Editing Drekavac (section)

{{Short description|Mythical creature in South Slavic mythology}}

'''Drekavac''' (literally "the screamer" or "the screecher"<ref name = "Levi">{{cite book | last=Levi | first=Pavle | title=Disintegration in frames : aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema | publisher=Stanford University Press | publication-place=Stanford, Calif. | date=2007 | isbn=978-0-8047-5368-5 | oclc=71581809}}</ref>), also called  '''drekalo''', '''krekavac''', '''zdrekavac''' or  '''zrikavac''', is a mythical creature in [[South Slavs|South Slavic]] [[Slavic mythology|mythology]]. The name is derived from the verb "drečati" ("to screech").