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=== Balkans ===
The [[South Slavs|South Slavic]] folklore of [[the Balkans]] features a supernatural procession of horsemen known as the Todorci that occurs on the first week of the [[Great Lent]] (known as the [[Todor]] or [[Theodore Tiron|St. Theodore]] Week)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bnr.bg/en/post/100102720/st-todors-day-folk-wise |title=St. Todor's Day, folk-wise |date=February 18, 2010 |publisher=Bulgarian National Radio |access-date=December 12, 2024 }}</ref> and attacks the people who consume or cook meat and dairy products. Sometimes these horsemen are instead depicted as monstrous [[centaur]]ic creatures whose torsos grow out of the horses' backs, not too dissimilarly to the traditional depiction of the [[Nuckelavee]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Гајић |first=Ненад |date=2021 |title=Словенска митологија |trans-title=Slovenska mitologija |language=Serbian |location=Београд |publisher=Лагуна }}</ref> The horseshoe-shaped wounds inflicted by the hooves of their steeds don't heal naturally; instead, the victim must visit the site of the attack one year later, where the wounds will either magically heal instantaneously if he's been living piously for the previous year, or kill him if he's been living sinfully. They can be defended against with garlic or an improvised cross made from forks or knives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Королёв |first=Кирилл |date=2005 |title=Энциклопедия сверхъестественных существ |trans-title=Entsiklopediya sverkh"estestvennykh sushchestv |language=Russian |location=Москва |publisher=Эксмо }}</ref>

In Serbia, stories involving the Todorci are generally concentrated in the north-west of the country. They're traditionally depicted as a procession of horsemen whose steeds lack tails. They usually appear on the night between Monday and Tuesday of the Todor Week. They're led by an elder man called Great Todor wearing a white cloak and riding a lame white horse. Certain versions of the story claim that he is St. Theodore himself.<ref name="Zečević">{{cite book |last=Зечевић |first=Слободан |date=1974 |title=Русалке и тодорци у народном веровању североисточне Србије |trans-title=Rusalke i todorci u narodnom verovanju severoistočne Srbije |language=Serbian |location=Београд |publisher=Гласник Етнографског музеја у Београду }}</ref>