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Strzyga

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  Slavic mythology is full of surprises, and by surprises I mean horrible monsters that will kill you painfully. This might be caused by the fact that Eastern Europe remained rather wild and unexplored deep into the medieval age and even into the Renaissance, allowing for far more horrible tales to develop. Keep in mind that Baba Yaga, a witch who has the reputation of a cranky and vindictive granny, is actually on the nicer end of the spectrum Anyway, the entity that will interest us today is the Strzyga, a cursed woman who has returned as a scary, predatory creature that feasts on humans. Its nocturnal lifestyle and habit on eating humans had caused the Strzyga to be associated with vampires, which she definitely shares some resemblances with.   As mentioned, Strzyga starts as a woman with a curse that gives them two souls, teeth rows and hearts. And since people are always welcoming to those looking slightly different from the masses, these women are always chased off into ...
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Genghis-Khan (Part 12), the true scourge of God

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This post is following the last 11 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in parts 1-11 of his adventures.   Another event that was significantly accelerated by Genghis - Khan was the Black Plague. The Mongols increased the level of globalization between the east and the west  thus   facilitating  the transport of goods  but also  diseases .  T hey  also  were some of the earliest adopters of  bio  warfare   by catapulting plagued infected bodies in enem ies ' settlement , so thank you for that  jerk . Of course, all of this would have massive ripple over the world and figuring out how things  would have  turn ed  out is hard to  guess  as s o  many  factors can  change  the outcome s;   it could go any ways.  Maybe the  Song dynasty finally get their shits together and finally learn how to  build and lead an army , becoming one  of  the ...
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Genghis-Khan (Part 11), the Balkans in their natural state, complete chaos

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This post is following the last 10 ones. Make sure to read Genghis-Khan full history in parts 1-10 of his adventures.   Finally, the last leg of this journey, how Genghis - Khan empire managed to throw around the history of Europe. Mongols'  direct influence was mostly on the eastern segment of the  continent,  a s  they  c ould never have gone all the way to the likes of the Holy Roman Empire and France. Europ ean castles and armies  were so different from what they usually fought that the Mongols  w ould  have had to  rework  their own  military  while standing thousands of kilometres from their home.  This was  more trouble than worth, and  so they  limit ed  themselves  to troll ing  the smaller nascent powers at their borders  with destruction .   Speaking of which, Hungary and Bulgaria got the same treatment as Georgi a  did,  utterly annihilated  right...
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