The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Slavic Mythology |←Slavic
Languages||The Encyclopedia Americana |Edition of 1920. See also
Slavic mythology on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.| SLAVIC
MYTHOLOGY. Of Slavic mythology we cannot obtain a distinct
picture, owing to very defective traditions among the peoples of
Slav race and perhaps still more because of a great scarcity of
records. The early history of this whole race is, in fact,
shrouded in darkness, and we do not even definitely know the
time of the first arrival of Slavic tribes in Europe. We do
know, it is true, that some of them were heard of as early as
the 1st or 2d century of the Christian era, but of their manners
and customs, their vernacular and, above all, their creed and
worship we know next to nothing at that early time. In some
regions of Europe they appear to have preceded the Teutons and
to have taken possession of the land, while in others they
followed Teutonic tribes, such as the Marcomanni in what is now
Bohemia, the Vandals on the Baltic, t