#noc kupały

[trollstims]

Kupalnocka

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#stimboard #kupala #noc kupały #kupalnocka #sobótka #midsummer night #slavic #pagan #hands #water #fire #dance #night #flowers

[annpositivitylife]

Przesilenie letnie 2023

#aesthetic #życie #magic #nature #nature core #magick #litha #blessed litha #noc kupały #kupalnocka #summer soltice #soltice blessings #witch core #witch #witchy aesthetic #witchy vibe #tarot

[onionblissom]

One of the most magic nights in the year. Kupała night

#kupała night #noc kupały #slavic #fire #flower crown #slavic holidays #witch stuff #witch community #witchy

[slaviclore]

Hello! I think I read some post about a Slavic god being connected to fern leaves and if someone where to take them from the forest, then they would have to escape that god. Do you maybe know what tags you used for that post?

Hmmmm ferns you say? Well what comes to mind is the fern flower, which you can pick on Kupala night in the summer. It confers magic and power so when you pick it, a horde of power hungry demons appear and try to take it from you. This would be under fern flower, noc kupały, or kupala night.

There was some discussion of the fern flower tradition in this post.

As for gods and ferns though, nothing rings a bell... all my gods stuff is under deities, but I'm personally not super knowledgeable about that and the tag I know is not very populated. I know some of my followers know their deities so pls help anon out if you know what's up.

#asks #fern flower #noc kupały #kupala night

[kronika-ilustrowana]

Каждый год в ночь Ивана Купалы, то есть 23 июня в Варшаве, Кракове и других городах, лежащих на Висле, проходит традиционный праздник Венков. Он уходит своими корнями во времена язычества и связан с легендой о княжне Ванде. На фотографии мы видим Вавельский замок на фоне праздничных фейерверков и взрывающихся в небе ракет.

#1930s #1932 #kraków #wawel #noc #święto #wisła #краков #вавель #ночь #праздник #висла #иван купала #noc kupały

[an-undercover-bi]

It’s Kupała and my covid-19 test is negative. Since I’m sick, I won’t be doing most of the festivities I normally do.

However, I can still reflect on how amazing it is a day can last so long, a night can be so short, and how everything is thriving where I am despite the oppressive heat. Summer always reminds me of decay with all its buzzing flies and stickiness, but that may just be because I live in a back-filled swamp.

Today is a day to celebrate and enjoy the liveliness of summer. Enjoy all the fresh berries, greenery, and sweet honey that summer brings. Watch and admire all the life just outside your door doing the same.

After today, our days will begin to slowly shorten again and our nights will become longer as we move away from the sun. In a few months, the heat will dissipate and maybe it will be bearable again.

#kupała #midsummer #summer solstice #tw food mention #litha #noc kupały #ivan kupała #tw insects mention #I wish I could do more today #but a day of contemplation is enough I suppose #yes contemplation will do

[kwojciechowicz]

Summer Solstice

Hope everyone had a great Summer Solstice!

#kamaarts #kamilawojciechowicz #kamila wojciechowicz-krauze #illustration #summer solstice #letnie przesilenie #summer #noc kupały #noc świętojańska #slavic mythology #slavic tradition

[czarownicaesmeralda]

Żywiołak - Ballada O Głupim Wiesławie - [Środa - 15.06.2022 r.]

#Żywiołak - Ballada O Głupim Wiesławie #Ballada #Ballada O Głupim Wiesławie #Głupi Wiesław #Noc Kupały #Żywiołak #Licho #Dno #Jezioro #Rusałki #Wodne Panny #Topielec #Topielica #Wodnik #Dni Tygodnia #Środa #Środa - 15.06.2022 r. #Przestroga #UważajcieNaSiebie #Zbiorniki Wodne #Jeziora #Rzeczki #Potoki #Strumyki #Morza #Morze #wrózbitka #wrózbka #wrózka #wrózka online

[poisoncherrywine]

Happy Noc Kupały to my Slavic followers, light a campfire for me <3

#sadly i cant #idk if i have any followers from Kraków but i swear i saw that they organise noc Kupały celebrations there #at least they did prepandemic

[prwlnglthr]

miłej kupalnocki, happy midsummer, etc etc etc!

from both me and my favourite slavic-adjacent king!

kupalnocka (noc kupały, kupala night, etc) is the traditional west and east slavic celebration of the summer solstice, love, and cleansing. among a number of other things, women weave garlands of flowers, herbs, and ferns and send them floating down rivers and streams to divine their future luck in relationships. to have it brought back was seen as a confession of love (even if for one night...) and a man would sometimes follow a particular woman's wreath even into deep or dangerous waters to return it. people would head into the forest to search for the legendary fern flower. which does not exist, of course. but who could blame you and maybe somebody of your choice for spending hours, alone, in the woods, all night, looking for such an important, elusive flower...

fun fact: the embroidery pattern is riffed from the traditional handicrafts of a region spread between poland, ukraine, and belarus! most slav per stitch!

#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #fe3h #dimitri fire emblem #fire emblem #fire emblem: three houses #spx art #spx digishit #spx femblem #each garland on dimitri is a garland NOT in the clutches of sylvain (this is praxis) #me? least spiritual person alive but it's a fun celebration all the same! if I didn't live in texas of all places #perhaps the return of summer would be something to look forward to #the same way that my family has always looked forward to it in poland #but happy kupala all the same to everyone who's partaking! #if you're not... go weave a garland. make a bonfire. dance be merry get drunk go to the woods to have se

[knuttydraws]

Day 10 of @14daysdalovers 2023 - Captured Valentines are cool and all but have you ever heard about Noc Świętojańska/Noc Kupały 🧐? Especially about the wreath catching tradition? And other Slavic love rituals? You can read about it here. Please remember that Farie Lavellan is not an Inquisitor.

#14dalovers #captured #dragon age #knight captain rylen #lavellan #farie lavellan #rylavellan #non inky lavellan #kupala #kupala night #slavic elves #Dragon Age fanart

[annpositivitylife]

Chyba nie kontynuowałam tematu tutaj, otóż chłopak M., który do mnie wtedy tak powiedział

Po tej sytuacji gadaliśmy codziennie z godzinę, zapomniałam w sumie o tej akcji. Zbliżyły nas do siebie długie rozmowy, uznałam że jest spokojny, miły, fajnie się rozmawia, zgadzamy się co do wartości (jest wierzący i wie o moim tarocie 🙈).

Druga randka (w porównaniu do pierwszej i do akcji po niej) była magiczna 😍 spacerowaliśmy dużo, ładna przyroda, dał mi różę i chyba z 8 czekolad. Czułam się przy nim swobodnie. Trzymaliśmy się za ręce i obejmowaliśmy, kurde, straaasznie miłe to było. Czuję że mi się podoba, lubię jego sposób bycia. Nie wiem jaki to etap, staram się być rozsądna i nie używać wielkich słów. Jakieś lekkie zauroczenie może.

Cieszę się, że przerwałam cykl wchodzenia w toxic relacje z facetami z problemami. To na pewno. Nie wiem co będzie dalej, czy to wyjdzie czy nie, ale chcę pozostać szczęśliwym i zadowolonym człowiekiem 🙈😁

Niestety, przy moim overthink, większość tragedii i dramatów dzieje się w mojej głowie 🫠 i nie doceniam tego, co jest. Szczególnie podczas takiego randkowania jest dużo niepewności, z jednej strony taka fajna ekscytacja, a z drugiej nerwy. Ale staram się polubić ten stan i nie kontrolować, ani nie przyspieszać niczego. Przeszkadza mi, że on mało mówi o swoich emocjach. Dobrze, że nie robi takich analiz wewnętrznych jak ja xD, ale mógłby mówić coś więcej. Albo jakieś nie wiem, komplementy. Ja wiem, że przyjeżdża do mnie ponad 100 km i może to coś znaczy, ale wolałabym to też usłyszeć 🙈🫣. Lubię to, że jest normalny i spokojny, bo wcześniej nie dawałam sobie rady z facetami i ich problemami, zazdrościami, dziwnymi jazdami itp. W tej książce "Kobiety, które kochają za bardzo" było właśnie, że kobiety przyzwyczajają się do toxic sytuacji i wydaje im się że tak wygląda miłość i trudno im odmienić ten schemat. Ja próbuję.

Trochę się zastanawiam, czy tyle różnic w zainteresowaniach, charakterze to dobrze. Ja jestem nieco szurnięta, zajmuję się psychologią, magią, analizuję i romantyzuję wszystko, zachwycam się trzymaniem za rękę, a on nie czyta książek, rzadko mówi co czuje i dla niego wszystko jest takie jasne i proste xD. Pracuję też nad pewnością siebie i poczuciem zasługiwania na miłość, cokolwiek się nie wydarzy. Bo chcę mieć taką zajebistą energy, takiej zadowolonej z siebie po prostu rakiety, także jak jest sama. Nie chcę za dużo myśleć, bo włącza mi się strach przed rozstaniem od razu, przed przyszłością. Chcę po prostu odpuścić i patrzeć co się dzieje ✨

#aesthetic #życie #problemy #natura #nature core #girl #june #holiday #love #self love #loveyourself #witch #witch core #green witch #witchy aesthetic #witchy vibes #tarot #teenager #noc kupały #summer #relax

[sioster]

Noc kupały but it's just c!Dream putting wreaths in the freshly bombed and filled with water L'manhole ^^

#yeah i know the timeline isnt ideal but shhh :) #dreblr #cdream #karo rambles #c!dream

[slaviclore]

cheatsheet to your slav folkloric downfall

Since several people had questions about the lore that inspired this poll, I'll jot some notes down about what I was thinking. All of these have long and complex tradition that can't possibly fit in a tumblr post, but there's tons of great content on tumblr alone, so pls feel free to scroll through my tags for more info (you may like "demons", "witches", or "original art" for contemporary interpretations of the lore...) or use this post as a springboard for more research.

Because much of Slavic folklore was passed down orally and not written down, and because it covers a wide geographical range and is told in different languages, there are many versions of common stories, tropes, characters, etc.

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Baba Yaga is a witch, super popular, tons of great lore about her, historical and contemporary. She was never just one single entity, but rather a version of herself in many different stories (more like fanfiction than like canon). Her character is inherently unpredictable, existing outside our societal rules and moral compass, and the variability in lore makes her even more impossible to predict. A young woman named Vasilisa did manage to perform all of Baba Yaga's tasks to her instruction, but not without her own magical help. Sometimes Baba Yaga is helpful and reasonable, and sometimes she will just casually eat you like a handful of berries. You never know what you're going to get.

The fern flower is a beautiful mythical flower that offers its holder immense knowledge and magic. It blooms very briefly only once a year during Noc Kupały (in Polish, the EN is Kupala Night). If you want to find it, you'll probably grab your boyfriend (gender neutral) around dusk and poke around your local woods for a while before giving up and just making out and then meeting up with your friends afterwards like "did you find it?" "no we didn't find it :( did you find it?" "nooo :(". Really, this is about seducing the boy you like, since you probably need magic just to see the flower anyway. If you do manage to find it and pick it, tons of greedy demons will appear and chase you to attempt to take it from you (and your life). You have to outrun or outsmart the demons. The demons may be metaphors for the corrupting forces of great power.

There are tons of ways to get lost in the woods. Some people help themselves by tying ribbons to trees as they go, but anything can spook you -- you can run into a demon, a werewolf, a ghost, a witch, a cat, anything -- and if you have to run away, you will most likely lose your way in the process. More specifically, if you have annoyed a leshy (a forest spirit/god-type thing who protects nature), he will use magic to confuse you, and even if you're very good at Not Getting Lost In The Woods, you're kind of screwed. You think YOU won't piss off the Leshy? Oops you just stepped on his favorite beetle -- screwed. Leshy can be placated with offerings of food and drink, but sometimes he needs something bigger...

There are actually lots of hot girls who live in lakes, much to the delight of about 20% of you, but probably the most common are the rusalki -- dead girls who experienced some tragedy in life, probably ending in drowning, and are now exacting revenge on the living, especially men. They will seduce you, take you into the water, and drown you with their hair, or possibly tickle you to death. Baby marry me, amirite? The original rusalka lore was probably nicer to them, treating them more like water spirits than vengeful ghosts. Rusalki are not mermaids and appear as women with legs. We do have mermaids, but usually these are river or sea beings -- the most famous is probably Syrenka Warszawska (the Warsaw Mermaid) who lives in the river Wisła and will not attempt to kill you unless you're trying to invade Warsaw, but also she's a warrior queen and you have no shot.

Slavic mythological entities love riddles, and if you're good at riddles you are really going to help yourself, but you don't want to get into that situation unless you have no other choice. A common demon you meet on the side of the road will probably not give you a hard one, but Poludnica (the Slovak name) will find you at high noon while you're working hard in the fields and the sun's been beating down on your head since dawn and you're feeling woozy and dehydrated, and she'll give you the hardest riddle you've ever heard, and you're going to blow it, and she's going to cut off your head with her scythe or give you heat stroke. If it's any consolation, she may be hot (pun intended). Pro tip: you may also wield riddles to your advantage. Demons are as egoistic as you are and can be enticed into solving your riddle. If you stump them, you may assure your safe getaway.

Human characters in Slavic lore tend to be young and naive, representing the listener of the tale, since they can't use magic or navigate the world they are entering. Knowledge and magic are two sides of the same coin, so if you want to survive, you will need to gain some wisdom (learning some riddles will help). Being nice is not good enough, but! If by being nice you manage to seduce someone who has access to knowledge and magic, or get adopted by a bored witch with an axe to grind, you'll really help yourself out.

The path to the endless dead wood is guarded by a giant magical cat, whose name I never knew but have recently learned that the Russians call him Baiyun (latinized name, obvi). If you ask Vasilisa, she'll tell you that sometimes he lives with Baba Yaga, but generally he hangs out on the boundary to some other dimension. Probably, if you go to meet the cat, it's because somebody sent you there to get rid of you, so if you survive the cat, whoever is trying to kill you will probably keep trying so fyi. Baiyun will purr or tell a tale in such a soothing way that you fall asleep, and then he'll eat you. If you manage not to fall asleep, you may attempt to catch him and earn magic. But probably you're cat food.

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There you have it. If you learned your story differently, let me know! And if you're ever lost in a Slavic forest, you can put your clothes on inside out and maybe that'll break the magic. Good luck.

#slavic folklore #your slav folkloric downfall #demons #witches #deities #baba yaga #leshy #original art #original writing #rusalka #poludnica #poludnitsa #cat baiyun

[alexkujawa]

This is post 5 of 13 in my annual series on SLAVIC PAGAN SUMMER SOLSTICE that I like to expand to on each year.  

Are you interested in this series?  Gimme a like, talk to me!  I’d love to get back on tumblr if I know that people are actually seeing/enjoying my posts here.

🖤💀🌿 ___________________________ Image: "Noc Kupały", print available on my Etsy

Interested in Slavic Mythology? Check out my illustrated folklore book 31 Slavic Beings of Myth & Magic on ETSY or Amazon.

#bonfire #midsummer #noc kupaly #kupala #dark artist #slavic paganism #summer solstice #paganism #witchcraft #witches #witch art

[apokrify]

Celebrations of the Noc Kupały (Kupala Night) in Skoczów (Poland), 70s