Man, that would be the ultimate disrespect. Imagine being like “do your worst, foul wizard! Your torture will not erode the heroism of my sacrifice!” and then he just turns you into a pile of walnuts and leaves.
That's only because this particular video portrayed Koshei like a lich, the original folklore actually doesn't resemble a lich that much, koshei is not prominently a wizard, he is not a resurrected undead, the stories where he actually summons or controls undead are very few. In the tales he is more like a supernatural evil king, who is or has become immortal by being a little bit dead-like (skeletonish)
@@albertdittel8898 its backwards the annoying traits like ugliness and skeleton appearance were added latter because people back them hated villains being pretty and being allowed to just ignore the laws of nature with their knowledge
@@albertdittel8898An undead and evil creature who died by stashing their soul into an object to achieve immortality is the description of a lich. If Koschei did that, then he is a lich by modern standards, and likely because he is probably the inspiration.
Koschei is the supposed inspiration of modern fantasy in many RPGs especially DnD about Necromancer and Lich - beings that hold over the power of death and darkness.
@@haruahresearchcollective7924 Well sorry.... I don't ever heard something like that before or even no else at all. Most RPG game with beings like dark wizard or an undead lord is inspired from European tales, or something like that.
Necromancers and Lich are able to ressurect undeads they are not deathless. And this guy can't ressurect undeads. He was probably just an YPIR(the Slavic vampires)
I love reading fairy tales and folklore from Eastern Europe, characters are interesting like Baba Yaga, the rusalka and Koschei the Deathless. Nice to see you used snippets from one of Soyuzmultfilms animated shorts/films from the 1950s.
In the description of his souls separation some have interpreted it as: Sea- Water Island- Earth Rabbit/Duck- Animals Oak- World Tree Leading some scholars to believe that he bound his soul to the very universe itself.
@@humanity600 No the world tree is Nordic mythology and it conect the 12 realm that exists in this mythology... It have nothing to do whit the Univers. It is a bridge that conect the 12 planes of earth existence. And world tree is no concept of the Slavic Folklore unless they live rly far north,so they got this concept by the Vikings who was tormenting and ruling them in the dark ages. It is same to call Tangra Slavic Folklore but only southern Slav have him as god there. So if it is not universal for all Slavs Niether Tangra nor the world tree are Slavic mythologi.
@@krivjeto the World Tree is an archetypical concept prevalent in world religion, not just ancient Norse. Each of the 12 realms had their own Time-Space if you've done significant research on the Well of Urd & on fate in Norse Myth. So in every account you've just given you're wrong. If you need a link for the Well I can send one.
In the RPG game Dungeons and Dragons , undead wizards called Lich a have each have an object that holds their essence or soul called a phylactery . Undead dragons also have them as well .
Man Russia/eastern Europe. You start out with pure terror in your folklore and see how far you can carry it into real life. I'm impressed.. terrorized but impressed. Ps mind if I get the thumbnail as a tattoo? That is badass piece of art. On par with an iron maiden album
Baba Yaga: WHAT DO YO- (see’s Marya) oh Marya darling it is so good to see you again (also see’s Ivan) and who’s this idiot? Marya: this idiot is my husband, he unknowingly unleashed Koschei the deathless from our imprisonment. Baba Yaga: …..with a husband like That! And in that stature, I’m am both unsurprised and sorry for you. Alright, come in.
Among South Slavic peoples, in the story about Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless, Koschei is being called Bash Chelik (Head of Steel). Tho, the story and the plot remains the same :) Excellent video! Keep up the great work!
- How can we call you? - Koschey. - Officially, yes, you are replacing the deceased Koshchei, but what is your real name? - Koschey. We are all Koshchei.(с)"Babilon 5" 😄
I first watched an episode from Myths and Monsters, learning about the Hero’s Journey and learning about the tale about Ivan rescuing his wife from the villainous Koschei. Now, after graduating from high school about ten and a half months ago, memorizing the Hero’s Journey and the rehearing the old tale of Ivan’s heroic journey brought me back memories. Planning to do that tale sometime on the day after my birthday or something like that?
Except we now have. Koschei is the alleged true/birth name of the Gallifreyan known as the Master, who took on Rasputin's identity to lure the Doctor and steal/swap her body.
@@brainlock72 ah yes, I forgot about Doctor Who being the one correct authority regarding everything Remember when that T-Rex terrorised Victorian London? All the Tabloids were all over that--and used it as political commentary for various cosmopolitan topics of the day
Not just sorcerer. he kind of ultimate viliant of Slavic folklore. He also using powerful magical sword, rules over all evil mystical creatures and have huge tresery with gold and many magical items
Fun fact: Doctor Who's best frenemy the Master is alleged to have been called Koschei in his youth. Your description at the end sure sounds like a regeneration cycle. The Master was granted a second set of regenerations; Missy circumventing Death, itself, for Twelve; and the suggestion that some versions of Rasputin are based on Koschei mean that the Master luring her to Russia to steal/swap her body while posing as Rasputin only adds to this.
missed out a lot about Ivan he was tasked to watch over baba yaga's herd of horses and she intentionally told the horses not to return but Ivan had already befriended a bird a deer and a bee which all helped get the horses to return to the stable on the last night Ivan was approached by the bee or the bird and they told him of baba yaga's plan to kill him so he then he stole a horse also missed out the several times Ivan tried to rescue Maria from Koschei's castle and he was caught loads until he found out that koschei got his horse from baba yaga's herd I cant remember the full story im scottish but its a cool story really cool story
In Bulgaria we don't fear deathless sorcerer's,we decapitate them xD Out of all joke,this story is one of the legends About Tsar Ivan Asen of Bulgaria.
Main issue i have whit "koschei" ... pls tell me where u even got it? ... It is "Kostěj" when KOST mean bone. So, translated it will something like Boney Bone man or something like this. If every sour information is same good as it Koschei :D ..then gods bless u :D
I just realised that this is almost the same story as with Voldermort/Tom Riddle form Harry Potter. Wonder if JKR did it conciously or if it is just a coincidence.
Honestly we assume she took the idea from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", but he definitely took inspiration from Slavic mythology among many other mythologies!
He say,the name Ivan is common in the folklore,well obviously Bulgaria have x2 Tsar Ivan-Asen(First and Second)both of them insipiring legends,and since Bulgaria is south Slav,no wonder Russians consider our Emperor's a mythical heroes...
the depiction here is far too much based on modern ad&d like fantasy wizard. Koshei is not a scholar of dark arts, nowhere is it said that he studies and all that style that comes with it. He is depicted much more often as a supernatural evil king than as a wizerd, when he is depicted as a wizard, it is not the style of a ad&d-like scholar wizard. He is also not undead in the modern fantasy sense in that he has not died and has been resurrected. If you want a modern fantasy parallel: Koshei is much more like Sauron than like Saruman. Or regarding warhammer: more like a vampire lord than like a necromancer.
Just want to point out that you say that all the fictional wizards we know of are based on this bloke just wanted to say that lord of the rings and Harry potter aren't real obviously but rasputin was a real a very real person and considered and dark sorcerer so if anything they all came from him not the other way around I mean if thus bloke was real then ok I'm wrong but I don't think he was whereas rasputin was 100% real
Man, that would be the ultimate disrespect. Imagine being like “do your worst, foul wizard! Your torture will not erode the heroism of my sacrifice!” and then he just turns you into a pile of walnuts and leaves.
Then the squirrels show up!
Man that's nuts to think
@@cosmicquestion9184 and naturally they are eastern European squirrels so even they are born with a sense if 'meh you asked for it"
Lol
Koschei the deathless is probably the fist person from folklore that fits the textbook definition of a lich
Yep
What is that?
That's only because this particular video portrayed Koshei like a lich, the original folklore actually doesn't resemble a lich that much, koshei is not prominently a wizard, he is not a resurrected undead, the stories where he actually summons or controls undead are very few. In the tales he is more like a supernatural evil king, who is or has become immortal by being a little bit dead-like (skeletonish)
@@albertdittel8898 its backwards the annoying traits like ugliness and skeleton appearance were added latter because people back them hated villains being pretty and being allowed to just ignore the laws of nature with their knowledge
@@albertdittel8898An undead and evil creature who died by stashing their soul into an object to achieve immortality is the description of a lich. If Koschei did that, then he is a lich by modern standards, and likely because he is probably the inspiration.
Koschei is the supposed inspiration of modern fantasy in many RPGs especially DnD about Necromancer and Lich - beings that hold over the power of death and darkness.
They're all based off Ancient Mesopotamia texts
@@haruahresearchcollective7924 Well sorry.... I don't ever heard something like that before or even no else at all.
Most RPG game with beings like dark wizard or an undead lord is inspired from European tales, or something like that.
Necromancers and Lich are able to ressurect undeads they are not deathless.
And this guy can't ressurect undeads.
He was probably just an YPIR(the Slavic vampires)
@@krivjeto I'd argue Liches are nearly deathless; he fits the usual descriptor otherwise.
I know what a necromancer is, but what is a liche?
I love reading fairy tales and folklore from Eastern Europe, characters are interesting like Baba Yaga, the rusalka and Koschei the Deathless. Nice to see you used snippets from one of Soyuzmultfilms animated shorts/films from the 1950s.
The Bogatyrs(Bogaturs?) are awesome indeed.
They was killed by Tsar Ivan Asen xD
@@krivjeto what a waste😆😭
I will be leaning heavily into Finnish and Russian mythology for my third novel
What is the Rusalka? I see stories of that name from the 1980s. Are there older ones?
The embodiment of "How Many Times Do We Have to Teach You This Lesson, Old Man?"
I really do love this channel. I like how you guys concentrate on myths and stories that not many TH-camrs do.
In the description of his souls separation some have interpreted it as:
Sea- Water
Island- Earth
Rabbit/Duck- Animals
Oak- World Tree
Leading some scholars to believe that he bound his soul to the very universe itself.
Sadly that's earthly things not universal xD
@@krivjeto The World Tree is a representation of all time and space in mythology.
@@humanity600 No the world tree is Nordic mythology and it conect the 12 realm that exists in this mythology...
It have nothing to do whit the Univers.
It is a bridge that conect the 12 planes of earth existence.
And world tree is no concept of the Slavic Folklore unless they live rly far north,so they got this concept by the Vikings who was tormenting and ruling them in the dark ages.
It is same to call Tangra Slavic Folklore but only southern Slav have him as god there.
So if it is not universal for all Slavs Niether Tangra nor the world tree are Slavic mythologi.
@@krivjeto the World Tree is an archetypical concept prevalent in world religion, not just ancient Norse. Each of the 12 realms had their own Time-Space if you've done significant research on the Well of Urd & on fate in Norse Myth. So in every account you've just given you're wrong. If you need a link for the Well I can send one.
You are a good narrator
In the RPG game Dungeons and Dragons , undead wizards called Lich a have each have an object that holds their essence or soul called a phylactery . Undead dragons also have them as well .
Man Russia/eastern Europe. You start out with pure terror in your folklore and see how far you can carry it into real life. I'm impressed.. terrorized but impressed.
Ps mind if I get the thumbnail as a tattoo? That is badass piece of art. On par with an iron maiden album
one of my favorite folklore stories. i want to see him in a future Dresden Files book.
Really enjoy your videos man, keep up the good work
Anyone else see the parallel between Koschei and the Ice King in Adventure Time (4:20)?
Bro, u got like the perfect voice for this
Baba Yaga: WHAT DO YO- (see’s Marya) oh Marya darling it is so good to see you again (also see’s Ivan) and who’s this idiot?
Marya: this idiot is my husband, he unknowingly unleashed Koschei the deathless from our imprisonment.
Baba Yaga: …..with a husband like That! And in that stature, I’m am both unsurprised and sorry for you. Alright, come in.
bruh can you do a bunch of other sorcerer/wizard/warlock myths? this has been my favourite MU so far!
How cool my Mum is Russian it's nice to hear something from my roots
He's also appeared in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing RPG game. He's known as Prisoner 7.
He is what Dungeons and Dragons would call a Lich. I will have to use him as a villain in one of my games.
Among South Slavic peoples, in the story about Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless, Koschei is being called Bash Chelik (Head of Steel). Tho, the story and the plot remains the same :) Excellent video! Keep up the great work!
Here in Bulgaria we know koshei as the guy Decapitated by Tsar Ivan Asen xD
In the role playing game D&D, Koschei would be greatly considered a powerful lich, an undead wizard.
I'm guessing the writers of Anastasia combined him with Rasputin in the movie Anastasia
Wonderful & fascinating video! I'd heard the name but never knew the stories so this was very interesting to me. 🧙
Voldemort shouldn't have missed his history class to talk to slughorn.
I'm pretty sure Voldemort and Sauron are at least partially based on him.
This man really just streaks across the land.
- How can we call you?
- Koschey.
- Officially, yes, you are replacing the deceased Koshchei, but what is your real name?
- Koschey. We are all Koshchei.(с)"Babilon 5" 😄
Koschei the Deathless obviously inspired the Harry Potter villain named Lord Voldermort.
And Rasputin from Anastasia
As well as Saruman from The Lord of the Rings
This guy is a dungeons and dragons lich!
Amazing! Love this video so much.
Great story😊👍❤.I forgot everything what my mom read to me as a kid .Now i remembered a little bit.
Have you done any videos on Celtic gods and heroes?
I was wondering how to pronounce his name. I read 'The firebird' to my son at bedtime (every night 😩) and I've mispronounced it each time 🤣
I first watched an episode from Myths and Monsters, learning about the Hero’s Journey and learning about the tale about Ivan rescuing his wife from the villainous Koschei. Now, after graduating from high school about ten and a half months ago, memorizing the Hero’s Journey and the rehearing the old tale of Ivan’s heroic journey brought me back memories. Planning to do that tale sometime on the day after my birthday or something like that?
Great video.
Really fascinating episode and the creature.
I rate it 5 out of 5 Matreshkas 🪆🪆🪆🪆🪆
Great research and attention to the details!
Koschei the Deathless: The First Necromancer
I actually watched the featured cartoon back in my youth, amazing cartoon by the way
Russian production in animation is truly underrated
A very interesting tale. Do you think with covering the Slavic myths you could do one of these on the Crusnik/Krushnik?
A Slavic vampire that feeds on other vampires? Color us intrigued!
@@MythologyUnleashed Plus i don't think anyone has covered them.
Look, I'm just saying we've never see Rasputin and Koshei in the same room
If koshei will have ally against Tsar Ivan Asen,I say let Tsar Simeon the great go make the fight even xD
My new headcanon lol
Except we now have. Koschei is the alleged true/birth name of the Gallifreyan known as the Master, who took on Rasputin's identity to lure the Doctor and steal/swap her body.
@@brainlock72 ah yes, I forgot about Doctor Who being the one correct authority regarding everything
Remember when that T-Rex terrorised Victorian London? All the Tabloids were all over that--and used it as political commentary for various cosmopolitan topics of the day
Neat to see where the inspiration for Horcruxes came from.
8:34 interesting information... i somewhat, *somehow,* feel honoured.
wait wait... he fit a duck inside a rabbit?? that's the best trick.
Not just sorcerer. he kind of ultimate viliant of Slavic folklore. He also using powerful magical sword, rules over all evil mystical creatures and have huge tresery with gold and many magical items
"This is the emerald heart of Koschei the deathless, he kept his life in this emerald heart but a woman stole it and he died." - From Sandman #38
Super Carlin Brothers did a video on how Koschei as the inspiration for Voldemort.
How about some Samhain mythos as the next video?
Wait, so you're telling me a Koschey is not a giant enemy crab?
Fun fact: Doctor Who's best frenemy the Master is alleged to have been called Koschei in his youth.
Your description at the end sure sounds like a regeneration cycle. The Master was granted a second set of regenerations; Missy circumventing Death, itself, for Twelve; and the suggestion that some versions of Rasputin are based on Koschei mean that the Master luring her to Russia to steal/swap her body while posing as Rasputin only adds to this.
missed out a lot about Ivan he was tasked to watch over baba yaga's herd of horses and she intentionally told the horses not to return but Ivan had already befriended a bird a deer and a bee which all helped get the horses to return to the stable on the last night Ivan was approached by the bee or the bird and they told him of baba yaga's plan to kill him so he then he stole a horse also missed out the several times Ivan tried to rescue Maria from Koschei's castle and he was caught loads until he found out that koschei got his horse from baba yaga's herd I cant remember the full story im scottish but its a cool story really cool story
The Villain of Stravinsky & Fokine's 1910 ballet The Firebird.
Skeletor, is that you?
6:36 What's the name of this Russian cartoon?
"The Apples of Youth" or "Rejuvenating Apples" - whichever way you wanna go about it. It's from 1970
I was thinking of Dorian Gray just before it popped up on screen!🤣
Seeing all of the different ways his soul was supposed to be able to escape being caught, reminds me a lot about Voldemort and his horcruxes.
Reminds me of the underking from daggerfall in looks
What is that movie that involves Koschei called?
What curse were the 2 people who disliked this under?
I give to you a DnD campaign with a lich boss at the end. Seriously though it's not to far off from how liches become immortal.
The version I read he had to find the tree to get the egg then break it. That of the last story.
The version I know is about Tsar Ivan Asen who decapitate the sorcerer and toss his head in the sea as punishment for his crimes.
You say he's exceptionally cruel, but the only evidence of that is his basic fairy tale rap sheet of kidnapping princesses.
Is that not cruel enough for you or just too generic
More Eastern European myth please
He reminds me of another famous icon Barragan Louisenbarn
Can you tell story about wenidgo
Wendigo! Sure we can add it to the list!
Yes
hi
Ice King from Adventure time comes to mind haha. Stealing princesses
Had the same though
That needle in the egg thing sounds like the forerunner to a horcrux.
Inspiration!
now .... i'm the deathless evil sorcerer .... lol .... you better keep that needle away from me ..... or i come after you .... muahhahahaha
In Bulgaria we don't fear deathless sorcerer's,we decapitate them xD
Out of all joke,this story is one of the legends About Tsar Ivan Asen of Bulgaria.
@@krivjeto i will come after you tooo .....muahahahahahaha
@@JustAnotherAsianGuy2
Good that the hero that killed koshei wear my name :P or I wear his it don't matter xD
Darth sidious with a beard
Main issue i have whit "koschei" ... pls tell me where u even got it? ... It is "Kostěj" when KOST mean bone. So, translated it will something like Boney Bone man or something like this. If every sour information is same good as it Koschei :D ..then gods bless u :D
I wonder if I will get stories made of me in the future?
I hope for your sake your wish comes true.
As for ME,,, well I’m from the very popular Cats Eye Nebula,,, so I’m always in stories 😺
@@NGC-catseye for your kind words i hope you have a really great week.
I just realised that this is almost the same story as with Voldermort/Tom Riddle form Harry Potter. Wonder if JKR did it conciously or if it is just a coincidence.
Honestly we assume she took the idea from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", but he definitely took inspiration from Slavic mythology among many other mythologies!
Rasputin
This guy is literally Voldemort, or Xehanort, or possibly Morgoth or Sauron, for that matter
Rasputin from Anastasia was my first thought
Alright he placed his soul in a needle but his physical body would still die would it not. I don't understand
Russian villain that doesn't die easily? That sounds familiar.
I think he was just misunderstood.
Rasputin!
Kahshee
Like the lich from adventure time.
#Myth100k
He say,the name Ivan is common in the folklore,well obviously Bulgaria have x2 Tsar Ivan-Asen(First and Second)both of them insipiring legends,and since Bulgaria is south Slav,no wonder Russians consider our Emperor's a mythical heroes...
the depiction here is far too much based on modern ad&d like fantasy wizard. Koshei is not a scholar of dark arts, nowhere is it said that he studies and all that style that comes with it. He is depicted much more often as a supernatural evil king than as a wizerd, when he is depicted as a wizard, it is not the style of a ad&d-like scholar wizard. He is also not undead in the modern fantasy sense in that he has not died and has been resurrected. If you want a modern fantasy parallel: Koshei is much more like Sauron than like Saruman. Or regarding warhammer: more like a vampire lord than like a necromancer.
Just want to point out that you say that all the fictional wizards we know of are based on this bloke just wanted to say that lord of the rings and Harry potter aren't real obviously but rasputin was a real a very real person and considered and dark sorcerer so if anything they all came from him not the other way around I mean if thus bloke was real then ok I'm wrong but I don't think he was whereas rasputin was 100% real
Koschei the Putin. Anyone find his egg yet?
Koschei = Seth= Saturne = Sauron = Allah = Loki = YHWH.
Cube of Saturne (kaaba)
MU2024
So rasputin but ugly