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Sepia-toned parchment-style illustration depicting the Black Queen of Medvednica standing in a stormy mountain landscape. Cloaked in flowing black robes, she raises a staff as lightning forks across the sky behind her.

The Black Queen of Medvednica: European Legend from the Croatia

High above the city of Zagreb, where the peaks of Medvednica Mountain pierce the clouds and ancient forests cling to rocky slopes, there dwells a figure of terrible beauty and awesome power. She is known throughout Croatia as the Black Queen Crna Kraljica a sorceress-queen whose legend has echoed through the mountain valleys for centuries uncounted. The Black Queen is
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