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the-names-salomea:dasha-loses-it:i-am-fucking-pissed-as-shit:dasha-loses-it:trilllizard666:geekybibliophile:apollohnx:Supernatural creatures in Slavic mythology↳ Water spirits(insp.)@zombeesknees @peeps-the-writer you can tell in these countries and cultures that a lot of people just plain got drunk and drowned in swamps from how many of these supernatural creatures and cryptids based on nasty things in swamps there areWhen people used to lump all Native American cultures into one, everyone rightfully called it racist.Two (2) of these are russian, the rest I don’t knowThe third one is def Polish, the rest I have no idea.I’m pretty sure that the last two are most likely Polish.Okay, Rusałka is slavic - some say it was first known in Balkans and then came to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech and Poland (altough in polish it was given a variety of local names like boginka/bogunka, świtezianka etc). Their name was derived from latin Rosalia - the feast of Roses, a feast occuring in early June, around the same time as Zielone Świątki (Green Week) or Stado, which took a whole week to celebrate, culminating in a Noc Kupały (Kupala Night). It was believed that rusałki were the most active during that week, partying on the lake shore and luring people in to drown - which is why you couldn’t swim in the lake till the Kupala Night, or the Saint John’s Eve, when st. John the Baptist blesses the water in lakes rivers etc. rendering demons of their power. Vodyanoy is russian. Similiar, but distinctly different, water spirits are known in other slavic countries:  wodnik in Poland, vodnik in Czech and Slovakia.dziwożona is polish, tho it’s not a swamp demon - it lives in mountain’ caves and streams of Podhale region. Bagiennik, again, polish - lives in the large swamps around Biebrza river. The oily substance from their nostrils was believed to be of curing abilities - it could cure rheumatism, back pains, heart diseases, seroius wounds, indigestion, even infertility.topielec is slavic. In Poland he had a variety of related names like utopiec, utoplec, topich, topielnik, and a female version too - topielica.  Of course, this is not a complete list, we could also add bolotnik, łozownik, bereginya, jeziornica, subela, wodnica, wirnik, podlodnik, wił, łobasta, and couple sea creatures like syrena, szalińc, czetlica, jadzierka, morzykulec, or the fish king himself, rybi król. Oh, and the local bathtub guy from Russia - bannik. Also don’t act like only Slavs got drunk and drowned in swampsand waters - other nations have water nymphs nereids, naiads, undines, wassermanns, Nixe, nikker, nokk, nack, Jenny Greenteeth, Peg Powler, Nelly Longarms, shellycoats, grindylows, Kelpies, each-uisge, fuaths, morgens, tangies, pool demons, urisk, loireag, gwragedd annwn, bunyip, bordas, El Naddaha, Hantu Air, kappas, wihwins… let’s just all watch out when we are near the water. -- source link

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