From prehistoric times, humans have evolved as pattern seeking and storytelling species. While the capacity to find patterns and infer meanings had obvious advantages for survival, the brain is not always successful in distinguishing meaningful and meaningless patterns. In fact, "pattern finding" and "order seeking" mechanisms form the basis for nearly all existing myths, superstitions, cultura...

Slavic myths increasingly survive in people’s consciousness as supernatural elements or literary characters rather than real beliefs their existence. Adult readers Poland and Slovakia, for example, encounter beings the fantasy literature book series such Wiedźmin by Andrzej Sapkowski Černokňažník Juraj Červenák; however, cannot be expected to portray superstitions demons same way belief legends...