bies

evil spirit or demon in Slavic mythology
Thing general Q2509384
bies
Пушкин Александр Сергеевич · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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bies

Summary

bies ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (102 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bies's image is recorded as Сказка о попе рисунок Пушкина crop.jpg[2].
  • bies's subclass of is recorded as supernatural beings in Slavic folklore[3].
  • bies's Commons category is recorded as Bies (slavic mythology)[4].
  • bies's said to be the same as is recorded as chort[5].
  • bies's said to be the same as is recorded as imp[6].
  • bies's said to be the same as is recorded as devil[7].
  • bies's said to be the same as is recorded as demon[8].
  • bies's said to be the same as is recorded as Bes[9].
  • bies's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01d29k[10].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[13].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[15].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Slavic antiquities[16].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Vlastenský slovník historický[17].
  • bies's described by source is recorded as Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[18].
  • bies's different from is recorded as Bies[19].
  • bies's different from is recorded as Bes[20].
  • bies's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1861775[21].
  • bies's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 78216[22].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for bies include Demons[23], a literary work[24], founded in 1870[25], written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[26] and The Monk and the Demon[27], a film[28], directed by Nikolay Dostal[29].

Why It Matters

bies ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (102 views/month).[1] bies has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30]

Entities named for bies include Demons[23], a literary work[24], founded in 1870[25], written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky[26] and The Monk and the Demon[27], a film[28], directed by Nikolay Dostal[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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