Mitologia polska
Studium porównawcze
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Aleksander Bruckner (1856-1939) – Polish cultural studies scholar, historian of Polish and Slavic literature, and honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw. In Polish Mythology, the author explores the pantheon of Polish gods, decisively assessing Jan Dlugosz's account as fairytale-like and untrue, while citing much more reliable Arabic sources on Polish paganism. He also writes about ghosts, werewolves, witches, and all manner of evil forces (both domestic and natural), as well as semi-legendary rulers – Piast, Popiel, and Wanda. The author undertook a reconstruction of the basic archetypes, although, as he writes in the introduction: "Not the slightest direct trace of Polish mythology has survived; Polish demonology, on the other hand, can be traced directly from the fifteenth century to the present day, and this is important because pagan mythology is transformed into Christian demonology, primordial gods and spirits into scary ghosts, their servants into sorcerers, their rituals into superstitions."
