𝕾𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖊: Змей Огненный (The Fiery Serpent) (2025)𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖊: Dungeon Synth / Chtonic Synth
𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖞: Russia
The "Fiery Serpent" is the Slavic equivalent of the European incubus. Most often, a categorically negative character. He's more of an ambiguous character here. The motive of his abduction of a single girl is popular in Slavic folklore in general and in epics in particular. Sometimes she is a longing widow, sometimes a lonely, innocent, unmarried girl. The original source of Valentin Olshvang's cartoon is the Ural legend, recorded by ethnographer Dmitry Zelenin. Olshvang partially styled the animation for "Russian lubok art", partially for Brueghel's painting.
Plot: a demon-serpent kidnaps a girl from her mother, the mother is grieving, the daughter asks her husband for leave, the mother learns from her daughter the way to the "son-in-law", kills him. (In some folklore sources, she locks her daughter in and won't let her back in) A daughter cannot forgive her mother for the death of her spouse (Love has a dark humor.) and with the help of witchcraft, out of resentment, anger and grief, turns herself and her children into one or another animal/ bird/ tree, etc. There are many interpretations. In this way, through myth-making, the people in old time explain the origin of this or that creature.
Animation by Russian artist Valentin Olshvang
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