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The vodyanoy is a male water spirit of Slavic origin. The Czech and Slovak equivalent is called a vodník , Polish is a wodnik , in Russian it is vodyanoy and vodyanyk in Ukrainian . A South Slavic equivalent is vodenjak .
Etymologically related to the Slavic words divide, part. [19] Mat Zemlya: Gaia: Mat Zemlya is a personification of the Earth appearing mainly in East Slavic texts but remaining in most Slavic languages. [21] Perhaps epithet of Mokosh. Rod: Rod is a figure, spirit, or deity often mentioned in minor East and South Slavic texts, generally along ...
Domovoy, by Ivan Bilibin (1934) [1] In the Slavic religious tradition, Domovoy (Russian: Домовой, literally "[the one] of the household"; also spelled Domovoi, Domovoj, and known as Polish: Domowik, Serbian: Домовик (Domovik), Ukrainian: Домовик (Domovyk) and Belarusian: Дамавік (Damavik)) is the household spirit of a given kin. [2]
Folklorists have proposed a variety of origins for the entity, including that they may originally stem from Slavic paganism, where they may have been seen as benevolent spirits. [1] Rusalki appear in a variety of media in modern popular culture, particularly in Slavic language-speaking countries, where they frequently resemble the concept of ...
The Proto-Slavic root *navь-, which forms one of the names for these beings, means "dead", [3] as these minor goddesses are conceived as the spirits of dead children or young women. They are represented as half-naked beautiful girls with long hair, but in the South Slavic tradition also as birds who soar in the depths of the skies.
Bies / ˈ b j ɛ s / (Polish), bes (Russian: бес, Slovene, Montenegrin) or bijes (Bosnian, Croatian) is an evil spirit or demon in Slavic mythology.Under the influence of Christianity the word often became synonymous with chort.
Rozhanitsy, narecnitsy, and sudzhenitsy are invisible spirits or deities of fate in the pre-Christian religion of the Slavs. They are related to pregnancy, motherhood, marriage [1] and female ancestors, [2] and are often referenced together with Rod.
Their fondness for fighting is reminiscent of the teutonic Valkyrie and is unique in Slavic mythology. They possess supernatural powers and are able in the art of healing. They build splendid castles at the edges of clouds. They confuse men's spirits with their arrows. They steal children and substitute them with changelings. In Slovakia, vile ...