spirits. However he was criticized already in 19th century, e.g., by Antoni Julian Mierzyński [pl], who also questioned the authenticity of the mythology of...

states that it's a borrowed word from Arabic, while philologist Antoni Julian Mierzyński states that it originates from the name of a Lithuanian tribe....

Curche, Prussian god mentioned in the 1249 Treaty of Christburg. Antoni Julian Mierzyński [pl] argued that kriwe was not a title but a proper name of a man...