yaga is probably a diminutive of the feminine name Jadwiga or thats  comes from the old Russian verb yagat which means to abuse.

She was usually shown as old woman with hump, long nose and spindly legs. That witch lives in a hut with chicken legs on the bottom that allow it to move. The hut was mostly in the midlle of the marsh. When people were meeting Baba Yaga, she could give them a blessing or a curse. She was spooking little children of all of the Slavic countries.  That vetsion of the Baba Yaga were shown very good in "Hansel und Gretel".Other sources show her as oracle who's have a lot of wisdom and people were asking her for their future.

This is how the Baba Yaga was looking, but in the polish serial "Polish Legends" she was shown as a beutifull, young women with ginger hair.

https://listverse.com/2016/04/05/10-weird-beings-from-slavic-mythology-and-folklore/

http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/baba-yaga/