A high-ranking witch from South Slavic mythology who for centuries held decisive sway over the raising of disobedient children. Her defining features are a horn, a large nose with a wart on it, a shortage of teeth, a stick, and the cave she lives in. Children saw through her long ago and no longer believe in her, but the word lives on in slang — used in place of the half-forgotten strava! for something exceptional, out of the ordinary, extraordinarily good…
Meet Babaroga
A word that in its broadest sense means a story, or the memory of some event, preserved by word of mouth. The word itself comes from the Old Norse for something said, something told, but today it is used well outside the context of Norse literature — for long, many-part literary works, epic in character, that cover a great stretch of time and very often follow the history of a family.
Meet Saga
Putting out a message in public places, in written or pictorial form. The history of graffiti reaches far back, as far as cave dwellers, but its present-day sense found its home in ancient Rome, where you had to scratch a wall if you wanted to tell the public something. The walls of Pompeii are covered with examples of that old Roman habit. Today's graffiti artists mostly work with airbrush or spray paint and stencils, and their motifs are as varied as their techniques.
They are the authentic art of a new age, often misunderstood and belittled by a conservative public. The paradox is that these works of art are free and open to everyone, while the people who make them are frequently pursued by the police and work deep in illegality.
Meet Graffiti