Chort (Čert) - Czech and Slavic folklore explained
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2022
- In this video I wanted to talk about Chort (Čert) which is a creature from Czech and Slavic folklore and it's featured in some of our customs and a lot of our fairy tales.
#fairytales #folklore #czech #slavic
Central European mythology is forgotten about way too much, or it's just mixed in with the Anglo-Celtic myths of Britain that are _also_ way too forgotten in favor of Hollywood and Disney versions of them. I'd love some explanations on myths from your area, brother!
You shall have them then 😁
So happy to have found your channel. I'm a folk musician living in Sweden, teaching about the traditional repertoires of that country but also other countries that I happen to know some things about. Always been very interested in folklore and I just started learning Czech. Perfect !
Hey, I am a Czech developer working on very low-fantasy RPG game inspired in Slavic and German folklore and your videos - even though as a czech I know all this stuff - always help me with inspiration how to include these classical creatures into the games setting. Good job man! 😊
I've heard about your game 👍 Would love to talk to you about it in a video sometimes if you would be interested 🙂
Yes, that sounds good! @@FolkWalkCZ
@@KnightsPathGame Can I contact you somewhere?
@@FolkWalkCZ of course look at my bio, you find the invitation there or in the description under any video.
I am so glad that your videos found their way into my recommendations, I've already watched a few videos and am so excited for the others and the ones that will come. I also want to contribute that in germany (or at least most parts especially east germany) we also have this tradition of watching these old czechoslovakian/gdr productions of fairytales. Tři oříšky pro Popelku is my all time favorite since I was a child. Furthermore, in the area I grew up Krampus/Chort was called Pelzmartel or Beldzermerdl in franconian dialect. So great to see similarities and enjoy each others cultural variations!
I'm really happy that you spoke about Krampus or another distinct character in Alpine folklore (and many others folklore) Der shwarze Mann
So glad I found this video, I showed my English boyfriend some of our fairytales starring the “čert” but I never knew how to explain the character properly, I’ll be definitely showing him this video 🫶🏼
I'm glad you've enjoyed it 😉 Thanks for sharing 🙂
Czech here! I just stumbled across this channel and as a hobby etnograph and folklorist of Czech and other slavic countries, I am terrificly glad that someone spreads word of our culture around! ❤
I work at a museum and try to preserve our traditions, culture and the aura of our origin. Giving our culture a care it needs.
Čert is deffinitelly one of my most favourite kind of creatures that roam our mythology. And as an artist/ilustrator and studying graphic designer, I try to put aspects of our culture into my works. Like the traditional ornaments and traditional embroidery, modrotisk and even try to create and recreate artistic deeds by tradition. Čert is making an appearance around my family a lot along with witches. I think it is tradition in many other families, however we give each other čert or a witch statue and hang it beside or on our doors so they would protect us from the bad ❤❤
Well... I have talked a lot, I apologize if I talked nonsense, however I want to thank everyone for reading this, it means a lot to me as well as to see someone so appreciative of our culture.
You have earned a loyal fan. ^^🇨🇿
That's good to hear. I'm glad you're enjoying the content 🙂
As someone who is writing an urban fantasy and is looking for slavic folklore for it, I am gratefull that I found this channel.
I would love to read your work!
I would love to read it aswell!!
I got here with Wiedzmin, stayed to listen about Czart. Pozdrowienia z Polski
Good one, Ive always wanted to compare the still existing Russian folklore and old culture with the rest of the slavic world, thank you for such a niche content. Благодарю!
Thank you 🙂 If you have any suggestions let me know. I want to do video about our vodník in the future and in that I'll definitely talk about the more eastern Slavic version of him - vodyanoy. We also have some fairy tales which are probably inspired by Koschei the Deathless imho so that should be interesting comparison as well.
Interestingly, in Hungary, Bud Spencer films are more typical during Christmas. I think we're the weird ones :) Excellent video by the way.
I love me some Bud Spencer and Terence Hill ❤😁
@@FolkWalkCZThere’s a Dalmatian called Chort and her purpose in life was extremely dark, like aborting puppies, without a care in the world, sort of dark, but what makes it worse is that she related to Pongo and Perdita themselves specifically, she is their Great Granddaughter she’s also terrifyingly Canon.
Your content is so damn underrated.
Commenting so the youtube algorithm recommend me more of this.
Thank you so much 🙂
Finally some good fcking content!
But why is he geh?
@@martinkonvicny4336 'Who says I'm geh?' [meme - why are you gay?]
Great vid! Good luck in the future. Ps: Wish there was a mention of "Nikto ne je doma" or "Majka z kosmosu". I know, I know, out of place.... I just couldnt resist ;-) Serdecznosci!
This was an intressting video. Slavica folklor and mythology is somewhat less know compeared to others so I hope you continue this series.
Fascinating!
wow that's a great video, very informational and high quality. I hope you will continue doing these!
Thank you 🙂 Yeah, definitely. I have one planned for this week actually. It won't be about a creature this time though but about one of our old customs.
Přesně tohle na youtube chybí!
Díky 🙂 Proto jsem se rozhodl tenhle kanál založit. Přijde mi, že jako Češi vytváříme z většiny média a kulturu zase jen pro Čechy, ale už se vůbec nesnažíme ukázat, jak zajímavá je naše kultura a folklór, zbytku světa, i když by se jim to pravděpodobně dost líbilo. Na tu myšlenku mě přivedl už kdysi právě Zaklínač nebo Kingdom Come: Deliverance, což je jeden z mála projektů, kterýmu se naší kulturu a historii celkem povedlo proslavit v zahraničí.
"Idź do Czorta"... u nas też zostało trochę informacji o tej postaci, niestety nie za dużo... więc miło posłuchać co na jego temat mają do powiedzenia nasi Sąsiedzi :) Proszę o więcej
I powiedzenie "gdzie diabeł (czort) mówi dobranoc", które zgrabnie użył Sapkowski w historii Geralta: "Dobranoc" powiedział diabeł. :-)
Watermills are commonly associated with heamons/devils and vampires in Serbian (a d probubly other south Slavic folklore, but I can't speak for shure). There is a legend that st. Sava made a pact with the Devil, where he'd leave watermills except for one specific day of the year. In some versions that's Christmas Eve (6th of january), sometimes the night of st. Nikolas day (19th of december), sometimes the night of st. Luka's day (31st of october).
Interesting, thanks 🙂 I want to research this more.
@@FolkWalkCZ I'd be more then happy to help in translation to both English and Czech!
@@daca8395 I'm thinking about starting a Discord server or maybe a subreddit or something like that, so I'll let you know if I'll figure it out 😉
That's quite different from Chort in Witcher 3. Sounds like the classic malevolent horned trickster that seems to be in every european folklore.
Yeah, they changed his design but in the artwork for Gwent which I used in this video, he looks like a pretty normal chort.
V Polsku jsou některé z československých pohádek považovány za kultovní, například Arabelin prsten. Velmi dobře známe také divadelní inscenace Igraszki z diabłem Zapomenutý čert a považujeme je za klasické a premiérové. A cert je czort v polštině
Thanks for the info. That's nice to hear 🙂
Właściwie to po polsku jest "czart", czort to wersja zapożyczona z rosyjskiego
What's the name of the film at 1:11. I remembered watching as a kid but it was with Spanish dub. 😱 I had forgotten about it but I saw this image and it seems extremely familiar.
It's a Czech fairy tale from 1978 called Princ a Večernice 😉 One of our better live-action fairy tales and a classic that's on TV usually several times every year during Christmas.
@@FolkWalkCZ thank you. I love these type of films. It reminds me of some fairy tale books my mom used to get for me. I found the film on CZcams with English subtitles.
I'd request a video diving into not a monster but the Pellar, I'm curious if any aspects of old Slavic witchcraft are shown through him(like if the chicken feet draped over his neck mean anything etc)
I don't know anything about witchcraft but I might try to look into the Slavic aspects around the Peller. I was already thinking about making a video on the topic of Forefathers' Eve which is called Tryzny in Czech translation and that's inspired by a Slavic ritual with very similar name. So I might discuss that in the future.
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Po polsku Czart (Diaboł,Diabeł) 😄 pozdrawiam
Rád bych viděl video o Krabat. Jsem to četl když jsem byl na základce!
Mám ho v plánu 😉
Wait, chort is Krampus? Awesome.
No, they're creatures from two different cultures, just very similar and people conflate them because of that.
Чёрт! All Slavs know this Slavic pagan being.