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Mare
Germanic and Slavic folklore
About this being
Malicious entity which causes or appears in bad dreams
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- Source tradition label
- Germanic and Slavic folklore
- Character families
- Spirits and otherworld peoples (suggested)
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- Geographical associations
- England, British, Bretons (language-group context) View tradition →
- Scotland, Scots, Picts, Scotti, Scottish (language-group context) View tradition →
- Dutch, Flemish (language-group context) View tradition →
- Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen (language-group context) View tradition →
- Norwegians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Swedes (language-group context) View tradition →
- Danes, Danish (language-group context) View tradition →
- Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Icelanders (language-group context) View tradition →
- Germans: South (Upper German dialects): Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Bawaria, Swabia, Switzerland, Bohemia, Sudeten, Austria (language-group context) View tradition →
- Frisians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Faroe Islands (language-group context) View tradition →
- Transylvanian Saksons (language-group context) View tradition →
- Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland (language-group context) View tradition →
- Poles (language-group context) View tradition →
- Kashubians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Czech, Czechs (language-group context) View tradition →
- Slovakians, Slovaks (language-group context) View tradition →
- Bulgarians, Balkarians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Macedonians, Balkarians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Bosnia Muslims (language-group context) View tradition →
- Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Slovenians, Slovenes (language-group context) View tradition →
- Western Ukrainians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Byelarusians, Belarusians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Eastern Ukrainians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Northern Ukrainians (language-group context) View tradition →
- Early Russian written sources (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces) (language-group context) View tradition →
- Terek Cossacks (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora (language-group context) View tradition →
- Rusyns, Hutsuls (language-group context) View tradition →
- Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, Shengur district of Arkhangelsk province (language-group context) View tradition →
- Bosnians (language-group context) View tradition →
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- Bosnia Muslims (1)
- Bosnians (1)
- Bulgarians, Balkarians (1)
- Byelarusians, Belarusians (1)
- Croatians, Croats; Italians of Dalmatia (if the motif is absent among other Italians) (1)
- Czech, Czechs (1)
- Danes, Danish (1)
- Dutch, Flemish (1)
- Early Russian written sources (1)
- Eastern Ukrainians (1)
- England, British, Bretons (1)
- Faroe Islands (1)
- Frisians (1)
- Germans: North (Low- and Central German dialects): Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pommern, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony, incl East Frisia and Oldenburg), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Thüringen, Saxony-Anhalt, Sachsen, Brandenburg, Rügen (1)
- Germans: Northeast (Brandenburg, Meklenburg, Rügen, Pommern, Silesia, Posen) (1)
- Germans: South (Upper German dialects): Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Bawaria, Swabia, Switzerland, Bohemia, Sudeten, Austria (1)
- Germans – Southwest: Alsace (Elsass), Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, Switzerland (1)
- Icelanders (1)
- Kashubians (1)
- Macedonians, Balkarians (1)
- Northern Ukrainians (1)
- Norwegians (1)
- Poles (1)
- Russian Pomors ("seasiders"): Lower Pechora (1)
- Russian Pomors ('seasiders'): Terski Coast (Murmansk province) (1)
- Russian Pomors (“seasiders): Arkhangelsk province without its southern part (Shengur district and Konosha dstrict), Karelia White Sea coast (1)
- Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces) (1)
- Russians: Novgorod and Pskov provinces (1)
- Russians: Olonets province/SE Karelia, Shengur district of Arkhangelsk province (1)
- Russians: Southern part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Belgorod, Voronezh, Tambov, Penza, Lipetsk, Orel, Kursk, Bryansk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Samara, Simbirsk and Saratov provinces) (1)
- Russians: Vologda province (incl. Belozersk, Kirillov and Cherepovets districts of form. Novgorod Province) (1)
- Rusyns, Hutsuls (1)
- Scandinavians: early written sources ("Edda"; Saxo Grammaticus etc.); Gothland picture stones; Ancient Germans (Late Bronze Age in Scandinavia) (1)
- Scotland, Scots, Picts, Scotti, Scottish (1)
- Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians (1)
- Slovakians, Slovaks (1)
- Slovenians, Slovenes (1)
- Sorbians (Luzhitsa Serbs) (1)
- Swedes (1)
- Terek Cossacks (1)
- Transylvanian Saksons (1)
- Western Ukrainians (1)
Sources and attribution
Wikipedia contributors, List of legendary creatures (M) (source revision).
Source text: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Extracted from the list; reference markers and formatting removed, with name, tradition label and description separated.
Original list entry
Mare (Germanic and Slavic folklore) – Malicious entity which causes or appears in bad dreams
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