There is a genetic affinity, conceptual and typological unity of these traditions. Nowadays there are 12 individual mythological traditions and some areal (polessian, carpathian, northrussian, kashubian, ruthenian), covering vast territories of Eastern, Central and Southern Europe and part of Asia. The article attempts to give a full picture of the characters (creatures) of Slavic demonological system. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the Carpathian features in Slovak demonological beliefs (beliefs about the «double-souled» men, flying dragons) and their vocabulary (striga, bosorka, šarkan, etc.). This article, based on the earlier work of 2013, is an attempt to analyze Slovak demonological vocabulary among and against the background of other Slavic vocabularies: to determine the amount of common Slavic mythonyms in it (for example, čarovnica, divá žena) to examine its correspondence with other West Slavic (Moravian, Czech and Polish) terminological systems (the terms rarášek, škriatok, permoník) to analyze the Slovak-East Slavic (rusalka) and Slovak-South Slavic (víla, moria noha) parallels to reveal the own Slovak vocabulary of demons (such as futkač, molek, grgalica etc.). In the all-Slavic ethnolinguistic studies, the Slovak tradition is still not sufficiently covered, first of all, the mythological vocabulary has not been compiled and analyzed in various aspects.
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