Slavic Bestiary

Noonwraith, the rye lady, a woman with iron teeth. It doesn’t matter how you’ll call her, woe unto you when you see her. This female demon carries with herself a deadly danger  for those, who dared to work on the fields at noon. She could take several forms. Sometimes she …

Nixie, or else undine, or living in the mountain areas berehynia and a nymph. A comely female demon, whose habitat wasn’t only the watery areas. There are water, field and forest nixies. The places of their settlement were on the shores of rivers, lakes or mountains, thicket forest and a …

Among all the beasts from the slavic areas, that are mentioned in folk myths, Drowner is the most recognizable and there’s a lot of information about him, that have been kept. Drowners are known under several names – utopnik, utoplec, utopek, topek, topielec (drowned dead, drowned man), waserman, vodyanoi – …

Depending on the Slavic area, Leshy is also known as  laskowiec, sylvan, boruta (might be connected with Bies) and as a forest old man or forest Likho (the etymology of the words Likho and Leshy is quite similar). A forest protective demon/ghost is its lord and a master of living …

Striga (Polish pronunciation: [‘stʂɨɡa]) a female demon or Strigon – male equivalent is derived from an old slavonic folk demonology. The name of this demon comes from roman “strix” which means an owl, because the former slavics believed that a man became a Striga when he got back from the deads world as a …