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Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry) Kukunochi, Japanese tree spirit; Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki ...
Berstuk, evil Wendish god of the forest; Jarilo, god of vegetation, fertility, spring, war and harvest; Leshy, a tutelary deity of the forests. Porewit, god of the woods, who protected lost voyagers and punished those who mistreated the forest; Veles, god of earth, waters and the underworld; Mokosh, East-Slavic goddess of nature
Nang Ta-khian is generally a sylvan spirit, for the Ta-khian is a tall, massive tree that can live for centuries, naturally found in the forest and not near inhabited areas. As it has a large trunk and a wide-spreading root system, it is normally not planted close to homesteads. [ 4 ]
Leshy or Leshi [a] is a tutelary deity of the forest in pagan Slavic mythology.As Leshy rules over the forest and hunting, he may be related to the Slavic god Porewit. [1]A similar deity called Svyatibor (Svyatobor, Svyatibog) is thought to have been revered by both the Eastern and Western Slavs as the divine arbiter of woodland realms, and/or the sovereign ruler over other diminutive forest ...
Drapé - (France) Ghostly horse monster who finds and spirits away children wandering at night to an unknown location, never to be seen again. Gytrash- (english) shapeshifting spirit usually taking the form of a horse, mule or other animal. Opposite of a will o the wisp, as it appears to the lost and leads people back to where they want to be.
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He is one of many examples of an old man forest deity. Finno-Ugric folklore has links with Slavic mythology, shown in Metsavana's similarities with the Leshy and corresponding Komi forest spirit, Vörsa. [1] Female forest spirits are generally more common in Estonian and Latvian mythology, with male forest spirits found more often in Russian ...
Sometimes in the forest you can hear how the killed povitrulya cries. According to one explanation, the forest man hunts the povitruli, because they make fun of him, depicting his cry – from this, the forest echo occurs. By hunting the forest maidens, the Chuhaister prevents the harm they can do to people, especially men working in the forest.