Supernatural beings in Slavic folklore come in several forms and their names are spelled differently based on the specific language.
Among the ones listed below there were also
- khovanets (as domovoi),
- dolia (fate), polyovyk or polevoi (field spirit),
- perelesnyk (spirit of seduction),
- lesovyk or leshyi (woodland spirit),
- blud (wanderer),
- mara (specter, spirit of confusion),
- chuhaister (forest giant),
- mavka or niavka (forest nymphs),
- potoplenytsia (drowned maiden, wife of vodianyk),
- vodianyk or vodyanoy (water spirit, aka potoplenyk),
- bolotianyk (swamp spirit),
- bisytsia (she-devil),
- potercha (spirit of dead, unbaptized child),
- nichnytsia (night spirit),
- mamuna (demoness),
- nechysta syla (evil power),
- scheznyk (vanisher),
- didko, antypko, antsybolot, aridnyk (other names for evil spirits),
and many, many others. These spirits or fairies are mostly out of the Ukrainian mythology which derived out of the general Slavic folklore.
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