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The sea vodyanitsa and the daughter of the Morskoy Tsar. She was usually described as an incredibly beautiful, often very tall maiden with disheveled hair that looked like sea foam. Most of the time she swam deep in the waters, taking the form of a fish, and came ashore only at the evenings. She was also believed to be the ruler of the sea winds.
Moryana (Russian: Моря́на, pronounced [mɐˈrʲanə]) is a female sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. [1] [2] Moryana was a sea vodyanitsa and daughter of the Sea Tsar, [3] [4] [5] and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds.
In Russian folklore, Chernava (diminutive: Chernavushka; Russian: Чернава, Чернавушка) is Sea Tsar's daughter (or, according to some versions, a niece), spirit and personification of the river of the same name. She is a mermaid. Her head and upper body are human, while the lower body is a fish's tail.
The Sea Tsar ("Sea King"; [24] "The Marine or Water King") [25] of Slavic folklore appears as the antagonist of the tale: a king with magical powers that forces the protagonist to perform difficult tasks, which the prince does with the help of the Sea Tsar's youngest daughter. [26] [27] The Sea Tsar or Sea King also appears in Slovak and ...
Sea Tsar by Ivan Bilibin, 1911. The Sea Tsar (Russian: Морской царь, sometimes inverted for emphasis: царь морской) is a character in East Slavic folktales and bylinas, the tsar of the sea realms. The best known examples are bylinas about Sadko and fairy tales about Vasilisa the Wise, such as The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the ...
Rusalka rejects this, throwing the dagger into the lake. Rusalka becomes a will-o'-the-wisp, a spirit of death living in the depths of the lake, emerging only to lure humans to their deaths. The gamekeeper and the kitchen boy are worried about the deteriorating condition of the prince, and go to the lake in order to get rid of Rusalka.
Andrey Ter tells PEOPLE his wife Olesya Taylor, 50, and youngest daughter Olivia Ter, 12, were among the 67 people killed when American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...
Rusalka's connection with the unclean dead makes her a bearer of the unclean force associated with other nature spirits. [19] Sometimes she is associated directly with the devil. [ 19 ] Like other nature spirits, she is thought to be weakened by the sign of the cross [ 19 ] [ 20 ] and certain magic words.