Not only the basilisk and the Wawel dragon prowled around Poland. In addition to stories about these well-known monsters, from the earliest times, much less popular stories about strange creatures circulated around the country on the Vistula River. Some were nice - they could bring milk, drink sewage water or bless the crowd, others had a reputation for being bloody and unpredictable. Here are unknown stories about Polish monsters!
Good snake
They breathe fire, swallow virgins and trample everything - such an image of native dragons has survived to our times. Meanwhile, it is a harmful image! In Slavic mythology, there was a so-called proto-Slavic viper and he was usually presented as a positive figure. He looked after people, looked after their crops and ponds, and when some less friendly dragon appeared in the area, he fought him victorious. The vipers even had ... romances with women, and from these relationships, brave warriors were born, defending the Slavic lands against all invasions. In partially Polish Lusatia, vipers stood behind local farmers to an exaggeration. In order that they would not lack anything, they would steal rye, money, or milk from other peasants and bring them to their own. So they were called rye, money, and milk vipers, respectively.
Fish with the face of a bishop
In the 16th century, an amazing creature was fished out of the Polish sea. According to the message of the scientist Konrad Gesner, it was a cross between a fish covered with scales and a man with a dignified face. The creature's head was crowned with what looked like a bishop's headdress, hence the animal was called a sea bishop. The creature was taken to the court of Sigismund the Old and welcomed with Old Polish hospitality, but the bishop, tired of the feasts, finally began to give the ruler signs that he wanted to return to the sea. He was transported there, and before he disappeared under the water, he blessed everyone with the sign of the cross.
The rabbit bites
Creatures unknown to science in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries absolutely did not become extinct in Poland. Especially in the cucumber season, there are more and more native monsters. Today, hardly anyone remembers the Kingis who appeared in the Kampinos Forest in the summer of 1990. The creature with the body of a fox and the head of a rabbit roamed the backwoods of the forest, and when it was in a bad mood, it could gnaw the wires in cars parked nearby. Television even aired a short film of the creature and interviews with witnesses. As people guessed at that time, such a mutant probably arose because of the Chornobyl explosion.
Paskuda in brine
The Poles also had their own Loch Ness monster. In the 1980s, Polish Radio gave shocking news about a strange creature living in the waters of the Zegrze Reservoir near Warsaw. Paskuda, because this is how journalists christened the game, was a huge earthworm with an open mouth. It was useful because it ate the sewage from the water. Disputes continue to this day as to whether Paskuda was born in the rich fantasy of radio broadcasters or in the waters near Zegrze.
Chupacabra in Poland
Some creatures come to Poland from abroad. This was the case with the chupacabra. The first reports of a monster that sucks blood from livestock, resembling a cross between a red-eyed kangaroo and a dragon, come from South and Central America. An extremely lively creature can jump over the top of a tall tree, and it is not a problem for her to overcome the fence of the property and suck the blood from all the goats on the farm. In the end, she jumped over the ocean and found herself near Radom in the Kozienicka Primeval Forest, where two men saw her with their own eyes, stealing forest wood. Then, dead goats without a drop of blood were found in the area.
It was not the end of the bloodiest Polish monster of our time. In 2009, a mysterious slaughter of a herd of goats took place in Kornelin. Witnesses told about the creature resembling the famous Chupa. Whatever it was, it had sucked tens of gallons of goat blood in one night. Reports about Polish chupacabra also appeared in the Opole region and in Hrubieszów in the Lublin region. Sometimes the inhabitants blamed the slaughter on the puma, which could have escaped from the farm. The story of the puma soon took on a life of its own. The exotic creature has been seen in the last few years, incl. in Łódź, West Pomerania and Lower Silesia. This season, the wild cat reportedly appeared near Częstochowa. It is possible that this monster is real, because in 2009 a hunt for pumas, considered by many to be an invention, ended with the finding of these animals and shooting by hunters. It turned out that they had escaped from breeding in the Czech Republic. Who knows, maybe there is some grain of truth in each of the stories about Polish monsters?
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