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** [[Our Dragons Are Different]] -- most prominently Zmey ("the Wyrm" tends to be considered the English equivalent of this name). Although they breathed fire and were capable of speech like their western counterparts, they were also famous for being shapeshifters (usually into human form) and for abducting beautiful women to be their brides.
*** Don't forget that they were prone to [[Multiple Head Case|having several heads]].
** [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same]] / [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]] -- There's a great variety of house-spirits, diminutive red cap-wearing bearded humanoids, and similar creatures, possibly later contaminated with German (-ic) folk beliefs. The closest Slavic equivalent to fantasy dwarves were more like house-spirits or gnomes. The confusion is occasionally worsened by linguistics. <ref>In Polish ''krasnal'' or ''krasnoludek'' is the lawn gnome/SnowWhite-type. ''Karzeł'' ("midget" or "dwarf") is the [[Norse Mythology]] dwarf, pre-fantasy or in separation from fantasy, as well as the word for real life "little people". The fantasy dwarf, meanwhile, is a ''krasnolud'' - an augmentative of ''krasnoludek'', a neologism created by the default translation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' which has been followed ever since; although another translator attempted to change that, his translations are disliked, so it didn't stick.</ref>
** [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: A "rusalka" is what people called a mermaid. Well, sort of. The difference is that rusalki did not have a fish tail and looked like regular human women, mainly because they were thought to be physical manifestations of the spirits of young women who drowned (or were killed violently near a lake, river or sea). Another difference is that they were usually hostile and would come out mostly at night, because if the sun dried their skin completely, they would die (again).
** [[Our Vampires Are Different]] -- the Slavic vampires were the basis for the modern idea of a vampire. They were [[Unbuilt Trope|notably different]] to the [[Classical Movie Vampire|Dracula kind]] of modern vampires, however.
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