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Bannik near a Bucket of Water by Ivan Bilibin, 1934. The Bannik (Cyrillic: Банник) is a bathhouse spirit in Slavic mythology. [1] He is usually described as a small, naked old man with a long beard, his body covered in the birch leaves left over from well used bath brooms. [2]
Smoke-free bathhouse (or White Bathhouse; in Russian: Банька по-белому, "Heat the bath for me, hostess...", "Heat the smoke bath for me...") [1] [2] is a song by Vladimir Vysotsky, composed in the summer of 1968 during the filming of the movie Master of the Taiga in Siberia. A variant of the title is the Bathhouse. [3]
Bannik – Slavic bathhouse spirit. Banshee – Female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member by screaming, shrieking, or keening. Basajaun, Basandere – (Basque) hairy woodland spirit; Blafard – Albinos long surmised by Europeans to be the result of some kind of simian crossbreeding.
The bathhouses boast ancient cultural significance – the first recorded mention of them is from 440 BCE – but today, you’ll find them in your local high street, offering the same ritualistic ...
The bathhouse of the spirits cannot be seen as a place free of ambiguity and darkness. [45] Many of the employees are rude to Chihiro because she is human, and corruption is ever-present; [ 40 ] it is a place of excess and greed, as depicted in the initial appearance of No-Face. [ 46 ]
Cagaloglu Hamami Luxuriating in a bathhouse was a stalwart of ancient Rome, where these first spas were the go-to spots for healing and relaxation. But there are still bathhouses all over the ...
The bath-house was heated and the unsuspecting Drevlians entered and began to wash themselves. [Olga's] men closed the bath-house behind them and Olga gave orders to set it on fire from the doors, so that the Drevlians were all burned to death." [5] An early description of the banya comes from the East Slavic Primary Chronicle of 1113. [5]
Ba – Soul of the deceased, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird; Baba Yaga – Forest spirit and hag; Babi ngepet – Monster boar; Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people; Badalisc – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps; Bagiennik – Malevolent water spirit