Devils, witches and other scary creatures of Slovakia

Witches and strigas, mermaids, potties or lights. Slovak superstitions are full of supernatural beings. Come and meet them. Take a peek through the window into the spiritual world of our ancestors. In the evening, we will also introduce the right amount of storytelling about fairies and mermaids, find out what the sorcerer moved on, look at the birth of a waterman or reveal the real support of stories about dragons and heroic knights. Prepare your courage and curiosity, various pitfalls await us!

After the lecture there will be a discussion.

Mgr. Katarína Nádaská, PhD.

D., is an award-winning ethnologist and historian who specializes in religious ethnology, ethnomedicine, magic and demonology, Central European contexts of folk culture, and visual anthropology. She graduated in ethnology – history at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. She has worked not only at her alma mater, but also at other universities. She has completed several scientific internships at European universities, worked as a curator and literary historian at the Museum of the City of Bratislava and as an expert researcher at the Theatre Institute in Bratislava. Currently, she works as an expert in local government, is engaged in historical consultancy for the mass media and film, and lectures at several universities in Slovakia and abroad. She is the author of several monographs, scientific studies and popularization articles, as well as co-author of ethnological film documentaries.

Place: V-klub, Námestie SNP, Bratislava, Slovakia
Date: Wednesday, 18.01.2023
Time: 19:00
Admission: 8 €

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