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  1. KURENT
  2. *Serbian
  3.  
  4. The stories about the sly triskster god KURENT, who makes a fool out of
  5. mandkind's representative, the giant Kranyatz, by getting him drunk with
  6. wine, were collected in Carniola in Serbia. The tales record a native,
  7. pagan, Slavonic mythology, to which Christian elements - in particular a
  8. single, all-knowing god - have been added.
  9.