There are many all kinds of spirits and undead in Slavic mythology. The origin of the unclean in folk legends is associated with the Old Testament myth of the fallen angels, tired to praise God: those dropped from the sky, they got into the water, who is in the forest, who is in the field who are in the house.

Anchutka - Angry Spirit, at a later time - one of the Russian title names. Anchutka is associated with water and at the same time flies; Sometimes anchutka is called water, marsh: lives in a swamp. He has wings. Its ordinary epithets - "Notchy", "Rogova", "Capless" - mean belonging to unclean strength. In fairy tales, he is notching, because the wolf bit him off his heel.

Auka - Forest Spirit, relatives Lesme. Just like Leshel, loves to jumper and joke, people in the forest led. Scroll into the forest - from all sides of "Auknet". It is possible, however, to arouse out of trouble, saying the favorite saying of all the debates: "She walked, found, lost." But once a year, all ways to deal with forest perfumes are useless - October 4, when the left shaft. "Auka, tea, do you know? Auka lives in the hut, and he has a hollow with a gold moss, and he has the water all year round from the spring ice, a pomelo has a bear paw, Boyko leaves the smoke from the pipe, and in frosts warm by Auki ... Auka is tanic: knows a lot Wise docards, balalags, monkey will make it, will turn over the wheel and the fucking stool, Indus is scary. Yes, he is aka to scare "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea ocean ").

Babai - evil night spirit. He lives in the thickets of the root, and at night it wanders under the windows, noise, screames, knocking in the window. Baba frighten young children who do not want to go to bed. They say about him that he walks with a big kittomboy at night under the windows, will deepen a naughty child and will take it into the forest. "Ay, Bai, Bai, Bai, do not go, the old man, Babai, do not come on the hay's horses. Horses of the hay do not eat, everyone is looking at the target. Misha sleeps at night and grows around the clock. Ai, Bai, Bai, Bai, do not go to us, Babai "(lullaby song).

Bagan is the spirit of cattle, he protects them from painful seizures and multiplies the range, and in the case of anger, his females are clever or kills the lambs and calves with their birth. Belarusians are separated for him in cow and sheep geeks a special place and arrange small nursery, filled with Sen: here and the Bagag is settled. Sen from his nursery, they feed the hot cow, as a healing medicine.

Bannik (jannik, Laznik, Baine, Bannik) - an unclean spirit of undead, who settles in every bath behind the Kamenka, and most often under the regiment, which usually soars. He is known to all Russian people for evil disadvantage. "There is no evil of a banner, but there is no kind of good," they say in a native Novgorodchin, but firmly believe in his willingness to harm and strictly observe the rules of pleases and enhancing. It is believed that the bananic is always clean after all, and therefore everything is afraid of the fourth change or fourth steam: "he" throws, it will catch with hot stones, splashing with boiling water; If you do not kill the skill, i.e. Back in advance, it can completely sharpen. This hour (i.e., after three changes), the Spirit considers its own and allows you to wash only the hell: for the people, the bath pair relies about 5-7 hours in the afternoon. The bananik seeks to own the bath inseparable and is unhappy with all sorts of binding on his rights, at least and temporarily. Knowing a rare traveler, caught at night, will decide to look for a shelter here. Since the Banican lies a direct duty to remove from the battery of the Ear, then in his right, a volunteer to make an avgar on those who are unhappy. They enter the location of the banquer by bringing him a treat from a piece of rye bread, steeply sprinkled with a large salt. And in order to take strength to him forever, he brings a black chicken as a gift. Banbany tries to be invisible, although some assure that they saw him and that he is an old man, like all the spirits, to him are akin: no wonder they lived on white light such an innumerable number of years.

Jewelry (Relochnik) - angry homemade spirit. Arynk appears, after the terrible stories told on the night about any evil. He goes bare, so that it was not heard, as he stands over a man with her arms outstretched over her head (wants to know, scary or not). It will breed hands until the talked does not drive, and the person will not wake up in the cold sweat. If at this time you light the lady, you can see the runaway shadows, it is he. Unlike the houses, it is better not to talk to him, you can get dangerous. There are four-five in the house. The most terrible - the satuled dull, he has a mustache replace hands. You can protect yourself from the dull, but it is forgotten.

The drum is a character that appeared quite recently. Lives usually in urban apartments. He likes to jumper - knocks, noise, dishes dumps from the table, the paint will plunder, gas will lit, all sorts of it moves and throws. Prefers to live in those families where there are children. See him - no one seen. With those who will like it willingly talk, "answers all the questions. By type of character, it is possible to take it to the house-houses: the good owners relate to kindly, evil does not tolerate.

Bayunok (Cota Bayun) - the house spirit, fairy tale, night, songwriter. Sometimes he acts as a cat-Bayun: "At Lukomorye Oak green; / Child chain on Duck Tom: / And in the afternoon, and at night the cat scientist / everything walks around the chain circuit; / Go to the right - the song turns out, the left - the fairy tale says "(A.S. Pushkin" Ruslan and Lyudmila ").

Deams - In the Slavic mythology, evil spirits living everywhere on Earth are not only in heaven (heaven). It is in this sense that this term in folk creativity is used, especially brightly in conspiracies. Demons may be presented in various images. Characterized by the Russian proverb: "There is no care for his appearance, it goes in the subject." The most common image of demons in iconography and folklore is a dark, horned, taper, on the legs of the cooler. The activities of demons as tempted people are aimed at all people, but they are not particularly indifferent to monks, ascetates and deserts. "... in the box the demon will lead us, it can be seen, yes spinning around. Look: Won, Won plays, blows, spits on me; Won - now in the ravine pushes a wild horse; There, he stuck with an unprecedented, he stuck in front of me; Gam sparkled by hershed small and disappeared in the darkness of the night "(A.S. Pushkin." Demes ").

The goddinka is the female mythological characters of the Western Slavs. During the spread of Christianity, the good functions of the goddesses were replaced by "Christian virtues", and the functions of evil or negative spirits themselves are granted. The main function of the goddess has become the abduction and substitution of children. They are depicted in the form of old ugly women with a large head, born breasts, swollen belly, curves of legs, black fanging teeth (less often in the appearance of pale young girls). Often they are attributed to the chromoty (the property of unclean strength). They can also appear in the form of animals - frogs, dogs, cats, be invisible, appear as a shadow. They could be girlfriends who died to the commission of entering the church over them; kidnapped children, women; Souls of dead women, girls who got rid of the fetus or killing their children, suicide female, swirls, who died during childbirth. Habitating them - ponds, rivers, streams, swamps, less often - ravines, holes, forest, field, mountains. They appear at night, in the evening, at noon, at the time of bad weather. The characteristic of their actions is washing underwear, baby diapers with loud blows of rollers; The person's preventing person hurt and beat; Dance, bathe, mounted and brave passersby, rolled them, knock off the way; We hide the yarn; comb hair; Come to the women in labor, the names of them, call with them, fascinate them with voice, look; Cowitives, pregnant women. They replace children, throwing their freaks on their place; abducted children turn into unclean spirits; Multiple people at night, pressure, linger them, suck chest in children, men, satisfy damage on children. They are also dangerous for livestock: scare and lingering cattle on pastures, chasing horses, plowing the mane.

Boli-Boska - Forest Spirit. Lives in berry places. Spirit is crazy and cunning. Appears in front of a man in the form of an old man of the poor, weakness, asks to help find him the bag lost. It is impossible to give in to his requests - you will begin to think about the loss, the head will break, you will wander in the forest long. "Cherry! Here is the pain and Boschka! - I hid, it fits: you will drive, rags! The whole frozen, Karl, Quena, like a pace, bird's lip - Boschka's pain, - the Vosta Nose, the sleeves itself, and the eyes are sad, cunning-cunning "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea-ocean ").

Bolotnik (Mobolnik, Baggnik) - Marsh Spirit. Identical to water. Folk fantasy finds a swamp at a completely appropriate place to settle the unclean strength, as evidenced by many proverbs and sayings, for example, "where the swamps, the hell", "the hell will not be without a swamps, and a swamp without a damn", "in the still waters They are found "and others." This swamp is joking on you. It makes you dark strength "(A.A. Block." Boloto - deep vpadina ... ").

Bosorkun (Vitryanik) - Mountain Spirit. Together with a strong wind, she flies on the crop, ruins them, satisfies drought. Pulling on people and animals - causes sudden illnesses and ailments (for example, milk in a cow will be mixed with blood or completely disappear). Hungarian has a similar mythological character - Bosorcan, a witch, an ugly old woman who has the ability to fly and turn into animals (dog, cat, goat, horse). She can cause drought, send damage to people and animals. Harm people of Bosorcany predominantly at night. "Bosorkuna harm people mostly at night, the time of their special activity is Ivanov Day (June 24), the day of the Lutsy (December 13) and St. George's Day (April 24), the patron saint of cattle" (N.I. Tolstoy).

Vazila (stable, Tabunnik) - a patron spirit of horses, is present in a human image, but with horse ears and hooves. Every householder has its own vasile, which lives in the stable (Saraj), cares, so that horses have been working, protects them from diseases, and when they go to herd - removes the predatory beast from them.

Vedoni - souls living in the bodies of people and animals, and at the same time house geniuses that protect the generic property and the dwelling. Each person has its own Vocalone; When he sleeps, Vedogogo goes out of the body and protects the property belonging to him from the thieves, and his itself from the attack of other Vedogone and from the magical char. If the Vedogogon is killed in a fight, then a person or an animal, which he belonged, immediately dies in a dream. Therefore, if a warrior will die in a dream, then they say that the Vedogogo fought him with the Vedogo enemies and was killed by them. Serbs are the souls that have been producing vortices by their flight. Cernogorstsev is the souls of the deceased, house geniuses that protect housing and the property of their blood rhodium from the attack of thieves and alien Voyagon. "Here, you happy fell asleep, and your Vedogoga came out with the mouse, wanders around the world. And where - where does not go, on which mountains, on what stars! Walks, everything will be visible, will return to you. And you stand in the morning happy after such a dream: the storyteller will put the fairy tale, the songwriter will sing the song. This is all the Vedogogo for you and put on a fairy tale and a song "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea ocean ").

Viy (NIAM) - a mythical creature, whom the eyelids go down to the earth itself, but if you raise them with forks, then nothing will be completely conceived from his eyes; The word "vii" means eyelashes. Wiy - one glance kills people and turns to the ashes of the city and the village; Fortunately, the murderous look is closed by thick eyebrows and closely attached to the eyes of the eyelids, and only in the case when it is necessary to destroy enemy ratties or to light the enemy city, raise the eyelids to him. Viy was considered one of the main ministers of the black bog. He was believed to the judge over the dead. Slavs could never reconcile with the fact that those who lived unplainedly, not conscientiously punished. Slavs believed that the place of the execution of lawlessness inside the earth. Wiray is also associated with the seasonal death of nature during the winter. He was revered by the saturator of nightmares, visions and ghosts, especially for those who do not count the conscience. "... he saw that they were led by some squat, duke, a closure man. All was he in black earth. As a housing, strong roots, her legs and hands were outpathed. It is hard to step, it is fucked by cooling. Long eyelids omitted to the earth. Homa noticed horror that the face was on it iron "(N.V. Gogol." Viy "). "... now they are alone," one heads of a dd chuck yawned, and the other head was lit up, "Viy rests: he rose a lot of people to ruin his eyes, and only ash lies from the cities countries. Accumulates the strength, will take it again for the work "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea ocean ").

Water (waters, a waterfront) - water, evil spirit, and therefore, on all and everywhere it is ranked with real trapping. The people represent a water naked old man, with a large outstanding belly and swollen face, which fully corresponds to its natural nature. At the same time, like all the cloud perfume, he is a bitter drunk (no doubt that this quality was granted with the arrival of Christian "enlighteners", bringing with them the wine and consumption of strong alcoholic beverages). Varnvents are almost always married and have a rejection of children; They marry they are on the water waters, drowns and those unfortunate girls who were cursed by their parents and as a result of this curse were taped with unclean power in underwater villages. Incomipute the water to people is expressed in the fact that he tirelessly wakes up for every person who, according to a different need, in his raw and wet possessions. He takes on the irrevocable housing of anyone who will try to swim in the rivers and lakes after sunset, or at the very afternoon, or at the very midnight. By water, he draws his prey in the bible workers, forces them to overflow water, carry and move sand, etc. Never dying, water, however, on the changes of the moon change: they are young themselves on the module, they themselves turn into old men. In the south, they are presented with a human body, but with a fish tail instead of the legs; Water Nordic Cold Forests - Chumazy and Horned. Water is in an irreconcilable hostile relationship with the grandfather house, with which, at random meetings, it takes a fight. In the case when the water lives in the swamps, the Bolotnik is also called it.

Wolf Shepherd is the Vladyka of the Stormy Troops, which are subject to the heavenly wolves-Eaters of the Sun, following him with large flocks and in the wild hunting replacing dogs from the hounds. According to legends, the Wolf Shepherd leaves on a wolf, having a long Beach in his hands, or march ahead of the numerous flock of wolves and pacifies them with a draw. He is shown in the form of an old grandfather, he himself turns into a wolf, chops a predatory beast along the forests and attacks the village herds. This waswolf, stopping under the shady tree, turns out of the beast in an elder, collects wolves around himself, feeds them and makes it prey: one wolf orders the cow, to another sheep, a pig or a foal, a third of a person. Whoever appoints he to sacrifice the wolf, he, despite all the precautions, will no longer avoid his fate.

VOGUSES (VROGUH, GOROGA) - one of the sisters-fever, it sits down in the form of a white night moth on the lips of the sleepy and brings him a disease. In the Oryol province of the patient bathe in the brave of lime color. Removed from him the shirt of the patient should be taken to the river in the early morning, throw it into the water and moderate: "Mother's Pooh! On you a shirt, and you pump out from me away! " Then the patient returns home silently, without looking back. "The old spoon was released from Bor, went with a crutch on the field" (A.M. Remizov. "Fairy Tales").

Vriter - a demon who kidding the rain clouds for the winter.

Ottarashka - the personification of the love passion, depriving a person's mind: I will not take it with anything and you will not pound into the black stove, as one plot is expressed on the implace. "And he added the swan to Alay Dashtarashka, spread the wings of Eaire, - do not sill her in a black oven," illuminated by the restless hot blood, the regulatory heart, exhausted by Kupali fire "(A.M. Remizov." Fairy Tales ").

Garshuki - In Belarus, these are spirits living in the mountains that winds and bad weather are produced by their flight. Looks like small children; When they, playing, rushing the bulk, then the vortex rises from the rapid run and starts to twist the sand, and when they rush through the air, the flight of them produces a storm and bad weather.

The dual bed is a creature capable of containing two souls - human and demonic. The number "Two" in the Slavs, in contrast to the numbers "one" and "three", possessed supernatural power. Usually, the dual-head of the day behaves, like any other person, and at night he immediately falls asleep with a deep sleep, so it is impossible to wake it up. At this time, he wanders outside his body in the case of PSA, hare, horse, etc. Sometimes after the death of the adhesion, his pure soul goes to that light, and the unclean soul becomes a fiery. "... if anyone's wandering appendix will delay, he can kill his strength or strength of the wind, from which there is no salvation. The dual shoes can be wake up, turning his head to the place of foot. In the event of the Bladdan will be hurting at least two weeks. "(N.I. Tolstoy).

Dedko - live spirit; According to the beliefs of Western Slavs, the entire winter is sitting in the resident and eats reserves.

Grandparents (Dida, Diada) are the Slavonic Spirits of the ancestors. Grandfather - Guardian of the kind and, above all, children, of course. A senior man, a representative of the family elders, who pacifies passion inside the clan, keeps the basic principles of morality of the genus, strictly following their execution. Belarusians and Ukrainians called grandfather a home deity, guarding homemade focus, chimney, as if small Perunov fire, unlike the large - in the sky. The grandee was also called the forest deity - the keeper of Perunov Vlad. Grandfather prayed on the instructions, the opening of the treasure. In Belarusian keeper, golden treasures are called Dage. He walks on the roads in the form of a beggar with red, fiery eyes and with the same beard and, having met the unfortunate poor, gives him money. In the Kherson province, they say that the treasure is often in the form of an old man in isorang and dirty beggar clothes. In Ukraine, they are talking about old, Belovlas and St. Santa, who wanders around the world, and if he loses his nose, he immediately sent silver. Slavs had a special rite of honoring grandfathers in spring on the Radunitsa - the seventh day of Easter or in autumn. Having treated grandfathers and for Christmas, under the New Year. The souls of the deceased relatives were invited to the house and sacrificed them with food, pouring it under the table or exposing outside the window. Foods were also attributed to the cemetery and put on the graves. Grandparents were depicted in the form of "boobs" with rachin. In Belarus, during the rite, the owner tried three times a burning raucion around the table, making the fusion of the souls of the dead.

House-Domozhil (Dobrovil, Dobrozhot, Kormaltz, Grandfather, Sousse, Batan, Other Half, Girodik, Lizun, Posture, Carookhi, Muck, Jester, Saddle, Sadol) - a representative of the focus, on the initial value there is a god of Agni, the identity of PERUN-RUNUZH . As an incarnation of fire, burning on a homely focus, the house was honored as the founder and lord of the kind. This is a little old old man, all covered with heat, cosmoda wool. On the entire forest north of Russia for his hunt joint residence with the Orthodox Russian Luda, the brownie is called Sousse and Batan. In the families of the Olonetsky Territory, it is even his honorable name another half. In any case, he - Domozhil, and for the custom of living in warmth and the hall - girovik and lysun. For the fact that he is still the essence of the invisible, indisputable and genuine "undead" (neither spirit, nor a person), the houses are called still as a ghostly creature, ghost. Sometimes it is called him and "Carnoim" for the fact that he does not have enough one ear. In Belarus, it is also called the skidder - the keeper of houses and storage rooms. If the house is angry, then it is taken for the same tricks as someone else's house. Therefore, he is called a jester, bump and sadol. In Russia, the initial founder of the kind, the first organizer of the family hearth, and therefore the concept of him is not crushed into many homogeneous spirits: there is only one house in each house. The activities of the houses are limited by the possessions of the family with which he is connected by the sacred bonds of kinship and cult; He cares only about his home. In Russia, the house is also a patron of chickens, and in honor of it on November 1, a special festival is committed, known as the "Chicken name".

The house-courtyard - received his name in the place of normal residence, and by the nature of relations to homeowners, he was counted for evil spirits, and all the stories about it are reduced to the torment of those pets, which he will not be built. The appearance of the courtyard is similar to Domozil. He is always in friendship only with a goat and a dog, the rest of the animals dislikes, and the birds do not obey him. Especially does not tolerate white cats, white dogs and a short horses - a knowledgeable owner tries not to keep such animals. Gifts to him are made on the iron villas in Nurserie.

Drema - Evening and Night Spirit. He loves children, and with adults is not so gentle. Comes in twilight. "Lulya, Drema came, / under the brother of Brela, / Sasha lay down in a supporter. / Sasha hugged the handle "(lullaby song).

Ghirovik is one of the numerous nicknames of the house-housework. Zhirovik call him for loves to live in warm and the hall. More innocent "Lizen" or "Lizun" for some everyday habits: hurts at night with dishes, licks her, loves to lick hot pancakes and pancakes. It prefers to live behind the stove or underground, loves to ripe near the stove. The creature is invisible. "Oh, grandmother, go home, Lizun came, flour licked oatmeal, juzhane, wheat, lapel ... and the tongue-from Lizun as a grater ..." (E. Shtomakov. "Celebre").

Heads - evil spirits, small creatures, who, settling behind the stove, remain invisible and bring the house of misfortune: no matter how great the owner's wealth is, it will quickly begins and instead of satisfaction the poverty will come. There is a spell: "Nonhai his gloomy will beat!". With their tiny growth and restless character, they resemble house dwarfs and thus give a testimony of the most ancient connection of the mythical personification of fate and death with natural thunderstorms (another certificate - the ability of transformations). In a folk tale, they play the same role as grief, famously and underwent. The Belarusians preserved the proverb: "They have been flooded for three days, and in three years they will not survive!" The worships are in the light and are located on living with societies; Similarly, according to the testimony of the people's sayings, "the trouble does not come alone," the troubles of the Renites go. " Ukrainian "Bodayy you broke!" - The wish of misfortunes, "to the slide" - to hell. "Smoy, mother, look, Von your son with a piece of bread and a stick threw a house and goes on the spool of stones - where the eyes look, and the worship - satellites of grief, whispering around the neck, whisper on the ears:" We are not backward from you! " (A.M. Remizov. "To the sea ocean").

Igosha - a kikimore relative; A stillborn child, nearby, miscarriage, freak without hands and without legs, which is in the hollow and disturbing the householders with his leprosy.

Icytics - evil spirit from the genus of water. Also, as well as water, Icytik lives in rivers and other reservoirs. In terms of its functions, he is a water assistant (in water a lot of helpers and except for it - for example, mermaids and shishi). All small work is performed by Icytics - the shore is waved, the bridge destroys, the crops floods. He looks like a water, only a rostic did not come out. Like all the undead loves to play cards, drink a mug. Sleeps from Nikita autumn to Nikita of Sprint.

A native - the man whom the slave went around - loses meaning and memory.

Karakonjaly (Karakondjuli, Karakondjo) - Southern Slavs have water demons. Out of water or from caves and unclean places for the period of Christmas. Speakers in the guise of horses with human head and two hands or wings; naked people covered with spines; shaggy red or black demons with tails and horns; Little men loveing \u200b\u200bpeople to ice; In the guise of dogs, sheep, calf or asphot, horned and tailed person. "It was believed that after midnight attack people, ride them to the first roosters or the first donkey cry, chasing people around the village, fields, on the banks of the river. They are afraid of fire, iron, ashes from badnica, bread, salts, etc. " (N.I. Tolstoy).

Karachun (shortoon, Kherechun, Korkuch) - Angry Spirit (Belarusian, Korokhun - "Sudden death at a young age, convulsions, evil spirit, cutting life," Rus. Karachun - "Death", "Death", "Angry Spirit"). Karachun is also the name of the winter solvent and the holiday associated with him - Christmas (in Transcarpathia Krachun - Christmas Pie). The name shorten is closer to the names of Kert and Krak, which denote the Slavic Sitivrat. Horutan and Croatians have the word "Kert" is used in the meaning of "fire", there are a saying: "Not everyone go to the Kerta, other to hell." "In a white fur coat, Bosoy, shooking with white lohmas, shaking a bird of a big beard, shortening his dubber in a stump - and the frozen Eyuzy ranks, scraject frosts, and the air is cracking and breaking" (AM Remizov. "Fairy Tales").

Kladovik (pantry) - Spirit that protects the treasures and values \u200b\u200bburied to the land. In the north, his name is "storeroom" and recognize that there are two guard: "Layun", called so for drawing to the dog-like, at the first attempted to the abduction of the treasure; The other is "tunny", which protects the treasure in the form of a white bird of the poultry.

Tellene - so in Belarus they call the keeper of houses and storage rooms. This is one of the nicknames of the house-yard, in which the space is clearly indicated, within which the power of the house is honored and the victims are brought. All household houses are dodged to help house-yard. Their work, in some places, is not considered for independent, and everything is entirely attributed to one "host." In the other places, it vaguely distinguish the works of each domestic spirit separately.

A column is a witch assistant. "A gray owl was sitting on the roof - Damn Bird, and a feet of legs, at the door, having a hunger, satisfying: a panty is not a panty, kiguzy and a variegary, with a sagging, empty, sluggish goiter ... This is a goiter, he collects everything that he collects that The witch will reach: oil, cream - and milk, all extraction. I'll pick up the rank and drags for the witch, and at home everything will be out of the goiter, like from the bag, the witch and eats: the oil, cream and milk ... - From the dog, the witch did it: our dog was shattered - the shine was shattered! - took a witch place - where the puppies of Shumkov lay, it was spoiled, dragged into the hut in the back corner under the stove, and after seven days I was on the white light and came out. I am a column, like a dog son ... "(A.M. Remizov." Fairy Tales ").

Corgoroshi (riquitoes) - in the East Slavic mythology, household helpers; The view is similar to cats, most often black suit, hence such dislike and fear at the sight of a black cat. According to South Russian beliefs, they bring supplies and money from other houses to its owner, warming up from under the nose of a negligent neighbor-yard. Because of this, the yard is most often quarreling. During these quarrels, Korogorushi quobrobrify, beat the dishes, turn everything upside down in the house.

Creeks - Varaks - a mythical being, the personification of the orphanage. If the child shouts, you must bear it in the knot and, shaking, sort: "Creeks varaks! Go for steep mountains, for dark forests from a baby of such something. " Cricke - Plaks. Varaks - Pleaspel. "Creeks-Varaxa poured because of the steep mountains, climbed to the ass to the garden, pulled up the tail of the Popov Mavel, fought in Malinnik, they squeezed the dog's tail, played with the tail" (A.M. Remizov. "Fairy Tales").

Kurt - Bes. Once a giant man and the Kurt argued among themselves, who had white light. They fought for a long time, they wondered all the earth and made her as she was now: where were the wide plains before, there were high mountains and deep abyss. None nor the other thanks to the enemy. Then the Kurt took the vine and squeezed so hard that wine struck her; This wine he sought man at the time when he sat on a high mountain behind God's table (there was an allegory pointing to the way of imprisonment of a white man through the use of alcohol and smoking). Soon god crushed and saw a man dormant at the table; God was angry and threw him a strong hand from the mountain down, why did he lay a broken and semi-limiter for many years. When a person recovered, his strength disappeared: he could not rod across the sea, nor go deep into the earth, nor to go down to the heavenly table. So he won the coar with light and man, and people have become weak since that time and small (deliverance of a person from these vices will return to him the former power and divine abilities). In some areas, it is a crazy and cheerful demon, which is a game of Huslya and Dudka, heals the disease and makes everyone dance without rest.

Files (lying) - the spirit of straw. Like many spirits of Slavic mythology, the fiery sleeping is sleeping. Wakes up only with the arrival of spring. In the summer, it wakes up and waiting for the end of the summer to climb into a fresh bunch of straw and fall asleep (is the personification of the winter sleeping of nature, the plant world; the drowsy and lazy person is sometimes called him name). No one has ever seen him. Sometimes only someone in straw will be slammed on a hot noon, and someone's sigh will be heard. "From last year's straw, shook the lumpy - the Bes Solomin, striking the warm straw. And the meadow responded, thugged, and the whole coast was lashed and stolen, and Zaachukal, shot the woods of the dragonfly "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea ocean ").

Forests - Forest Perfumes, Forest Relatives, Old Mans and Olders. The view of their own they are like hedge. Also, like a loving, love to hide and play. Most of the timber time sleeps - they wake up a very short period of time: since the end of the summer until the middle of the autumn. Oloncan in their thick and fierce forests live "Forest old men" or "fathers", which are cleaned into the forest of children, but for what purpose they keep them there and what they feed - the most minor people cannot say. "Old mans and old women are sitting in last year's leaves, grabbed hands, jump in the forest, whistling on the whole forest, without a head, without a tail, jump, like whistle" (A.M. Remizov. "To the sea-ocean") .

Forest perfumes - they were originally represented as follows: Cosmonial creatures with goat legs, beard and horns, reminiscent of satirs and favnes of the ancient world. If they are dressed, then in Barani Tulup; These Tulupes are not subduous and flourished in the wind, like the Wild Hunter cloud mantle. Later received names their own.

Leshel (Free, Lyad, Forest, Righteous, Leshak, Lesovik, Lester, Lisun, Polizun, Schitun, Bolshoi, Bully, Dicky Guy, Music, Tsarek with Golden Horns, Forest Tsarek, Lord Over Forest) - Forest Surface, Full and Unlimited Forest The owner of the forest: all the beasts and birds are in his jurisdiction and obey him unrequited. The led differs from other spirits by special properties inherent in one: if he goes to the forest, then the growth is equal to the highest trees. In the Kiev and Chernihiv provinces distinguished Lisunov and wildlife; The first presented with giants of a grayish and ash color, the latter were told that they were equal to the height of bread, growing in the field, and after the harvest, they are filled and made such tiny as a stubble. Like all the thunderstorms, Leshel can take various images, and thus gets closer to theft. Most often, he is a hefty man, but also in this human image retains demonic signs: on it the battles of the fur coat, but as always happens in the unclean strength - irreducible and laversed with the left half. Worn by their forests, like tremendous, with extreme speed and always without a hat. He does not see eyebrows and eyelashes, but it can be clearly seen that he is carookhi (there is no right ear) that his hair on his head is grieving left. They represent him and one-eyed, which indicates affinity for its giants-cyclopes. Possessing the ability to turn over, the debate often pretending to be passersby a man with a kick behind the shoulders. If the slave is shown naked, it is easy to notice how he was going with the generally accepted image of the trait: on his head Horn, the legs goat, head and all the lower half of the body of the shaggy, in Cosakh, the beard goat - Wedge, on the hands of long claws. In Belarus, it is called the Forest Music, which Morit from the owners of cattle, sucks at night in the cows milk and makes the Niva infrequietary. In the Vladimir province of Leshego called Dikinhiki peasant. Near Ryazan believe that the Tsarkes with gold horns live in the forests. The debt not so much harm people how many will be joking and joking and, in this case, their parents-houses are completely likened. They will be rolled roughly, as it is decently clumsy to forest residents, and evil is joking. The most common techniques of leprosy are to make a person in a thicket in such a place, from which it is not to get out, or to push the mist into the eyes, which will certainly beat, and the lost person will break through the forest for a long time. However, the Leshem still does not lead people to the direct destruction. People are loose punisha for the use of indecent words and pronounce curses.

Liste - old blind spirit, leader of the forest, his wife and assistant - Baba Listi. They are not so brown and nimble, like ladies, sit in a pile of leaves near the stump or in the ravine and command, to whom when to rustle. In the fall, first, the light whisper is heard - this LISTIN LISTINES is advised and prescribed to forests. And then she is rustling and noise, dances of fallen foliage, to know, scattering is played. "It will pass by the tree with a chip of Lutish, instead of leaves, do not be afraid: Liste is not terrible. Lutin only likes to scare "(A.M. Remizov." Fairy Tales ").

Fever (LIKEKA, Lojo Manka, Manya, Kuma, Dobrukha, Aunt, Girlfriend, Dietuha, Rogging, Non-Warm, Sharbby, Shaking, Cracker, Sharbits, Pussy, Shake, Grandfather, Lady, Lady, Church, Znobey, Zabuch, Student, fever, Winter, Net, Gnotnica, Gnetubuha, Beneficker, Grynosh, Beagle, Gluffy, Slaughter, Lyryya, Liangia, Lommer, Poslast, Pukhnei, Puffy, Plumpy, Dutyha, Even, Yellow, Jaundice, Justice, Korkush, Court, Emerging, Looking, Firewall, Neva, Nava, Navier, Dance-Vitsa, Sukhota, Droke, Zewnota, Yaga, Sleepy, Pale, Easy, Excellent, Fall, Water, Blue, Half, Subtya, Niza, Veretnitsa, Row, Vesnyanka-Silannitsa) - Ghost in the form of an evil and ugly Virgin: a stupid, frozen, feeling always hungry, sometimes even blind and beyless; "Besztsie, having a creeping of the eyes, and Ruzi Iron, and the Vlasa camel ... In humans, the evil dirtiffs of creativity, and the bones are female Ishasti, the fabric is fastened, and the baby will die, and the eyes of abruptly, relaxes, relaxation. Fever - nine or twelve winged sisters; They live in the gloomy dungeons of hell. One of them - the eldest - commands his sisters and sends them to the land to torment the human race: "Body burn and znobyat, white bones twist." On January of January, frost or winter drives them out, along with the unclean power, from Hell, and fever is looking for refuge on warm dressing and attack "guy". Believers it is agreed by the colds and chills, which are so ordinary in the cold season of winter. Fevers calculate their names and describe those flour with which each of them is tormented by a patient (see above: for example, a knast man - "Aki is a strong storm tree break, also she breaks bones and back"; yellow or jaundice - this "yellowing man, aki Color in the field "). Neva (dead) - the oldest sister fever. To get rid of the fever, you can wear a snake out of the snake (serpent, who crawled out of the hole) without removing it overnight or in the bath. "And they are stiff and frozen - cow Death and a Sortean-Sortie Sortie sister running around the village, an old woman in the White Savana, I clicham. They had a lot of trouble - eat their wolf - then the subtyaper will take it under the tune, then the yard will interpret - the manual, then it snaps from the spindle yes, it will jump in Pryuu - Veretnitsa, it will pop up from the marsh ball - Bolotnitsa: to spoil the cattle, to remove the blusher Persons, put the arrows in the back, hook a fingers, shaking the body on the hands "(A.M. Remizov." Fairy Tales ").

Meadow - Spirit of meadows, a small green man in herb clothes, helps to mow grass during hay. It is considered to be a wildworker (field). Runs in the meadows and catches birds in food to his parent. It happens very angry when the pcs are playing - he drives grass into a violent growth and it turns her out, which is not cut, not break; And then he dries the grass to the root. If the kosari will come to such a pouch - Spit River.

Lit (Chaommer, play, black jester, Likhnovets, bummer) - Devil.

Lyader - a man who flew by the evil spirit, - surely go crazy.

Baby Mary - settle in the outstands; In their image, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe thunderstorms merges with the shadows of the departed.

Mara (Maruha) - the soul of the deceased; identical with kyimochi, i.e. These are babies who are unresolved or damned by their parents, and therefore the unclean power fell under power. In Russia, these are the old small creatures of the female, which are sitting on the furnace, they are strained at night, and everyone whisper and bounce, and people throw bricks. In Poshechon, Mara is a beautiful, high girl, dressed in all white, belong to the field spirits. In Olonetskaya province Mara - an invisible creature, living in the house besides the house, with obvious signs of Kimori (hovering at nights on a spire, which they forgot to bless, River Kuthel, confuses yarn). Northern Velikorsov Mara - a gloomy ghost, which in the afternoon sits invisible behind the oven, and at night it comes out with spindlers, a bark and started yarn.

Meadow - Brother Meadow (meadow), the same small, in the clothes from the grass, but not green, and black. It runs on boring, guarding it, just like a brother, looking for food to his pool to his parent. He punishes those who violated between them, turns it illegally, establishes and corrects the pests, helps the workers in the field. But if it finds a person sleeping on the bombardment, it is poured on it, the neck will turn the grass and shakes.

Mora - the evil spirit of disease and death; In Serbia and Montenegro, it is recognized for the demonic spirit that flies out of the witch in the form of a moth (the generally accepted presentation of the soul), "Pritious and Davi" at night the sleepy people and the "Sugusta's breath".

Sea cow (cow or commander death, Siberian ulcer) - Plague cattle; ugly old woman who has hands with rakes; He himself rarely enters the village, and the larger part will be captured by invisible. It is shown predominantly in the fall and early spring, when the cattle begins to suffer from nonsense and bad weather. Cow Death often takes on the image of a black dog or a cow and, raging between herds, infects cattle. In Tomsk province, the Siberian ulcer appeared in the form of a high shaggy man, with hooves on the legs; He lives in the mountains and leaves there, sacking the curse: "Team Yazvi!", "Thin!".

Sea people (pharaohs) - in Ukraine they say - "Shaho half of Chodovik, and half of Ribei." When the sea is worried, marine people swim on the surface and sing songs. In other places of these marine people, they call the Pharaohs, mixing the ancient legend of the sea with a biblical legend of the pharaoh man, Power in the Waves of the Black Sea. They say that these people are with fish tails and that they have the ability to predict the future.

Mokhovoy is a tiny spirit of green or brown, lives in MCU, punishes those who collect berries in aphirtic time. Mokhovoy bypass by all sorts of deepened into the thicket. He either leads to such a place from which it is difficult to get out, or force around the forest in the same place. Usually, Mokhovah does not lead people to death, but only to dilute, and let go.

Naval (Navier, Nava) - initially the lower world in the Slavic three-level worldview. In late Slavic mythology, the embodiment of death. In the ancient Russian monuments Navier - the dead. The relative name of an independent deity is in the list of Polish gods. In other Slavic peoples, this is a whole class of mythological creatures associated with death. In Galicia, there is a legend about the happy people of Rakhman, living behind the Black Seas. In South Rus, this people call Nava, celebrated by them is a day - Naval or Rusal. Bulgarian Navi - evil spirits, twelve sorcerers who suck blood from the pupils. Bulgarians also have boys stillborn or dead without baptism become embarrassing. "In Navius, the" Octokes "of the dead" (P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky were held here. "In the forests").

Undead - creatures without flesh and soul - everything that does not live by a person, but has a human appearance. The word was formed from the verb "to live" with a negative particle "not" and in value, directly corresponds to Moran (death) and the clarified diseases known to the Slavs under the general name of Mora. Undead Molia. Characterized by the Russian proverb: "There is no care for his appearance, it goes in the subject." Many names of the characters belonging to undead are related to the place of their habitat: Leshe, wildfish, omotnik, etc. The external characteristic features include anomalous (for a person) manifestation: a sipid voice, howl, the speed of movement, the change of appeal. The ratio of non-residential to people is ambiguous: there are milk demons, there are also kindness. "So I got angry with the old fir and wander - the blue cosma is wounded. It comes quietly, pulling dirt on MCU and the swamp, breaded the marsh water, the field goes, the other goes, unreachaded, without a soul, without a cup. That he will cross the bear, then quieter quiet cattle will cast, it will turn into a bush, he burns fire, then as the old man's dust-legged - beware, I will seek! - then a dull boy and again, as the board, he - he scarecrowed "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea-ocean ").

Nikola (Mikola) - the name of the Spirit, later the next to St. Nicholas (Greek Nikolai - from Nikola and Laos - the winner of the peoples), which is considered as a patron of all workers. Southern Slavs Nicholas the Forest Spirit, who is free living in the forest (nor the cola ...). "And the Nikola will come down and demolished iron and puts from the ground to heaven and the ban on three keys gilded, and those keys will throw in the Okian Sea; (in the Okyan-Sea) Lies Stone-Alatyr: you would not fly away the stone, and you do not park the keys on my word "(spell).

Nights (varnica) - female mythical creatures, which at night, especially on Fridays, knock and sagate in the outstands; Baba is afraid that they do not straighten all the flax, and hide their keen on them. Identical Maruham.

Night lights (Creaks) - night spirits-demons. They are attacked mainly on newborn children, before baptism. This is an uncertain type of creature. Sometimes presented in the form of women with long hair in black clothes. Nightnights become after the death of a witch woman who did not have children. "From the fear of the mother's nights, they are stuck after sunset to leave a diaper on the courtyard, leave the house and endure the child; do not leave open and do not swing an empty cradle, use various wubblers (plants, needle, etc.); Do not bathe children and do not erase diapers and linen in the "night" (historic) water "(S.M. Tolstaya).

Ostrich - Spirit, guarding seeds and sowing, is responsible for the quantity and quality of the crop.

Ories (Gumennik, Podvestoinnik) is the most evil from the house spirits: it is difficult to feel, to humble, if he becomes angry and will appear in the hearts. His eyes are burning with kalen coals, like a cat, and he himself looks like a huge cat, magnitude with the courtyard dog, - all black and shaggy. Knows how to bark and laughs no worse than Leshego. Sitting under the garden in Yamina is indicated by him in order to look at the orders of sheep masonry, watch the time and timing when and how to flood a rash, not allowing it to do great holidays. He is angry, so the coal will throw off between the gravis and will give all OVIN to engage and burn. Lives this spirit in OVIN; Shaggy, and one hand naked and authentic than the other. He punishes his bare hand, throws the unearned owners of heat into unlocking sheaves. Eyes of this spirit of multicolored, fur coat inside out; In mad weather he sleeps. A shaggy hand pulls rarely to guess the girls wealth. In the Sauna of Light Sunday, the girl puts his hand into the window of the Ovina: If the Spirit does not touch the hand - in girls walk, naked hand - the ointler will be touched by a shaggy hand, to know, for a rich will go.

Ozumentnik (Gumennik) - Spirit living in Humna (Khumno - a place where they are hammering, as well as a shed for compressed bread) and Riga; Although it is considered to be a household spirit, but very angry: it is difficult to be delicious. It will become angry - neither crosses in all corners, nor prayers, nor the icons will help - the decellers then Humna with a poker in the hands of September 4 at Agafon-cuisnik. In other places, they say, you can draw it, if you bring pies and a rooster: the rooster on the threshold cut off the head and blood is drip through all corners. "Going to aimno and bring the sheaf straw was considered one of the greatest penalties, since at night they don't go to the paws of Ozumentnik ..." (all year round. Russian agricultural calendar).

Half - the house spirit, the extreme degree of laziness (work - sweat, lazy to challenge).

Planetages are mythical creatures that are in the rain and domestic clouds that control the movement of clouds, precipitation, wind, weather. During the spread of Christianity, it was added that children are turned into them who died unresolved, fled or sent by the mother, poisoned or killed; Drill, Handers, and others. Exotic dead, children of goddesses and cutlets (garages). Meanwhile, recognition in the Christianity of the existence of various deities, spirits, angels, archangels, etc., that is, not people (disembodied) speaks of the recognition of Christianity agencies and the attribution of this religion to paganism. Albums could also become planetary, who during a thunderstorm, storms were transferred to the sky. Sometimes the planetary fell on the ground with a clouds together with the shower or went to the ground to fix the trimmed rope. The planetary could fall on the border sat down, went to the nearest village and asked for the first oncoming milk from the black cow and the eggs from the black chicken, and then returned to the border and from there, together with the fog, it was crawling on his cloud. Plannits were friendly in relation to the oncoming people, they warned them about Bure and Grad. It is believed that the planetary feeds in the clouds of flour, which people are thrown on the wind or in the fire to protect against hail. Planoties could be called ordinary people who could predict the weather and drive off the clouds from their village (with the help of sharp iron guns, a special stick, which was swapped a frog and a special conspiracy and prayer, etc.).

Replacing - sometimes instead of the stolen child, Mary put their child. Such a change is distinguished by an evil character: he is cunning, Dick, unusually strong, voracious and shouting, rejoices all the trouble, does not utter a word - until he is forced to do any threat or cunning, and then his voice sounds like an old man. Where he settles, the house brings misfortune: cattle ills, housing winds and falls apart, enterprises fail. He has a tendency to music, which is revealed and the rapid success of him in this art, and his wonderful strength of his games: when he plays some tool, then all people, and animals, and even inanimate things are indulging in the irrepressible dance. To find out whether the child is really changed, it is necessary to breed the fire and boil the water in the eggshell, then the replacement exclaims: "I am old as an ancient forest, and did not see it to be cooked in the eggshell!" - And then then disappears.

Field - spirit, attached to guard bread fields. The appearance of the wildflower in folk mythology is smuthen. In some places, it seems in the form of an ugly, little man. Relatively good, but the rolling in the field, the field crew has a lot in common with the houses, but by the nature of the leprosy itself, it resembles Leshgo: it also knocks down from the road, turns into a swamp and in particular sweats over drunk pahacars. In the field, unlike other unclean, the favorite time is noon. Like all unclean spirits, woodwickers - bribers, pride and capricious. "Another old man - flourished in the boundless steppe in the middle of the Kovyl, where and cranes, and the drams with their heads are not visible and the Supreme Lake with a spear is not visible together: there I buried myself an old man in the land in the belt and tolerates how the bulk worm is heated, and he sehes him only Cooker, who themselves crawl into his mouth; And this wilderness is called an old pool, and the age of five hundred years "from the" Will Hour of God ").

Field grandfather (wildfish, buckwheat, jersey) - Living Spirit; In the summer half of the year lives in the Niva. When the bread will ripen, and the in the middle of the village begins or mowing it, the chewing runs from the sickle and braids and hides in those spikes that still remain on the root; Together with the last-cut spikes, he comes across the arms of the rebel and in the last railing brand is brought on the farmer or in the house of the farmer. This shep is dressed up with a doll and put it in a guise place, under the images. They believe that her stay in the house brings the owner, his family and the residents of God's blessing.

Polison (Lisuun, Liswick) - Lord of the Forests, whom folk fantasy depicts a shaggy and goat legs. Is identical to the wolf shepherd.

Field of breath contributing to human affairs, their success.

Ghost (ghost) - the soul of the deceased or absent being, which may be making a living person. The usual habitat is in abandoned houses and in cemeteries or in the forest, next to the guarded treasure. May come to the house to a person and demand from it any services. Ghost transparent, it does not discard the shadows. The only opportunity to escape from him is to flee without looking back, if you wander - die.

Prokudi - one of the nicknames of houses; Pluts, outstands, purses.

Pushhevik - Forest Spirit, living in the impassable forest. "Every movement here seems to froze; Any cry scares to tremble and goosers in the body. Breaks hesitated by the wind rubbed one about the other and creak with such force, which cause an acute pain in the observer under his heart. Here, the feeling of painful loneliness and invincible horror comprehends any efforts, he would do any effort. Here, everyone is terrified by his insight and powerlessness "(S.V. Maksimov." Unclean, unknown and criticism ").

Rzhanitsa - Spirit living on rji stripes. All the plant kingdom seemed to be an ancient person by the embodiment of natural spirits, which, connecting his being with trees, shrubs and herbs (enjoying in their green clothes), the nature of forest, field or resident geniuses was obtained. Rzhanitsy arrange live - tracks in rye in a small wristband, for which all the ears are cut off.

Sarieta - Yard Spirit, whose residence is a barn. Similarly, like other courtyard perfumes: Ories, Tellene, Ozumentnik, Gluch, Saraine, then WORLD, then, without any visible reasons, begins to roll, fool, causing constant anxiety, obvious losses in the farm. In such cases, decisive measures are used and, instead of affection and deputy, come with it to the open struggle.

Satanail (Satan) - in the Slavic legends of the evil spirit. The name Satanal dates back to Christian Satan, however, the Satanail function is associated with archaic dualistic mythologies. In the dualistic cosmogony, Satanail is an opponent of God-Demiurge. In the Middle Ages South Slavic and Russian "Tale of the Tiberia Sea", the Tiberiaty lake in Palestine is represented as the primary bustard ocean. God descends through the air to the sea and sees Satanail, floating in the appearance of Gogol. Satanal calls himself God, but recognizes the true god, the Lord over all the gentlemen. " God tells Satanail to dive on the bottom, bring sand and flint. The sand God scattered around the sea, creating the earth, flint broke away, left his right part, left by Satanail. Having hitting the staff about the flint, God created Angels and Archangelov, Satanal also created his demonic man. "... Magitis told about how God washed in the bath, sweated and sank with a vest, which he dropped from heaven to the ground. Satan began to argue with God, who will create a man from her (he himself created the body, God put the soul). Since then, the body remains in the ground, the shower after death goes to God "(" Tale of Bygone Years ").

Death is a mythical creature; Russian monuments (vintage manuscripts, wall painting and cheerful paintings) depict death or a ruin, connecting the similarities of human and animal, or dry, a bony human skeleton with grinned teeth and a failed nose, because the people call it cure. Death was recognized as unclean, an evil force, because in the tongue, and in the beliefs it clings to the concept of darkness (nights) and cold (winter). "... Suddenly the old woman met him, such a thin and terrible, carries a complete kittomochka knives, yes, drank, and diverse, and obliquely signs ... Death (it was she) and says:" I sent the Lord to take your soul ! " (Sat. E.V. Barsova. "Soldier and Death").

Specially and springs are perfect spirits.

Sprigh (jump) - the spirit of day, skill, who is born with a man and dies with him, or goes to another. What is the spirit of a person in a person - so he and in life he has time. This spirit helps, cuts out. If the spriest moves to another person - it can be seen, they say "second youth came to him."

Fear (RAH) is a mythological character, referred to in Russian conspiracies, the embodiment of the fire wind - Sukhovy. The winds of ancient times personified as creatures are original. The winding paintings of the wind and the "Spirit of Buren" are depicted in the form of painted human heads that blow out of the clouds. By popular belief, winter blizzards are from the fact that unclean spirits; Bumping around the fields, blow in a fist.

He was afraid (the scary) - the houses producing at night and the knock, they are shown to be lightweight, air ghosts, then take the form of various animals.

Soussedko - throughout the forest north of Russia for his hunt joint residence with the Orthodox Russian Luda, the house is called Sousse and Batan. "- And your neighbor -... Kimorin's husband - such an old ... Communicated the whole ... The little, exactly the bougie of smoke ... And they live in the hollow, in the yard at the cattle ... everywhere go ... to horses. .. if whom the horses love - the hay is put on ... yes combing, it strokes ... And I saw the Svoshko at night ... no one was in the hives ... quietly. And I hear, on the goal of the kolo, the furnace smoothly walked something. And he herself lying on the rest ... As turned his head, TU ... And from the bar, exactly the cat is gray on half of that easily ... "(E. Women's." Celebration ").

Hapun (cotton, grabbing, kidnapper) is an unknown and invisible creature, the character of the mythology of Western Slavs. If a person disappears somewhere - then this is the case of an invisible kidnapper. Wherever he takes, and what makes it - this is not known to anyone. It is assumed that he may be in the form of tramp, beggar, soldier; "Lake, not found his husband in Shinke, and without having noted him in the court, splashed his hands, heed out and shouted that he took Hapun, which was in the form of a soldier" (O.M. Somov. "Fairy Tales").

Grelevnik - the yard spirit living in Khlev. Called so on the habitat. In Khlev, he hires and roll. It is also an assistant to the houses, like other courtyard spirits: Saparin, jannik, Ories.

Hoval (Khovaly) - Spirit with twelve eyes, which, when he walks around the village, light it like a glow of fire. The personification of the multi-time zipper, which is given to the name of Hovaly (from "to host" - to hide, bury), because it hides in the dark cloud; We remember that the identity of this spirit of Viy is wearing an armband on their all fading eyes. Khoval loves to live where the treasure treasure buried. "He rose to Hoval from warm Riga, raised heavy eyelids and, diving in heavy prochets, lit up his twelve stone eyes, and was lying. And Hovala was lying, Razing the stuffy sky. It seemed there - a fire, there will break off the sky on the part and the white light will end "(A.M. Remizov." To the sea-ocean ").

Thin - evil demon; Lucky - trouble.

Damn (Hitnik, Mereke, Arm, Lyad, Schitun, Kostdrer, Kozheder. Chrome, Antipa, Notchy) - Angry Spirit, Undead, whose goal of staying on Earth is to embarrass the human kind of temptation and liquefy; Moreover, people are tempted to directly prescribe the prince of Darkness or Satan. Depicted black, shaggy and in wool, with two horns on the top of the head and a long tail. Some assure that the devils are incense, like owl birds, and many are confident that these spirits certainly chrome. They broke their legs before the creation of a person, during the crushing fall of the entire host of demons from the sky. The most favorite activity of the devil is a game of cards and bones. Damn it, either learn, resorting to different jokes that they have, according to their nature, are always evil, or apply direct evil in various forms and, by the way, in the form of diseases. To facilitate its activities, they are gifted by the ability to transform. Most often take the image of a black cat, a black dog. The rest of the transformation go in consistent order: pig, horse, snake, wolf, hare, squirrel, mouse, frog, fish (preferably pike), forty. Do not dare, however, turn into a cow, rooster, pigeon and donkey. In the regional adverbs, the devil is called a Hitnik, they tell about him that he steals everything that is put without blessing. There are many stories in which the storage of gold is attributed to hell, because Jesus called Jews the sons of the devil for their exorbitant love for gold. In folk fairy tales, the features are often a skilled blacksmith, with which his black appearance is harmonized, and his stay in the coated in the sage and burning hellish flames of the caves. "

Damnants - female demons, in character coincide with cloud, water and forest wives and devies.

Damn horse - som at which the hedgehog rides; In some localities, the fish do not advise this to eat. The caught catfish should not be branched so that he did not hear the water and did not take a revenge on him.

Cherny-night demon. It can be assumed that the car is called the house. The people believe that the house is all overgrown with thick wool and soft fluff; Even the palms and soles in his hair, only a face near the eye and nose - naked. Palm is stalking on the night of sleepy, and they feel how woolly his hand. If he strokes soft and heat with Hero - it foreshadows happiness, and if it is cold and bristle - to be thin.

Shish - a house, demon, unclean force, which is usually living in harshs. Many familiar expression: "Shish - you!", Corresponding to the unkind suggestion. Playing a short wedding his own while on the passage roads whirlwinds raise dust post. These are the very stitches that are confused by Orthodox. Shisha is sent to the anger of binding and unpleasant people. Finally, "Crumpled Shishi" are in people who have finished themselves to white hot (up to hell). Shisha's name is also fastened to any carrier of the Westa and the headphone in the old sense of the word, when the "Shishi" were cable glands and beastned, and when "for shysmoreism" (as they wrote in acts) were given over salary, the estate for services provided by spying. "Shish outstanding naked, his courtyard is half, there was no livestock, and there was no one to lock the cattle ... His shisha - a wooden pot, and with tobacco pork horn. There were lime two boilers, and Dotley burned down "(B. Shehergin." Shoshovami naughty ").

Shishiga (Shishigan) - the house, evil spirit and a celebrating man, the rod, the same as Shish. Smart hostesses put a plate with bread and a glass of milk from the evening from the evening - in this way you can die the shishi. In some places, there are little restless perfumes under the chisikami, which strive to eat when a person does something in a hurry. "... Close you with a shishik tail, and you will disappear and how much I look for, you will not find you, and you will not find yourself ..." (A.M. Remizov. "Reasonable tambourine").

Shishko - an unclean spirit.

Shulikuna (shilicuins, shudukuna, slockers) - seasonal demons, hooligans. Shulikuna associated with the elements of water and fire appear on Christmas Eve from the pipe (sometimes to Ignatyev day) and go back to the water on baptism. They run through the streets, often with hot coals on an iron frying pan or an iron hook in the hands of which they can capture people ("convert and burn"), or drive on the horses, on top of the top, at stups or "kalen" furnaces. They are often with a cam, sometimes more, may have horseback legs and a pointed head, they have a fire from their mouth, they wear white self-cafes with pigs and pointed caps. Shulikuns on the shints are interpreted at the crossroads of roads or near the burrow, there are also in the forest, tease drunk, circling them and pushed in dirt, without causing much harm, but they can lure into the hole and drown in the river. In some places, the shulyikuna was worn in a crate with a kidel and spindle, so that they tense silk. Shulikuna is able to drag the fuddle from lazy spinners, podkashind and carry everything that is laid without blessing, climbing at home and barns and imperceptibly lime or sore supplies. According to the Vologda ideas, cursed babies are becoming cursed or shuttle with mothers. They live often in abandoned and empty sheds, always artelle, but they can climb in the hut (if the hostess does not protect the cross from bread), and then they are difficult to drive. In the Russian north, Shulikuna is the name of the codniest.

Slavic myths. World creation.

At the beginning of the time the world was in darkness. But the Almighty revealed the Golden Egg, in which the genus was concluded - the parent of all things.

Rod gave birth to love - Lada Mother and, the power of love destroying his dungeon, gave rise to the universe - countless star worlds, as well as our earthly world.

The sun came out then from his face.

The month is light - from his chest.

Stars are frequent - from his eyes.

Zori clear - from his eyebrows.

Nights are dark - yes from the spirit of it.

Buus winds - from breathing ..

"Book of the strides", 1 A

So the genus gave rise to everything that we see around, all that in the way, is all that we call nature. The genus separated the world visible, yielded, that is, the Yava, from the world of invisible, spiritual - from Novi. The genus separated the truth from Kryvda.

In the chariot of fire, the thunder has approved the thunder. The god of the Sun of the Republic of Armenia, who came out of the face of the kind, was approved in the Golden Boat, and the month is in Silver. The genus I went out of my mouth the Spirit of God - Bird Mother Sva. God's spirit gave birth to Svary - Heavenly Father.

Svarog finished the peacekeeping. He became the master of the earthly world, the Lord of God's kingdom. Svarog approved twelve pillars supporting the sky.

From the word of the Almighty, God created God Barm, who began to mumble of prayers, glorifying, telling Vedas. He also gave birth to the Spirit Barma, his wife Tarusu.

The genus became a heavenly spring and spawned the waters of the Great Ocean. From the ocean water foam was a global duck, which gave birth to many gods - Yasuni and Dunov Dasune. Rod gave birth to a cow Zemun and Goat Seduni, milk broke out of their gifts and was the Milky. Then he created the Alatyr stone, which he began to bring down this milk. The mother of cheese is created from the oil obtained after the smell of oil.

Nature Perfume in Folklore

Imagine short description Some of the characteristic creatures from Slavic mythology.

Lesy - mythological image of the spirit of the forest. Performances about Leshem have survived to this day. Leshel - the owner of the forest ages and animals living in it. It changes his height - can become high like trees, or low, like grass, and hide under fallen leaves. Lesus rarely enters the field, respecting the rights of the field spirit - wildfish. Does not look in the village not to quarrel with the houses. The slave publishes various sounds - whistles, laughs, Auukat, crying, beats in his hands, like people. Lovely man rarely harms. True, "Rusko's jokes" are evil and frighten people. It can have a man collecting mushrooms and berries, in such forest debris, of which he cannot get out long, stew in the forest, constantly returning to the same place. However, the debate does not bring a person to death. There are various problems of getting rid of Leshego's products. So, the lost person should undress, to twist all the clothes on the wrong way and in this form to wear again, not forgetting to change the shoes from one foot to another. If a few people got lost, then they all should be swapped. But not always with the leishers can be cited. It is preserved believer that a day when "Leshele sharing" (October 4) in the forest is better not to go. Legends and myths about the debates are preserved in all peoples for many centuries.

Water - Vladyka Waters (swamps, lakes, rivers and seas). It was called differently - "water damn", a van vehicle, a water grandfather, etc. This is a spirit that personifies the water element. Water can take various images: then large fish, then a child, then horses. At the Eastern Slavs, water is an old man with a long gray or green beard. Often it is presented as a trait with horns and a big belly. It lives in water in pools, likes to settle under a water mill. He is able to destroy dams, so it must be able to die. Water is considered the patron saint of fishermen, who bring him a sacrifice of the fish caught by them. In fairy tales and eponymous water, they are often identified with the "sea king", which lives at the bottom of the sea in the Crystal Palace. In the mythology of the Eastern Slavs are known and women's spirits Waters - watermen, which in their functions resemble mermaids. Watermen are drunk, turning into the spirits of the water element.

The houses (home-owned, house owner, Domurb) is usually an invisible inhabitant, the owner, the yard and at home - he has many names. Some of them point to the place of stay of the house (left, sunflower, girlfriend, etc.) or not the form of its appearance or character and main classes. He is senior in the house, family member, ancestor and an invisible owner. The image of the house for external simplicity can be very complex, endowed with all sorts of properties, appearance, abilities. The main tasks of the houses are care about cattle, prediction of the future inhabitants of the house *. Is the lower spirit of Slavic mythology; Legends about houses have been preserved among Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples. The house is considered a patron at home, the breadwinner. The eastern and southern Slavs are believed that at night the house "knocks and makes different leprosy." In one house there may be two houses, then they begin to quarrel. The house helps the hardworking owner, harms lazy. The house is better to die, leaving food - bread, salt, porridge. When relocation to the new House, Slavs made a certain ritual, with the goal so that the houses moved together with the owners and helped them in a new place.

Bannik - Spirit inhabitant in the bath. He is invisible, but sometimes it can be shown in human relationship. The role of the banner was determined by the values \u200b\u200bof the bath in Russian everyday life. To protect against the banner, who lives under the floor or behind the heater and can pour a boiling water or throw a hot stone in a washing, it needs to be lossed by a piece of rye bread or sacrifice a chicken. The buncher should leave water, soap and broom, as it washed last.

Ories - homemade spirit living in Ovin and guarding bread from damage. Reprected him in the image of an old man who brought gifts. In Ovina, the peasants dried the sheeps of the hay, and the ointler watched, so that the fire was not rushed. He did not allow working in Ovin into large holidays and during strong winds. He punishable owners, he could even hit hard. Ointle clapped in his hands. Looking, banging like a dog. Before starting work in Ovin, it was necessary to ask for permission from the Ories.

The scream is the lower spirit, a demonic creature in the mythological representation of the Eastern Channel. In the word about idols, talking about the ancient worship of the Slavs of the Glavs. In folk performances are evil, malicious perfume. Gaps (vampires) suck blood in humans and animals. They were identified with the dead, leaving at night from the graves, raging and killing people and livestock. For popular beliefs, the gibbies become people, "dead unnatural death" - violent killing, drowning droves, suicides, etc., as well as sorcerers. It was believed that the Earth does not accept such dead, so they were buried outside the cemetery. In order for the ghoul not to go out of the grave, he should have "calm down" - to dig a corpse from the grave and pierce the aspen cooke. The legend of the ghouls, vampires from Slavs spread among all the peoples of Europe.

Beregini - female perfume, guardianship from evil forces opposing the gibbles. From the Christian "teachings ..." and "words ..." can be made conclusion about the existence of Cults Beregin. These female perfumes guard from everything undesirable, unexpected. In the "Word of a Some Church Church" talk about the fact that many worship and bring victims of "fire and stones, and rivers, and sources, and banks." The ancient Slavs perceived Beregin as moisture granites, the rain necessary for the fertility of the Earth.

Kimikor (Shimitore) - according to the mythological ideas of the Eastern Slavs - the evil spirit of the house. By definition in the dictionary of Vladimir Daly, Kimor is a view of the house. Some researchers of the life of the Russian people believe that Kikimor is a brown wife. She loves to confuse yarn at night at night, scares young children, can steal chickens. The ideas about the kimikore are preserved in various regions of Russia. There were various conspiracies to get rid of the house from Kimikors. At the same time, believed in the fact that the skillful mistresses of the kimoro helps, and the lazy and negligent harm.

Mermaid - In ancient Russia, mythological creatures in the form of half-seated semi-graysterbies. Mermaids became prematurely dead girls or brides that did not live before the wedding. They were depicted with long, loose hair. In some places, mermaid - water spirit. Mermaids are connected with the cult of fertility, they appeared on their holiday on the "Russians of the week", when I started to bloom rye. On the days of this holiday it is impossible to work. The violators of the ban of the mermaid are punished, pulling their crops. Mermaids can be found in many places - in the field, in water, on the trees. In dangling songs, people call the mermaids to help the growth of bread. In the course of penetration of Christianity to the national life, mermaids began to be considered as an unclean force. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe mermaids has become similar to the submission of the ghouls. "RUSALE WEEK" began to coincide with the Trinity. Thursday on the Trinity week turned into a "day of mermaids". On this day it was impossible to work, as mermaids could send damage to the cattle. In Troitsky Thursday ("Semis"), the girls were whipped wreaths and left in the forest for mermaids. In a number of places on the last day, "Russians of the week" performed the rite of "wires of mermaid". On this day, they climbed one of the girls into the green outfit, put on her wreaths and took it into the field or to the river, where the wreaths were druck out and threw them into the water or a fire, after which they ran away.

Here will be mentioned about the beliefs of the peasants of the European part of Russia and Siberia. Perhaps this information will be a bit not accurate. One of the reasons for this is the difficult story of studying the peasant beliefs of Russia, a relatively small number of serious, systematic works on this topic (and more harmful works, covering the entire complex of beliefs, and various regions of the country). Yes, and the existing works often have contradictory data.

Obviously one thing is that the origins of many beliefs go into deep antiquity. However, the first more or less systematic evidence of the faith of our immediate ancestors, the eastern Slavs-pagans belong to the end of I - the beginning of the II millennium AD.

In the XIX century, the world of people's belief was by no means deserted and reliced \u200b\u200beven for highly educated urban residents. The relationship between the peasant and the "urban" worldview is not yet broken: People's beliefs, superstition - part of the most fabulous world of childhood of many city inhabitants of the XIX century. This magical fabulous world has largely determined and peculiarly painted the scientific and artistic interests of the residents of the landlords, villages, small towns.

Note that: Although, in the opinion of some researchers, the space of the house is completely "closed", protected from the penetration of forest, water and other "insane" non-gracious, Les (and even water, mermaids) can visit the villages, penetrate the houses, devils and damned Perfumes are freely climbed into the huts and carry what "is not blessing", and the house spirits and dead can be in the house constantly. Thus, the peasant house in the beliefs, especially related to the area of \u200b\u200blower mythology, is not isolated from the surrounding world.

"On the one hand, the house belongs to a person who personifies the real world of man. On the other hand, the house connects a person with the outside world, being in a certain degree of the replica of the outside world, reduced to the size of a person. The house may be" deployed "into the world and" rolled " In humans. The fascinated life is not fraud, he glows with magical light, "wrote A.Blok, arguing that: -" Conspiracies, and with them the whole area of \u200b\u200bfolk magic and rolvery, turned out to be a ryoouth, where genuine poetry gold shakes. "

In the post-revolutionary Russia, where the traditional system, the construction of peasant life was consistently destroyed and a single communist worldview was imposed, the continuation of the collection, the study of folk beliefs was not safe. Justice requires to say, however, that the destruction of the traditional village structure began until 1917, and the lifestyled life of the village of contradiction was largely led by 1917 (comparable memories of M. M. Prishvin about the peasants, by no means demonstratively kept on the red banners of the manifestations). By destroying the foundations of the peasant world, the authorities successfully used some of its essential parties.

Thus, the official endowment of V.I. Lenin (as well as other heads of high rank) almost supernatural abilities led to the fact that in the Russian north to Lenin (as, however, - and to A.S. Pushkin) began to contact during fortunes with asking "seem and open the future." The peasant of the Smolensk region told that before the beginning of the Patriotic War, a prophetic vision was observed in the sky: "Everything was opened ... And Khrushchev, Malenkov appeared ... and someone's third." Sumy to destroy the "high" stroke of the People's Mirosenozia, destroy the best of his parties, the authorities did not eradicate the "lower level" of beliefs (perhaps, including because, on the guess of F.M.Dostoevsky, "were with demons in some kinship "). One of the numerous evidence of this is, for example, in the diaries of O.F. Buggolts. She was amazed by an abundance of superstitions in the post-war village and so describes the reaction of the local partnership for the suicide of a woman: "And what worn - at the thin footprint!" At the thin trail they believe there firmly.

And yet, despite the fact that the traditional world of the village has become in the 20th century for many of us the peculiar Atlantis, the "lost mainland", the fragmented information about which is preserved in not very understandable customers, beliefs; Despite the fact that the study of the existent peasant believes was conducted after 1917, in general, "implicitly", in the 50s and 1900s, interesting works are published on this topic, including concerning beliefs from the field of low mythology, stories about unclean power. The end of the 80s - the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century marks the emergence of a large number of studies on these or other areas of peasant beliefs, which is also explained by the final liberation of science from ideological, and the significance of the topic, and the influence of fashion.

However, the scientific interests of many researchers in the second half of the 20th century focused mainly on the study of Belarusian and South Slavic beliefs. It was them that turned out to be collected, described quite fully, systematically, in contrast to the beliefs of Velikorvsky.

In the charter of St.vladimir, we read about prayers "under OVIN, in a vagament or water." Cyril Tourvsky exclaims: "... already bo is the God of the elements, neither the sun, nor the fire, nor sources, nor the wood, and the formula of renunciation from paganism, attributed to Efrem Sirin, calls not to do anything that" is committed usually from sources, Under the trees and at the intersections. " In the first "secret educational teaching the new" Saint Cyril Jerusalem condemns the custom "to arbit a candle and engage in sources and rivers."

Based on the analysis of historical and literary monuments of Ancient Russia, E.V. Nynichkov noted: "Fire cults near OVIN, in water and sacred trees make up the most important features of the folk faith of our ancestors" - and made the conclusion that in historical and literary sources "On water cults is mentioned even more often than what to read the fire-welded fire." The basis of the faith of the Eastern Slavs is, in his opinion, "the appeal directly to the elements", "to the very nature itself, as such." Based on the same materials E.G. Kagarov argued that the "the oldest stage of the Slavic religion was, apparently, animism," that is, a peculiar worldview, "according to which all nature is animated, endowed with a special independent life."

In general, to make an exhaustive idea of \u200b\u200bthe nature of beliefs, the worldview of the Eastern Slavs I - the beginning of the II millennium on the basis of the existing fragmentary materials is quite difficult. Rather, it is possible other to find out, belief in which creatures and forces are peculiar to the Russian peasants of the XIX-XX centuries, whether it is traced from our remote ancestors, thus, in this way, the most sustainable characteristic.

Preserving up to the XIX-XX centuries, the peculiarity of the beliefs of peasants is revered by the "living" elements, first of all the land in connection with water.

"To the ground, the people feed respect, calls it the breadwinner, the mother of crude land, the place of rest of the parents. With the female, I swear it:" I'm a lands of land under the cathedral, the roots " It will take advantage of the great meaning and he will not take for Leku. "There is another opinion that" the land is not persongifiable, and the mother is called for the reason that the first person Adam is taken from the ground; and, accordingly, on this basis, the people nourish such respect for it that if someone had shook the land in the pranks, then the eldest would certainly notice him that he stopped having a mother to cheese the earth. "Mother of Cheese Earth -" This is not a poetic only Metaphor, and something more is a valid feeder and a person's peer, which felt and conscious. It has eyes, it is lakes, rivers and water in general. We believe that the cult of land has been preserved in its most angrim, - N.M. Galkovsky writes, is a reverence without temples, rites and even without definitely pronounced idea; The basis of this cult is the consciousness of proximity and dependence on the Earth ... Such a consciousness is inherent to all people. "

Similar remains in the XIX-XX centuries and attitude to water, also considered "alive": Even in the last quarter of the 20th century, in the North of Russia, the ban is saved after sunset "Walking on the water". The prohibition of this is motivated by the fact that "the water sleeps, rests, and it cannot be wake up." Almost everywhere it was believed that the insulting of water by noise, brave, spit, other inappropriate and unrivor actions can suffer a disease and even death. In Yaroslavl, the water who insulted the water lowered a piece of bread, asking for forgiveness from the "Mother of Water" and the "water grandfather and great-grandfather, fathers and mothers and their small deubs." Similarly, "harm from falling the ground" went to "walk" (ask for forgiveness from the earth) to the place where the fall happened. "

Water in a variety of conditions - water rivers, lakes, rainy, key - plays a special role in the everyday life of the peasants of the XIX-XX centuries, and in large calendar holidays, rites. In many provinces of Russia, it was found in the spring for the rivers, to the water. Like poultry, awakening streams, Spring, revealed from ice of the river were the first messengers of the spring resurrection of the Earth, the future of nature. The peasants said that "a kulik flew to Soroki (March 22), brings water from the capture," and the April "strengthen the earth will be". In the peasant calendar, they celebrated all the features of the behavior of spring and streams, the time of opening rivers, dates of flood: "If the water does not flow in March, the grass does not grow in April"; "Early opening of the river promises good pcs", etc.

According to folk cosmogonia, water is strengthened from all sides, he will rest on them. According to beliefs, it is a water dear who are sent to their dwellings located outside the sea, so in some areas of Russia they threw the egg shell in the river so that the water brought the deceased message about the holiday. Everywhere the water set in a cup of the head of the dying personifies the beginning of the "posthumous path" of the soul. In particular, the peasants of the Arkhangelsk province were believed that this water was sanging when "the doubling was washed from their sins" (sometimes the suicide sinking) is replaced). If the water is a real estate, "they caught and torn their relatives that the soul flew away, without moving away from sins. Disappeared!" - They say, at least the dead before death and confessed, yes there was no water near the head. "On Bryansk region, it was believed that" the soul is easier to go to the water "(dying less suffer).

The pagans, the soul of the soul with the elements, could not dismiss and in the soul of the great strength, which was so scary, seemed to them in swirl, fire or water, clothed in poetic images of the gods and the creatures of supernatural. "The attention is primarily an annual" Lands "and inextricably linked to her man. Not only" living elements "participate, not only the" live festivities ", not only the strength of fertility, but also a variety of perfumes living in water, earth, air and generated by them; home elements, the owners of the peasant house and the foundation - the olive, water, houses, wildfiers, nozzles, mermaids, devils, etc.

The vitality of such stories and the corresponding superstitious ideas in the modern (even urban) medium, their adaptability, seemingly a rapidly changing world. Especially stable presentation associated with the dead, houses, sorcerers, sorcerers, meanings, the narratives of which the pages of newspapers were hung with a wide stream. Perhaps this testifies including the subconscious sensation of human's mandrels in the world, where he feels herself surrounded by invisible, unknown and often hostile forces and creatures.

Almost all heard about evil spirits. Who believes in them who is not. In the north, since ancient times, they believed that evil spirits were surrounded everywhere. Therefore, they were made how to protect against them, kept and passed in the family prayer from evil spirits and tips, how to protect ourselves and loved ones. What about Tom know?

In the north believed that evil spirits surround people everywhere

Evil spirits in the Slavs - the souls of the "laid dead people", unjust living or not correctly dead, these souls can be captured by darkness and in the form of Naviev appear among us to try to incline to their side or simply harm the person.

Such Slavic evil spirits are known to us:

1. Anchutka - The evil spirit, which later was considered to be said in Rus. Anchutka flies, and also has a connection with water; Sometimes it is called water, or a bunker: lives in a swamp. He has wings, and in legends he is not, since the wolf bit his heel.

2. Babai. - Also evil spirit, but already night. It dwells in the thickets of the root, and at night it wanders under the windows, screames, noise, knocks on the window. Usually, Baba is scared with young children who are capricious and do not want to sleep. They say that he walks at night under windows with a big kittomboy, looking for a naughty child and takes into the forest.

3. Jewelry or dreamer - Angry homemade spirit. Justice comes after the terrible stories told on the night of the unclean. So that it was not enough, barely walks; Long stands over a person with an elongated hands over your head, to find out, scary man or not. Will breed hands until told not to dream and a person will not wake up in a cold sweat of horror. And since this time to light the lady, you can notice the runaway shadows, it is a fleshkin. It is better not to talk to him - you can get dangerous.

4. Icytics - Another evil spirit related to the genus of water. As well as water, Icytics lives in rivers and other reservoirs. He is an assistant water. His duties: Wake up the shores of the shores of sowing and the destruction of the bridges.

5. Mora - The evil spirit of disease and death.

6. Othernnik - The most evil from the house spirits: It is difficult to be desirable, to humble, if it becomes angry and wake up in the hearts. His eyes are burning with kalen coals, like a cat, and he himself looks like a huge cat, magnitude with the courtyard dog, all black and shaggy. Knows how to bark and laughs no worse than Leshego. Sitting under the garden in Yamina is indicated by him in order to look at the orders of sheep masonry, watch the time and timing when and how to flood a rash, not allowing it to do great holidays. He is angry, so the coal will throw off between the gravis and will give all OVIN to engage and burn. Lives this spirit in OVIN; Shaggy, and one hand naked and authentic than the other. He punishes his bare hand, throws the unearned owners of heat into unlocking sheaves. Eyes of this spirit of multicolored, fur coat inside out; In mad weather he sleeps. A shaggy hand pulls rarely to guess the girls wealth. In the Sauna of Light Sunday, the girl puts his hand into the window of the Ovina: If the Spirit does not touch the hand - in girls walk, naked hand - the ointler will be touched by a shaggy hand, to know, for a rich will go.

7. Shishga (Shishgan) - Angry Spirit, and a celebrating man, the rod, the same as Shish. Smart hostesses put a plate with bread and a glass of milk from the evening from the evening - in this way you can die the shishi. In some places, there are little restless perfumes under the chisikami, which strive to eat when a person does something in a hurry.

The Slavs have long been known that compliance with certain rules allows us to go on the road. And the rules are simple - respect for the ancestors, love for now living, actions on conscience. Help and prayer from evil spirits facing his native gods, but rather, even a small conspiracy.

For example, this prayer from evil spirits turned to the houses before bedtime.

With evil spirits in Russia was bad. Bogatyreys recently divorced so much that the population of the Gorynya fell sharply. Only once she flashed Ivan's ray of hope: called the Susanin Elderly Guy promised him to hold him to the very lair of one-eyed lingerie ... But it came across only a bold ancient hut with knocked out windows and a broken door. On the wall it was scratched: "Checked. Lich no. Bogatyr Popovich. "

Sergey Lukyanenko, Julius Burkin, "Island Rus"

"Slavic Monsters" - Agree, sounds dyed. Mermaids, Lessel, Water - all of them are familiar to us since childhood and make you remember the fairy tales. That is why the fauna of "Slavic Fantasy" is still undeservedly considered something naive, frivolous and even slightly stupid. Now, when it comes to magical monsters, we often remember zombies or dragons, although there are such ancient creatures in our mythology, compared to which Monsters of Lovecraft may seem small packed.

The inhabitants of Slavic pagan legends are not a joyful domain Kuzya or a sentimental monster with a scarlet flower. Our ancestors seriously believed in that evil, which we now consider it worthy of only children's horror stories.

Until our time, there was not a single original source describing fictional creatures from Slavic mythology. Something was covered with a darkness of history, something was destroyed during the baptism of Russia. What do we have, except vague, contradictory and often unlike each other legends of different Slavic peoples? Related references to the works of the Danish historian Saxon Grammar (1150-1220) - once. "Chronica Slavorum" of the German historian Helmold (1125-1177) - two. And finally, it should be remembered by the collection "Veda Slam" - a compilation of ancient Bulgarian ritual songs, according to which conclusions can also be drawn about the pagan beliefs of the ancient Slavs. The objectivity of church sources and chronicles by virtue of obvious reasons is under great doubt.

Book Veles.

"Wellez's book" ("Velesov Book", the smell of Isenbeca) for a long time issued for a unique monument of the Old Slavic mythology and history, dated of the period of 7 century BC - 9th century of our era.

Her text was allegedly carved (or burned) on small wooden planks, some "pages" partially rotted. According to the legend, the "book of Veles" in 1919 discovered the White Colonel Fedor Isenbeck under Kharkov, who took her to Brussels and transferred to the study of Slavist Mirolyubov. He made several copies, and in August 1941 at the occurrence of Germans the signs were lost. The versions were put forward that they were hidden by the fascists in the Archive of the Archings of the Aryan Past, with Anneterbe, or were taken out after the war in the United States).

Alas, the authenticity of the book initially caused big doubts, and recently it was finally proven that the entire text of the book is falsification, performed in the middle of the 20th century. The language of this fake is a mixture of different Slavic laws. Despite the exposure, individual writers still use the "Book of Veles" as a source of knowledge.

The only one existing image of one of the boards of "Book of Veles", beginning with the words "Veles Book I dedicate."

The stories of Slavic fairy creatures may envy another European monster. The age of pagan legends is impressive: according to some calculations, it reaches 3000 years, and roots goes into neolithic or even mesolith - that is, about 9,000 years before our era.

The general Slavonic fabulous "animal" was absent - in different localities they talked about completely different beings. The Slavs did not have marine or mountain monsters, but the forest and river evil was found in sufficiency. There was no giantovania: our ancestors were very rarely thought about evil giants like Greek cyclops or Scandinavian Etunov. Some wonderful creatures appeared at the Slavs relatively late, during their Christianization - most often they were borrowed from Greek legends and were introduced into national mythology, thus creating a bizarre mixture of beliefs.

Alconost.

According to the ancient Greek myth, Alkion, the wife of the Fessenian king Keik, having learned about the death of her husband, rushed into the sea and was turned into a bird called alkion (kingfisher) in her name. In the Russian language, the word "alkonost" entered the distortion of the old statement "Alkion is a bird."

Slavic alkonost - a paradise bird with an amazingly sweet, frantic voice. She lays eggs on the seashore, then immerses them in the sea - and the waves calm down for a week. When chicks are hatched from eggs, the storm begins. In the Orthodox tradition, the alkonost is considered the divine Messenger - she lives in the sky and descends down to convey to people the Higher Will.

Aspid

Winged snake with two trunk and bird beak. Lives high in the mountains and periodically makes devastating falls on the village. It is so much so much that it can not even sit on the crude ground - only on the stone. Aspid is invulnerable to ordinary weapons, it cannot be killed by a sword or an arrow, and you can only burn. The name from the Greek Aspis is a poisonous snake.

Auka.

A variety of rolling forest spirit, small, puzzled, with round cheeks. Not sleeping in no winter. Loves to fool your head in the forest, shatting on their cry "AU!" from all sides. It turns out the travelers in the deaf thicket and throws them there.

Baba Yaga

Slavic Witch, Popular Folklore Character. Usually depicted in the form of a nasty old woman with disheveled hair, hooked nose, "bone foot", long claws and several teeth in the mouth. Baba Yaga - the character is ambiguous. Most often, it performs the functions of the pest, with pronounced inclined to cannibalism, however, if this witch can voluntarily help the Hero Hero, asking him, falling in the bath and bestowing the magic gifts (or informing valuable information).

It is known that Baba Yaga lives in a deaf forest. There is its hut on chicken legs, surrounded by a palico from human bones and skulls. Sometimes it was said that on the gate to the house of Yaga instead of constipation - hands, and a small toothy mouth serves as a keyhole. The house of Baba-Yagi is enchanted - it is possible to enter it only saying: "Hut-hut, turn to me before, and to the forest back."
Like Western European witches, Baba Yaga can fly. To do this, it requires a large wooden stupa and a magic broom. With Baba Yaga, you can often find animals (families): black cat or crows that help her in the witchcraft.

The origin of the estate "Baba Yaga" is unclear. Perhaps it came from Turkic languages, in possibly formed from the Starozerbian "Ega" - a disease.

Baba Yaga, bone foot. Witch, ogood and first pilot woman. Pictures of Viktor Vasnetsov and Ivan Bilibina.

Izba on Kurkogakh

Forest hut on curious legs, where there is no windows or doors - this is not fiction. This is how the temporary housing of the hunters of the Urals, Siberia and Finno-Ugric tribes were built. The houses with deaf walls and the entrance through the hatch in the floor raised by 2-3 meters above the ground, they were protected from the hooching to the grozunov supplies, and from large predators. From similar structures stored stone idols Siberian pagans. It can be assumed that the figure of some female deity, placed in a small house "on chicken legs", and gave rise to the myth about Baba Yaga, who hardly fits in his home: legs in one corner, head - in the other, and his nose rests In the ceiling.

Bannik

The spirit living in the baths was usually presented in the form of a little old man with a long beard. Like all Slavic perfumes, debris. If people in the bath are picked up, burn out, faint from the heat, spacked boiling water, hear crackles of stones in a furnace or a knock into the wall - all this is a banner.

A large banner harms rarely only when people behave wrong (wash on holidays or late at night). Much more often he helps them. The Slavs Banya associated with mystical, lively forces - they often took birth or gadal (it was believed that the jannik could predict the future).

Like other spirits, the banner was embarrassed - left him a black bread with salt either burned under the threshold of a stuffed black chicken. There was a female variety of a banner - a banner, or by-piece. In the baths also lived Shishiga - the evil spirit, showing only those who go to the bath, without praying. Shishiga takes an image of a friend or relative, calling a person with him to steam and can fervent to death.

Baby Chelik (Steel Man)

Popular character of Serbian folklore, demon or evil sorcerer. According to the legend, the king bequeathed three sons to issue their sisters for the one who first asked their hands. One night, someone with a thunder voice came to the palace and demanded the youngest princess. The sons performed the will of the Father, and soon lost in a similar way to the middle and older sister.

Soon the brothers were sensed and went on their searches. The younger brother decided the beautiful princess and took her to his wife. Looking out of curiosity in the forbidden room, Tsarevich saw chain chain in the chain. He introduced himself as a Bashie Bashch and asked for three glasses of water. The naive young man washed a stranger, he restored the strength, ripped the chains, released the wings, grabbed the princess and flew away. Heat, Tsarevich went to search. He found out that thunder voices who demanded his sisters in his wife, belonged to the Lords of Dragons, Sokolov and Orlov. Those agreed to help him, and together they defeated the evil Bash of Chelin.

This is what the Bashli Bashl looks like in the view of V. Tauber.

Vurdalaki.

Live dead rising from the graves. Like any other vampires, giveurdlaki drink blood and can empty whole villages. First of all, they kill relatives and acquaintances.

Gamayun

Like an alconospota, a divine female bird, the main function of which is the implementation of predictions. Well known surcharge "Hamayun - Bird Bird." Also knew how to manage the weather. It was believed when Hamayun flies from the side of the sunrise, a storm comes after her.

Gamayun-Hamayun, how long can I live? - ku. - Why so ma ...?

Divia people

Semi suite with one eye, one foot and one hand. To move, should have been in half. Live somewhere on the edge of light, they grow artificially, throwing out like iron. The smoke of their blacksmiths is brings with me, the OSPA and fever.

House

In the most generalized representation - home spirit, patron saint, a small old old man with a beard (either all covered with hair). It was believed that each house has its own house. In their homes, they were rarely called "house", preferring a gentle "grandfather."

If people installed a normal relationship with him, fed (left a saucer with milk on the floor, bread with salt) and considered him a member of her family, then the house "helped them carry out small work on the house, followed the cattle, guarding the farm, warned about the danger.

On the other hand, the bridal house could be very dangerous - at night, the people twisted the bruises at night, kept them, destroyed horses and cows, noisy, beat the dishes and even put a house. It was believed that the house lived behind the stove or in the stable.

Dreekavak (drake)

Semi-free creature from the folklore of the southern Slavs. Its accurate description does not exist - some consider it to animals, others - a bird, and in Central Serbia there is a belief that Dreekawak is the soul of a dead unresolved baby. It is converged only in one thing - Drechawak knows how to shout terribly.

Usually the drake - hero of children's horror stories, but in remote areas (for example, Mountain Zlatibor in Serbia) even adults believe in this creature. Residents of Tometino Polane village from time to time report on strange attacks on their cattle - it is difficult for the nature of the wounds to establish what it was for the predator. The peasants claim that they heard terrible screams, so Dreekawak was probably narrowed here.

Firebird

Familiar from childhood image, a beautiful bird with bright, dazzling fiery feathers ("how the heat is burning"). The traditional test for fabulous heroes is to get a pen from the tail of this feathery. For the Slavs, the firebird was rather a metaphor than a real being. She personified fire, light, sun, perhaps - knowledge. Her closest rhodium is a medieval Phoenix bird, known in the West, and in Russia.

It is impossible not to recall such the inhabitant of Slavic mythology, like a bird Rarog (probably distorted from Svarog - the Glav-Kuznets). Fire Falcon, which can also look like a vortex of the flame, Rarog is depicted on the coat of arms of Rurikovich ("Rargs" in German) - the first dynasty of Russian rulers. Strongly stylized piking Rarog began to resend the trident in time - this appeared the modern coat of arms of Ukraine.

Kimikor (Shisimor, Mara)

Angry Spirit (sometimes - the wife of the house), which appears in the image of a small ugly old woman. If the kimikora lives in the house behind the stove or in the attic, it constantly hurts people: noise, knocks on the walls, interferes with sleep, tears yarn, beats the dishes, straightening the cattle. It was sometimes it was believed that the kievors became dead without baptism of babies, or Kickimaru could be inserted into the house of evil carpenters or cookrs. Kimikor, who lives in a swamp or in the forest, brings much less harm - basically only scares the protested travelers.

Koschey Immortal (Kashing)

One of the well-known Old Slavonic negative characters, usually represented in the form of a thin, skeleton-like old man with repulsive appearance. Aggressive, Avengean, Zhadalad and Skup. It is difficult to say whether he was a personification of the external enemies of the Slavs, an evil spirit, a powerful wizard or a unique type of undead.

It is indisputable that Koschey owned a very strong magic, the people fleeled and often engaged in favorite for all villains in the world of the work - kidnapped girls. In domestic fiction, the image of Koschery is quite popular, and it is represented in different ways: in the comic light ("Island Russia" Lukyanenko and Burkina), or, for example, cyborg ("Fate Koshchey in the Cyberozoic Era" Alexander Torina).

The "branded" feature of Koschery was immortality, and far from absolute. As we will probably remember, on the magic island of Buyan (able to suddenly disappear and appear before travelers) is a big old oak on which the chest hangs. A hare is sitting in the cheese, a duck, in a duck - an egg, and in the egg - a magic needle, where the death of Koschery is hidden. It can be killed, breaking this needle (according to some versions - breaking the egg about the head of Koshiya).

Koschey in the view Vasnetsov and Bilibin.

Georgy Millyar is the best artist of the roles of Koschery and Baba Yagi in Soviet film shops.

Led

Forest spirit, animal defender. Looks like a tall man with a long beard and hair throughout the body. In fact, it is not angry - walks through the woods, protects it from people, occasionally shown on the eyes, for which any appearance can take a plant, fungus (giant speaking aunt), an animal or even a person. Leshogo can be distinguished from other people on two signs - his eyes are burning with magic fire, and the shoes are hoping back in advance.

Sometimes a meeting with the leishers may endure the departing - will lead a person to the forest and will quit for the excitement of beasts. However, those who respectfully relate to nature may even make friends with this creature and get help from it.

Famously one-eyed

Spirit evil, failure, symbol grief. There is no relative to the appearance of definiteness - it is either one-eyed giant, or a high thin woman with one eye in the middle of his forehead. Famously often compared with cyclops, although in addition to one eye and high growth, they have nothing in common.

Before our time I reached the saying: "Do not be famously if it is quiet." In the direct and allegorical sense, the famously meant Bed - it was tied to a person, he sat down on her neck (in some legends, the unfortunate tried to drown a famously, rushing into the water, and sang himself) and prevented him to live.
From Likha, however, it was possible to get rid of - to deceive, drive the power of the will, or, as it is occupied, it is mentioned - to convey to another person along with any gift. According to completely gloomy prejudices, it could be famously come and devour you.

Mermaid

In the Slavic mythology, mermaids - a kind of religious evil. They became drowns, girls who died near the reservoir, or people swimming in a nurse. Mermaids were sometimes identified with the "Mavels" (from the Old Slavonic "Nava" - the dead) - children who died without baptism or strangled mothers.

The eyes of such mermaids are burning with green fire. By their nature, they are creatures nasty and evil, grabby people behind their feet, pull under the water, or lure from the shore, they wrap their hands and drown. It was believed that the laugh of mermaids could cause death (this makes them similar to Irish baths).

Some beliefs called the mermaids with the lower spirits of nature (for example, good "Beregini") who do not have anything in common with drunkenness and willingly saving sinking people.

Also "Wood Mermaids", living in the branches of trees, were also distinguished. Some researchers are ranked to the Mermaids of Poland (in Poland - Lakanitsa) - lower spirits who take the appearance of girls in transparent white clothes living in the fields and helping the field. The latter is also a natural spirit - it is believed that he looks like a small old man with a white beard. Field dwells on the cultivated fields and usually patronize peasants - except in cases when they work at noon. For this he is sitting on the peasants of halfening, so that those with their magic deprived their minds.

It should also be mentioned by a waterman - a type of mermaid, baptized drowning, not belonging to the discharge of the unclean, and therefore relatively good. The drains love deep pools, but most often will be pulled out under mill wheels, ride them, spoil the millstones, watered water, wash the holes, the networks are drunk.

It was believed that the drain was waters of spirits who appear in the guise of old men with a long green beard of algae and (rarely) fish scales instead of leather. Puchglase, thick, crazy, water lives at great depths in the pools, commands mermaids and other underwater inhabitants. It was believed that he travels around his underwater kingdom riding in the catfish, for which this fish was sometimes called the "thistle horse".

Water in nature is not malicious and even acts as a patron saint of sailors, fishermen or motels, however, from time to time he likes to shake, dragging the gone (or offended) bathing bag under the water. Sometimes water has endowed the ability to turnurnum - transform into fish, animals or even a log.

Over time, the image of water as a patron of rivers and lakes has changed - he began to be considered as a powerful "sea king", living under water in a chic palace. From the spirit of nature, water turned into a kind of magical self-made, with whom the heroes of the people's epic (for example, Sadko) could communicate, to conclude agreements and even win his cunning.

Water in the representation of Bilibina and V. Vladimirov.

Sirin

Another creature with a woman's head and the Body of Owl (Owl), which has a charming voice. Unlike Alkonosta and Gamayun, Sirin is not a messenger over, but a direct threat to life. It is believed that these birds are inhabited in the "Indian lands next to the paradise", or on the Euphrates River, and sing such songs for the saints in heaven, having heard that people thus lose their memory and will, and their ships are crawling.

It is not difficult to guess that Sirin is the mythological adaptation of Greek sirens. However, unlike them, the bird Sirin is not a negative character, but rather a metaphor of the temptation of a person of a different kind of temptation.

Solovy Robbing (Solovy Odikmantevich)

The character of the late Slavic legends, a complex image that combines the features of the bird, an evil wizard and hero. The nightingale-robber lived in the forests under Chernihiv near the river currants and for 30 years I stunned the road to Kiev, no one is missing there, stunning travelers with a monstrous whistle and roaring.

The Solovya-Robber had a nest on seven oaks, but the legend also states that he had a terme and three daughters. The epic hero Ilya Muromets was not frightened by a sacrup and knocked him an arrow from Luka, and during their battle whistling, the robber threw the entire forest in the district. Bogatyr brought a captive villain to Kiev, where Prince Vladimir for the sake of interest asked the nightingale-robber to comprehend - to check whether the truth was the truth about the super-abilities of this villain. Nightingale, of course, whistled, so so that I almost destroyed the half of the city. After that, Ilya Muromets took him to the forest and cut off his head so that such a disgrace was not repeated (according to another version, the straw-robber in the future made an assistant to Ilya Muromets in battle).

For his first novels and poems, Vladimir Nabokov used the alias "Sirin".

In 2004, the "Motherland" Baba-Yaga was announced by the village of Cook (Pervomaysky District of the Yaroslavl Region). Her "birthday" is celebrated on July 26th. The Orthodox Church made a sharp condemnation of "worship Baba Yaga".

Ilya Muromets is the only epic hero, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Baba Yaga occurs even in Western comics, for example, "Hellboy" Minto Mintol. In the first episode of the computer game "Quest for Glory" Baba Yaga - the main storyline. In the role-playing game "Vampire: The Masquerade" Baba Yaga - Vampire Clan Nosferatu (differ in uglyness and secrecy). After the departure of Gorbachev from the political arena, she left the underground and interrupted all the vampires of the clan Burut, who controlled the Soviet Union.

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List all the fabulous creatures of the Slavs is very difficult: most of them have been studied very weak and represent local varieties of spirits - forest, water or home, and some of them were very similar to each other. In general, the abundance of intangible creatures is very distinguished by the Slavic Bestiary from more "landed" assemblies of monsters from other cultures
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Among the Slavic "Monsters" there are very few monsters as such. Our ancestors led a calm, measured life, and therefore the creatures whom they came up with themselves were associated with elementary elements, neutral in their essence. If they confronted people, then, for the most part, only protecting the mother-in-country and generic traditions. The stories of Russian folklore teach us to be kindly, tolerant, to love nature and respect for the old legacy of the ancestors.

The latter is especially important, because the old legends are quickly forgotten, and instead of mysterious and mischievous Russian mermaids come to us by Disney fish girls with seashells on breasts. Do not be ashamed to study Slavic legends - especially in their initial, unadapped for children's books. Our Bestiary Archaic and in some sense is even naive, but we can be proud of them, because he is one of the most ancient in Europe.