Slavic folklore

thumb|300px| Ivan Kramskoi, Rusalki ("The Mermaids"), 1871

thumb|A molybdomancy kit includes a set of shaped lead ingots, to be melted over a candle flame in a spoon. thumb|A piece of molten lead after immersion in cold water

right|thumb|Razkovniche is the Bulgarian language|Bulgarian-language name for the real plant [[Marsilea quadrifolia, which shares some features with the legendary raskovnik.]]

thumb|302x302px|Burning the exhumed body of a person believed to be a vampire – Vampire, aut. R. de Moraine, 1864 thumb|Fight with an upiór – Maciej Sieńczyk Upiór is a demonic being from Slavic and Turkic folklore, a prototype of the vampire. It is suggested that the () belief spread across the Eurasian steppes through the migrations of the Kipchak-Cuman people, after having its origins in the regions surrounding the Volga (İtil) River and the Pontic steppes. The modern word "vampire" derives from the Old Slavic and Turkic form "" (), with the addition of the sound "v-" before a large nasal v

thumb|Vampir by Ernst Stöhr, 1899

folklore of the Slavic peoples