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Cryptids of Slovakia

What cryptids are in Slovakia? The best-known is Vodník.

Slovak tradition shares the vodník with its Czech neighbours. The water goblin is known here as vodník or vodný chlap, and tales describe him luring people with coloured ribbons, sometimes disguised as a peddler, and storing the souls of the drowned in pots.

  • 1 cryptid
  • 1 recorded sighting

Cryptids reported in Slovakia

Humanoid · Medieval

Vodník

Ponds and millraces of Bohemia and Moravia The vodník, Czech water goblin: a green-coated pond spirit who keeps drowned souls under upturned pots, famed from Erben’s ballad and Dvořák’s music. Folklore

The legends of Slovakia

The streams and mountain lakes of the Carpathians provide the setting for these tales of the cautious water goblin.

Hotspots

  • Slovak rivers and ponds

    Landscapes tied to vodník tales.

Sightings timeline

  1. 1974
    How to Drown Dr. Mráček Vodník

    Václav Vorlíček’s comedy made the water goblin a pop-culture icon.

Nearby

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