BOSNIAN MYTHOLOGY

Mythology of Bosnia and Herzegovina abounds with various external influences because of its geographical position but also its turbulent history which shaped the Bosnian spirit and imagination. In Bosnia both the East and West always manifested which is clearly evident through mythology where we come across interesting elements of both eastern and western beliefs.

8/23/2017

Beautiful to the ugly, beautiful to ugly

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According to a tradition when god created the world he gave to humans the power of speech and to other beings various voices. There was onl...

Man, shaitan and angel

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Before Allah created a human, his slave, he would be constantly bothered by a shaitan with his numerous questions distracting his focus fro...
8/22/2017

Divine bull Tur

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From the beginning of mankind the bull was a holly animal which is a part of numerous mythological traditions and cults, due to its physi...
8/18/2017

How an owl shamed God’s messenger Solomon

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People say that to Solomon’s wife out of wrath came a crazy idea, and she commanded her husband, to build her a tower out of bird’s bones, ...

How plague looks like

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Plague, as people across Bosnia say, tall and skinny woman. She is dressed in a long white dress, which was loosely encircled with a rope. ...

Four holly books

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In folk stories about four Indžil, holly books, it was claimed that they came from the sky. In all of those books Allah wrote the first pra...

How nature and herbs came to be

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On one opportunity when Muhammad travelled, he was covered in sweat from the long journey, and from him his sweat dropped onto the earth. W...
7/09/2017

Day of Mourning in Honor of the Genocide in Srebrenica - 11.july 2017

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6/16/2017

How the snake saved all life

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From the old days among the Bosnian people the snake was considered to be a saviour of mankind, which is proven by this short story. During...

Shaitan and the woman

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Long time ago there was a man and a woman, they constantly tried to outsmart each other, they tried to prove who was smarter and more resou...
6/04/2017

Dragon eggs

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That nature is surprising is shown by the perfectly shaped stone spheres, discovered accidentally underneath the hill Grljevac in Velika Kl...

From the time of the giants

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North-western part of BiH, more precisely the mountain Kozara could reveal the biggest proof that these areas were once governed by giants....

Snake-girl

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There is an interesting legend among people from Velika Kladuša about a buried treasure in the settlement of Rudnik, which is allegedly gua...
2/06/2017

Bosnia, Illyrians and tombstones – beginning of European civilization

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Continuity of our people from the old days up to today was not in question, and it was part of the scientific discourse until the end of ...
4/20/2016

Narodna vjerovanja i običaji iz Velike Kladuše

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Svaki kraj i regija ima svoja vjerovanja i običaje koji su najbolji odraz razmišljanja i tradicije tomošnjih ljudi. Svi smo odrasli s...

O djeci

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U Velikoj Kladuši se kaže kako matera ima od devet vrsta. Isto se kaže da je djeci majka od zemlje a majci djeca od srca. Veliki je sevap p...

O ljubavi

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Onaj ko rastavi muža i ženu učinio je tako veliki grijeh koji ne može skinuti sa sebe ni kad bi sagradio devet džamija. Ako pri prvom susre...

Falanje

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Ne valja falati (gatati) na prazno, jer se odfalano neće ostvariti, ali ni određivati koliko da se da. Za falanje se daje koliko se može i ...

Sihiri, uroci i basme

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Za basmu se vjeruje da hoda po cijelom dunjajluku. U Velikoj Kladuši se kaže da postoji jedna posebno moćna basma na kojoj stoji cio svijet...

O životinjama

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Svaka kuća ima svoju zmiju čuvaricu, koja se ne smije ubiti. Ovo je jedno od drevnih vjerovanja naših ilirskih predaka koje se zadržalo u s...

Ostala vjerovanja

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Kad nekog stalno boli glava ili ga muči nesanica treba uz Euzubilet oko glave, za suncem, tri puta obnijeti kakve sadake i dati je sirotinj...

Ostala vjerovanja 2

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Ne valja zviždati po kući jer se neće izleći pilići pod kvočkom ili se uopće kokoš neće raskvocati (postati kvočka). Ko čuje oglašavanje d...

Ostala vjerovanja 3

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Prvo dospjelo voće iz voćnjaka se nosilo i darivalo prvim komšijama, radi berićeta. Ostavi li se slučajno nesmotana odjeća nakon dolaska...
3/10/2016

Bosnian mythology is not Slavic but Illyrian!

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When we're talking about Bosnian mythology it is important to clarify instantly the following - Bosnian people are speaking a Slavic l...
10/19/2015

Two angels of the afterlife

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As Antun Hangi wrote in his anthological edition about the tradition and life of Bosnian people after funeral, when the gathered people lea...
10/15/2015

Illyrian religion

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By its natural wealth Bosnia and Herzegovina was always full of forests and numerous water streams, which by itself, in a very logical man...

Tana and Vidasus

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Sculptures which depict god Vidasus, sometimes accompanied by Tana, show him encircled by girls dancing or in the form of nymphs, water fae...

Cult of god Tur

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In folk religion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is based on Illyrian traditional beliefs, some segments of the Bosnian god Tur were pres...
9/21/2015

Serbs and Turks are one and the same people

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After the battle at Kosovo 1389, when the Ottomans completely defeated the Serbian army, which lead to a catastrophic reduction of t...
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