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Who/what is the ЧУДО-ЮДО ПОГАНОЕ in Russian fairy tales? 🐲 CHUDO-YUDO POGANOYE (CYP) is a negative character in Russian folk tales and epics, a Slavic heroic epic. It often appears as a multi-headed dragon (3, 6, 9,12). The eldest in the family has a fiery finger capable of reattaching severed heads. The number of tails of, a СYP is the same as the number of heads. 🐲 It lives underwater in a palace, relatives live with it, its mother, its wife, its brothers. It can't fly, so it often rides into battle on horseback. CYP is often confused with Змей Горыныч (Zmey Gorynych). 🐲 It comes from across Смородина река (theCurrant river) on Калинов мост (the Kalinov Bridge). Sometimes the СYP is depicted as an outlandish marine animal controlling the water element. According to one version, the Smorodina River is the border between Reality and Unreality (Other world). 🐲 Later, the meaning of the word CYP spread to land monsters and even heroes in the sense of huge, strong or scary. For example, ▶️Чудо-юдо рыба-кит is mentioned. ▶️Иван - крeстьянский сын и Чудо-Юдо (to read in Russian) ▶️Иван - крестьянский сын и Чудо-Юдо (to listen in Russian) Video: Ri00 #russian_culture #Russianfolklore #RussianFairytales #mythology 😎RCR | Support | Boost