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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
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 ...
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Legendary original homeland of the Mexica people in Mexica/Aztec mythology. Bald Mountain: A location in Slavic folk mythology related to witchcraft. Baltia: An island of amber somewhere in northern Europe. Biringan city: A mythical city that is said to invisibly lie between Gandara, Tarangnan, and Pagsanghan in Samar province of the ...
Santelmo – Spirits in the form of fireballs that roam around the forest; Santa Claus (North Pole-European folklore) – Elderly man who delivers gifts to well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve; Sânziană – Nature spirit; Sarimanok – Bird of good fortune; Sarngika – Bird spirit
Mankayia- (Kiowa) tornado spirit in the form of a horse. Onocentaur – part human, part donkey (Greek) Pegasus – white winged stallion (Greek) Pooka – spirits, or fairies who lived near ancient stones, good or bad (Ireland) Sleipnir – Odin's eight-legged horse, which he rode to Hel (location) (Norse)
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 ]
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 ...