Mysterious fairies named Bereginyas, Berehynias or Brzeginias are referenced in The Lay of St. Gregory the Theologian of the Idols, which was preserved in a manuscript from Novgorod in the fifteenth century. The Lay is an anthology of translations from Greek sources that a Kievan monk from the 12th century annotated. The literature mentions Bereginyas as the first entities worshipped by the Slavs, even before the cult of Perun was brought in their regions; nonetheless, it appears that later scri ... (Read More)