Is animism a dirty word? How is this belief system interpreted by different cultures? I have no idea, but I sure as heck know my own Slavic culture started out animistic! Where do Early Slavs fit on the animistic spectrum?

For the sake of inclusivity, I unify all the Balkan Slavic cultures and share a small portion of our folklore, our beliefs of inanimate objects possessing a spirit, and the deliberate destruction of our true spiritual origins!

WARNING: Our folklore is very fucked up. You will hear stories of women being walled into castles as a blood sacrifice, dead unbaptized infants haunting their own parents for not conforming to Christian propaganda, and even watermelons turning into vampires!

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Rozafa Castle | Wikipedia

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Christianization of Serbs