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Someone felt dire need to have captain take care of that pale scrawny stray and came up with some situation.

Hey, what about actual research papers and monographies? They tend to be more about slavic in general or eastern area, but you can come across specifically western topics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000030?fbclid=IwAR03XfY2LE7EwlrjaD2rY1YGyhxNgfetmfFXRJb6qp_p-UzYweR2NovR79k Don't underestimate archeology. Nor linguistics and comparative methods. Also if you know slovak language... Lumyd is nice popularization web - https://lumyd.eu/

Which makes me wonder how much of local research and publishing gets translated for people abroad...

your options for trying to read anything about prechristian (western) slavic culture really are like

wikipedia (only vaguely sourced)

a website that's antivax modern "witches" at best, fascist conspiracy theorists at worst

texts from the 1800s/1900s heavily influenced by panslavism and conflating russian culture with all other slavs

source: trust me bro (ranging anywhere from baby name websites, lifestyle blogs, or chronicles by medieval monks who filled in the blanks in sources by simply making shit up)

And well, I liked books even before that. There was Dragon Rider (Cornelia Funke), Fairy Treasure (Gwyneth Reeves), Emily Windsnap series (Liz Kessler), The Three Investigators (Robert Arthur Jr), Grécke báje a povesti (Eduard Petiška) and some other such collections, Jacqueline Willson's books, some human-animal friendship stuff... Lotsa things, lotsa. But I don't think it reached obsession level. And by the grace of all gods and demons, I wish I could say LOTR, but I watched that one and I got my hands on the books only after those listed above (had them lent to me), so I think it doesn't count. Somewhere there on later date there were also Pterry's Discworld books (line between hilarious and biting is thinner than the edge of DEATH's scythe) and Funke's Inkworld series (from book appreciation to fantasy italian medieval aesthetic like fine wine) and Michael Scott's Nicholas Flamel series (wild mashup of world's mythologies) and Card's Enderverse (brains and heart in a symphonic orchestra of strategizing and ethics and psychology and various scifi concepts) and fandom world opened to me with ASOIAF and icefire.cz web.

Má to ťažké, ten náš notár...

Antiwar song folk-rock style

Englih translation

The day dawns and Mars rules the hour Devastated land is like an open wound Man for man joins in a rag-hat We are damned and forever away from home. For this world is governed by use only And those who do not dare, can not hope, only lose.

Wallenstein Far from home, Wallenstein Never return home, Wallenstein We are lost, to your heart of stone. Wallenstein of fate's voice, Wallenstein Shows us around the country, Wallenstein You black devil, have a heart of stone.

It is the mind that builds the body Everyone knows how to loot, murder, rob We are corrupted by sin and cruelty Our call resonates far across the land So far.

Wallenstein Far from home, Wallenstein Never return home, Wallenstein We are lost, to your heart of stone. Wallenstein of fate's voice, Wallenstein Shows us around the country, Wallenstein You black devil, have a heart of stone.

For this world is governed by use only And those who do not dare, can not hope only lose And who like me greed for gold and wealth That will lead to the ambition over corpses. Far from home Never return home We are lost To your heart of stone.

Wallenstein of fate's voice, Wallenstein Shows us around the country, Wallenstein You black devil, have a heart of stone, A heart of stone. Wallenstein Far from home, Wallenstein Never return home, Wallenstein You black devil, have a heart of stone.

A do detailov. Napríklad aj kremnický štvrťmajster z Pre hrsť dukátov bol skutočný. Potom ešte občas robí postavy podľa ľudí z okolia - v Lovcovi čertov dal cameo archivárovi, čo mu pomáhal so zdrojmi, od ľudí na fb pýtal trnavské priezviská...

Trutnovský kolorit

Existuje taká knižočka, volá sa Tajemná magie středověku, kouzla a rituály starých cechů a napísali ju Aleš Česal a Roman Herzinger.

No a jedna kapitola je venovaná aj katovskému remeslu. Človek sa tam napríklad dočíta aj to, že...

...takže tohto týpka...

...si Ďuro z prstu nevycucal.

Klobúk dole, človeče, klobúk dole.